New Travis Walton Hoax Claim

 

Everybody likes to be in the know. All the others are gullible, but we've got it sussed! In whatever way the UFO story eventually ends, most people want to be remembered as the one to say: "I was the one who was never taken in by any hoax!" This is to do with ego and there's nothing wrong with that. A little bit of ego is necessary and without it we have an incomplete personality. Ego is only a hindrance when we let it take over our minds, as in the case of a certain country doctor from North Carolina. It's about machismo, again something natural and not always bad if you keep it in control. Over eighty percent of UFOlogists are male, after all; and there's nothing wrong with that either, but this can generate a problem. Whenever the word goes out that something might be faked, there is a natural instinct to drop it and run like crazy, as if the mere mention of the possibility of fraud transforms it instantly into a ticking bomb. On top of this, you can always depend on the skeptics to laud automatically the "conveniently told confession story", see: https://youtu.be/phNzRKe85Ac?t=6800. For these reasons, hoax allegations are questioned far less rigorously than positive UFOlogical assertions.
 
I saw this very example play out again with the recent resurgence of attacks against Travis Walton. Such attacks are nothing new; in fact they've been going on in one form or another ever since the event happened. Travis' encounter and abduction is considered one of the most evidentially strong in all of history. On the 5th of November 1975 Travis, a lumberjack, was driving with his colleagues through a forest near Snowflake, Arizona USA when they saw a large multicoloured object near the road. Travis approached it for a better look and was struck by a beam of light. He collapsed to the ground while his colleagues abandoned him and drove away in terror. A few days later Travis reappeared at the side of a road near the town of Heber-Overgaard, a few miles from Travis' home. Since then a debate has raged continuously, in one form or another, about whether Travis' alien abduction was real or fake. The latest flow in that eternal tide comes allegedly from Mike Heston Rogers who was one of the witnesses in the car that night. However there is currently nothing on Mr Rogers' social media page about this. The same goes for Noria Hayakawa, a film maker who once produced a very good documentary about Area 51. He wrote an article about the latest scandal, but has now deleted it. Therefore, coming into this class late, it's difficult to obtain primary source information. Erika Lukes and Jeremy Rys, the "Alien Scientist" still have videos on their YouTube channels about it though. Apparently Mike and Travis had this get-rich-quick plan to make a new blockbuster movie explaining how they "fooled the world!" There was some kind of dispute over money and so Mike decided to spoil the reveal by going public over how Travis and he concocted the imaginary abduction story to win the National Inquirer's prize and get famous generally. There is supposedly a fire tower near the abduction site, an elevated platform taller than the surrounding trees, which they rigged up with coloured light to make it look like a UFO, to fool the other lumberjacks. However nobody is even certain exactly where the abduction site is. The witnesses don't want to reveal it. Anyway, the story continues with Travis then hiding in the fire tower for a few days before climbing down and walking to the phone boxes in Heber. Travis has denied this and explained in a phone-call to Jimmy Church of Fade to Black that this whole hullabaloo was a fabrication caused by Mike's fit of personal rage. Since then the two old friends have reconciled and Mike has withdrawn the allegation. To me it sounds very similar to the Larry Warren story with the forged evidence against him invented by a former friend with a grudge, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/10/sacha-christie-woodbridge-presentation.html. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8D2k25EdZY and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NrQUu8x5U. It's a sad fact though that in UFOlogy mud sticks, for the reasons I explain above. One of the motives I have in writing this article is because I have received a lot of correspondence about this matter. People want me to make a statement; well this is it. The tussle between different theories to explain the Travis Walton incident, to support Travis' report or debunk it, has been rambling on and on since the day it happened. The developments of the past month are not very original and will fade with the passing of time, just like the others have. I personally think Travis was telling the truth and so far no evidence has been presented that, in my view, overturns his testimony.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2019/09/ufo-truth-magazine-conference-2019.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-larry-warren-controversy-part-16.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/11/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-21.html.