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In this episode, we're talking about the Travis Walton case and
20 facts you may not know That's correct.
The Travis Walton case and 20 facts you May not know, of
course, Travis Walton Alien abduction case.
It's been almost 50 years now. Now, if we go back and take a
look at it, we find out that we find out that on November 5th,
1975, in the rugged forest of northeastern Arizona, group of
loggers found themselves at the center of an extraordinary
event. Travis Walton, the young and
curious member of the crew, was about to have an encounter that
would forever change his life. After a long day's work as a
team was heading back home, they witnessed a peculiar light
emanating from the nearby trees. Curiosity got the better of them
and they approached the source, a UFO hovering just above the
ground. Terrified and in awe, Walton
approached the strange craft, hoping to get a closer look.
But as he got nearer, a powerful beam of light shot down from the
UFO, engulfing him and causing his fellow loggers to flee and
panic. Fearing for their lives for the
next 5 days, Travis Walton's disappearance captured the
attention of the world. Authorities and skeptical
individuals questioned the loggers account, suspecting foul
play or hoax. The story gained national media
coverage, and tensions ran high as everyone sought to unravel
the truth. Then, just as suddenly as he
vanished, Travis reappeared disoriented in a state of shock,
recounting a tale that seemed impossible to believe.
He claimed he had been taken aboard the alien craft subjected
to a series of bewildering medical examinations, and then
he encountered beings unlike anything he'd seen before.
The Travis Walton abduction case sparked heated debates among UFO
enthusiasts, skeptics and researchers alike.
Some dismissed it as a mere fabrication, while others saw it
as compelling evidence of extraterrestrial contact.
Throughout the years, Travis Walton's story remains
consistent with polygraph tests supporting the authenticity of
his experience. But the question remains, what
really happened that fateful night in the Arizona wilderness?
And we're going to take a look at what happened.
We're going to take a look at some facts that you may not know
about from this next article coming just right ahead of the
Travis Walton alien abduction case is probably the one one of
the most famous alien abduction cases cases of all time.
And I think of course it always bears studying.
And I found this article from grivyhistory.com and the title
says 20 Chilling Facts You Never Knew About the Horrifying Alien
Abduction of Travis Walton. It's written by Sarah Norman,
dated August 2nd, 2023. Looks like fact #1.
Travis Walton was a regular working man before he was
abducted by aliens. That's true.
They were out cutting logs that day in the forest there in
Arizona, it says. On November 5th, 1975, a group
of loggers were driving home from a long day's work in the
forest in northeastern Arizona when they stumbled upon an Erie
site. Hovering above the treetops was
a glowing disk shaped craft. And as they approached, one of
their crew, Travis Walton, was struck by a beam of light and
seemingly abducted by the craft. The story of the The story of
Walton's alleged alien abduction was captured in the imaginations
of 1,000,000 and sparked intense debate over the years.
Was it a hoax or hallucination or did Walton really experience
an encounter with extraterrestrial life?
And then it goes on talks a little bit about about the
article. The second fact that they have
listed here says the second fact they have listed is that
Roswell, NM, home of the famous 1947UFO crash, is just one state
away from where Travis Walton was abducted.
So of course you have that right there.
You have Arizona and Next State over New Mexico, so you're kind
of in UFO territory actually, it says.
Walton and the group of loggers found themselves at the center
of an event that would change their lives forever.
As they stared at the hovering dish shaped craft, their minds
struggled to make sense of what their eyes were seeing.
Despite the countless stories of UFO sightings that circulated
over the years, these hardworking loggers had never
imagined they would bear witness to one themselves.
The famous Roswell incident, which occurred just one state
away in New Mexico, seemed like a distant legend, a story
reserved for the pages of sensationalized magazines and
tabloids. Yet here they were confronted
with the reality that was as bizarre as it was terrifying.
Here we have Fact #3, just an average group of guys in the
1970s, hardly the type to be targeted by alien beings.
Now it's got a picture of these seven guys here, and I'll put a
link to this article on the Buy Me Coffee website.
Definitely 1970s, it says. Mike Rogers, Travis Walton's
best friend and coworker, was driving the truck.
They stopped the vehicle when the men saw the spacecraft, but
everyone stayed in the truck. Everyone, that is, except Travis
Walton, who hopped out to investigate.
Looking back, it's easy to wonder what might have been
going through Travis's mind in that pivotal moment.
Well, if you know, if you got a group of guys, and there's
always one in every bunch, that's always the one that's got
to go look. But in the midst of an
experience that, if I had all rational explanation, the
decision to investigate further may have seemed like the most
logical and reasonable course action.
As we continue our exploration of this bizarre and captivating
case, we delve deeper into the psychology and motivations of
those involved, seeking to understand the complex factors
that led to one of the most intriguing and controversial
alien abduction stories of all times.
They have Fact #5, Travis says. I didn't appreciate the danger I
was in. I think that's true for a lot of
folks that come in contact with these things.
I mean, you think about how technologically advanced they
are in the national software. Do you really want to get close
to it? Years later, Travis Walton, Mike
Rogers, and John Goulet and another coworker was in the
truck with them that night in 1975, sat on a panel at a UFO
conference to fill questions about their encounter.
Walton was asked why he was the only one to exit the truck and
approach the strange craft. He replied.
I was awestruck and entranced by the beauty of the thing.
I thought it would take off, but it didn't.
I didn't appreciate the danger I was in these things.
Definitely, if you are up close to one of them, they can appear
very beautiful, there's no doubt about that.
It says the witness saw a blue-green light.
And this is something, you know, when I had my experience it was
a very blue light. It if you just cannot describe
how enticing that light is, it just fills up every corner and
then you know the combination. In my experience, there was a
blue light on top of this thing and then, you know, basically a
white yellow light coming down from it, like the brightest
stage light you ever saw. There's something about that
light that's just not explainable.
I don't know, but it just it is captivating and I can understand
why Travis might have been drawn to this craft.
As he looked at this blue-green light, he talks about.
When Travis Walton approached the hovering sorcery, he heard a
high pitched buzzing sound. Then suddenly a beam of light
shot down from the craft and knocked him unconscious.
And this was corroborated by Mike Rogers and the other men in
the truck. They all witnessed an intense
blowy screen beam of light engulfing their friend and they
saw him fall to the ground. Wow.
Number six fact Walton's friend speed away of fear.
Who could blame them? Yeah, they did Get out of there.
This is the sort of thing you would expect.
A very human reaction. Fear and adrenaline kicked in.
Rogers hit the gas and speed away as fast as he could, with
the other workers urging him to go even faster.
But Walton was Roger's best friend, and about a mile away he
calmed down enough to turn the truck around and go back for his
buddy. When the men arrived back at the
clearing, both the spacecraft and Walton were gone.
Later, Walton was asked how he felt when he learned that his
best friend and coworkers deserted him.
He responded that he would have done the same thing #7 Travis
Walton claimed he tried to fight his otherworldly attackers.
According to Travis Walton, he was knocked out in the clearing
in the in the woods and woke up in a space and woke up in a
space that reminded him of a hospital room. 3 strange looking
creatures, short and bald, with large eyes were watching over
him. Walton said he tried to fight
the three creatures so he could escape, but a humanoid creature
wearing an odd helmet came into the room and immediately had a
somewhat calming effect on Walton, but he was still
paralyzed with fear. This is another account of these
strange humanoid creatures that seem to be working with these
things now, whether they're just previously kidnapped abductees
or some sort of hybrid, we just don't know.
Or maybe just an alien made to look like a human.
Now, great. Travis Walton described both
aliens and humans aboard the craft, and it says Travis
Walton's description of the interior of the spacecraft and
the details of what the aliens did to him were sparse.
Walton claims that the human in the helmet led him to another
room. There, three other creatures of
unknown origin placed a clear plastic mask over his mouth and
nose. I can't even imagine how
terrifying that would be. After that, he has no further
recollection of his time as an alien abductee.
If there were any specific alien experiments performed, he has no
memory of it, which is probably for the best.
And then it says #9. Travis Walton was the first
person reported to have been abducted by aliens while he was
still missing. That's interesting.
Mike Rogers, John Coulet and the other witnesses reported the
encounter and their missing friend to authorities.
The police had a hard time believing their story.
It was the 1970s, after all. They assumed that men had been
doing drugs, had a bad trip, and her friend wandered off.
Nonetheless, they launched a search for the missing Travis
Walton, using scent dogs and helicopters as well as boots on
the ground. So even though the cops didn't
really take the story at face value, they they did the right
thing and they sent out a search party immediately.
Next fact, Mike Rogers and other witnesses were suspected of
murdering Travis Walton. Well, you might think that when
Travis Walton was reported missing and his coworkers
offered a fantastic, unbelievable story about his
abduction, the authorities launched a massive manhound for
him. But they also questioned Mike
Rogers, John Glute, and the others.
At the time, the working theory was that the other loggers had
killed Walton, either intentionally or accidentally,
and had and had invented the alien abduction tale to explain
his absence. The police fully expected to
find Walton's murdered body in the force.
Meanwhile, Rogers and the others were frantically trying to clear
their names and find their missing friend.
That must have been right hard on these guys that.
I mean, First off, your friend goes missing and in the in the
strangest way possible. And now you're being implicated
in possibly murdering him. I think this is fact #11.
Travis Walton was returned to Earth after five days.
This, this abduction went on for quite a while.
The next thing Travis Walton remembers from his experience is
standing on the side of a road with the spacecraft zooming away
from him. He didn't know at the time, but
he was in Herbert, Arizona and five days and six hours had
passed since he was being from the UFO.
He has no memory of anything after he was rendered
unconscious by the three humans. None of these memories have ever
returned, leading Walton to theorize that he was unconscious
the entire time. So you hear that this guy he
that he just finds himself deposited along the side of the
road, just like we see with so many of these cattle mutilation
cases where they seem to be randomly dropped down or people
in these National Park missing people cases.
Sometimes the the individuals are still alive.
Usually they're dead and we find our bodies often miles from
where they were last seen at, just discarded.
And here Travis finds himself standing along the side of the
road after being having. He doesn't even remember what
done to him, but he knows it was an alien spaceship, and very
strange that he remembers 3 humans during this whole
terrible abduction. It says bloodhounds couldn't
detect Travis Wallace's trail. That's fact.
Remember those scent dogs that were used to brick Walt?
That. Remember those scent dogs that
were used to track Walton? They were unable to pick up
Walton's trail from the clearing and unable to pick up his trail
leading to his reappearance on the road in Herbert.
The dog's handlers tried to get the animals to follow Walton's
trail backwards, assuming he had been hiding out somewhere, but
there was no trail for the dogs to follow.
It was like Walton was plucked off the ground in one location
and plopped down in another, which is exactly what he claimed
happened. Yeah, that's what it seems like.
Then it says, was it all big hoax?
And after Travis Walton returned from his alleged abduction and
told his story, he faced skepticism at every turn.
Officials claimed that Walton made-up the whole incident so he
could make money from selling a story.
The local sheriff claimed that Walton, along with his brother
and mother, were all longtime students of UFOs.
And folks assumed that Walton was such a UFO fan that he
wanted to be part of the alien story.
So of course, you just ignore the facts and accused the guy
being a liar. And then it says there's another
fact. The witness took lie detector
test and passed. Yeah, I knew that.
But there was also evidence to support Travis Walton's story.
All of the other men in the truck that night who all saw the
UFO witness, Walton's encounter with it took polygraph test.
All of them passed except one man and his results were
inconclusive. Now, I haven't seen one of these
things at work. The guy could have just been
nervous. I don't know.
Traditionally Walton was not a publicity seeker by nature.
In fact, he hated the media circus that resulted from his
alien abduction. He was not a likely candidate to
perpetuate a hoax like this. He wasn't the type of person
searching for fame and I was just out cutting trees down in
the timber. Now it says another fact Here
Barney and Betty Hill were abducted by aliens in 1961.
Did their story inspired Travis Walton?
I'm not going to go over the Barney and Betty Hill story.
We we know that I've been podcast on it, but that of
course was mentioned by some people.
Hey, maybe maybe that's what you know, got these guys thinking
about that and I kind of doubt it.
That would have been 10 years prior anyway.
And this is Travis Walton published a book about his
abduction. Yes, I'm aware of that.
It says here Travis Walton wrote a book about the UFO encounter
he had led that had led to his five day abduction.
He titled his book which was published in The 19 Seven which
was published in 1978 The Walton Experience in 1993.
Tracy tore me adapted the book into a screenplay and it was
made to a movie, Fire in the Sky, directed by Robert
Lieberman. Yeah, he did have a movie made,
which is pretty interesting I think as well.
It talks about the movie and the IT says the movie Fire in the
Sky was adapted from Travis Walton's book and we're aware of
that movie. It says here that it grossed
$19.9 million but the film's but the film critics approval was
split. You know you're just not going
to get a good reviews on a on a biographical alien abduction
story but at least they got the movie out there.
Now it says Travis Walton with his book and he's he's got his
book Travis here and Fire in the Sky Sky.
They go on to say the scientific community has long dismissed
Travis Walton's story as a hoax for the product of power of
deception and selfdeception. Yet there are others who believe
Travis Walton. They point to other alien
abduction stories and similar details.
His critics say that the fact that Walton wrote a book and has
profited from his stories proof that it was a hoe.
But his supporters say that it's only natural that Walton would
want to share his terrifying and otherworldly story to let others
know what happened to him. Well, of course.
And then we get out here at the end, it says.
People are still not sure if they should believe Travis
Walton's story or not. Several television programs that
future strange Stories and Incidents of alien encounters
have covered Travis Walton's chilling story.
He has been interviewed by Larry King, Joe Rogan and others.
Walton is an occasional guest at UFO conventions where he shares
his stories with fans. He even sponsors his own UFO
conference called the Sky Skyfire Summit.
And then finally, the very last fact that it brings out is that
says. Does Travis Walton's experience
prove that we aren't ready for the truth?
Well, maybe in a way. Travis Walton's 1978 book The
Waltons Experience has a good reads of 3.8.
In the book, he recounts how he was treated when he reappeared
from his ordeal. And then he says people were,
you know, upset and angry with him.
Some people just, you know, they accused him of being liars, he
says. It would have been easier if he
It would have been easier, he claims, if he had just kept the
incident to himself. But he knew it was too important
not to share it with the world. He didn't expect to be branded a
liar, to have his story, to have his every decision used against
him, to to prove him a hoax. He concluded that the world
wasn't ready to grapple with the implications of his experience
that aliens exist and are visiting our planet.
Well, yeah, a lot of people probably aren't.
They aren't able to 1st off just digest the story of Travis
Walton. Of course, it's been almost 50
years now since this happened. And the fact that he's held up
to multiple polygraph tests, the fact that he was missing for
five days, the fact that other people are there to cooperate
his testimony. It seems clear that one of these
things visited, that Travis got too close and then it just
sucked him up on board the same way it would have a a free range
cow or whatever else got it its way.
Lucky for Travis, he was put back here alive now.
Or that that's because they've signed some sort of treaty, you
know, back 50-60 years ago with the United States saying, hey,
you can take people, but you can't kill him.
Whether this is just some sort of universal law where they're
not allowed to kill people even though they do do that
occasionally, who knows. It wouldn't seem that they're
here to really help people. They certainly haven't shared
the cure for cancer. They certainly haven't
eliminated the threat of nuclear war.
They certainly haven't unleashed knowledge and technology that
could provide clean energy save mankind.
We're not sitting around the the campfire singing Kumbaya with
these guys. So I do believe that that Travis
Walton had an experience. I do believe he was abducted.
And I don't believe that whatever it was that abducted
him really cared at all about Travis Walton.
There's something he had they needed, there's some information
that they were able to drive out of him.
They basically treated him like a a lab rat, but for some
unexplained reason, he was lucky enough to be placed back all
along that lonely country Rd. basically unharmed and without
too many memories of the just crazy episode that he'd just
gone through. This alien abduction of Travis
Walton. Until next time, this is UFO
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