See here for
essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/08/new-travis-walton-hoax-claim.html.
I wonder why it is that claims are always called
"revelations" and "confessions" when they do not promote aliens.
Travis Walton has once more been accused of hoaxing his UFO abduction
experience from a pinewood glade in 1975. This should not be a surprise;
accusations against Travis have been going on continuously in one form or
another ever since the incident happened. There are probably over a dozen
different dirty deeds he has supposedly done. Some of them are contradictory;
but in true Orwellian style, the debunkers believe them all. This latest
iteration broke the other day and has hit the backslapper-osphere like a spring
tide tsunami. Mike Rogers has apparently flip-flopped yet again since
withdrawing his 2021 attack, see background link above. This time it is a
supposed deathbed confession. It was reported by Steve Pierce, another member
of the lumberjack team, who says he was one of last people to talk to Mike
before he died. Steve's story is backed up by Mike's daughter Michelle Detras.
Mike's words apparently include the sentence, "Travis, your day of
reckoning is coming." However, despite two people close to Mike claiming
the same thing, Mike has made no official public statement. This is completely different
from Walter Haut, for instance, who signed an affidavit over his information to
do with the
Roswell incident. If
Mike Rogers has done something similar, it is being kept confidential. If so,
then why? There are more flaws in this testimony. According to Michelle, Mike
has confessed to perpetrating further hoaxes; and this is where it gets ridiculous.
According to his daughter, Mike also faked the Phoenix Lights and a number of
crop circles in
England.
There is no explanation for how or why Mike Rogers became such a prolific and
accomplished UFO conman. All we hear from Michelle is that he constructed the
fake Phoenix UFO on a friend's ranch. What, something that big? How does it
work? How much did it cost? How did he get away with it? Michelle and Steve
have my sympathy for their loss, but what they say makes no sense at all.
Patrick from the Vetted YouTube channel has covered this in
detail, and that fits with his new perspective. As HPANWO TV viewers know, I
met Patrick at Contact in the Desert last year and we got on well, see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2025/06/ben-in-desert-2.html.
I sub to his channel generally enjoy his output, but in the last few months
Patrick has become much more cynical and negative in his outlook. I suspect he
has been influenced by the community of backslappers surrounding
"Tupacabra" and "Red Panda Koala" on Twitter. Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijj0OPqMhhE.
We seem to be entering a season of skepticism. At the same time as Travis has
once more been put in the dock of the social media courthouse, a new film about
Bigfoot has premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival. All I know about
it is that it's called
Capturing Bigfoot
and that it takes a highly skeptical position. I'll be sure to watch it when
it's on general release. I do not find this latest cycle of anti-Travis Walton
assertions at all credible. They supposedly come from somebody who was Travis'
brother-in-law, and who had a very rocky relationship with Travis; and has
already confessed to publishing a false calumny against Travis just a few years
ago. To crown it all we only hear his supposed last words second hand as part
of a nonsensical diatribe. It's now been more than fifty years since the
incident. There was an event last November to mark the occasion. It seems
virtually inevitable that a person who reports a UFO close encounter ends up
with their character tarnished. It's as if society has some kind of strange built-in
immune system against them. We know that the government find such people very inconvenient
and encourages such assaults. Let us recognize this reaction for what it is
when it happens; and this latest vilification of Travis has all the classic
symptoms.
See here for more
information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.
