Jeremy Corbell
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| Born | Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (1977-02-03) February 3, 1977 (age 49)Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Spouse | Katrina Bea |
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| Website | extraordinarybeliefs.com |
Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell (born February 3, 1977) is an American contemporary artist, filmmaker, investigative journalist, and ufologist based in Los Angeles, California, best known for directing Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers (2018) and for releasing previously-classified U.S. military unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) footage alongside journalist George Knapp. Initially prominent as a visual artist in the 2000s, by the late 2010s he had become a widely-recognised figure in UFO investigative journalism, later co-hosting the Weaponized podcast with Knapp and working alongside David Grusch's legal team ahead of the 2023 UAP Congressional Hearing. Commentators have described him variously as a "ufologist celebrity" and a "UFO enthusiast".
Background
Corbell has said he did not train formally in journalism and came to the discipline through art. He credits Knapp as his mentor in the discipline of source-vetting. By 2023 he said he had been chasing the UAP story for thirty-six years.
Martial arts
Corbell is a black belt in traditional ju jitsu and is the creator of "quantum ju jitsu". In 2001 he self-published his first book, Radiant Source - Cultivating Warrior Consciousness, setting out his philosophy of martial arts. He taught ju jitsu and yoga at the University of California, Santa Cruz, appeared in Black Belt Magazine, and developed a curriculum for at-risk youth including a juvenile hall yoga programme. Corbell has consulted on the films I Am Number Four and Bunraku, and the video game UFC Undisputed 2010.
Visual art
While travelling in Nepal and India in 2004 Corbell contracted Valley fever, losing more than 40 pounds (18 kg) and experiencing daily fevers, hallucinations, and distorted vision before returning to be treated at UCLA. Unable to practise martial arts for over a year, he began making art. From 2004 he began harvesting early-century windows and doors from local building demolitions in Los Angeles and recycling them into assemblage installations.
Notable exhibitions include Death to Life, in which he embedded disassembled computers into reclaimed doors and windows that displayed rotating imagery and sound from his travels; Factory Girl Exhibition, shown alongside privately-owned Andy Warhol paintings in conjunction with the pre-premiere of Factory Girl; ICON: Life Love & Style of Sharon Tate, a 350-piece exhibition celebrating Tate on the 40th anniversary of her death, done with the blessing of the Tate family; Strange Love, a collaboration with Katrina Bea in downtown Los Angeles; and Bunraku Art Experience at the Chateau Marmont, held in lieu of a premiere for Bunraku.
Documentary work
Patient Seventeen (2017)
Corbell's 2017 documentary Patient Seventeen follows a claimed alien implant allegedly surgically removed from a self-described abductee by surgeon Roger Leir.
Hunt for the Skinwalker (2018)
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Skinwalker Ranch
Corbell directed a documentary adaptation of the book Hunt for the Skinwalker by Colm Kelleher and George Knapp, distributed by The Orchard, covering investigations at Skinwalker Ranch during the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) period.
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers (2018)
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Corbell's most widely-seen film, which premiered on Netflix in 2019, documents the story of physicist Bob Lazar, who claims to have worked on alleged alien craft at the classified S-4 site south of Area 51 in 1988–89. The film was produced in collaboration with George Knapp. Corbell reportedly located the biometric hand-scanner Lazar described and identified Mike Thigpen, the security-clearance officer Lazar had named, who confirmed performing clearances at the base in 1989. The evidentiary findings from the film are documented in Bob Lazar and S-4 (facility). The documentary brought Lazar back into public attention and has been credited with inspiring the Storm Area 51 meme, while some within the UFO community labelled Corbell a "dupe" of Lazar.
Other films
Earlier documentary work includes Extraordinary Beliefs (2015), examining fringe science and consciousness.
Pentagon UAP footage releases
Corbell has released a series of purportedly-leaked U.S. military UAP videos and still images beyond the three officially declassified clips. These include thermal and radar footage from the USS Omaha and video of triangular objects filmed by U.S. Navy personnel, which sceptics have suggested are visual artefacts caused by a triangular lens aperture. According to Corbell, he and Knapp obtained and released radar, thermal, infrared, and deck-camera footage from a 2019 incident in which a swarm of unidentified objects reportedly encircled ten U.S. Navy warships off the California coast. The Pentagon subsequently confirmed authenticity of several clips after their public release. He has also released the so-called "Mosul Orb" and "Baghdad Phantom" footage, both said to have been obtained from military platforms in Iraq.
Congressional role
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2023 UAP Congressional Hearing
Corbell and Knapp worked alongside David Grusch's legal team in the lead-up to the 2023 UAP Congressional Hearing — reportedly the first in which a whistleblower testified under oath alongside combat pilots. Both submitted written statements entered into the Congressional record.
Weaponized podcast
Corbell co-hosts the UFO-focused Weaponized podcast with George Knapp, through which they have released UAP testimony from military witnesses. Corbell has also appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss UAP.
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