The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar
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What is the background of Luigi Vendittelli's UFO investigation journey?
Today I'm talking with Luigi Venditelli, former national director of MUFON Canada and the filmmaker behind S4, The Bob Lazar Story, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Luigi spent five years building the most detailed 3D recreation of Bob Lazar's S4 facility ever put on film. And it started with a cold call to Lazar himself. And he answered? Yep. Is Bob still taking calls? Because I've got a great business idea for him to endorse. No, no you don't. It's a fitness app, CrossFit 51. Every workout is you running from a black helicopter.
How did Luigi create the 3D recreation of Bob Lazar's S4 facility?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He's not going to... And you have to be inside a replica UFO. Sleek, modern. And in the bathroom, an optional probe. That's enough. What Bob found inside the UFO is the part that stays with you. There's a detail about how light behaves in the craft that Bob couldn't have known, not unless he was actually there. Today, we also get into his friendship with an aerial school witness, his two years training under Dr. David Jacobs, and his grandfather's 1965 sighting that started all of it. This one goes places you don't expect. Let's go down to the basement. Hey, you can watch The Y Files on Spotify. New video episodes every Monday and Friday. And premium subscribers get fewer ads, which means fewer interruptions when things start getting weird.
Luigi Ventitelli, welcome to the basement. It's such a pleasure. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. I'm going to try not to... to nerd out too much on the 3D stuff, because you know we do that here. That's great. Let's do it. So I have to watch a lot of documentaries for what I do, and they're mostly terrible. So when I got your screener, I didn't know much about you. I certainly knew Bob's story. I threw it on for a couple of minutes to see, like, what am I in for? And the first thing that grabbed me is the music is unbelievable. It's so good.
A big shout-out to James Gray, who's the composer who did all that. Really? Yeah.
It has a Blade Runner, Vangelis vibe. And I loved it. I thought maybe, is it just going to be the credits? But it goes through the whole thing. It's so atmospheric. It's really well done.
He reached out to us. He's from Scotland. And James is a BAFTA award-winning composer. And said, I want to work with you guys. I'm going to do all this. for free for now and we'll figure something out because I didn't have a when he reached out we're kind of starting to run low on budgets I'm like this is going to cost a lot of money and he says no I have a passion for this I want to help you and he said he sits down with me I grew up with my father being a big opera and classical music fan and I wanted the film to have a memorable music to it And I said, my father made me grow up with Giuseppe Verdi music. And he says, Giuseppe Verdi, perfect. And he knew everything about it. And I said, but it has to have like an 80s ominous to it.
He says, done. Let me send you some stuff when I come up with it. And he did. And we went, OK. We're working with you. It's perfect.
I mean, when you released the soundtrack, I downloaded it immediately. So that's rolling in my car. That's great. Let's start with your grandfather's story. He's out in the balcony.
What happened? So in 1965, my mother's father, my grandfather, who was basically like my second father. I spent a lot of time with him when I was in Italy as a kid and Montreal as a kid. We always were together all the time. You spoke Italian at home? We've always spoken Italian. And he was a very big reason why I spoke Italian. He's very strict, actually, when it came to that. He says, you have to learn it perfectly. So I was able to learn Italian and speak it like the people in Rome did. That was important. We stayed in Rome. Anyway, and so... In 1965, five years after he moved to Montreal with my grandmother, my mom, and her sister, he was outside on a balcony with a friend of his who was visiting from Italy.
His friend's name is Corrado Zenga, who was a famous soccer player in Italy, by the way. And they were outside on the balcony smoking a cigarette.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background of Luigi Vendittelli's UFO investigation journey?
0:00–0:35
2
How did Luigi create the 3D recreation of Bob Lazar's S4 facility?
0:35–12:07
3
What significant event did Luigi's grandfather experience?
12:07–40:04
4
How did Luigi's childhood experiences shape his interest in UFOs?
40:04–1:31:10
5
What challenges did Luigi face while creating the 3D reconstruction of S4?
1:31:10–1:31:36
6
What role did the bank play in Luigi's film project?
1:31:36–1:32:05
7
How did Luigi and his team respond to legal threats during production?
1:32:05–1:33:49
8
What insights does Luigi share about the implications of UFO disclosure?
1:33:49–2:56:26
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