Profile · United States
George Knapp
Journalist KLAS-TV I-Team Investigator Podcaster Author 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, Nevada
In Brief
George Knapp is the chief investigative reporter at KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, where he has worked since 1980. He holds the longest continuous UAP-investigation tenure of any active US broadcast journalist. In November and December 1989 he conducted the first public television interviews with Robert Scott Lazar, the broadcast that introduced Area 51 and the facility Lazar called S-4 to a national audience.
He is co-author with James Lacatski and Colm Kelleher of four books on the Skinwalker Ranch and AAWSAP-era investigations, executive producer of the History Channel series The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, and co-host of the Weaponized podcast with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell since May 2024. His work has been recognised with multiple Peabody Awards and Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Notable Statement
"I have spent thirty-five years documenting this material because the public record matters. The institutions can deny what they like; the documentary record outlasts the denials."
Where to Find Them
In the Archive
Editorial note. This profile is the short-card form for the Disclosure Network. The full career record, the 1989 Lazar disclosure, the Skinwalker Ranch reporting, and the AAWSAP-era book series live on the biography page. The archive takes no position on the substance of the claims documented in Knapp's reporting, only that they have been placed in the public record across thirty-five years of broadcast journalism. If anything needs correcting, please get in touch.
