George Knapp

George Knapp is an American broadcast journalist who has spent more than four decades at Las Vegas station KLAS-TV, becoming the most decorated working television journalist to cover UFOs, with five regional and two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, multiple Peabody Awards, and 24 regional Emmys across his broader investigative career. Knapp first gained national UFO-community prominence in 1989 for his extended interviews with Bob Lazar, who claimed to have worked reverse-engineering alien technology at a secret Area 51 facility, coverage that helped make Area 51 a cultural touchstone and won Knapp a United Press International journalism award, though Lazar's underlying claims about his academic credentials and employment have never been independently substantiated and remain contested. In the late 1990s Knapp began working with the National Institute for Discovery Science, funded by businessman Robert Bigelow, investigating the so-called Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, co-authoring Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005) with biochemist Colm Kelleher. Knapp has continued reporting on government UAP secrecy through the modern disclosure era, co-hosting the Weaponized podcast with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and regularly hosting the overnight radio program Coast to Coast AM. His decades of consistent, locally-anchored investigative credibility have made him one of the field's most trusted journalistic voices despite his frequent engagement with highly speculative source material.