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title: "Lazar Flaws – Education – Huff’s Response"
source: https://otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-bob-lazar-corner/lazar-flaws-education-huffs-response/
retrieved: 2026-06-28
author: Tom Mahood (otherhand.org) / quoted sources
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# Lazar Flaws – Education – Huff’s Response
From netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!netnews Mon May 15 19:29:33 1995
From: Gufon@ix.netcom.com (Gene Huff)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51,alt.paranet.ufo
Subject: Re: THE LAZAR FLAWS – The Academic Background
Date: 14 May 1995 17:25:43 GMT
In <tmahoodD86G8F.Gno@netcom.com> tmahood@netcom.com (Tom Mahood) writes:
THE LAZAR FLAWS – The Academic Background
-Tom,
I’ve had some computer problems during the past couple of weeks and for this reason I haven’t been able to promptly insult your integrity and question your intelligence(just joking:). I resolved these things yesterday and now I’m back on line.I also think it’s good that I respond to your last 3 posts now as some of the info and reasoning will overlap and this way it will be easier to follow for those who are interested.
I need to preface these responses with a little info about Bob Lazar’s personality. He’s very secretive and I always kid him about “compartmentalizing lunch”. What I mean by that is that if Bob Lazar doesn’t find that you have a need to know any of his personal business, even some things others would find trivial or irrelevant, he doesn’t share it or blows you off in the most convenient manner. He is truly the one single judge of who he should share information with and he judges only a very small group of people to be worthy of responses regarding his personal dealings and personal life, in general. For example, when we first started socializing together, one day Bob returned a call that I had left on his answering machine. His voice sounded scratchy and I asked him why. He responded, “I was out ’til three thirty last night”. I said, “Oh yeah, what did you do?” Bob said, “Why?”. I was hardly prying and at first I thought this was curious, but quickly I learned that that is just him. The things he doesn’t divulge are not terribly interesting or worthy of being secrets, he just considers those things to be his own private, personal property.
The problem with some of your posts is that you have to use excerpts of things Bob Lazar has said in years past as a constant, then you have to draw conclusions based on those presumptions. Because Bob had blown some of these people off in the manner he found most convenient, you’re in the same position as a mathematician who believes he has a constant in a formula, then it turns out to be a variable. That variable changes everything, the problem, and it’s outcome. The fact that he blows people off to keep them out of his personal business had been evident for years. When you quote things from old newspaper articles, bankruptcy statements, and things of that sort, you need to remember that he didn’t know that he was going to become Bob, the international UFO superstar.
For that reason, he didn’t know that everything he said would be so closely scrutinized or critical to whoever for whatever reason. I’m not making excuses here, I’m just trying to put things in perspective, and the general readership can interpret his actions anyway they want. Also, back to the bankruptcy for a moment. You, and others always try and employ the bankruptcy as some sort of guide and you also imply things about Lazar’s “financial troubles”. He obviously had reason to file bankruptcy, but this doesn’t mean he was destitute. Depending on the circumstances, when confronted with legal financial problems, the first words out of your attorney’s mouth will be “file bankruptcy”. It’s a “get out of jail free” card, and attorney’s use it everyday.
For instance, a year or two ago, entertainer Wayne Newton filed Bankruptcy here in Las Vegas, and he was making a million dollars a month. Numerous people file bankruptcy everyday and retain their home, car, and even charge cards, so let’s not overstate the importance of a bankruptcy.
Also, Bob had his ex-wife, Tracy, fill out many of those bankruptcy papers. Tracy was not a high school graduate and was quite naive, though certainly not a complete dummy. If you look at those bankruptcy papers you’ll see that she listed(and I’m not being specific here because I don’t remember the exact figures) something like $15,000 owed to a bank on a little Honda car that was worth less than half that. As you know, one could never get a loan like that from a bank and certainly Bob Lazar knows that. This shows Tracy’s naivety, which is evident throughout the bankruptcy statement, though I know it’s also Bob’s fault because he signed the bankruptcy statement. People also include people on their bankruptcy statement to allow others to get federal income tax relief in the form of a bad debt loss.