United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies

New Mexico scientific-supplies business owned by Bob Lazar

United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies (commonly United Nuclear) is a mail-order scientific-supplies business based in New Mexico, owned and operated since the late 1990s by American businessman and UFO claimant Bob Lazar and his wife Joy White. The company sells chemicals, radioactive samples, magnets, aerogel, and physics-demonstration equipment to hobbyists, educators, and amateur scientists. Outside the hobbyist-chemistry community, the company is best known as the site of two federal raids — a 2003 raid that led to a 2006–2007 federal prosecution for shipping restricted chemicals across state lines, and a 2017 FBI raid that Lazar has publicly theorized was an attempt to recover sample element 115 allegedly exfiltrated during his purported employment at S-4. Reporting by Vice's Tim McMillan, drawing on documents later obtained through a FOIA request, indicated instead that the 2017 raid was part of a separate Michigan murder investigation into an alleged thallium poisoning by a customer who had purchased the substance from the company; Lazar and United Nuclear were not listed as suspects in that investigation.

2003 raid and 2006–2007 federal prosecution

In 2003, United Nuclear's business offices were raided and its chemical sales records examined. In 2006, Lazar and Joy White were charged with violating the Federal Hazardous Substances Act for shipping restricted chemicals across state lines. United Nuclear subsequently pleaded guilty to three criminal counts of introducing into interstate commerce, and aiding and abetting the introduction into interstate commerce, of banned hazardous substances. In 2007 the company was fined $7,500 for violating a law prohibiting the sale of chemicals and components used to make illegal fireworks.

2017 FBI raid

In 2017, United Nuclear's offices were again raided, this time by the FBI together with local police. Lazar has theorized publicly, including in the 2018 documentary Bob Lazar - Area 51 and Flying Saucers, that the raid was an attempt to recover a quantity of element 115 which he alleges he removed from a government laboratory during his purported tenure at S-4 in 1988–1989. Documents later obtained through a freedom of information request and reported by Vice's Tim McMillan indicated, however, that the raid was in fact part of a separate Michigan murder investigation into a suspect alleged to have used thallium purchased from the company to poison a victim; Lazar and United Nuclear were not listed as suspects in that investigation.

See also

• Bob Lazar
• S-4 employment of Bob Lazar
• Element 115
• Desert Blast

References

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