Whistleblower Bob Lazar, who outed Area 51 and its extraterrestrial secrets, said he regrets revealing the information to the public.

Lazar, the headline speaker at the recent annual International UFO conference at We-Ko-Pa Resort and Conference Center, said his decision to reveal the secret Area 51 projects changed his life for the worse.

Lazar said he has been physically threatened and his credibility as a scientist questioned.

A standing-room only audience of more than 2,000 listened as Lazar told his story. He claims to have been a contract employee who worked in an underground military laboratory called S4, some eight miles south of the main Area 51 base at Papoose Lake and 100 miles north of Las Vegas, in 1988 and 1989.

Lazar said he saw nine different extraterrestrial disc-shaped aircraft there. He and a colleague were assigned to analyze the fuel and reverse-engineering propulsion of a sports mode.

They then were expected to replicate the fuel, an element with an atomic number of 115 (ununpentium), which allowed the space craft to warp space and essentially pull the desired destination to the ship.

Lazar alleges he was fired after he leaked information to friends and told them where they could view the test flights of the advanced extraterrestrial technology.

They were arrested for trespassing on the restricted military property.

During an interview with Las Vegas investigative reporter George Knapp, who initially broke Lazar’s story in 1989, Lazar revealed that he was reluctant to appear at the conference.

He now lives in Michigan where he owns United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies. Lazar said he had never attended a UFO conference nor has any interest in gatherings of Star Trek fans.

Lazar said he has never written a book to make money from his allegations. He has rejected movie offers.

Some critics dismiss Lazar’s claims, citing the lack of supporting evidence and the absence of employment and education records. Lazar said the government erased his background records to distance him from his assertions.

Emmy-award winning Knapp said, “It’s not a hoax. It’s not a lie.”

Initially Lazar said he thought he was hired to work on secret American-made technology until he learned from briefing manuals that the spacecraft had come from another universe.

“It had me so confused. It was so far beyond what I was expecting,” said Lazar.

He compared the advanced technology to introducing an iPhone to wagon train travelers.

By dissembling the spacecraft and studying the reactor, he and a co-worker were expected to replicate the technology.

When asked if he could make the fuel, he remembered saying, “That’s too much for me to handle.”

“A machine that makes gravity is the most important thing that mankind could probably create,” said Lazar, recalling his reaction.

“If you can make a machine that on demand makes gravity, all the stuff that we write science fiction about…stops becoming science fiction….you can shift time.

“Anything becomes possible. It’s the most important thing and here is an operating machine sitting in front of us that makes gravity.”

If they could duplicate the technology, Lazar said he knew the discovery would “catapult mankind forward.”

NY UFO sightings

Syracuse NewTimes blogger Cheryl Costa’s beat is covering UFO sightings in New York State, where Costa said about 4 percent of the world-wide sightings occur.

The retired aerospace security engineer has researched and reported UFO reports dating back to 1701. She writes a weekly online column, “New York Skies.”

“New York is my beat,” said Costa, who researches and reports about Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) sightings.

Costa started to research reported sightings in 2012, when she read a CNN report that UFO sightings had declined and attributed that to possibly being urban legends.

“I said ‘Huh?’ What is this?” said Costa. Her research in 2012 uncovered 600 reported sightings.

“I said why isn’t anybody reporting this stuff, so I decided to report the news. What people say they saw.”

Costa said she only reports “the what, when and where” and not the “why.”

New York had 643 UFO sightings in 2012, of which all but 141 could be attributed to something other than a weather balloon or meteorite.