Travis Walton is a liar. UFO story to win National Enquirer prize money.

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"Ground Saucer Watch" Memo on the Walton Incident
Conclusions (undated: probably December, 1975)

"Ground Saucer Watch," a pro-UFO organization, was the very first UFO organization on the scene of the Walton "abduction". In cooperation with Dr. J. Allen Hynek of CUFOS, Dr. Lester Stewart of GSW began to interview the Walton family while Travis was still "missing." They immediately smelled a hoax. These are their conclusions, without any changes - RS.

1. Walton never boarded the UFO. This fact is supported by the six witnesses and the polygraph test results. [3]

2. The entire Walton family has had a continual UFO history. The Walton boys have reported observing 10 to 15 separate UFO sightings (very high).

3. When Duane was questioned about his brother's disappearance, he stated that "Travis will be found, that UFO's are friendly." GSW countered, "How do you know Travis will be found?" Duane said "I have a feeling, a strong feeling." GSW asked "If the UFO 'captors' are going to return Travis, will you have a camera to record this great occurrence?" Duane, "No, if I have a camera 'they' will not return."

4. The Walton's mother showed no outward emotion over the 'loss' of Travis. She said that UFO's will not harm her son, he will be returned and that UFO's have been seen by her family many times.

5. The Walton's refused any outside scientific help or anyone who logically doubted the abduction portion of the story.

6. The media and GSW was fair to the witnesses. However, when the story started to 'fall apart' the Waltons would only talk to people who did not doubt the abduction story.

7. APRO became involved and criticized both GSW and Dr. Hynek for taking a negative position on the encounter.

8. The Waltons 'sold' their story to the National Enquirer and the story was completely twisted from the truth.

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"Profitable Nightmare of a Very Unreal Kind"
by Jeff Wells

(from The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 6 January 1979)

Australian newspaperman Jeff Wells was a member of the National Enquirer team that "packaged" the Travis Walton abduction story for publication. Walton's story is now the subject of a major motion picture from Paramount, Fire In the Sky. Wells is one of seven authors of the National Enquirer story "Arizona Man Captured by UFO" published Dec. 16, 1975. Upon his return to Australia, Wells wrote up this insiders' view of the sordid goings-on for his newspaper column, the identities of the participants only thinly disguised. "The kid" is obviously Travis Walton. "The cowboy" is his brother, Duane Walton. "The professor" is Dr. James Harder of Berkeley, at that time a leading figure in APRO, the now-defunct Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, a prominent UFO "abductionist" who died in 2006. The polygraph examiner is John J. McCarthy, the senior polygraph operator in the state of Arizona. This story was reprinted in the Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 5 Nr. 4 (Summer, 1981), pp. 47-52.

caption in photo box: "JEFF WELLS recalls his dealings with a pathetic kid whose dream never quite got off the ground."

Pictures of them holding the checks from the National Enquirer.

Thanks, a lot of his story made no sense. This picture says it all.

Not sure how relevant , but 3rd person direct from Travis Walton
A guy I worked with in Alaska in 1996, he was originally from Arizona
One day I was talking about UFOs (I've seen many), and he asks if I heard of the Travis Walton story, and said I heard about it

Tells me he Dad was Travis' Golden Gloves trainer back in Arizona, I remember asking him it was before or after and he told me it was after I believe (haven't talked to this guy since '96)

Anyways he said pretty much he believed it said the guy still had issues and and what not and his Dad was convinced something did happen to him

thats all I got, but 3 degrees from the actual person

The picture of them with the prize checks is conclusive. You will never hear Walton mention those National Enquirer checks.

I knew about the money, its been reported plenty of times. I have also met Travis and spoken with him, I did not know about the story at that point.

I do know his friends who were with him have never recanted nor changed their stories, they also have had almost no contact with each other since just after the event.

Travis got paid but just having to live like be did in the area there was no amount of money worth the suffering and slander he was exposed to by people. Frankly, nobody in that area even really talks about the event.

If it was about money and fame, he could clearly make even MORE money by telling the truth now, he would be famous again for getting away with lying for decades, as could his friends for outing him.

So why continue the lies if it did not happen?

Walton has grifted his whole life off of that story. He gets paid to attend every one of those UFO conferences and to sign autographs, etc. He also got paid for the movie. That story is how he has made his living. As to the others, read the linked stories, they have always just been sidelines to the main lie.

Mr. Klass revealed to NICAP lhat a
lie deteclor test had been administered
to Travis W€lton THREE MONTHS
EAflLIEB, ON NOVEMBER 15, 1975,
WALTON FAILED THE POLYGRAPH
EXAIVIINATION AT THAT TIiuE.

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this philip klass guy has said that all of the abductees are lying , supposedly he has never interviewed any of them , bud hopkins goes into great detail about mr , klass being a disinfo bs guru.

Seems like a believable guy to me.

He had witnesses. The witnesses reported what they saw and he was missing for awhile, or at least according to the movie. Didn't read the book.

Did you hear him mention his prize money from the National Enquirer?

All these old time UFO "investigators" always badmouth each other. However, the picture of Walton and all of his "witnesses" smiling with their National Enquirer prize money is undeniable. Either you want to believe your own eyes or you dont.

I knew he was lying when he claimed that the aliens just let him wander around their ship and go into the control room. He claimed he sat in the pilot seat and turned the ship all around while he watched the stars move. Absurd that advanced beings would allow such a thing.

Bottom line for me is Travis Walton, by telling his story probably saved my life.

I had a very similar encounter, YES, a UFO came down from the stars and hovered above me in my back yard. San Jose California.

I dont need any proof I have it.

Anyway,, the UFO shone down that white translucent light, If it wasn`t for Travis story I wouldn`t have know to get the heck away at that point.

It shone that light and it landed about 10 feet from me. Almost like an invitation to come aboard.

I have told of my spectacular encounter many times here on GLP.

In a city of over a million, not one person saw or at least reported what I saw.

A flaming orange ball and red fire brighter than the frikin sun DOWN at only 60 FEET. Fucken feet.

And no one else saw this..

thank you Travis, you may have saved a life over here...

probably correct, the movie depiction of the abduction is an interesting scene though...

Dont all aliens let strangers drive their spaceships?

Ya know who cares???

NO ONE.

The "witnesses" didnt think it would get this big and dont want the attention that would come from exposing it now. They realize they would end up cracking or they have other things they dont want checked into with all the scrutiny.

Even back then $2500 was hardly life changing money. If this was a hoax the amount of planning and money that went into it must have been enormous and $2500 would not compensate for all that work.

Maybe it was a hoax but it wasn’t just for the $2500.

What "planning" cost anything? They made up a story for free and won money for it.

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Lying is normal to his generation. As long as you're dedicated to the lie, you are a respectable boomer.

They made their story way to complicated and allowed too many loose ends in order to make it believable. Walton has been tripped up over things many times over the years but people like the story so they have let him slide. Most realize it was just a hoax.

His mother actually told the Sheriff that she wasent worried because the aliens wouldnt "hurt Travis." She said that while he was still "missing"

So the witnesses told her that he was zapped with a ray gun and slammed across a clearing but she took from that that the aliens were friendly???? HOAX for sure.

NATL. ENQUIRER DEC. 16 '75

Yeah, the first one shows the Enquirer story that started the whole thing but the second one shows them with their prize checks for the story.

And the other links show how it was a hoax.
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