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The One
1st June 2016, 18:15
NAME: TRAVIS WALTON
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WEBSITE: 
www.travis-walton.com

BOOKS WRITTEN: Walton wrote a book about it in 1978 called The Walton Experience which became a film Fire in the Sky in 1993, written by Tracy Tormé.

PERSONAL HISTORY (Short Bio) :

The Travis Walton UFO incident refers to an American logger who claims he was abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton reappeared after a five-day search. The Walton case received mainstream publicity and remains one of the best-known alleged alien abduction stories, although skeptics consider it a hoax.

TRAVIS WALTON

Walton wrote a book about it in 1978 called The Walton Experience which became a film Fire in the Sky in 1993, written by Tracy Tormé.

According to Walton, on November 5, 1975 he was working with a lumbering crew in the Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. While riding in a truck with six of his coworkers, they encountered a saucer-shaped object hovering over ground about 110 feet away, making a high-pitched buzz. Walton claims he left the truck and approached it, when a beam of light suddenly appeared from the craft, knocking him to the ground. The other six men were frightened and supposedly drove away. Walton claimed that he awoke in a hospital-like room, being observed by three short, bald creatures. When they left, a person entered the room wearing some sort of helmet and led Walton to another room, where three more people put a clear plastic mask over his face and he blacked out. Walton has claimed he remembers nothing else until he found himself walking along a highway, with the flying saucer departing above him.

Ufologists

In the days following Walton’s UFO claim, The National Enquirer awarded Walton and his co-workers a $5000 prize for “best UFO case of the year” after they allegedly passed polygraph exams administered by the Enquirer and a UFO organization. Walton, his older brother, and his mother were described by the Navajo County, Arizona sheriff as “longtime students of UFOs”. Some UFOlogists believe Walton was abducted by aliens. UFOlogist Jim Ledwith said, “For five days, the authorities thought he’d been murdered by his co-workers, and then he was returned. All of the co-workers who were there, who saw the spacecraft, they all took polygraph tests, and they all passed, except for one, and that one was inconclusive.

Skeptical reception

Skeptics consider the case to be a hoax, describing it as “sensationalizing on the part of the media” and “a put-up job” to make money.” UFO researcher Philip J. Klass considered it a hoax perpetrated for financial gain, and discovered many “discrepancies” in the stories of Walton and his co-workers. After investigating the case, Klass reported that the lie detector tests were “poorly administered”, that Walton used “polygraph countermeasures” such as holding his breath, and uncovered an earlier failed polygraph test administered by an examiner who concluded the case involved “gross deception”.

Michael Shermer criticized Walton’s claims, saying, “I think the polygraph is not a reliable determiner of truth. I think Travis Walton was not abducted by aliens. In both cases, the power of deception and self-deception is all we need to understand what really happened in 1975 and after.

Cognitive psychologist Susan Clancy argues that alien abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV, and that Walton was likely influenced by the NBC TV movie The UFO Incident that aired two weeks before his own claimed abduction and dramatized the alien abduction claims of Betty and Barney Hill. Clancy noted the rise in alien abduction claims following the movie and cites Klass’s conclusions that “after viewing this movie, any person with a little imagination could now become an instant celebrity”, concluding that “one of those instant celebrities was Travis Walton.


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Aragorn
1st June 2016, 19:14
Travis Walton has also made an appearance at the 2015 MUFON symposium — I've posted a thread about it, which you can find by clicking here (http://jandeane81.com/threads/9163-UFOtv-presents-THE-2015-MUFON-SYMPOSIUM-Fire-In-The-Sky-The-Travis-Walton-Story) — and he now feels that it wasn't an abduction as such.

His initial thought was that he had been shot down by way of some beam weapon, and then taken on board with hostile intent. In hindsight however and after all of these years, he now feels that he may actually have accidentally run into the ship's forcefield as the ship was about to leave, and that he was electrocuted by that run-in, upon which the aliens took him on board in order to revive and heal him.