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Travis Walton’s Alien
Abduction Lie Detection
Test
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My looming layoff pushed me to reconsider. I
inquired as to whether good, accepted modern
polygraph methods were being used. They
assured me that was the case. I should have
known better, but I figured all I had to do was
tell the truth, even if I had to make public
something embarrassing like a personal
business or marital mistake and I would win top
prize.
I didn’t became aware of the shocking
truth about the polygraph procedure they were
using until it was too late. It did no good to tell
them what I’d written in my book (page 322)
years earlier, that “The American Polygraph
Association’s Standards and Principles of
Practice item #5 states: “A member shall not
provide a conclusive decision or report based
on chart analysis without having collected at
least two (2) separate charts in which each
relevant question is asked on each chart. A
chart is one presentation of the question list.”
There many other violations of accepted
procedure.
We came back home and my wife had me
retested with the most rigorous new tests we
could find — in New Mexico where it is
stringently regulated by the state because
results are admissible in court there. A firm
highly recommended by other examiners, one
that does work for the Albuquerque Police Dept,
the NM State Prison, and the U.S. Marshal’s
office. The most accepted methods on state-of-
the-art computerized equipment. I passed two
different new tests flawlessly. Then I found a
website that was even more devastating of any
claim of legitimacy for The Moment of Truth:
The Truth About the Moment of Truth. Written
by a court certified polygraph expert back in
2004 shortly after the show debuted, he began
with, “…the polygraph aspect of the show has
no validity whatsoever.” and “This test format
will NOT determine truth or deception.” In fact
I wrote years ago that the GAO tests showed
such methods would yield as high as 80% false
positives. He wrote in conclusion, “Due to the
vague, subjective, futuristic nature, and sheer State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the healthy again.
volume, of relevant questions asked on The
Moment of Truth, there can be little more than
chance accuracy in determining truth or
deception to these questions. In other words,
they could simply flip a coin and achieve the
same accuracy levels.”, saying you’ll get the
same opinion from any accredited polygraph
school. I then proceeded to gather several more
equally damning judgments from some of the
very top experts in the world in polygraph, plus
I had several international mediaforums lined
up. So there’s a bit of a let down because I was
geared up to defend myself in a way that would
have unfortunately demolished the show and
seriously hurt Fox. Too bad, because I think that
the producers I dealt with are good, well
intentioned people who had been duped by a
dishonest examiner.
Check out that website and tell me what
you think.
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