Research scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California believed they had made element 115 in Russia in 2003. The work was supposedly a collaboration between science teams led by Yuri Oganessian and Ken Moody. What many people DON'T know is that in 1989, a former scientist from Los Alamos National Lab named Bob Lazar stepped into the spotlight with an astonishing claim that he had worked on spaceships in Nevada.
As if this claim wasn't shocking enough, he went farther to say that they could produce their own gravity using a super-heavy substance- aka element 115. Now this, you're probably thinking, is all well and good. This guy knew that ununpentium was around and used it in his stupid, pointless argument. Here's where it gets interesting: element 115? It didn't exist in 1989! It wasn't "actually discovered" for another 14 years after Lazar's claim- yet his description matched it perfectly.
The government denied Lazar's working for them, and covered up the "finding" as their cooperation with Russia. I find that MIGHTY interesting- especially being they called it the exact same thing that Lazar called it! Coincidence? I think not. Other than it being superheavy, not much is known about ununpentium. This is mainly because when the minuscule amount that was produced WAS produced, it fell apart within minutes. It is very unstable.
What do you think of Bob Lazar? You can Google him and learn more about what he said and then leave me a comment with your opinion!
Maddie
