As I mentioned above about John being the first to publicly talk about Alien Spacecraft and Groom Lake, Bob Lazar confirms this in an early interview -
"Almost simultaneously I met John Lear and read some of his material, and initially I thought he was just absolutely crazy, but apparently he did have a good source of information, because as it turns out, some of the information he had, I actually had hands on experience with."
The moral of this story is - no matter how crazy it might sound... don't count John Lear out.
Bob and I found this out first hand.