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George Knapp (born April 18, 1952 Woodbury, New Jersey) is an American investigative journalist. He grew up in Stockton, California where he graduated from Franklin High School and was the senior class president. Knapp lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and works for KLAS-TV. George is also a frequent host of the Sunday Night / Monday morning Coast To Coast AM syndicated radio show - he is known for his work on anomalous phenomena, which is a frequent topic of the Coast to Coast show.

In the late 1980s, Knapp reported the story of Bob Lazar (who claimed to have worked on extraterrestrial UFOs at the secretive Area 51).

In 1991, Knapp left KLAS to work for Altamira Communications, a public relations firm whose clients included advocates of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository north of Las Vegas. He was rehired by KLAS-TV in the mid 1990s when he left the public relations firm. He wrote a regular column titled "Knappster" for the now-defunct alternative newsweekly Las Vegas Mercury. The "Knappster" column now appears in Las Vegas CityLife, an alternative newsweekly published by Stephens Media LLC, the same company that formerly published the Mercury.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Knapp publicized the so-called Skinwalker Ranch in northeast Utah, where strange events are alleged to have occurred.

Knapp and photojournalist Matt Adams were recognized for their work on the investigative series Water, Power and Politics that received a 2008 Peabody Award.

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