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And you can read more about the Walton
abduction from some divergent points of view
here:

http://www.nicap.org/751105snowflake_dir.htm

http://www.nicap.org/reports/751105snowflake
_report.htm

If all this isn’t enough to overwhelm you, I don’t
know what it. Like so much of the UFO field,
there is a variety of points for view from the
debunker’s “It can’t be, therefore it isn’t,” to the
other side of the spectrum which is “What more
do you need for proof?”

The Walton case is one of the few in which the
abduction was witnessed (well, almost… Rogers
said that no one witnessed the actual abduction)
and that makes it a stronger case. We had, what
was once, a solid wall of confirmation by those was Russ Estes. I was there with Estes and we I did talk with Steve Pierce several years ago
involved, that now has developed a few cracks all just said, “Hello.” Walton and Rogers left about this, and the story that he and Philip Klass
that have become wider and deeper. before Estes took the microphone and began to had talked about Pierce recanting. Klass would
speak. pay ten thousand dollars for that. I covered all

I confess that at this point I am more confused this years ago and you can read about that here:
than ever. Those who visit here regularly know I have had Rogers on my radio show and you
that I’m not a fan of abduction tales. I have said can listen to that interview by scrolling through http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/07/steve-
that I think the more likely abduction scenarios the listings on the embedded audio player. Just pierce-and-travis-walton.html
are those like the Walton experience in which look for Mike Rogers. I believe there is a
the “victim” is a target of opportunity rather than problem with one segment in the first or second http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2012/03/philip-
a participant in some sort of long-term hour of the interview that we failed to get fixed. klass-travis-walton-and-steve.html
longitudinal study. I had, provisionally, accepted You can read about it here:
the story as true but had some reservations about I will note here that none of those who were
it. This latest pushes me in the other direction http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2019/09/x- involved in the sighting and the subsequent
and given that a hoax scenario is more likely zone-broadcast-network-mike-rogers.html events that night has ever said that it was a hoax.
than an alien abduction, that seems to be the All have remained a solid front about the case.
most likely case… but I just don’t really know Anyway, I emailed Rogers about all this. I The statement by Rogers to me just hours ago is
for sure. [] thought I understood the situation. It seemed the first crack in the wall. You have to wonder
that Walton and Rogers had a falling out over a about the line, “You must realize that none of us
Did Mike Rogers personal matter. It was strong enough that witnesses saw Travis get abducted.” Is there a
Rogers wasn’t going to support Walton, which I deeper meaning hidden there?
Repudiate the Travis took to mean that he wasn’t going to be with him
on any interviews or at any presentations. It When I began this minor quest, I had hoped
Walton Abduction? wasn’t that Rogers was repudiating the clarify the situation but I now fear that I have
abduction tale. He was severing his connection muddied the water even more. I’m not sure what
by Kevin Randle to Walton over this personal matter. to make of all this?
Host of A Different Perspective
However, during the email exchange, Rogers And, I have reached out to Walton although he
Radio Show on XZBN
sent the following, “You must realize that none hasn’t answered an email from me in a couple of
of us witnesses saw Travis get abducted. That years. I had invited him on the radio show but
in itself speaks volumes. The further this goes his last comment was, “What’s the point?” I
There has been a bit of a controversy lately. the more I wonder.” The emphasis is in the have not heard back from him, but then, I didn’t
Travis Walton and Mike Rogers are at odds with original. He added, “You can quote me on that.” send the email all that long ago []
one another and some have interpreted this to
mean that Rogers no longer supports the story of Yes, we can say that they all passed polygraph Publisher’s Note:
Walton’s abduction. I read a number of posts tests, or rather most of them did. But those first
about it and they were confusing. It was unclear tests were about the Rogers’ team having A recent ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper poll, readers
if Rogers was saying, finally, that the abduction murdered Walton and not about the abduction. were asked: Do You believe that Travis Walton
was a hoax, or maybe something less exciting. Walton failed his first polygraph but was abducted by Extraterrestrials on November
His words were that he no longer supported subsequently passed two others. Walton has said 5, 1975?
Travis Walton. that the first test was flawed because the

polygrapher didn’t believe in UFOs and thought The Results:
I know Rogers to some extent. We have the whole thing was a hoax. The alleged test
communicated over the last couple of years. I wasn’t a properly conducted test. Walton has a
did meet him once, in 1997, in Roswell. Nothing point here. You can, of course, read all about that NO - 92%
long and involved. He and Walton were in Walton’s Fire in the Sky. YES - 6%
finishing a presentation and the next person up UNDECIDED - 2%