The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

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The Why Files

Documentary, Science Fiction, Life Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Fiction

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 177 minutes

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The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. Luigi Vendittelli was 9 years old when his grandfather came inside shaking, saying he'd just seen a flying saucer over Montreal. Nobody believed him. That moment turned Luigi into Canada's foremost UFO investigator — and eventually led him to cold-call Bob Lazar, spend five years rebuilding S4 from scratch in 3D, and uncover a 1941 government map that shows exactly where the hangar doors are. And then his bank tried to shut him down. This is one you're going to want to watch twice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today I'm talking with Luigi Venditelli, former national director of Mufant Canada,
0:05.0	and the filmmaker behind S4, the Bob Lazar story, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
0:10.0	Luigi spent five years building the most detailed 3D recreation of Bob Lazar's S4 facility ever put on film.
0:18.0	And it started with a cold call to Lazar himself.
0:22.0	And he answered?
0:22.6	Yep.
0:24.3	Is Bob still taking calls?
0:27.3	Because I got a great business idea for him to endorse.
0:28.3	No, no you don't.
0:30.0	It's a fitness app.
0:31.7	CrossFit 51.
0:35.1	Every workout is you running from a black helicopter.
0:37.0	He's not going to... He's not going to......in inside a replica UFO. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, an FNB inside a replica UFO,
0:40.3	sleek, modern, and in the bathroom, an optional probe.
0:44.3	That's enough.
0:46.3	What Bob found inside the UFO is the part that stays with you.
0:50.3	There's a detail about how light behaves in the craft
0:53.3	that Bob couldn't have known,
0:55.6	not unless he was actually there. Today we also get into his friendship with an aerial school witness,
1:00.9	his two years training under Dr. David Jacobs, and his grandfather's 1965 siting that started all of it.
1:07.6	This one goes places you don't expect. Let's go down to the basement.
1:18.1	Hey, you can watch the Wi-Files on Spotify, new video episodes every Monday and Friday,
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