Jeremy Corbell: Filmmaker, Leaker and UAP Provocateur

Corbell’s best-known film is Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers (2018), which retells Lazar’s 1989 claims of working on alien craft at a site called S-4, featuring extensive interviews with Lazar and with George Knapp. The film was widely distributed on streaming platforms and revived interest in Lazar, leading to his 2019 appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Also in 2018 he released Hunt for the Skinwalker, a documentary about the Utah ranch investigated by Robert Bigelow’s organisation, drawing on the book of the same name by Colm Kelleher and George Knapp. Critics of both films argue that they present their subjects’ claims sympathetically without testing them hard; admirers say they give a fair hearing to witnesses others ignore.

In April and May 2021 Corbell published a set of images and videos he said came from U.S. Navy ships operating off California in July 2019. The best known is a night-vision video showing blinking triangular shapes over the ship, which became known as the pyramids footage. Another clip showed a round object over the sea that appears to drop into the water.

A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that the pyramid images and video were taken by Navy personnel and said the incidents were being examined by the UAP Task Force. That confirmation established that the material was authentic. It did not say the objects were unexplained or anomalous.

Independent analysts, notably the science writer Mick West, argued that the triangular shapes are an optical artefact: out-of-focus point lights, such as aircraft or stars, take on the shape of the camera or lens aperture, an effect called bokeh. On this reading the pyramids are ordinary lights rendered triangular by the equipment. Corbell rejects this explanation.

In 2023 Corbell and George Knapp launched Weaponized, a podcast and video series about UAP and government secrecy. Through it they have released further material, including a thermal video from the Middle East that they described as showing a jellyfish-shaped object. As with the earlier footage, what the object is has been disputed, with sceptics proposing balloons or other mundane explanations.

Corbell has also interviewed whistleblowers and lawmakers involved in the post-2023 congressional push on UAP, and he regularly appears at hearings and conferences on the subject.

Whatever one makes of his interpretations, Corbell has had real impact. His releases have prompted official confirmations, press coverage and questions in Congress, and they have contributed to pressure on the Pentagon to publish its own footage and analyses. For supporters, that is evidence his method works. For critics, it shows how quickly low-quality imagery can be turned into a story that outruns the facts.