S4 (Nevada facility)
Place in Science
S4 (Nevada facility) has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Bob LazarAmerican scientist and businessman who claims to have worked on recovered extraterrestrial craft at a site called S4 near Area 51
Lazar says he suspected the craft's skin was an electret, a material with a permanent static electric field.
“An electret is a material that has a permanent static field to it, a static electric field to it”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2479 - Bob Lazar & Luigi Vendittelli (Apr 3, 2026) · Listen from 22:32
Lazar argues the program's security-driven compartmentalization defeated the scientific work it was meant to protect.
“Science works on the free exchange of information. And they were just killing themselves with security”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2479 - Bob Lazar & Luigi Vendittelli (Apr 3, 2026) · Listen from 20:13
Lazar believes he was hired as an outsider because the program had stopped making progress.
“to push the project forward because everything had stalled when I got there. And I think they were just in a desperate move to make some progress”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2479 - Bob Lazar & Luigi Vendittelli (Apr 3, 2026) · Listen from 19:28
Lazar infers from the casual handling and dusty hangar conditions that the craft had been held for a very long time.
“So I think it had been there for a decade or decades. A long time”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2479 - Bob Lazar & Luigi Vendittelli (Apr 3, 2026) · Listen from 18:14
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 1 episode
Episodes
#2479 - Bob Lazar & Luigi VendittelliThe Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 3, 2026 · 3 h 6 min
Bob Lazar and filmmaker Luigi Vendittelli tell Joe Rogan how they digitally recreated S4, discussing the sport model craft, element 115, secrecy and AI.