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Project Gravator is going to take you guys inside of S4.
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So what is S4? Well back in 88 and 89, Bob Lazar was hired by the United States Department of
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Naval Intelligence and brought to this secret facility 15 miles southwest of Area 51
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within the Area 51 compound to reverse engineer alien technology. This was a facility that was
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built into the side of the mountain adjacent to Papus Lake. Inside this facility, Bob was brought in
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and was introduced to some of the most advanced technologies ever seen by humankind.
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He was asked to work on the reverse engineering of the propulsion system of this technology.
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There seemed to be a lot of other people working there but he did not have access to them.
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According to what he saw, S4 only had 22 people working on the projects that were there.
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S4 was operating three known projects, Project Galileo, which is the power and propulsion that Bob Lazar was responsible for.
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Project site kick that had to do with weapons applications and project looking less, which had to do with time dilation.
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There was a lot of information that was given to him when he first got there.
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Information that was written in these blue folders that he was asked to read.
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That described some of the most controversial stuff he had ever seen and that we've ever heard of.
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Information on crafts from a different star system, technology from a different species,
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a different civilization, and the fact that the United States government was in charge of a program
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to reverse engineer this technology.
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From the outside what he saw were these camouflaged large bay doors in the side of the mountain,
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which he found out later to be the hangar doors.
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He initially was brought into the first hanger which they called the main hanger or the large hanger.
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This is where he first saw the sport model flying saucer that he was working on.
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At first he thought this was not extraterrestrial or non-human.
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He thought this was just a simple, high-tech fighter that was created by the United States military.
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And one of the reasons why he thought that was because there was a reversed American flag
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sticker on the craft. The facility was quite large. At one time when he came out of the lab,
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all the adjacent doors in each hanger were open and he was able to see the size and the scope
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of where he was. This was a gigantic facility. From what he understood there was a total of nine
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hangars in there. Each one had a craft of some type. He was able to work on the sport model,
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which was in the main hanger, the first hanger. He got a clear view of the adjacent hanger,
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which had a jello mold type of craft. And the following hanger which looked like a craft that
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looked like a top hat propped up on its side. He was also able to see other crafts, but they were
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far too distant for him to make out shape or form. What we can say and what he does remember is that
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he could see how incredibly large the facility was. It is also coincided with the fact that the
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main hallway within the facility was extremely long, which was basically almost an infinity hallway
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that was adjacent to all the hangars. You will see that in our project that we re-created the entire
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facility exactly as Bob was our witness to when he was there. So in the making of S4, we also
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used a lot of different data sets specifically for the landscape and all the terrain that is around
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the Papu mountain area and Papu Slake. A lot of the satellite data that we received goes back
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all the way to the 1970s, all the way to recent data that comes from different points. Some of the
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satellite data that we use is actually also sourced out of Russia, which provided us a lot more detail
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surprisingly than some of the American satellite data. How we went about getting that, that's another
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story. On top of that, we also had to work really carefully in developing the elevations and the
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topology out there because most of the data that we have today does not provide us any elevation
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or accurate topology specifically where S4 is located right by Papu Slake. So if you kind of look
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at what you see today in that environment, whether you're on Google Earth or Apple Maps, whatever it is,
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you will actually not really see the elevation accurately versus the true satellite data. So
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that was a really interesting way of developing the terrain and we wanted to make it as accurate as
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possible so it recreates the real environment. On top of that, by getting the accurate topology
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and elevations, it allowed us to properly integrate the creation of the S4 facility that was
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created in the 3D environment within the topology. So when we actually built the facility, we built it
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outside of the environment based on the measurements and the information that we got from Bob.
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Once we had to integrate the building itself inside the mountain, that was a little bit of a
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challenge because we had to make sure that it matched at least what it should have been back then
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and it did. So we were able to fit the facility inside the the accurate topology and it provided us
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the exact length of the entire facility also how it kind of tapered into this little enclosure
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in the mountain by Papus Lake where the main entrance was. So the entire facility was actually
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built and put into the accurate topology. So it is literally as close to reality as you can get.
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We created the nurse station where he was initially brought to do an allergy test and to also drink
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this type of liquid that gave him a stomach ache. We recreated the briefing room where he was
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asked to read up and get updated on all these briefing documents that they had. A lot of them
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stamped top secret with the US Navy logo on it. We recreated the propulsion lab where he worked with
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his partner Barry Castillo in attempting to reverse engineer the reactor and figure out how that
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reactor function. That was the main power source to the craft that he was working on and we built
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the hanger and all the adjacent hangers and crafts that were there. The only crafts that we
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actually replicated from his memory are the sport model in absolute detail except for the upper
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level that he never had access to. The Jello mold and the top hat. The other crafts that were there
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we used creative liberties because he did not have an opportunity to really make out what they
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looked like. Everything was recreated according to his memory. We basically researched every possible
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detail in terms of the equipment that was in there, the tools that were in there, and anything that
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could have been existing at the time in the late 1980s. The flood lights, the extension cords,
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the generators, the portable X-ray machines, the oscilloscopes, the work benches, the tools,
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everything was studied and analyzed carefully so that we would be able to recreate this to the
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most accurate detail so that when you get access to S4 for the first time see exactly what the
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reverse engineering program looked like back in 1988 and 1989 at S4. So there's a lot of
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information that you will get in our film and in our VR experience that has to do with what Bob saw.
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Anything else that happened at S4 remains unknown. So at first it'll be in a documentary film
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and following that will be a VR experience. You will finally get to see the interior of S4,
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probably one of the most secret locations on planet Earth.
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