{"id":2367138,"date":"2026-04-10T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2367138"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:07:04","slug":"reconstructing-the-world-of-bob-lazar-s4-collaboration-brings-original-story-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/reconstructing-the-world-of-bob-lazar-s4-collaboration-brings-original-story-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructing the world of Bob Lazar: \u2018S4\u2019 collaboration brings original story to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LAS VEGAS (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KLAS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KLAS&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KLAS<\/a>) \u2014 The basic story is one well known to our viewers since we\u2019ve reported on Bob Lazar many times over the decades. One thing we know for sure \u2014 the mere mention of his name still ignites arguments, character attacks, and metaphorical heads exploding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Visually stunning, the documentary film titled \u201cS4\u201d brings the tale to a new level, thanks to virtual reality technology that didn\u2019t exist back in the beginning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>\u201cDENNIS\u201d:<\/strong> There are nine flying saucers, flying discs \u2026 .<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A live interview with a shadowy guy in May 1989 launched an avalanche that is still rolling. Months later, when the public learned the name Bob Lazar, the story took on a life of its own, launching bus tours, TV shows, movies, an E.T. Highway, a baseball team, songs, trinkets, jokes, and an army of people devoted to debunking Lazar over the decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lazar claimed he worked at S4, a series of hangars built into a hillside near Papoose Dry Lake and designed to blend in with the desert terrain. Now, there\u2019s a striking new likeness.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>An image of S4 from the new film. (Courtesy, \u201cS4\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>LUIGI VENDITTELLI:<\/strong> It\u2019s surreal. More than anything. I think that if I had to put it in one word, it\u2019s that. It doesn\u2019t \u2026 it\u2019s surreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Luigi Vendittelli is a Canadian marketer, not a filmmaker. During the COVID shutdown, he took a deep dive into the Bob Lazar story and had an idea to create a realistic, die-cast model of the flying saucer Lazar said he worked on, dubbed \u201cthe sport model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Toward the end of his six-month stint working at S4, Lazar took friends out to see test flights of the craft and videotaped them \u2014 twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vendittelli managed to contact Lazar, and it started a four-and-a-half-year endeavor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>VENDITTELLI:<\/strong> It\u2019s like a car company making a car. Well, we had a, a book to how to make a sport model. Okay. And it was about all the specifics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They decided to make a virtual version first and consulted some of the best 3D designers in the world, which led to an idea to recreate the inside of the hangar where Lazar said he worked \u2026 which led to a larger idea of recreating the entire S4 facility as a virtual reality environment that anyone could visit.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Luigi Vendittelli. (KLAS)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/f9NILn6X.fGJa8Ok70eGnQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/klas_articles_549\/5064c4c27e522e19dd95e677b0b5f911\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Luigi Vendittelli. (KLAS)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>VENDITTELLI:<\/strong> One of the guys I was working with said, you could do a VR experience doing this. And I said, okay, well, now, now we\u2019re talking, you know. At least there\u2019s a way to monetize it because it\u2019s a lot of money to invest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This began many months of back-and-forth exchanges, trying to extract and duplicate Lazar\u2019s memories based on his earlier drawings and decades-old graphics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>VENDITTELLI:<\/strong> I said, this is an incredible opportunity to not just create something that\u2019s somewhat of an entertainment piece. But what if we can create a historical visual document? What if we can create something that is accurate to whatever a person remembers?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was a painstaking process, and at each step, it rekindled Lazar\u2019s memories. The color of paint in a hallway or the location of a door or workbench. And when it was finished?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>BOB LAZAR:<\/strong> It really made the hair stand up on my arms. That, that, that he reached that level of reality to me.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Luigi Venditelli and Bob Lazar working together. (Courtesy, \u201cS4\u201d)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/hiEPhPcD0VkSbGAls_IAoQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/klas_articles_549\/342ff7fa7b70063d7cae1328998950a0\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Luigi Venditelli and Bob Lazar working together. (Courtesy, \u201cS4\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lazar did not want to be part of another documentary, and didn\u2019t welcome the idea of doing interviews to promote it. Every time he has raised his head out of the foxhole over nearly four decades, he gets pummeled as a liar, conman, criminal or worse, who covets attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>LAZAR:<\/strong> But, Yeah. Attention. You, if you make a claim like that, you clearly have, you know nothing about me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of the four and a half year incubation period, Lazar\u2019s instinctive resistance subsided, primarily because it was fun to collaborate and because the end product was so close to what he says really happened back then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>LAZAR:<\/strong> I had no intention of doing a documentary to begin with. But, once I started, I started seeing the graphics, that were and remained to be really cutting edge. No. Wow. That would be great. Because no matter how many times you tell a story, you can tell a story to 100 people, even a detailed explanation of what you\u2019re trying to get across, and you will still come out with 40 or 50 different, you know, images in their mind or versions of it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"(Courtesy, \u201cS4\u201d)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Oxi52VLzlCgtxj9ap0DymQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/klas_articles_549\/5c48f59bb5f55a7bd433a98b6aaf3607\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>(Courtesy, \u201cS4\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cS4,\u201d the film, is already a hit, in part because podcaster Joe Rogan helped launch it to his worldwide audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detractors are also having a moment, dredging up the same stuff they\u2019ve unleashed before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Although the film is available on multiple platforms, Luigi created his own site where people can access bonus material not included in the film itself. 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One thing we know for sure \u2014 the mere mention of his name still ignites arguments, character attacks, and metaphorical heads exploding. Visually stunning, the documentary film titled \u201cS4\u201d brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[460048,460049],"class_list":["post-2367138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bob-lazar","tag-vendittelli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Reconstructing-the-world-of-Bob-Lazar-\u2018S4-collaboration-brings-original.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367140,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367138\/revisions\/2367140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}