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From: Ktperehwon <Ktperehwon@aol.com> [Karl T. Pflock]
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:52:44 EST
Fwd Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 23:05:58 -0500
Subject: Re: LaPaz's Activities


>Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 11:07:11 -0800
>From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
>To: Updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: LaPaz's Activities


Greetings Jan & UpDates Addicts:

>To me the real history of UFOs is very interesting without the
>conspiracy theories of people with other axes to grind and
>without the anonymous "inside" informants who can never supply
>any credible and creditable evidence or support.

Bravo, Jan!

One of the persistent myths concerning LaPaz's alleged
involvement with Roswell is that, because he was fluent in
Spanish, he was able to obtain valuable information from Spanish
ranchers and hands.  Fact is, despite his name, LaPaz, a native
of Ohio, neither spoke nor wrote Spanish (although he did teach
himself to write in Russian !!).  When dealing with Spanish-
speaking colleagues or reading or writing professional papers
from or for Spanish-language journals, LaPaz used the services of
an interpreter or translator.

This information was provided to me in writing by LaPaz's
daughter,  Jean, a scientist herself, who worked very closely
with her father at the University of New Mexico's Institute of
Meteoritics, which LaPaz founded.  Others who worked closely with
LaPaz confirmed this.  See my "Roswell in Perspective," pp. 77-78
and pertinent notes.

On a related note, the idiotic "Dos Equis" column recently posted
here also ran in the ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL.  I wrote a letter to
the editor, which was published, pointing out the
columnists--notorious ethnic PCers/baiters--had bought into
Randle and Schmitt's equally uncritical acceptance of the
Spanish- speaking LaPaz tale, caring more about making a satiric
(and silly) political point than the facts.