George Knapp is the veteran investigative journalist for Las Vegas's KLAS-TV. His 1989 interviews with physicist Bob Lazar thrust Area 51 into global culture and opened a career devoted to uncovering secret aerospace programmes.12 Over four decades Knapp has gathered two Peabody Awards, a DuPont-Columbia citation, five national Edward R. Murrow Awards, more than twenty-five regional Emmys and nine Associated Press Mark Twain prizes for writing.3
Current Roles
Knapp co-hosts the weekly WEAPONIZED podcast with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and anchors the 2024 Netflix series Investigation Alien, extending his newsroom's reach to streaming audiences.78
Landmark Investigations
Reporting Network
Knapp's long-standing collaboration with Corbell, Kelleher, aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow and the late Senator Harry Reid grants access to witnesses and classified documents that continue to drive national UAP coverage.1314
The Lazar broadcasts transformed Area 51 from a classified range into a symbol of black-budget secrecy and tourism; three decades later Knapp's exclusives primed congressional hearings and executive-branch offices dedicated to UAP study.211
AAWSAP Insider Reporting
Knapp obtained and published the leaked list of 38 DIA technical papers produced under AAWSAP and Senator Harry Reid's 2009 letter seeking a Special Access Program designation for AATIP, confirming the program's reality years before official release.6
Skinwalker Ranch Chronicles
Co-author of Hunt for the Skinwalker and later Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Knapp embedded with investigators on the ranch and documented claims of poltergeist activity and mysterious craft that influenced DIA interest in the site.7
Criticism of Approach
Detractors argue Knapp blurs the line between journalist and participant, often relying on anonymous sources and sensational claims that lack corroborating data. Nevertheless, he has earned Peabody and Murrow awards for investigative reporting on non-UFO topics, lending him residual credibility.8