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John Goulette: It was a
terrifying experience, you know.
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I imagine...
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the most shook up one
was probably Steve.
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He was only, like, 17.
I think
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he actually lied about his
age to get the job out there.
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Steve Pierce:
Yeah I was 17, so...
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I was the kid.
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I thought I was going to
go to jail for murder.
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John Goulette: There was times
I was saying we need to go back.
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There was times I was saying
we need to go get help.
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You know? I mean it went
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everybody was going back
and forth in their own minds
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and between each other.
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When we got back there
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and we looked around the area,
and we couldn't find Travis
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that's when it hit Mike.
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Mike and Travis
were best buddies
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then, you know, and stuff, and...
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i think he felt...
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really bad about taking off and
leaving him like that.
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Mike Rogers:
It was pretty hectic and...
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it was very emotional at
that point.
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And your mind just...
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just takes off.
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Steve Pierce: We came off the
mountain
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after just looking for Travis
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and we couldn't find him.
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And...
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we pulled in there
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and Kenny got out
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and called the Sheriff's
Department.
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Marlin Gillespie:
It didn't come directly to me
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It came to a deputy sheriff
in Heber
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who called me on the phone...
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and then he gave me a little
more detail on it.
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Chuck Ellison:
When I arrived there
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there were 6 young men
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and they were just
stomping around
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and couple of them were crying.
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And I tried to get
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just as close to each one
of them as I could
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to see if I could detect
odors of marijuana
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or alcohol or
anything like that.
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Ken Peterson: He said
that he didn't believe us
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or disbelieve us. You know?
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He was gonna be neutral.
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But before we went up on
the hill to radio
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for him to radio the Sheriff
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we better be certain...
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because we could get in
a lot of trouble.
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Richard Dolan: Travis Walton was
just 22 years old
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when this happened
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and he was in this
tiny little town
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of Snowflake, Arizona.
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This little town that was
founded by Mormons.
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Everyone knew everyone
in Snowflake.
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So it's not just like he
is in New York City
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or some other big town
where he's anonymous.
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The question is: what the hell
happened to this young man?
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How is it that he could
just disappear?
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John Goulette: We were a
rough-looking bunch then,
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you know?
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A bunch of us
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out there with chainsaws
and that
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and...
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some conflicts here and
there, you know?
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So they...
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they just smoothly
started assuming
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well, they killed this
guy, you know?
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Because they were not going
to believe that wild story
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we were telling them.
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Peter Robbins:
The police...
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and no one could blame them
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had to look
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at the much more obvious
real-world possibility
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that these hardworking
tough, blue collar guys
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even though they were friends...
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there was a falling out
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there was a fight, an argument...
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and one way or another
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Travis lost his life.
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The body was hidden.
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(radio noises)
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(helicopter sounds)
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John Goulette: When we
went to search the next day
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they split us up
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and had a deputy
with each group
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and the whole time
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deputies asked me:
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"Well if you just tell us
where the body is
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and what you did with Travis
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we can all go home and
get this over with."
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Marlin Gillespie: I think
we made contact with the
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dog handler
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from Arizona State Prison.
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He came on site
and started from...
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the point that had
been pointed out
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as where the incident occured.
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Chuck Ellison:
The days proceeded on
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and the helicopter went around
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and the people expanded
and expanded and
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we never found a
footprint or a sign
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anywhere of Travis Walton.
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(suspenseful music)
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Steve Pierce:
They took me first...
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and I was scared to death.
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I figured I was going
to flunk it.
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No matter what, I didn't
want to come here
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I tried to sneak out
the back door
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the day of the polygraph test...
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because all week long
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I've been hearing:
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"Well, they're going...
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to set it up to make you
guys look guilty."
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"And you ain't never going to
come out of that jailhouse."
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John Goulette:
We couldn't get out.
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You know? We weren't...it was
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like being under arrest
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but they didn't just
say we were
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you know?
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But it wasn't no different
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we weren't leaving, nobody
was going nowhere
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until it was completely done.
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Ben Hansen:
The polygraph is not perfect.
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It's in fact one of the
most awful test that
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anyone would have to take.
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You are strapped in with
tubes around your chest
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and you've got wires
connected to you.
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I've taken multiple polygraphs
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and I wouldn't wish
that on anyone.
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Cy Gilson:
I designed the questions.
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The entire test is
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established by research
from a Dr. Raskin
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out of the University of Utah
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who'd done many, many
years of research
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on its validitiy
and its accuracy.
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Steve Pierce:
It took about 2 hours
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and it was like...
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4 questions over and
over and over.
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Richard Dolan:
"Did you murder Travis Walton?"
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"No."
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"Did you see
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what seemed to be
a flying saucer?"
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"Yes."
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"Did you see the object hit
him with a beam of light?"
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"Yes."
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John Goulette: We could've
refused to take the test.
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You know, we didn't
have to take it
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but we wanted to
get the truth out.
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Steve Pierce:
And I passed it...
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at 95% I think, or
something like that.
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Richard Dolan:
They all...
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passed that test.
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John Goulette: Most people still
didn't believe it, you know?
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Sheriff Gillespie definitely
didn't believe it.
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Marlin Gillespie:
I think that they all...
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were trying to...
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tell the truth about everything.
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Richard Dolan:
And then, what happens?
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Travis returns.
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5 days growth of beard
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lost about 10 pounds of weight...
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and the frenzy begins.
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Interviewer:
"Ok. Can you take us
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back to this morning
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when this someone or
whoever was that first
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got word that he was back?"
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Ralph Anderson:
"Ok, well what happened was that
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Granten Nash, which is
my brother-in-law
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he got the telephone call."
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Interviewer:
"Uh-huh."
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Ralph Anderson: "He answered:
'Grant, this is Travis
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I'm back, I need help.' "
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"And he says:
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'Wait a minute fellow, you got the
wrong number, I'm sorry.' "
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"He said: 'Don't hang up on
me, Grant this is Travis.' "
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"He says: 'I need help bad.' "
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"He asks him where is he is at
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and he said he was in
a telephone booth
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out by the Amoco
Station in Heber."
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Steve Pierce: I just looked at
my mom and said: "I told you
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we didn't kill him."
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Mike Rogers: When I did hear
that Travis had been returned
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it was almost as unbelievable
as the real thing.
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Travis was my best friend.
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Interviewer: "(...)And it was
Duane that picked up Travis?"
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Ralph Anderson:
"Yes...
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which is the closest one
to him, anyway
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out of all of his brothers."
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Interviewer:
"Okay."
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Ralph Anderson:
"He said that when he reached
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in the booth to grab Travis
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he said Travis started
to scooting away
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trying to get away
from him."
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"He reached down and picked him
up and held him in his arms
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just like grabbing a baby."
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"He just cuddled right up
and started crying."
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"They weighed him,
he lost 12 pounds."
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"He said he had not
eaten in 5 days."
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"He was in terrible shape."
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(Intense Music)
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Travis Walton: I was trying
to tell him what had happened
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you know? Just trying
to get it out.
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It was such a...
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it was just too traumatic.
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I was just...
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it was all broke up.
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He said something about
how concerned
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my mother been in those days...
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and I didn't understand.
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It became apparent in
the exchange there
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that...
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i was thinking this was
still the same night.
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And he said: "Travis feel
your face."
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And I reached up and felt that
I had a 5 day growth of beard...
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and, you know, that came as...
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really a terrible shock.
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Reporter: Travis Walton
reappeared after several days
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with a bizarre story about
a ride
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in an unidentified
flying object.
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But it has been basically a
second-hand story.
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Travis has been in hiding
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and has not met
with the media.
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Consequently, there has
been a lot of questions
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about the truthfulness of what
Travis has had to say.
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Steve Pierce: I didn't know he was
back until that followng night.
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My mom said someone came by
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and said Travis is back
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but he's in a Tucson hospital.
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Travis Walton:
I really...
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kind of went catatonic
for a little bit there.
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Went back had a very emotional
reunion with my mother.
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It was...
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just tears my heart to even
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think, to this day, you know
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that...what she was
going through.
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Interviewer: Have you heard much
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communication with the
news on this?
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Ralph Anderson: "Yes I have
been in and out all the time
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they're trying to corner mom,
and we're trying to
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o keep mom away from them."
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"We've even got some
kooks in here now
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that are coming in
and out to see
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the 'freak show', as
they call it."
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Richard Dolan:
Everyone descends, not just
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your local UFO groups
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UFO researchers.
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Sure, they were there.
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But on top of that:
you have Media
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you have the "National Enquirer"
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the great tabloid rag
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that was covering
things like this.
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Chuck Ellison:
The first night
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I lay down in bed and
the phone rang.
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It did not stop till
daylight or after.
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Marlin Gillespie:
I literally...
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some times, would be on 2
telephones at the same time.
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I had phone calls...
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from all over the world.
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Chuck Ellison:
I was called by Canada
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I was called by England
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I was called by Japan
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I was called by Russia
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I was called by several
Asian countries
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I was called...call, call, call.
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All night long.
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Cy Gilson: We did an interview at
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the headquarters, sometime later
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with the news crew there
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and they asked some questions
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regarding the test
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and the results and so on.
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Marlin Gillespie: Basically,
we all told them the same thing
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that we were investigating
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and didn't have
any final results.
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Travis Walton: The media
scrutiny was so intense.
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Once it was even suspected that
my brother was involved.
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The reporters were knocking on
the door there constantly.
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When we went to leave the
hospital, somebody yelled out:
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"There he is!"
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And they chased us
into the traffic.
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Reporter: "Travis,
why didn't you
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bring your story to the Media?"
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Travis Walton:
"Well, my family...
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told me about the news
people and all people
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that were crowding around."
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"And I was just in no condition
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to...talk to anybody
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especially...
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a mob of people like that."
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"I just couldn't handle it."
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Plus, the warnings that
my brother had
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and my family had from
various quarters.
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It was a dangerous situation
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as to who might get
the hold of you.
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Not necessarily that the
sheriff's department
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would be involved in any sort of
foul play or underhanded attempt
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but what if they were to
hand me over to some
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government agency...
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to heck with what damage that
might do to me, you know?
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If they were after information
or certain things
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that they considered important.
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Interviewer: "Does he remember
what this thing looked like?"
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Ralph Anderson:
"The craft?"
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Interviewer:
"Yeah."
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Ralph:
"Yes."
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Travis Walton: We were
working on the Moyan Rim
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in the Sitgreaves
National Forest
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which is the largest Ponderosa
pine forest in the world.
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It stretches all the way from
south of the Grand Canyon
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clear into New Mexico.
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But there's much of it that's
relatively untouched
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because it was, you know,
one of the last frontiers.
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Mike Rogers: I was the crew
boss, it was my contract
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and I hired Travis and
several other guys.
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Travis had been
working for me for
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practically 10 years already.
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Travis Walton:
It was gratifying because
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we were actually, you know
improving the forest.
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It was called "Timber
Stand Improvement":
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to remove damaged and
dead trees and then
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clear out certain overgrowth
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to limit the fire danger
and protect the forest.
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When we weren't working
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the beauty of the surroundings
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was just something that
just has an effect
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that, you know, it's really
just hard to describe.
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You have to be there
to appreciate
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the freshness of the wilderness
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and being in touch with nature,
the animals, the trees.
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John Goulette: At times,
on your brakes and that
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it was like sitting out
here right now
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just relaxing out
in the woods.
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It's beautiful and
that, you know?
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It was a great job.
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Travis Walton:
It was early November
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pretty cold but it would
warm up pretty quickly
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once the sun came up.
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But not too much so that
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you didn't overheat
getting work done.
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Ken Peterson: I don't remember
doing it but Mike says that
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I called in sick that morning
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and he had to do
some talking to...
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to get me to...
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go work with them.
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Come pretty close to missing out
on an experience like that.
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John Goulette: We were always
a little behind on the contract
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you'd just get out there
and bust your butt
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for a couple days and
get caught back up.
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That day we were a little
behind and so we worked until
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it was starting to get dark.
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Travis Walton:
We loaded up the equipment
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and...
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put it in the truck.
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And headed out of there and
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hadn't driven very far
when we caught...
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glimmers of this glow coming
through the trees.
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John Goulette:
I'd first thought it was the moon
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and as we were driving along
I'm look over here
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and I can see
the moon over here.
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Travis Walton: Definitely
something out of
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the ordinary, you know?
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You don't normally see
any light at all
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out in the woods at night.
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John Goulette: I spent time, I
was on an
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aircraft carrier and that.
368
00:13:38,317 --> 00:13:40,052
I've been around a lot
of air craft and that.
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00:13:40,085 --> 00:13:41,904
Somebody was saying that
maybe it's a plane crash
370
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but I am looking at it and
it's not a plane crash.
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Travis Walton: Could be
headlights shining up
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at an angle
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maybe a camp fire, or lights
in a tent or something.
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But...
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that just wasn't kind of fitting
in with the lay-of-the-land.
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John Goulette: It's kind of like
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light shining through
a lampshade.
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00:13:59,605 --> 00:14:01,490
Basically, it was kinda
a yellowish glow to it
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00:14:01,540 --> 00:14:02,808
that is how it appeared to me.
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Travis Walton: I urged Mike to
hurry up
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and get up there to where
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00:14:06,912 --> 00:14:08,514
the light was breaking
through the trees.
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00:14:08,647 --> 00:14:11,133
There seem to be sort of an
opening through the trees.
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00:14:11,183 --> 00:14:12,868
It was letting some of the
light shine across
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the road ahead.
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00:14:13,986 --> 00:14:15,721
And when we broke
into the clearing...
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there it was.
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00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:19,174
Mike Rogers:
This thing was setting in
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about 15 and 25 feet
off the ground.
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00:14:22,027 --> 00:14:25,197
It had some kind of a round
thing on the top like a dome.
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00:14:25,464 --> 00:14:28,233
Basically, it was very,
very sleek. You know?
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John Goulette: God it was
just absolutely beautiful.
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00:14:31,370 --> 00:14:34,723
Travis Walton: As soon as
Mike did stop the truck
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i was throwing open the door
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00:14:36,475 --> 00:14:38,227
and hurrying towards it
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00:14:38,277 --> 00:14:40,613
thinking it would just take
off almost immediately.
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00:14:40,746 --> 00:14:41,997
John Goulette: Travis had the
door open
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before we even stopped.
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00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:43,966
(laugh)
400
00:14:44,016 --> 00:14:45,050
I don't know why!
401
00:14:45,284 --> 00:14:47,152
I have asked him about that:
"What were you thinking?"
402
00:14:47,319 --> 00:14:51,807
Travis Walton: I was really, you
know, immediately had a greatly
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00:14:51,857 --> 00:14:53,242
growing fear that
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00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:55,060
I had made a foolish move.
405
00:14:55,327 --> 00:14:58,130
But I didn't want to betray
that to the rest of the guys.
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00:14:58,263 --> 00:15:00,916
So I kept going but, you know
407
00:15:00,966 --> 00:15:01,934
at a slower rate.
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00:15:02,167 --> 00:15:03,519
John Goulette:
As he got closer
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00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:04,620
I heard the sound
410
00:15:04,670 --> 00:15:05,971
it was like a "beep".
411
00:15:06,071 --> 00:15:08,557
There was a high-pitched
alternating frequency
412
00:15:08,607 --> 00:15:09,808
that carried real well.
413
00:15:10,175 --> 00:15:11,293
But the closer I got
414
00:15:11,343 --> 00:15:13,996
the more subtleties I
could hear to the sound.
415
00:15:14,046 --> 00:15:17,199
Parts of it that seemed, to me,
at the edge of the range
416
00:15:17,249 --> 00:15:18,834
of human hearing
417
00:15:18,884 --> 00:15:19,568
on the high-end
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00:15:19,618 --> 00:15:20,936
and also in the low end
419
00:15:20,986 --> 00:15:23,272
where you were actually
feeling the sound
420
00:15:23,322 --> 00:15:25,724
rather than just hearing
it with the ear.
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00:15:25,891 --> 00:15:27,109
Mike Rogers: When my hands
were on the steering wheel
422
00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:29,945
I could feel it and my elbow
was on the window
423
00:15:29,995 --> 00:15:30,946
I could feel it through that.
424
00:15:30,996 --> 00:15:32,698
It did get a little scary
after a while
425
00:15:32,798 --> 00:15:34,466
because it started getting...
426
00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,369
a more intense, louder,
more volume.
427
00:15:37,569 --> 00:15:38,854
Travis Walton:
I jumped into a crouch
428
00:15:38,904 --> 00:15:41,223
which is kind of like
down and forward
429
00:15:41,273 --> 00:15:43,692
which brought me that
much closer to the craft.
430
00:15:43,742 --> 00:15:46,695
So, when I stood up to
run back to the truck
431
00:15:46,745 --> 00:15:48,847
that's what brought my body
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00:15:49,014 --> 00:15:53,585
into the closest proximity to
the surface of that craft.
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00:15:53,852 --> 00:15:55,270
John Goulette: I turned my head
the other way,
434
00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:56,320
and the woods all lit up.
435
00:15:56,755 --> 00:15:58,190
A bluish green light.
436
00:15:58,323 --> 00:15:59,541
And when I looked back
437
00:15:59,591 --> 00:16:00,292
he's...
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a few feet off of the ground
439
00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:02,561
and stretched out:
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like this.
441
00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:04,863
(alien noises)
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John Goulette: I mean it wasn't
like he had a muscle at all
443
00:16:10,869 --> 00:16:11,420
or bones.
444
00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:12,888
He just crumpled up right there.
445
00:16:12,938 --> 00:16:13,889
I thought he was dead.
446
00:16:13,939 --> 00:16:15,424
And that's when Mike
started the truck up
447
00:16:15,474 --> 00:16:16,141
and took off.
448
00:16:16,241 --> 00:16:17,726
We drove down the road maybe
449
00:16:17,776 --> 00:16:21,613
a quarter of a mile, half
mile from the craft.
450
00:16:21,747 --> 00:16:25,534
And you could see vehicles every once
in a while going down that road,
451
00:16:25,584 --> 00:16:27,019
where you knew it was
hunters with guns.
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My thought, at first, was:
"Let's go get some of those."
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00:16:30,289 --> 00:16:33,342
A lot of us were saying
to go back and that
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00:16:33,392 --> 00:16:35,527
and at the same time
saying lets go get help.
455
00:16:35,627 --> 00:16:36,161
But...
456
00:16:36,428 --> 00:16:37,262
it was Mike's decision.
457
00:16:37,329 --> 00:16:40,015
Mike Rogers:
I just said: "I'm going back."
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00:16:40,065 --> 00:16:42,768
"You can stay here, you know,
or get in the truck"...
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00:16:42,968 --> 00:16:45,137
and I was surprised that
they all got in the truck.
460
00:16:45,237 --> 00:16:46,889
John Goulette: I think we had one
flashlight
461
00:16:46,939 --> 00:16:47,939
and he had the headlights...
462
00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:50,192
of the vehicle shining up
in that clearing
463
00:16:50,242 --> 00:16:51,376
on that slash pile.
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00:16:51,443 --> 00:16:53,662
We walked around the
perimeter with a flashlight
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and all in a line, one right
behind the other.
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00:16:55,547 --> 00:16:58,317
Travis Walton: Once they
couldn't find me and, you know
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00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:01,386
my body wasn't lying where
i'd hit the ground.
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00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,989
They just figure they needed
to go and get help.
469
00:17:08,093 --> 00:17:11,046
Duane Walton:
He spent 5 days on the UFO,
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00:17:11,096 --> 00:17:11,780
he thinks, now there
471
00:17:11,830 --> 00:17:15,367
is some small-time lost
in there, but...
472
00:17:15,801 --> 00:17:18,036
for all intensive purposes,
he spent 5 days on there.
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00:17:18,170 --> 00:17:20,155
He did come into contact
with some beings that
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00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:22,107
were human-like but
they weren't human.
475
00:17:22,274 --> 00:17:24,426
Reporter: Obviously Duane,
you know your own brother
476
00:17:24,476 --> 00:17:26,111
probably better than
anybody else.
477
00:17:26,311 --> 00:17:27,479
Do you believe this story?
478
00:17:27,713 --> 00:17:29,231
Duane Walton: I've never seen
him play a practical joke
479
00:17:29,281 --> 00:17:30,165
in his adult life.
480
00:17:30,215 --> 00:17:32,267
Ralph Anderson: "The police up
here said that if it is a hoax
481
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they are going to grab
them and put all kind of
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00:17:34,953 --> 00:17:35,804
charges against them."
483
00:17:35,854 --> 00:17:36,438
Interviewer:
"Uhuh."
484
00:17:36,488 --> 00:17:37,456
Ralph Anderson:
"And...
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00:17:37,656 --> 00:17:39,742
that is the only thing involved
in it right now."
486
00:17:39,792 --> 00:17:40,392
Interviewer:
"I see."
487
00:17:40,492 --> 00:17:42,494
John Goulette: The only
threats I got were like...
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00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:43,912
verbal harassment
489
00:17:43,962 --> 00:17:45,430
while i'm walking on the
street or something.
490
00:17:45,464 --> 00:17:46,181
You know?
491
00:17:46,231 --> 00:17:48,417
Somebody yelled out:
"Hey! We know what you did!"
492
00:17:48,467 --> 00:17:49,918
or saying we were
stoned on drugs.
493
00:17:49,968 --> 00:17:52,087
And then there was some
government people.
494
00:17:52,137 --> 00:17:53,672
I am sure they were
government, because
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00:17:53,705 --> 00:17:56,074
they used to drive those old
Plymouth cars that...
496
00:17:56,675 --> 00:17:58,777
you know, they would
be the ugliest color
497
00:17:59,077 --> 00:18:00,796
and the rims always matched
498
00:18:00,846 --> 00:18:02,464
and 2 guys sitting there
in suits.
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00:18:02,514 --> 00:18:05,267
I'd see them for about the
first couple of weeks,
500
00:18:05,317 --> 00:18:06,985
just about every time I
went out the door.
501
00:18:07,085 --> 00:18:08,704
Interviewer: "And they are
going to run him through this
502
00:18:08,754 --> 00:18:09,571
polygraph test?"
503
00:18:09,621 --> 00:18:10,956
Ralph Anderson: "Right."
Interviewer: "I see."
504
00:18:11,857 --> 00:18:13,642
Ralph Anderson: "The
process is through hypnosis
505
00:18:13,692 --> 00:18:15,110
and they said possibly
506
00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:16,528
sodium pentothal."
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00:18:16,895 --> 00:18:18,313
Interviewer: "They are going to
give him the works, aren't they?"
508
00:18:18,363 --> 00:18:18,964
Ralph Anderson:
"Yes."
509
00:18:18,997 --> 00:18:22,050
Cy Gilson: He was scheduled to
take an examination with me at
510
00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:25,287
our office in Phoenix
at the time...
511
00:18:25,337 --> 00:18:26,505
and...
512
00:18:28,006 --> 00:18:29,708
he never showed up for it.
513
00:18:29,808 --> 00:18:31,810
But I think it's more...
514
00:18:32,845 --> 00:18:36,748
Duane's influence, rather than
his that he didn't show up.
515
00:18:36,882 --> 00:18:38,834
Reporter
"Why not the polygraph test?"
516
00:18:38,884 --> 00:18:40,352
"This has been a major criticism."
517
00:18:40,452 --> 00:18:41,670
Jim Lorenzen:
"A lot of people criticize it
518
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:42,871
because they think polygraph
519
00:18:42,921 --> 00:18:44,256
is a lie detector."
520
00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:45,991
"Because it's called
that but it's not
521
00:18:46,024 --> 00:18:47,810
and Travis was under
that impression too."
522
00:18:47,860 --> 00:18:49,411
"He was anxious to take
523
00:18:49,461 --> 00:18:50,846
the lie detector,
polygraph test."
524
00:18:50,896 --> 00:18:52,247
"I advised him not to
525
00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:54,216
and so have other people
advised him not to
526
00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:56,468
because what it actually
measures is stress."
527
00:18:57,102 --> 00:18:57,753
"And...
528
00:18:57,803 --> 00:18:59,755
questions about
stressful memories
529
00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:02,941
would bring stress reactions
just as well as anything else."
530
00:19:03,041 --> 00:19:05,994
They didn't even have the term
"Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"
531
00:19:06,044 --> 00:19:07,045
in those days, you know?
532
00:19:07,179 --> 00:19:10,098
In those days, they called
it "Shell Shocked"
533
00:19:10,148 --> 00:19:11,049
or...
534
00:19:11,450 --> 00:19:13,335
there was other words for it
535
00:19:13,385 --> 00:19:15,687
related to wartime trauma.
536
00:19:15,754 --> 00:19:17,439
Jim Lorenzen:
"One of the psychiatrists said
537
00:19:17,489 --> 00:19:19,007
it would have been a disaster
538
00:19:19,057 --> 00:19:20,175
for him to take
it at the time."
539
00:19:20,225 --> 00:19:21,109
"It would've
540
00:19:21,159 --> 00:19:22,895
created a lot of
false impressions."
541
00:19:23,061 --> 00:19:24,129
Travis Walton:
This...
542
00:19:24,329 --> 00:19:26,281
led to a lot of
misunderstandings
543
00:19:26,331 --> 00:19:27,916
and a lot of bad feeling.
544
00:19:27,966 --> 00:19:29,551
The Sheriff couldn't understand
545
00:19:29,601 --> 00:19:31,403
the fragile condition
I was in.
546
00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:32,821
To him, you know
547
00:19:32,871 --> 00:19:34,923
my top priority should be
548
00:19:34,973 --> 00:19:37,075
get out there and take a
lie dectector test.
549
00:19:37,242 --> 00:19:39,544
I was in such a fragile
condition
550
00:19:39,578 --> 00:19:41,663
that my brother made
all of these decisions.
551
00:19:41,713 --> 00:19:44,299
I didn't even talk with him, or
discuss these things with him,
552
00:19:44,349 --> 00:19:45,634
tell him what I wanted.
553
00:19:45,684 --> 00:19:48,637
Whether I would do this interview
or do that or anything.
554
00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:51,089
I was, you know, not in
that kind of shape.
555
00:19:51,189 --> 00:19:53,191
Richard Dolan: He had to
process all of this...
556
00:19:53,959 --> 00:19:54,726
and...
557
00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:56,211
and that is the hard
thing to do
558
00:19:56,261 --> 00:19:57,262
because...
559
00:19:57,629 --> 00:20:00,499
even though he was
gone for 5 days,
560
00:20:00,532 --> 00:20:01,850
he only remembered
561
00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:04,336
about 2 hours worth...
562
00:20:04,903 --> 00:20:06,271
of his time.
563
00:20:07,005 --> 00:20:08,957
And you have to ask yourself:
564
00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:10,742
"Why didn't he
remember more?"
565
00:20:10,909 --> 00:20:14,846
David Jacobs: After the event
made publicity in Arizona,
566
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,250
it turns out that there was
a nationally-known
567
00:20:18,283 --> 00:20:20,235
UFO organization in Tucson
568
00:20:20,285 --> 00:20:22,671
called the "Aerial Phenomenon
Research Organization"
569
00:20:22,721 --> 00:20:23,855
or APRO.
570
00:20:24,289 --> 00:20:25,073
They reached out
571
00:20:25,123 --> 00:20:25,974
to...
572
00:20:26,024 --> 00:20:27,309
Travis and
573
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:31,213
arranged for hypnosis to be
done by Dr. James Harder.
574
00:20:31,263 --> 00:20:33,882
Leo Sprinkle:
And he was a skilled investigator
575
00:20:33,932 --> 00:20:36,084
with engineering background
576
00:20:36,134 --> 00:20:39,604
as well as with hypnotic
techniques.
577
00:20:39,771 --> 00:20:41,990
Travis Walton:
He did a regression on me
578
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,259
in which I was able to
579
00:20:44,309 --> 00:20:47,496
recount the memories
for the first time
580
00:20:47,546 --> 00:20:48,847
in their entirety...
581
00:20:49,314 --> 00:20:51,433
without so much of the
fear that was just
582
00:20:51,483 --> 00:20:53,535
keeping me from
even speaking
583
00:20:53,585 --> 00:20:54,736
without...
584
00:20:54,786 --> 00:20:55,687
breaking down.
585
00:20:55,887 --> 00:20:58,807
Kathleen Marden:
I talked to Dr. James Harder
586
00:20:58,857 --> 00:21:00,742
not long after
587
00:21:00,792 --> 00:21:02,577
he interviewed Travis and
588
00:21:02,627 --> 00:21:04,112
worked on that case.
589
00:21:04,162 --> 00:21:07,382
And Dr. Harder stressed
590
00:21:07,432 --> 00:21:09,651
the psychological impact
591
00:21:09,701 --> 00:21:11,620
that this had upon Travis.
592
00:21:11,670 --> 00:21:13,071
He was terrified.
593
00:21:13,138 --> 00:21:14,239
Travis Walton:
"When I...
594
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,708
regained conscieneness,
595
00:21:16,908 --> 00:21:19,444
I was looking up at a light
596
00:21:19,611 --> 00:21:21,947
shining down on me
from the ceiling."
597
00:21:22,180 --> 00:21:23,415
"I...I...
598
00:21:23,815 --> 00:21:26,084
believed that I was
in the hospital."
599
00:21:26,451 --> 00:21:27,052
"I...
600
00:21:27,452 --> 00:21:29,671
didn't make any
attempt to move
601
00:21:29,721 --> 00:21:31,556
because...
602
00:21:32,357 --> 00:21:34,292
of the pain I was in."
603
00:21:34,893 --> 00:21:38,930
"I couldn't focus my
eyes very well but
604
00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:40,315
I look
605
00:21:40,365 --> 00:21:41,833
beyond
606
00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:43,535
the top-edge of...
607
00:21:44,002 --> 00:21:46,571
the thing that was laying
across me and I saw...
608
00:21:47,472 --> 00:21:49,424
2 men
609
00:21:49,474 --> 00:21:51,209
leaning over me."
610
00:21:51,543 --> 00:21:55,380
"That had kind of underdeveloped
features and...
611
00:21:55,914 --> 00:21:59,084
no hair of any kind."
612
00:22:00,118 --> 00:22:02,237
"I didn't even think, I just
613
00:22:02,287 --> 00:22:04,122
lashed out and
614
00:22:04,356 --> 00:22:05,390
I...
615
00:22:05,690 --> 00:22:07,442
grabbed
616
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:08,610
a tube,
617
00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:11,329
a clear piece of glass,
or something."
618
00:22:11,496 --> 00:22:13,949
"And I tried to break off
the end to
619
00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:16,735
get something sharp
to defend myself."
620
00:22:17,002 --> 00:22:19,421
"They didn't try to approach
or anything."
621
00:22:19,471 --> 00:22:20,555
"They just left."
622
00:22:20,605 --> 00:22:22,791
"They just ran out real fast."
623
00:22:22,841 --> 00:22:25,427
"There was a corridor outside
624
00:22:25,477 --> 00:22:28,346
and they went to the right
and I went to the left."
625
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,366
"It was very narrow corridor
626
00:22:31,416 --> 00:22:33,368
and it was dimmly lit
everywhere."
627
00:22:33,418 --> 00:22:35,787
"I went into this room...
628
00:22:36,388 --> 00:22:37,572
you could even
629
00:22:37,622 --> 00:22:39,374
see the stars
630
00:22:39,424 --> 00:22:42,694
back through the wall
I just came through."
631
00:22:43,428 --> 00:22:45,847
"And there was nothing
in the room but a chair
632
00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:46,631
with some...
633
00:22:47,232 --> 00:22:50,068
controls and knobs
and things."
634
00:22:50,268 --> 00:22:52,854
"I heard somebody come in
and I turned around and
635
00:22:52,904 --> 00:22:54,106
it was a man."
636
00:22:54,739 --> 00:22:57,275
"He wasn't like the other...
637
00:22:57,809 --> 00:22:59,761
creatures or whatever at all."
638
00:22:59,811 --> 00:23:00,278
"He...
639
00:23:00,645 --> 00:23:03,665
he looked just like
you and I, except
640
00:23:03,715 --> 00:23:05,500
he had a helmet on."
641
00:23:05,550 --> 00:23:08,203
"I started babbling questions
to him
642
00:23:08,253 --> 00:23:10,138
and I ran over there,
643
00:23:10,188 --> 00:23:12,390
he wouldn't answer me."
644
00:23:12,657 --> 00:23:15,610
"He just took me by the arm and
wanted me to go with him."
645
00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:17,245
"I thought he...
646
00:23:17,295 --> 00:23:19,197
maybe he can't hear me
through the helmet."
647
00:23:19,664 --> 00:23:21,883
"We went out to the door,
648
00:23:21,933 --> 00:23:23,835
there was a large room."
649
00:23:24,302 --> 00:23:27,889
"There was 2 other UFOs
650
00:23:27,939 --> 00:23:29,891
It looked like flying saucers
651
00:23:29,941 --> 00:23:32,394
except they were round
and oval shaped
652
00:23:32,444 --> 00:23:34,779
and they were really shiny like...
653
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:36,748
chrome."
654
00:23:36,948 --> 00:23:38,733
"I was lead down in a hallway
655
00:23:38,783 --> 00:23:41,586
and in a room with 3 other
people that were like himself."
656
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,923
"I sat in a chair and I tried to
get the people to talk to me...
657
00:23:45,323 --> 00:23:47,959
that were there and they didn't
have things on their head."
658
00:23:48,026 --> 00:23:50,912
"And so, I thought that maybe
they could hear me
659
00:23:50,962 --> 00:23:52,964
but they wouldn't
answer either."
660
00:23:53,064 --> 00:23:54,432
"They put...
661
00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:56,651
a mask over my face
662
00:23:56,701 --> 00:23:58,920
it was kind of like an
oxygen mask thing,
663
00:23:58,970 --> 00:24:00,672
it was kind of clear plastic."
664
00:24:00,705 --> 00:24:02,974
"I looked up at the
ceiling which was...
665
00:24:03,341 --> 00:24:04,559
all solid light."
666
00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:07,512
"There was no light
fixture or anything."
667
00:24:07,979 --> 00:24:08,730
"And
668
00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:10,515
that was the last I remembered."
669
00:24:10,982 --> 00:24:12,984
"I went to sleep until...
670
00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:16,188
I woke up, I was laying
on the pavement."
671
00:24:16,488 --> 00:24:19,691
"I looked up at the road
way, it was night."
672
00:24:19,991 --> 00:24:21,726
"And I could see a light...
673
00:24:22,827 --> 00:24:24,262
on the bottom of...
674
00:24:24,362 --> 00:24:25,113
of a...
675
00:24:25,163 --> 00:24:26,014
a flying saucer and
676
00:24:26,064 --> 00:24:29,334
it just went straight up really fast...
677
00:24:30,068 --> 00:24:31,236
without a sound."
678
00:24:33,004 --> 00:24:35,223
"I recognized the road way
679
00:24:35,273 --> 00:24:38,610
and I could see a light down the
hill, so I ran down that way."
680
00:24:39,344 --> 00:24:41,596
"Down to the phonebooth
681
00:24:41,646 --> 00:24:43,648
by the gas station there."
682
00:24:43,748 --> 00:24:45,550
"I called...
683
00:24:46,251 --> 00:24:47,852
my brother-in-law."
684
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,022
"That's the way it happened."
685
00:24:55,293 --> 00:24:57,262
John Goulette:
What happened to Travis after...
686
00:24:58,029 --> 00:25:00,298
we took off in that truck,
I can't tell you.
687
00:25:00,398 --> 00:25:01,583
You know, I wasn't there.
688
00:25:01,633 --> 00:25:02,317
I don't know.
689
00:25:02,367 --> 00:25:04,686
But I believe every word Travis
said about it, you know?
690
00:25:04,736 --> 00:25:06,671
I don't have any
doubt in my mind.
691
00:25:07,205 --> 00:25:08,623
He's never lied to
me about nothing.
692
00:25:08,673 --> 00:25:12,060
Travis Walton: That procedure
was actually quite a major step
693
00:25:12,110 --> 00:25:14,846
in the reduction of stress
that I was feeling.
694
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,484
I say reduction but, you
know, it was just...
695
00:25:20,318 --> 00:25:24,189
at dangerous levels for
months afterwards.
696
00:25:24,322 --> 00:25:27,275
Kathleen Marden: We know that
it's possible to confabulate
697
00:25:27,325 --> 00:25:29,261
under hypnosis.
698
00:25:29,794 --> 00:25:33,215
But it is very important
for the hypnotist
699
00:25:33,265 --> 00:25:35,016
to put in safeguards
700
00:25:35,066 --> 00:25:37,702
to prevent that
from happening.
701
00:25:37,902 --> 00:25:41,756
And James Harder,
Dr. James Harder
702
00:25:41,806 --> 00:25:45,076
was very skilled at
doing hypnosis.
703
00:25:45,443 --> 00:25:47,829
Travis Walton: The session was
taped, it was observed
704
00:25:47,879 --> 00:25:49,714
by 2 psychiatrists...
705
00:25:50,081 --> 00:25:51,132
3 actually.
706
00:25:51,182 --> 00:25:54,502
a whole team of reporters,
other researchers, my brother,
707
00:25:54,552 --> 00:25:55,870
there was quite a few
people present.
708
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,006
You know, everything was
properly conducted.
709
00:25:58,056 --> 00:26:01,042
Kathleen Marden: There is no
reason really to believe that
710
00:26:01,092 --> 00:26:04,646
it did not occur the
way he recalled it.
711
00:26:04,696 --> 00:26:08,950
He had a lot of conscious recall
of what had occurred
712
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,536
and he just filled in
some of the details.
713
00:26:11,636 --> 00:26:14,222
Reporter: "You have listened to
the description that he gave us
714
00:26:14,272 --> 00:26:15,490
of his ordeal."
715
00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:17,525
"What are your comments
or reactions
716
00:26:17,575 --> 00:26:19,577
in comparison with past cases?"
717
00:26:20,011 --> 00:26:23,748
Jim Lorsenzen: "I was struck by
the fact that he described...
718
00:26:24,983 --> 00:26:27,619
these beings that didn't
look quite human."
719
00:26:27,986 --> 00:26:31,656
"He described them precisely
the way another...
720
00:26:32,557 --> 00:26:33,875
person has described them
721
00:26:33,925 --> 00:26:35,760
who had a similar experience."
722
00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:37,612
"Now this case is not been
published anywhere
723
00:26:37,662 --> 00:26:39,814
and no case like it that I know
has been published."
724
00:26:39,864 --> 00:26:42,567
"So it's something that Travis could
not have read anywhere...
725
00:26:42,867 --> 00:26:46,304
and the descriptions
are identical."
726
00:26:46,371 --> 00:26:48,623
Kathleen Marden:
We have the core experience
727
00:26:48,673 --> 00:26:51,376
and that is what is
so important here.
728
00:26:51,409 --> 00:26:53,995
Travis Walton: Not too long
after the incident happened
729
00:26:54,045 --> 00:26:54,596
you know,
730
00:26:54,646 --> 00:26:57,265
many investigators
other than the
731
00:26:57,315 --> 00:26:59,651
"Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization"...
732
00:27:00,518 --> 00:27:03,805
most notably, Dr. J. Allen Hynek,
a number of other people
733
00:27:03,855 --> 00:27:06,107
who were very active
in the field at the time.
734
00:27:06,157 --> 00:27:08,793
Who have either passed away or
retired from the field.
735
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:09,744
But...
736
00:27:09,794 --> 00:27:12,430
one person really comes
to mind was:
737
00:27:12,697 --> 00:27:13,748
Stanton Friedman,
738
00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:15,700
a nuclear physicist who...
739
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,653
takes a very scientific
approach to investigation
740
00:27:18,703 --> 00:27:19,754
of such things.
741
00:27:19,804 --> 00:27:23,274
Stanton Friedman: My focus is
on facts and data and evidence,
742
00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:26,044
not on sensationalism.
743
00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:28,930
And I haven't had a case
sighting myself
744
00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:32,000
so I am not talking about "look
at me, look at what I saw,
745
00:27:32,050 --> 00:27:33,318
look at what I did."
746
00:27:33,451 --> 00:27:37,555
And I specialize in using
archives and places like that.
747
00:27:37,989 --> 00:27:41,009
And I think that's important
that as a nuclear physicist,
748
00:27:41,059 --> 00:27:43,745
I demonstrate that you
can be scientific
749
00:27:43,795 --> 00:27:47,215
when dealing with something
as, kind of, off-the-wall
750
00:27:47,265 --> 00:27:49,401
as a flying saucers,
or off the sky.
751
00:27:49,567 --> 00:27:51,219
Travis Walton:
Stan does his homework
752
00:27:51,269 --> 00:27:53,471
and he does his fieldwork, too.
753
00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:55,957
He came out there
754
00:27:56,007 --> 00:27:57,692
visited me in my home,
755
00:27:57,742 --> 00:27:59,594
spoke to other people involved,
756
00:27:59,644 --> 00:28:00,745
investigated the site.
757
00:28:00,979 --> 00:28:03,965
Stanton Friedman: That is what I
am known for, I check on things.
758
00:28:04,015 --> 00:28:07,352
And I have, what I call
"a big grey basket".
759
00:28:07,485 --> 00:28:09,938
Not black, not white. Maybe.
760
00:28:09,988 --> 00:28:11,639
People want a "yes"
or a "no" answer,
761
00:28:11,689 --> 00:28:12,807
you believe this or don't.
762
00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:13,858
I say "I don't know enough".
763
00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:15,810
In many cases
764
00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:17,545
somebody tells you a
story for 2 minutes
765
00:28:17,595 --> 00:28:19,047
and I am supposed to
make a judgement?
766
00:28:19,097 --> 00:28:20,048
No.
767
00:28:20,098 --> 00:28:23,184
That is not the way we
nuclear physicists act.
768
00:28:23,234 --> 00:28:24,519
At least this one doesn't.
769
00:28:24,569 --> 00:28:27,188
Travis Walton:
The true watchdog of truth
770
00:28:27,238 --> 00:28:30,692
is someone who
advocates objectivity
771
00:28:30,742 --> 00:28:32,410
open-minded examination.
772
00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:36,931
You neither accept nor
reject until all the evidence
773
00:28:36,981 --> 00:28:38,733
has been properly evaluated:
774
00:28:38,783 --> 00:28:41,052
and that's all the evidence
Pro and con.
775
00:28:41,152 --> 00:28:43,805
Lee Spiegel: No matter what
your perception of something is
776
00:28:43,855 --> 00:28:48,226
or your belief or your opinion
or your speculation...
777
00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:51,413
If you want to do the job right,
778
00:28:51,463 --> 00:28:54,632
just follow where the
evidence takes you.
779
00:28:54,899 --> 00:28:56,684
And no matter where
it leads you to
780
00:28:56,734 --> 00:28:59,053
no matter what kind of
an outcome or result,
781
00:28:59,103 --> 00:29:01,122
whether you like the
outcome or not,
782
00:29:01,172 --> 00:29:03,124
you will always stay credible
783
00:29:03,174 --> 00:29:05,009
if you follow the evidence.
784
00:29:05,243 --> 00:29:08,112
Stanton Friedman: The uniqueness
of Travis's case is that...
785
00:29:09,180 --> 00:29:12,133
a certain aspect you don't
see in many other cases.
786
00:29:12,183 --> 00:29:13,034
For one,
787
00:29:13,084 --> 00:29:14,436
there were
788
00:29:14,486 --> 00:29:17,722
several other people who
saw him being zapped.
789
00:29:17,922 --> 00:29:19,607
It wasn't 1 man's testimony.
790
00:29:19,657 --> 00:29:22,076
Ben Hansen: The one witness
cases with no physical evidence
791
00:29:22,126 --> 00:29:24,896
are pretty easy just
to kind of put aside
792
00:29:24,929 --> 00:29:27,432
and say "Well, I can't
say either way
793
00:29:27,632 --> 00:29:30,034
If you got one person
telling me a story."
794
00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:32,270
Now when you
have 7 people
795
00:29:32,370 --> 00:29:34,205
telling you the same story
796
00:29:34,305 --> 00:29:36,090
and those 7 people
797
00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:39,577
are all passing on the
relevant questions
798
00:29:39,744 --> 00:29:43,581
in not just one polygraph,
but in multiple polygraphs.
799
00:29:44,015 --> 00:29:45,600
I don't know of another case.
800
00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:49,337
I do not know of any other
UFO type of a case
801
00:29:49,387 --> 00:29:52,640
that has that much empirical
evidence in its favor
802
00:29:52,690 --> 00:29:54,859
just solely based
on the polygraph.
803
00:29:55,226 --> 00:29:58,329
Marlin Gillespie:
Back in those early 70s...
804
00:29:58,463 --> 00:30:01,599
there were not too many
polygraph examiners
805
00:30:02,066 --> 00:30:03,468
in the state of
Arizona.
806
00:30:04,235 --> 00:30:05,186
And...
807
00:30:05,236 --> 00:30:08,039
local law enforcement,
small agencies
808
00:30:08,873 --> 00:30:10,408
depended upon
809
00:30:10,975 --> 00:30:13,928
either Phoenix Police
Department or Tucson
810
00:30:13,978 --> 00:30:16,831
to furnish that type
of expertise.
811
00:30:16,881 --> 00:30:19,450
Cy Gilson: I was a police
officer for a number of years
812
00:30:19,884 --> 00:30:22,620
and when...
813
00:30:23,221 --> 00:30:24,739
the Department of
Public Safety
814
00:30:24,789 --> 00:30:28,092
was instituted in 1968...
815
00:30:28,793 --> 00:30:32,280
there were certain things that
they were going to furnish
816
00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:34,732
in some scientific field:
817
00:30:34,966 --> 00:30:37,519
questioned documents
and things like that
818
00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:38,586
and polygraph.
819
00:30:38,636 --> 00:30:41,105
They tested several of us
820
00:30:41,973 --> 00:30:44,709
and the outcome was that I...
821
00:30:45,376 --> 00:30:47,245
I was number one on the list
822
00:30:47,579 --> 00:30:49,814
and I was sent to New York
823
00:30:50,281 --> 00:30:52,650
to a polygraph school
in New York City.
824
00:30:52,817 --> 00:30:56,154
This was in the fall of 1971
825
00:30:56,554 --> 00:30:58,856
and I have been doing
polygraphs ever since.
826
00:30:59,290 --> 00:31:02,410
Marlin Gillespie:
Cy Gilson whose opinion
827
00:31:02,460 --> 00:31:04,145
was pretty well-known and
respected
828
00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:05,863
as a polygraph examiner,
829
00:31:07,098 --> 00:31:12,303
we had used him on other matters,
criminal matters, and stuff
830
00:31:12,470 --> 00:31:14,038
always with good results.
831
00:31:14,138 --> 00:31:18,409
Cy Gilson: We had a meeting
of the 6 crew members
832
00:31:19,677 --> 00:31:21,679
and the sheriff,
833
00:31:22,180 --> 00:31:23,998
Travis' older brother,
834
00:31:24,048 --> 00:31:26,751
I think his name was Duane,
I believe,
835
00:31:27,318 --> 00:31:28,886
in...
836
00:31:29,754 --> 00:31:31,906
the chow hall of the jail.
837
00:31:31,956 --> 00:31:34,325
They finally agreed...
838
00:31:35,293 --> 00:31:37,562
that they would all submit
to this exam.
839
00:31:38,029 --> 00:31:40,648
I did tell them briefly
what it was like,
840
00:31:40,698 --> 00:31:42,517
what was going to be
attached to their bodies
841
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:43,501
and why.
842
00:31:43,935 --> 00:31:45,553
And gave them some
kind of an idea
843
00:31:45,603 --> 00:31:48,640
of what they were going to go
through during this test.
844
00:31:49,073 --> 00:31:50,825
John Goulette: They came
in and talked to us,
845
00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:52,577
we got into an argument
with them, you know?
846
00:31:52,710 --> 00:31:54,762
Some of us had been in
trouble with the law before.
847
00:31:54,812 --> 00:31:56,564
Steve Pierce: I was more scared this
day that we came
848
00:31:56,614 --> 00:31:57,614
to this court house
849
00:31:58,182 --> 00:32:00,051
than the day that I had
seen Travis get zapped.
850
00:32:00,518 --> 00:32:02,453
This was the most horrible day
851
00:32:03,054 --> 00:32:04,138
because
852
00:32:04,188 --> 00:32:06,290
I just knew that we weren't
coming out of there.
853
00:32:06,457 --> 00:32:07,775
Cy Gilson:
There was one young man,
854
00:32:07,825 --> 00:32:09,460
he was the youngest
of the group,
855
00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:11,479
sat over sort of to the side
856
00:32:11,529 --> 00:32:14,582
and didn't have much input
or anything to say.
857
00:32:14,632 --> 00:32:18,469
And from past experience with
interrogations and so on,
858
00:32:18,736 --> 00:32:23,441
someone like that is
more likely to admit
859
00:32:23,741 --> 00:32:25,910
that it's a sham
860
00:32:26,010 --> 00:32:26,894
or whatever.
861
00:32:26,944 --> 00:32:29,380
So he's the one I want
to choose first
862
00:32:29,747 --> 00:32:31,232
because if it was a sham,
863
00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:34,335
it would save a lot of time
and effort on my part
864
00:32:34,385 --> 00:32:35,386
and everybody else.
865
00:32:35,653 --> 00:32:37,071
Steve was his first name
866
00:32:37,121 --> 00:32:38,956
but I don't remember
the last name.
867
00:32:39,023 --> 00:32:40,875
John Goulette: I always
thought they just took Steve
868
00:32:40,925 --> 00:32:41,709
because he was
869
00:32:41,759 --> 00:32:43,444
young and the most scared.
870
00:32:43,494 --> 00:32:45,446
Steve Pierce: Yeah, I was the first
one to take the polygraph test
871
00:32:45,496 --> 00:32:46,664
because they thought
I would crack.
872
00:32:46,864 --> 00:32:49,834
Cy Gilson: I usually can
get a pretty good idea
873
00:32:50,201 --> 00:32:52,036
as I go through the exam,
874
00:32:52,670 --> 00:32:54,105
to know whether or not
875
00:32:54,505 --> 00:32:55,940
the questions are
876
00:32:56,374 --> 00:32:58,142
profitable, in the sense that
877
00:32:58,409 --> 00:32:59,827
he is responding
878
00:32:59,877 --> 00:33:01,779
to certain specific questions.
879
00:33:02,246 --> 00:33:05,016
And that I would have a
conclusive examination
880
00:33:05,416 --> 00:33:06,250
and...
881
00:33:06,517 --> 00:33:08,252
frankly, when I finished
with him
882
00:33:08,286 --> 00:33:10,838
I was quite surprised myself
883
00:33:10,888 --> 00:33:12,890
because he was
passing the exam.
884
00:33:13,024 --> 00:33:14,609
Mike Rogers:
We were there until 10 o'clock,
885
00:33:14,659 --> 00:33:16,260
9:30...10:00 o'clock at night
886
00:33:16,728 --> 00:33:18,112
and then the guy
tried to walk out
887
00:33:18,162 --> 00:33:19,664
without letting
us know anything.
888
00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:23,501
I didn't like that, so
I chased him down
889
00:33:24,035 --> 00:33:26,754
and I told him:
"We have to know!"
890
00:33:26,804 --> 00:33:29,273
Cy Gilson: I tested each
one of them down the line
891
00:33:29,874 --> 00:33:31,509
and they all come out...
892
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:34,445
on the positive side.
893
00:33:34,746 --> 00:33:37,565
They were being truthful to
those relevant questions.
894
00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:38,783
Cleve Baxter:
"5 of them passed,
895
00:33:39,183 --> 00:33:41,235
1 of them was inconclusive
merely because
896
00:33:41,285 --> 00:33:43,037
of the person's general
nervous tension."
897
00:33:43,087 --> 00:33:44,405
Cy Gilson: One young guy,
I think
898
00:33:44,455 --> 00:33:45,455
he was a red haired fellow,
899
00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:49,093
his name was Dallas,
that's his last name.
900
00:33:50,161 --> 00:33:52,346
And he had been in
some minor scrapes
901
00:33:52,396 --> 00:33:54,766
or something with the
law prior to that.
902
00:33:55,466 --> 00:33:56,768
So he was a little bit...
903
00:33:57,268 --> 00:33:59,837
dubious about taking
the exam to start with.
904
00:34:00,104 --> 00:34:02,940
He did not cooperate
with me at all.
905
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:04,859
They have to cooperate
in a sense
906
00:34:04,909 --> 00:34:06,410
that they had to sit still,
907
00:34:07,311 --> 00:34:08,129
no movement,
908
00:34:08,179 --> 00:34:11,282
listen to the questions,
one-word answer and so on.
909
00:34:11,749 --> 00:34:14,035
And he was doing everything
he could to
910
00:34:14,085 --> 00:34:17,071
disrupt the tracing,
which he did, and
911
00:34:17,121 --> 00:34:18,856
his test was inconclusive.
912
00:34:19,056 --> 00:34:20,291
As far as...
913
00:34:21,325 --> 00:34:25,079
conclusive examinations
of the polygraph tests
914
00:34:25,129 --> 00:34:29,233
the fact that the
5 that I did test
915
00:34:29,367 --> 00:34:31,519
and they all come out
passing the exam
916
00:34:31,569 --> 00:34:33,104
in the way that they did,
917
00:34:33,805 --> 00:34:37,024
I would probably eliminate
to the most degree
918
00:34:37,074 --> 00:34:39,944
that there would be 1 lying
and get past me.
919
00:34:40,144 --> 00:34:41,345
That would be...
920
00:34:41,846 --> 00:34:43,881
I think impossible in itself.
921
00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:47,468
Nathan Gordon: One of the first
polygraph examiners to review
922
00:34:47,518 --> 00:34:48,986
the case was Edward Gelb.
923
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,690
In 1978, was president of the
"American Polygraph Association".
924
00:34:52,824 --> 00:34:56,110
He came to the conclusion that
the possibility of 5 people
925
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,913
telling the same story,
passing a polygraph test
926
00:34:58,963 --> 00:35:00,314
and not telling the truth,
927
00:35:00,364 --> 00:35:01,766
would be a million to 1.
928
00:35:01,899 --> 00:35:03,718
Kathleen Marden:
That is extremely important.
929
00:35:03,768 --> 00:35:06,954
There's a lot of controversy
about the lie detector test.
930
00:35:07,004 --> 00:35:10,074
Some people state that...
931
00:35:10,474 --> 00:35:12,026
an honest person
932
00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:14,078
can tell the truth and fail,
933
00:35:14,545 --> 00:35:17,448
a sociopath can lie and pass.
934
00:35:17,648 --> 00:35:20,201
But it would be
extraordinarily difficult
935
00:35:20,251 --> 00:35:23,938
for 5 people, initially,
to pass that test.
936
00:35:23,988 --> 00:35:28,559
Eventually the sixth did
take the test and passed
937
00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:30,745
and Travis and his brother
938
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:33,848
also passed lie detector test,
939
00:35:33,898 --> 00:35:35,766
after lie detector test.
940
00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:39,987
Travis Walton: If that's not
sufficient evidence concerning
941
00:35:40,037 --> 00:35:41,572
this UFO incident
942
00:35:41,873 --> 00:35:44,725
what are we doing convicting
people and condemning them
943
00:35:44,775 --> 00:35:48,012
to death on the basis of
less testimony than that?
944
00:35:48,312 --> 00:35:51,833
Ben Hansen: If you only had
the evidence of the polygraph
945
00:35:51,883 --> 00:35:54,235
you still have the most
well-documented case
946
00:35:54,285 --> 00:35:55,286
in UFO history.
947
00:35:55,386 --> 00:35:59,690
We also have the tree growth
in the immediate vicinity.
948
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:01,509
In the Summer of 2014
949
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:03,177
we went back to the site
950
00:36:03,227 --> 00:36:05,029
to do a field survey.
951
00:36:05,062 --> 00:36:08,249
It's been so many years
since the original incident
952
00:36:08,299 --> 00:36:09,851
that we really did not expect
953
00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:11,252
to find anything there,
954
00:36:11,302 --> 00:36:13,087
but while we were
on the site
955
00:36:13,137 --> 00:36:14,839
a discovery was made.
956
00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:18,025
Travis Walton: The calculations
show that these trees were producing
957
00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:20,361
wood fiber at 30 something times
958
00:36:20,411 --> 00:36:22,813
the rate they had in the
previous 85 years.
959
00:36:22,947 --> 00:36:26,350
Other trees exhibited the
same kind of changes
960
00:36:26,417 --> 00:36:29,520
and the effect diminished the
farther you got from that spot.
961
00:36:29,687 --> 00:36:33,574
Ben Hansen: Not only was
there an extreme growth rate
962
00:36:33,624 --> 00:36:36,093
to some of these trees
around the clearing
963
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,196
but it seems that there's also
a directionality to them.
964
00:36:39,430 --> 00:36:40,948
Travis Walton:
I started checking stumps
965
00:36:40,998 --> 00:36:43,818
at the 4 corners of the compass
966
00:36:43,868 --> 00:36:45,319
and discovered that there was
967
00:36:45,369 --> 00:36:47,421
a swelling and a thickening
968
00:36:47,471 --> 00:36:48,789
of the growth rings
969
00:36:48,839 --> 00:36:51,459
in the direction that
the craft had been
970
00:36:51,509 --> 00:36:53,294
and not on its opposite side,
971
00:36:53,344 --> 00:36:56,030
that was where the thickness of
the rings were at the minimum.
972
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,432
Ben Hansen: Travis and some
of the original people who
973
00:36:58,482 --> 00:37:00,034
did the first surveys
974
00:37:00,084 --> 00:37:01,769
have posited that
possibly that the
975
00:37:01,819 --> 00:37:04,121
cell growth was
caused by radiation.
976
00:37:04,288 --> 00:37:06,240
I took that a step further and
977
00:37:06,290 --> 00:37:09,043
did some digging to see if
there's been any
978
00:37:09,093 --> 00:37:10,311
academic studies
979
00:37:10,361 --> 00:37:12,346
done on radiation in tree growth
980
00:37:12,396 --> 00:37:14,682
and I found at least 1 or 2
981
00:37:14,732 --> 00:37:16,767
related to
the Chernobyl incident.
982
00:37:16,867 --> 00:37:20,421
A university out of Poland
did a study in 1997
983
00:37:20,471 --> 00:37:22,223
that found trees
984
00:37:22,273 --> 00:37:25,159
that were exposed to radiation
after Chernobyl,
985
00:37:25,209 --> 00:37:27,628
had grown up to 3 times
986
00:37:27,678 --> 00:37:29,363
in volume of accelerated growth
987
00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:31,415
as compared to previous years.
988
00:37:31,615 --> 00:37:33,100
Our field survey and
989
00:37:33,150 --> 00:37:35,002
finding this directionality
990
00:37:35,052 --> 00:37:37,204
and possible connection
to radiation,
991
00:37:37,254 --> 00:37:38,639
opened a whole lot of
992
00:37:38,689 --> 00:37:40,558
new doors that need
to be explored.
993
00:37:40,691 --> 00:37:43,160
We're really hoping
that we can get
994
00:37:43,494 --> 00:37:45,346
certain universities that
995
00:37:45,396 --> 00:37:47,381
are experts in
996
00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:48,482
tree ring growth
997
00:37:48,532 --> 00:37:50,851
involved in this to see
if we can actually
998
00:37:50,901 --> 00:37:52,436
see if there is a connection.
999
00:37:52,503 --> 00:37:54,121
Travis Walton: I think it's
important
1000
00:37:54,171 --> 00:37:56,824
for people to recognize
the weight of evidence,
1001
00:37:56,874 --> 00:37:58,809
that these things do happen.
1002
00:37:59,043 --> 00:38:01,529
Richard Dolan: If you go
online and look for UFO reports
1003
00:38:01,579 --> 00:38:03,898
you will find in North
America alone
1004
00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:06,984
about 12 thousand
sightings a year.
1005
00:38:07,084 --> 00:38:09,303
That does not mean that they
are all alien craft, obviously,
1006
00:38:09,353 --> 00:38:12,289
but there's a lot going on
every single day...
1007
00:38:12,723 --> 00:38:13,908
every day!
1008
00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:15,409
And people are seeing
1009
00:38:15,459 --> 00:38:17,928
truly inexplicable
things happening.
1010
00:38:18,095 --> 00:38:19,146
John Goulette:
I mean...
1011
00:38:19,196 --> 00:38:20,915
how can you possibly believe
1012
00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:24,368
that we're the only beings
in this universe?
1013
00:38:24,468 --> 00:38:25,519
It's not...
1014
00:38:25,569 --> 00:38:26,387
no way.
1015
00:38:26,437 --> 00:38:29,156
Travis Walton: We've come a long
way in our understanding about
1016
00:38:29,206 --> 00:38:31,442
the odds of life elsewhere.
1017
00:38:31,575 --> 00:38:35,229
With what? A hundred
billion stars in the Milky Way?
1018
00:38:35,279 --> 00:38:37,999
Conservatively, if there was
only 10 planets per star
1019
00:38:38,049 --> 00:38:39,066
we are talking about
1020
00:38:39,116 --> 00:38:41,485
a thousand billion planets.
1021
00:38:41,752 --> 00:38:44,905
Not all of which would be,
life-supporting of course
1022
00:38:44,955 --> 00:38:47,608
but there's just enough
believability,
1023
00:38:47,658 --> 00:38:49,660
just enough numbers
of reports
1024
00:38:49,927 --> 00:38:52,680
to sort of nudge people
in the direction
1025
00:38:52,730 --> 00:38:54,732
of accepting that we
are not alone.
1026
00:38:54,832 --> 00:38:57,468
Kathleen Marden: The public
is becoming more aware
1027
00:38:57,735 --> 00:38:59,236
and more accepting
1028
00:38:59,503 --> 00:39:02,056
that there is life out there,
1029
00:39:02,106 --> 00:39:05,926
in the universe, in our
galaxy in fact,
1030
00:39:05,976 --> 00:39:11,148
and that that life has
traveled to our Earth.
1031
00:39:11,415 --> 00:39:13,567
Travis Walton: At the same time,
I am always careful to say that
1032
00:39:13,617 --> 00:39:17,421
not everything that is
reported is of this nature.
1033
00:39:17,788 --> 00:39:20,975
You know, I think it is
important to retain
1034
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:22,993
a degree of healthy skepticism.
1035
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,578
Ben Hansen:
I, personally
1036
00:39:24,628 --> 00:39:25,846
have seen at least
1037
00:39:25,896 --> 00:39:28,165
3 different objects
that I can't explain
1038
00:39:28,332 --> 00:39:31,802
doing very unconventional
maneuvers in the sky.
1039
00:39:32,369 --> 00:39:34,872
Does that make
me a believer?
1040
00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:37,775
Do people ask if
I am a skeptic?
1041
00:39:38,109 --> 00:39:40,094
I don't like those terms
1042
00:39:40,144 --> 00:39:42,246
because I think everyone
should be skeptical.
1043
00:39:42,346 --> 00:39:43,397
Richard Dolan:
We need skeptics.
1044
00:39:43,447 --> 00:39:44,865
We need intelligent people
1045
00:39:44,915 --> 00:39:46,600
with a skeptical attitude about this
1046
00:39:46,650 --> 00:39:48,669
because this is a strange field.
1047
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:52,189
Lee Spiegel: But a
debunker is someone who...
1048
00:39:52,823 --> 00:39:55,092
is out there to
1049
00:39:55,392 --> 00:39:57,778
tear people's stories down,
1050
00:39:57,828 --> 00:39:59,563
to ridicule people.
1051
00:40:00,397 --> 00:40:03,150
So that the people will
either just go away
1052
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,752
and take their stories
with them
1053
00:40:04,802 --> 00:40:07,204
or will be forced
into a situation
1054
00:40:07,271 --> 00:40:09,790
where they'll admit
that they
1055
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,909
made it all up, even
though they didn't.
1056
00:40:12,009 --> 00:40:14,762
Stanton Friedman: 4 basic
rules for UFO debunkers
1057
00:40:14,812 --> 00:40:16,597
and Travis has run
into all of these:
1058
00:40:16,647 --> 00:40:19,316
1) "Don't bother me with
the facts,my mind is made up."
1059
00:40:19,483 --> 00:40:20,534
2) "What the public doesn't
know,
1060
00:40:20,584 --> 00:40:21,584
I am not going to tell them."
1061
00:40:21,952 --> 00:40:23,504
3) "If you can't
attack the data... "
1062
00:40:23,554 --> 00:40:25,039
this is particularly true
in Travis' case,
1063
00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:26,323
"...attack the people."
1064
00:40:27,224 --> 00:40:29,443
And 4) "Do your research by
proclamation
1065
00:40:29,493 --> 00:40:31,295
investigation is too
much trouble."
1066
00:40:31,428 --> 00:40:34,281
James Fox: You know,
it's so funny because I have gone on
1067
00:40:34,331 --> 00:40:35,549
a lot of times with
some debates
1068
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:37,735
with some of these
debunkers and...
1069
00:40:38,102 --> 00:40:39,753
"Your extraterrestrial,
you said..."
1070
00:40:39,803 --> 00:40:41,755
I say: "I didn't say it was
extraterrestrial,
1071
00:40:41,805 --> 00:40:43,357
I said maybe it is,
I don't know,
1072
00:40:43,407 --> 00:40:44,358
how am I supposed to know?"
1073
00:40:44,408 --> 00:40:46,927
All I'm saying is that this
is what people saw,
1074
00:40:46,977 --> 00:40:48,529
this is what was reported,
1075
00:40:48,579 --> 00:40:50,531
this is what the photographic
evidence backs up,
1076
00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:52,349
the radar evidence,
whatever it is.
1077
00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:53,834
Whatever particular
case it is,
1078
00:40:53,884 --> 00:40:55,369
you can speculate
all you want
1079
00:40:55,419 --> 00:40:57,204
as to figure out what it was.
We know what it wasn't.
1080
00:40:57,254 --> 00:40:59,523
Travis Walton:
They begin with the idea that
1081
00:40:59,823 --> 00:41:02,143
if it's unproven
1082
00:41:02,193 --> 00:41:04,995
that's the absolute
equivalent of disproven.
1083
00:41:05,229 --> 00:41:08,065
And, you know, if you think
about it that's pretty absurd.
1084
00:41:08,165 --> 00:41:09,466
Peter Robbins:
They "know"...
1085
00:41:09,867 --> 00:41:11,835
that UFOs aren't real,
1086
00:41:12,169 --> 00:41:14,972
they absolutely know
it as empirical fact.
1087
00:41:15,272 --> 00:41:16,907
You know, how
cool is that?
1088
00:41:17,007 --> 00:41:19,193
Lee Spiegel: They will
reach and they will stretch
1089
00:41:19,243 --> 00:41:22,496
and they will find anything
that they think
1090
00:41:22,546 --> 00:41:25,883
will make some kind of
sense to somebody,
1091
00:41:26,083 --> 00:41:28,169
as a way of explaining.
1092
00:41:28,219 --> 00:41:29,236
Their whole job is:
1093
00:41:29,286 --> 00:41:31,488
"We must explain this away."
1094
00:41:31,555 --> 00:41:34,608
Certainly one of
the most successful propagandist
1095
00:41:34,658 --> 00:41:36,810
of the second half
of the 20th century
1096
00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:38,128
was Philip Klass.
1097
00:41:38,896 --> 00:41:42,032
And his area of
propagandizing was
1098
00:41:42,299 --> 00:41:45,302
almost anything strange,
but especially UFOs.
1099
00:41:45,502 --> 00:41:50,507
Kathleen Marden: He through
the 50s and early 60s
1100
00:41:50,641 --> 00:41:54,144
had never read anything on
the topic of UFOs
1101
00:41:54,411 --> 00:41:57,514
but he had already
predetermined
1102
00:41:57,681 --> 00:42:00,501
that anyone who believed that
1103
00:42:00,551 --> 00:42:02,519
this had happened
1104
00:42:02,586 --> 00:42:04,838
was a "crank" or a "kook".
1105
00:42:04,888 --> 00:42:07,424
Those were 2 of
his favorite words.
1106
00:42:07,491 --> 00:42:10,511
Stanton Friedman:He sat on a
very privileged position,
1107
00:42:10,561 --> 00:42:12,112
he was Senior Avionics Editor
1108
00:42:12,162 --> 00:42:14,448
for "Aviation Week
and Space Technology"
1109
00:42:14,498 --> 00:42:16,300
based in Washington, DC.
1110
00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:19,970
So the go-to guy for any Media
people who needed anything.
1111
00:42:20,304 --> 00:42:23,707
Richard Dolan: Klass was a man
who was extremely well-connected.
1112
00:42:24,074 --> 00:42:26,160
You know, years before
the Travis Walton case,
1113
00:42:26,210 --> 00:42:30,197
Klass worked very hard to
destroy the reputation
1114
00:42:30,247 --> 00:42:33,300
of one of America's leading
atmospheric physicist:
1115
00:42:33,350 --> 00:42:34,818
a man named James McDonald.
1116
00:42:34,985 --> 00:42:38,672
James was a fearless,
brilliant, tireless
1117
00:42:38,722 --> 00:42:40,958
UFO investigator researcher.
1118
00:42:41,091 --> 00:42:43,544
To kill the character
of people, if you couldn't
1119
00:42:43,594 --> 00:42:45,145
attack their findings
1120
00:42:45,195 --> 00:42:47,364
was something that Philip
became very good at.
1121
00:42:47,564 --> 00:42:50,334
I think Philip
contributed directly
1122
00:42:50,834 --> 00:42:52,019
to the suicide of
1123
00:42:52,069 --> 00:42:55,322
Dr. James McDonald, one
of the finest and most
1124
00:42:55,372 --> 00:42:56,957
courageous scientists
in the history
1125
00:42:57,007 --> 00:43:00,811
of trying to get UFOs into
the public mindset.
1126
00:43:01,278 --> 00:43:03,814
Klass also did the same thing
with Stanton Friedman.
1127
00:43:04,281 --> 00:43:06,700
I discovered a letter
in the archives
1128
00:43:06,750 --> 00:43:08,252
in the Canadian
National Archives...
1129
00:43:08,852 --> 00:43:12,389
when Friedman moved
to Canada back in 1979,
1130
00:43:13,257 --> 00:43:16,143
Klass wrote a scandalously,
1131
00:43:16,193 --> 00:43:18,962
scathing libelous letter
1132
00:43:19,596 --> 00:43:21,715
to the Canadian National
Research Council
1133
00:43:21,765 --> 00:43:23,967
trying to destroy Friedman's
reputation there.
1134
00:43:24,335 --> 00:43:26,220
Stanton Friedman:
He carried on what I would call
1135
00:43:26,270 --> 00:43:27,404
a personal vendetta...
1136
00:43:28,372 --> 00:43:29,506
against Travis.
1137
00:43:30,607 --> 00:43:32,726
He hadn't talked to
any of the witnesses
1138
00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:34,628
during that...not
naturally not.
1139
00:43:34,678 --> 00:43:35,679
That wasn't his style.
1140
00:43:35,846 --> 00:43:37,164
Travis Walton: There were
some rather
1141
00:43:37,214 --> 00:43:39,450
underhanded tactics
being employed,
1142
00:43:39,750 --> 00:43:41,735
altering quotations to make
1143
00:43:41,785 --> 00:43:44,855
to reverse the meaning of
things that people said.
1144
00:43:44,988 --> 00:43:46,156
And even...
1145
00:43:46,490 --> 00:43:48,008
misquote to make it seem
1146
00:43:48,058 --> 00:43:49,593
that they were saying
something they didn't.
1147
00:43:49,693 --> 00:43:52,313
Chuck Ellison: Philip Klass did
contact me and I took him out
1148
00:43:52,363 --> 00:43:54,114
to the scene. We spent
a day out there.
1149
00:43:54,164 --> 00:43:56,216
He brought a Geiger
counter out with him
1150
00:43:56,266 --> 00:43:58,502
and we went to the scene
and he checked it out.
1151
00:43:58,535 --> 00:44:02,773
Cy Gilson: I received a
phone call from Philip Klass
1152
00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:06,176
and he told me who he was and
what he was looking for:
1153
00:44:06,410 --> 00:44:07,711
information.
1154
00:44:08,178 --> 00:44:10,280
And he started asking
me questions.
1155
00:44:10,881 --> 00:44:16,086
I had some input with regard
with Mr. Klass beforehand,
1156
00:44:16,820 --> 00:44:19,406
so I asked him if he would
just put all those questions
1157
00:44:19,456 --> 00:44:20,507
and stuff in writing
1158
00:44:20,557 --> 00:44:22,242
and send it to me,
I would be happy to
1159
00:44:22,292 --> 00:44:23,460
answer his questions.
1160
00:44:23,827 --> 00:44:27,831
But I never received any
letters from him.
1161
00:44:28,065 --> 00:44:31,051
Travis Walton: Philip Klass was
extremely thorough in digging.
1162
00:44:31,101 --> 00:44:33,420
I mean, he called
former employers,
1163
00:44:33,470 --> 00:44:35,005
he...everything.
1164
00:44:35,706 --> 00:44:36,974
But he connected with anything.
1165
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,376
And here I am the main
person involved...
1166
00:44:39,710 --> 00:44:43,113
never attempted to
even phone me,
1167
00:44:43,213 --> 00:44:45,265
never attempted
to write a letter
1168
00:44:45,315 --> 00:44:45,983
or anything.
1169
00:44:46,483 --> 00:44:49,486
Stanton Friedman: So there is
no concern with truth...
1170
00:44:50,654 --> 00:44:52,373
or with people's
reputations
1171
00:44:52,423 --> 00:44:53,924
or anything like that.
1172
00:44:54,024 --> 00:44:54,708
That's the way he was.
1173
00:44:54,758 --> 00:44:56,343
I say that...I met
with him,
1174
00:44:56,393 --> 00:44:58,178
we even had some
meals together
1175
00:44:58,228 --> 00:44:59,813
where we agreed not
to talk about UFOs.
1176
00:44:59,863 --> 00:45:02,132
Frankly, but most of the time.
1177
00:45:02,332 --> 00:45:05,786
Travis Walton: What the crew
did was get together and
1178
00:45:05,836 --> 00:45:07,721
signed a joint letter
1179
00:45:07,771 --> 00:45:09,406
challenging
Philp Klass...
1180
00:45:10,140 --> 00:45:13,026
to a new polygraph test
that the crew would take
1181
00:45:13,076 --> 00:45:14,628
and it would have to
be an examiner that
1182
00:45:14,678 --> 00:45:16,196
was mutually agreed-upon
1183
00:45:16,246 --> 00:45:17,381
so that...
1184
00:45:18,115 --> 00:45:19,533
in the aftermath,
when we passed,
1185
00:45:19,583 --> 00:45:20,367
which we would,
1186
00:45:20,417 --> 00:45:22,469
there could be no criticism that
1187
00:45:22,519 --> 00:45:24,054
the evidence was
tainted in any way.
1188
00:45:24,488 --> 00:45:26,640
Now, he would have
to pay for the test
1189
00:45:26,690 --> 00:45:27,341
if we passed.
1190
00:45:27,391 --> 00:45:29,126
We would pay for
them if we flunked.
1191
00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:31,895
So he's got nothing
to lose by accepting.
1192
00:45:32,095 --> 00:45:35,082
He wound up basically,
not really accepting it
1193
00:45:35,132 --> 00:45:36,333
because he couldn't
back it up.
1194
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,335
Stanton Friedman: Phil's
approach was very staightforward:
1195
00:45:38,502 --> 00:45:39,086
You start with the assumption
1196
00:45:39,136 --> 00:45:41,305
that can't be anything
to flying saucers,
1197
00:45:41,772 --> 00:45:44,658
so every case has a
prosaic explanation,
1198
00:45:44,708 --> 00:45:45,709
he claimed.
1199
00:45:45,809 --> 00:45:49,496
Kathleen Marden: He initially
stated that Travis Walton
1200
00:45:49,546 --> 00:45:52,099
must have been
out in a cabin
1201
00:45:52,149 --> 00:45:55,652
in the woods, and
that when he...
1202
00:45:55,986 --> 00:45:56,470
when his brother
1203
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,823
took him to Phoenix
for medical exams,
1204
00:46:00,357 --> 00:46:04,311
the puncture wound on the
back side of his elbow
1205
00:46:04,361 --> 00:46:06,613
must have been
an indication that
1206
00:46:06,663 --> 00:46:09,800
Travis was injecting LSD.
1207
00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:11,418
Peter Robbins: He "knows" that
1208
00:46:11,468 --> 00:46:12,786
Travis didn't have
the experience,
1209
00:46:12,836 --> 00:46:14,538
therefore, it must have
been something else.
1210
00:46:15,005 --> 00:46:16,857
And one of his pet
theories was
1211
00:46:16,907 --> 00:46:19,843
Travis and the other men who
he was working with...
1212
00:46:20,544 --> 00:46:22,129
had a contract
1213
00:46:22,179 --> 00:46:24,731
to log a certain amount
of lumber
1214
00:46:24,781 --> 00:46:26,183
over the course of a year.
1215
00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:29,436
Travis Walton: He settled in
on the idea that Mike Rogers
1216
00:46:29,486 --> 00:46:32,155
was in deep trouble
with his contract
1217
00:46:32,489 --> 00:46:35,425
and he had to invent the story
in order to get out of it.
1218
00:46:35,559 --> 00:46:38,178
Peter Robbins:
And so they came up with this
1219
00:46:38,228 --> 00:46:39,746
perfectly rational story
1220
00:46:39,796 --> 00:46:41,815
of Travis being hit by
a beam of light
1221
00:46:41,865 --> 00:46:43,700
from a UFO
1222
00:46:43,834 --> 00:46:47,087
and that is the excuse
that they gave
1223
00:46:47,137 --> 00:46:48,872
for trying to get out
of the contract.
1224
00:46:49,072 --> 00:46:51,391
Mike Rogers: That would get
us out of the contract and
1225
00:46:51,441 --> 00:46:53,193
I'd get my 10% retention and
1226
00:46:53,243 --> 00:46:54,361
everybody get paid and
1227
00:46:54,411 --> 00:46:55,195
we can make it through
the winter,
1228
00:46:55,245 --> 00:46:56,079
see?
1229
00:46:57,147 --> 00:46:59,566
It was...it was wrong
on every count,
1230
00:46:59,616 --> 00:47:00,417
every single count.
1231
00:47:00,951 --> 00:47:02,836
Chuck Ellison: I knew that
they were having trouble
1232
00:47:02,886 --> 00:47:04,187
with the contract...
1233
00:47:05,088 --> 00:47:07,424
I knew that, but you see...
1234
00:47:07,891 --> 00:47:10,744
I also know that doing
something like that
1235
00:47:10,794 --> 00:47:12,496
is not going to get you
out of the contract.
1236
00:47:13,130 --> 00:47:13,697
It just ain't.
1237
00:47:13,897 --> 00:47:17,284
Travis Walton: It was a hounding
that went so far as to urge
1238
00:47:17,334 --> 00:47:20,454
a federal criminal
investigator to come
1239
00:47:20,504 --> 00:47:22,222
and try to force Mike
1240
00:47:22,272 --> 00:47:23,540
to sign a confession.
1241
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,226
And Mike got written affidavits
1242
00:47:26,276 --> 00:47:29,596
from the contracting officers,
in the forest service,
1243
00:47:29,646 --> 00:47:31,465
stating clearly
1244
00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:33,700
that there's absolutely no way
1245
00:47:33,750 --> 00:47:35,402
that Mike could have benefited
1246
00:47:35,452 --> 00:47:37,404
and actually was harmed
1247
00:47:37,454 --> 00:47:40,624
in many ways by this incident
having happened.
1248
00:47:40,991 --> 00:47:42,876
Steve Pierce: You know, just
like, Phil Klass offered me
1249
00:47:42,926 --> 00:47:44,294
the $10,000.
1250
00:47:44,394 --> 00:47:46,129
That was a lot of money
back in the 70s.
1251
00:47:46,663 --> 00:47:50,984
Kathleen Marden: Steve Pierce,
who was the youngest member
1252
00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:54,137
of the work crew that
Travis Walton was on,
1253
00:47:54,404 --> 00:47:56,740
stated that Philip Klass
1254
00:47:56,940 --> 00:48:00,627
offered him $10,000 in order to
1255
00:48:00,677 --> 00:48:03,046
say that this was a hoax.
1256
00:48:03,413 --> 00:48:04,548
Richard Dolan:
$10,000...
1257
00:48:04,848 --> 00:48:06,883
is a nice amount
of money today.
1258
00:48:07,317 --> 00:48:11,855
In 1980, that was a really
nice chunk of money.
1259
00:48:12,556 --> 00:48:15,275
And particularly if you're a
young guy like Steve Pierce
1260
00:48:15,325 --> 00:48:17,894
was at the time, who was
struggling financially.
1261
00:48:18,061 --> 00:48:19,296
Could have used the money.
1262
00:48:19,429 --> 00:48:21,698
Travis Walton:
He flew, we dicovered later,
1263
00:48:21,965 --> 00:48:23,884
to Texas, to track Steve down,
1264
00:48:23,934 --> 00:48:26,219
even though he was
operating under
1265
00:48:26,269 --> 00:48:28,238
his middle name: Jeff.
1266
00:48:29,439 --> 00:48:32,125
And took him out to dinner
and expended a tremendous
1267
00:48:32,175 --> 00:48:34,311
amount of time and
effort and money
1268
00:48:34,511 --> 00:48:35,979
to try to persuade him
1269
00:48:36,179 --> 00:48:37,981
to take the $10,000 bribe.
1270
00:48:38,348 --> 00:48:40,767
Richard Dolan:
Why would any normal citizen
1271
00:48:40,817 --> 00:48:41,935
go through,
1272
00:48:41,985 --> 00:48:43,003
such...
1273
00:48:43,053 --> 00:48:44,354
jumping through such hoops
1274
00:48:44,521 --> 00:48:46,590
to get someone to
debunk this case?
1275
00:48:46,790 --> 00:48:48,692
Another thing to consider
with Klass...
1276
00:48:49,326 --> 00:48:52,529
are the people that
he consorted with.
1277
00:48:53,730 --> 00:48:56,533
Now, one of these was a man
named Donald Menzel.
1278
00:48:56,833 --> 00:49:00,020
Before there was Klass, Menzel
was America's leading
1279
00:49:00,070 --> 00:49:01,154
debunker of UFOs.
1280
00:49:01,204 --> 00:49:03,323
Menzel was an astronomer
at Harvard University.
1281
00:49:03,373 --> 00:49:04,641
It doesn't get any
better than that.
1282
00:49:04,741 --> 00:49:06,393
Peter Robbins:
A highly respected academic,
1283
00:49:06,443 --> 00:49:08,979
who wrote a number of books...
1284
00:49:09,479 --> 00:49:10,714
under the pose of
1285
00:49:11,448 --> 00:49:13,066
you know, a skeptical academic
1286
00:49:13,116 --> 00:49:14,201
looking at UFOs as
1287
00:49:14,251 --> 00:49:15,636
misinterpretations of
1288
00:49:15,686 --> 00:49:17,087
natural phenomenon.
1289
00:49:17,654 --> 00:49:20,090
Richard Dolan: But there was a
secret life to Donald Menzel...also.
1290
00:49:20,457 --> 00:49:23,026
that nobody, or very few
people knew about.
1291
00:49:23,393 --> 00:49:24,561
Donald Menzel was...
1292
00:49:25,028 --> 00:49:27,497
very well connected to the NSA.
1293
00:49:27,998 --> 00:49:29,249
Stanton Friedman: I had to get
permission
1294
00:49:29,299 --> 00:49:30,450
from 3 different people
1295
00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:32,602
to look at Menzel's
papers at Harvard.
1296
00:49:33,503 --> 00:49:35,238
And discovered to
my total shock...
1297
00:49:35,872 --> 00:49:37,324
that he wrote Jack Kennedy,
1298
00:49:37,374 --> 00:49:38,625
President Kennedy,
1299
00:49:38,675 --> 00:49:41,511
whom we knew been on the
board of overseers at Harvard
1300
00:49:41,778 --> 00:49:43,530
and his area of interest
was astronomy,
1301
00:49:43,580 --> 00:49:45,465
is one area where he may
be able to provide
1302
00:49:45,515 --> 00:49:48,335
special assistance and
that has to do
1303
00:49:48,385 --> 00:49:50,887
with very special National
Security Agency (NSA).
1304
00:49:51,521 --> 00:49:52,689
And he tells Kennedy:
1305
00:49:53,023 --> 00:49:55,942
"When we are properly cleared
to each other,
1306
00:49:55,992 --> 00:49:58,061
I can tell you more."
1307
00:49:58,695 --> 00:50:00,163
Which is one of
those "What?!"
1308
00:50:00,397 --> 00:50:03,116
Richard Dolan: Back in the
in the 60s and 70s, the NSA
1309
00:50:03,166 --> 00:50:06,269
was very much below
the radar of this nation.
1310
00:50:07,370 --> 00:50:10,173
Menzel's wife didn't even know
1311
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:11,341
that he was
1312
00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:13,126
well connected with the NSA.
1313
00:50:13,176 --> 00:50:14,511
That is how secret this was.
1314
00:50:15,178 --> 00:50:17,247
But Menzel and Klass
1315
00:50:17,414 --> 00:50:18,882
had a very close correspondence.
1316
00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:22,335
Stanton Friedman: Back in the
70s, it suddenly turns out
1317
00:50:22,385 --> 00:50:23,620
that the CIA...
1318
00:50:24,187 --> 00:50:26,189
was playing footsy with
a lot of journalists.
1319
00:50:27,324 --> 00:50:29,109
They would report
to the CIA after
1320
00:50:29,159 --> 00:50:31,027
attendance at a
foreign conference...
1321
00:50:33,296 --> 00:50:34,564
on a regular basis.
1322
00:50:35,098 --> 00:50:37,467
Big names for
major publications.
1323
00:50:38,635 --> 00:50:40,203
And it was a big
scandal at the time.
1324
00:50:41,438 --> 00:50:44,574
My feeling is that Phil
was the perfect person
1325
00:50:45,475 --> 00:50:46,576
to be...
1326
00:50:47,477 --> 00:50:50,313
used by the CIA.
1327
00:50:51,114 --> 00:50:52,182
He wasn't married,
1328
00:50:52,582 --> 00:50:54,818
he traveled a great deal
to conferences,
1329
00:50:54,851 --> 00:50:58,538
he had a legitimate job
for a major publication:
1330
00:50:58,588 --> 00:51:00,323
very well-thought of,
the Aviation Week.
1331
00:51:00,757 --> 00:51:02,325
And he could attend conferences and...
1332
00:51:02,759 --> 00:51:03,860
report back what:
1333
00:51:04,227 --> 00:51:05,879
"Americans were saying,
they shouldn't been saying."
1334
00:51:05,929 --> 00:51:07,447
"What Russians were saying
that, we'd like to know
1335
00:51:07,497 --> 00:51:08,465
what they were saying."
1336
00:51:08,665 --> 00:51:09,883
Richard Dolan: Klass was able to get
1337
00:51:09,933 --> 00:51:11,351
op-ed pieces in the
New York Times like
1338
00:51:11,401 --> 00:51:12,202
no big deal.
1339
00:51:12,469 --> 00:51:14,755
He was able to get
on major Media
1340
00:51:14,805 --> 00:51:15,822
to talk about these cases,
1341
00:51:15,872 --> 00:51:16,807
no big deal for him.
1342
00:51:17,307 --> 00:51:19,159
Well gee, when you think
about how difficult
1343
00:51:19,209 --> 00:51:20,293
that is to do,
1344
00:51:20,343 --> 00:51:21,528
you have to be very
well-connected
1345
00:51:21,578 --> 00:51:22,579
to do all of those things.
1346
00:51:22,712 --> 00:51:24,231
Travis Walton: And now that,
through
1347
00:51:24,281 --> 00:51:25,816
the Freedom of Information Act,
1348
00:51:25,949 --> 00:51:29,202
I have come into possession
of the FBI investigation
1349
00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:30,420
of this guy [Philip Klass].
1350
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,672
There's definite evidence
that he probably
1351
00:51:32,722 --> 00:51:34,941
was acting on behalf
1352
00:51:34,991 --> 00:51:36,626
of some covert agency,
1353
00:51:36,993 --> 00:51:38,995
in attempting to discredit this.
1354
00:51:39,162 --> 00:51:41,314
Chuck Ellison:
He identified himself to me as
1355
00:51:41,364 --> 00:51:44,501
U.S. Government
UFO investigator...
1356
00:51:45,168 --> 00:51:46,903
Philip Klass.
1357
00:51:47,838 --> 00:51:49,372
And I think he was,
you know?
1358
00:51:49,806 --> 00:51:52,058
And he was the only U.S.
government man
1359
00:51:52,108 --> 00:51:53,343
that appeared on the scene.
1360
00:51:53,743 --> 00:51:55,428
Travis Walton:
I don't believe that anyone
1361
00:51:55,478 --> 00:51:57,914
turned him into a UFO skeptic...
1362
00:51:59,082 --> 00:52:02,502
but they certainly were in
a position to guide and
1363
00:52:02,552 --> 00:52:04,287
also finance his efforts.
1364
00:52:04,487 --> 00:52:05,338
Richard Dolan:
"Here is our slush fund:
1365
00:52:05,388 --> 00:52:07,023
here is $10,000
1366
00:52:07,257 --> 00:52:09,192
and you are going to
destroy this case for us."
1367
00:52:09,659 --> 00:52:10,877
This is a classic mark
1368
00:52:10,927 --> 00:52:13,196
of an intelligence
community operation.
1369
00:52:13,396 --> 00:52:17,250
Kathleen Marden: Klass stated
in letters that he did not have
1370
00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:19,269
a very high income,
1371
00:52:19,769 --> 00:52:22,272
so the money came
from somewhere.
1372
00:52:22,806 --> 00:52:25,058
I don't know if it was
a federal agency,
1373
00:52:25,108 --> 00:52:27,360
if it was a private individual,
1374
00:52:27,410 --> 00:52:29,112
or what it was
1375
00:52:29,279 --> 00:52:31,214
but he was highly
motivated.
1376
00:52:31,314 --> 00:52:33,633
Mike Rogers: He was acting
as though he had orders
1377
00:52:33,683 --> 00:52:35,468
to kill this, no matter what.
1378
00:52:35,518 --> 00:52:36,219
You know?
1379
00:52:36,319 --> 00:52:38,138
If you can't find a
chink in the armor,
1380
00:52:38,188 --> 00:52:38,955
make one.
1381
00:52:39,823 --> 00:52:40,790
And that is what he did.
1382
00:52:41,157 --> 00:52:42,592
Richard Dolan:
Now let us go a step further:
1383
00:52:43,059 --> 00:52:45,078
Why would the Intelligence
Community
1384
00:52:45,128 --> 00:52:46,696
want to debunk the
Travis Walton case?
1385
00:52:46,930 --> 00:52:49,199
Travis Walton: It sounds like
science fiction, but, you know
1386
00:52:49,399 --> 00:52:50,517
you have to acknowledge
1387
00:52:50,567 --> 00:52:51,918
it would be
1388
00:52:51,968 --> 00:52:54,070
extremely disruptive
1389
00:52:54,204 --> 00:52:56,489
for this kind of
1390
00:52:56,539 --> 00:52:57,490
you know,
1391
00:52:57,540 --> 00:53:01,027
total undeniable truth
1392
00:53:01,077 --> 00:53:03,296
to be just delivered to
the world tomorrow.
1393
00:53:03,346 --> 00:53:04,664
Lee Spiegel:
People say to me:
1394
00:53:04,714 --> 00:53:06,032
"Why doesn't the president
1395
00:53:06,082 --> 00:53:07,167
or why doesn't our
government
1396
00:53:07,217 --> 00:53:08,301
admit that
1397
00:53:08,351 --> 00:53:10,186
UFOs are from someplace else?"
1398
00:53:10,620 --> 00:53:11,721
Because they can't.
1399
00:53:11,955 --> 00:53:14,674
Because nobody in the government
1400
00:53:14,724 --> 00:53:16,726
is willing to come out and say:
1401
00:53:16,826 --> 00:53:18,278
"Yes, we are being visited
1402
00:53:18,328 --> 00:53:20,814
and we are sorry that we
lied to you about it
1403
00:53:20,864 --> 00:53:23,283
and kept it from you for
so many decades
1404
00:53:23,333 --> 00:53:26,786
but we felt that we were
doing it for your benefit,
1405
00:53:26,836 --> 00:53:28,755
to protect you, to protect
the citizens until
1406
00:53:28,805 --> 00:53:30,173
we knew more about it."
1407
00:53:30,273 --> 00:53:32,559
Stanton Friedman: Disinformation
was a very important thing
1408
00:53:32,609 --> 00:53:33,977
in winning World War II.
1409
00:53:34,477 --> 00:53:37,948
It was aimed to Hitler
and Japan, but...
1410
00:53:38,748 --> 00:53:39,883
we lied,
1411
00:53:40,116 --> 00:53:41,117
intentionally,
1412
00:53:41,384 --> 00:53:42,018
often,
1413
00:53:42,585 --> 00:53:43,820
powerfully.
1414
00:53:44,187 --> 00:53:46,656
That's the way the ball
game is played.
1415
00:53:46,756 --> 00:53:49,910
Richard Dolan: So what you find
is that you have gatekeepers
1416
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:51,227
within the world
at the Media,
1417
00:53:51,461 --> 00:53:53,680
we have gatekeepers in
the world of academia,
1418
00:53:53,730 --> 00:53:55,098
who, their job
1419
00:53:55,532 --> 00:53:56,883
it's like sheep dogs:
1420
00:53:56,933 --> 00:53:58,101
guarding the flock.
1421
00:53:58,368 --> 00:53:59,552
Lee Spiegel: That is also
one of the reasons
1422
00:53:59,602 --> 00:54:02,105
why I don't think that there
will be disclosure
1423
00:54:02,405 --> 00:54:03,773
in my lifetime.
1424
00:54:03,873 --> 00:54:04,824
Travis Walton:
So many people think:
1425
00:54:04,874 --> 00:54:07,043
"Oh no, it wouldn't be that
harmful!", you know?
1426
00:54:07,277 --> 00:54:10,480
That everybody they know would
think this is great, you know
1427
00:54:11,047 --> 00:54:12,015
full disclosure.
1428
00:54:12,282 --> 00:54:12,782
But...
1429
00:54:13,416 --> 00:54:13,750
no,
1430
00:54:13,850 --> 00:54:16,336
if you look around, at
the institutions
1431
00:54:16,386 --> 00:54:20,323
the financial, religious,
social, more that are out there...
1432
00:54:20,690 --> 00:54:23,476
it would be extremely
destructive.
1433
00:54:23,526 --> 00:54:24,945
I mean, people would
not go to work
1434
00:54:24,995 --> 00:54:26,029
tomorrow.
1435
00:54:26,162 --> 00:54:29,082
The structure of energy,
finance,
1436
00:54:29,132 --> 00:54:31,601
the whole thing would
be turned on its head.
1437
00:54:31,701 --> 00:54:34,020
Stanton Friedman: I think every
government in the world has 3
1438
00:54:34,070 --> 00:54:36,940
major problems along these
lines regarding UFOs:
1439
00:54:37,340 --> 00:54:39,926
1) They'd like themselves
to figure out how it works
1440
00:54:39,976 --> 00:54:42,395
because it makes a great
weapons delivery system,
1441
00:54:42,445 --> 00:54:44,197
makes anything we're flying
look pretty naive
1442
00:54:44,247 --> 00:54:45,181
by comparison.
1443
00:54:45,548 --> 00:54:48,001
2) You want to make sure
that the other guy doesn't
1444
00:54:48,051 --> 00:54:49,669
figure out how to duplicate
their behavior
1445
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:51,354
because then you have
a defense problem.
1446
00:54:51,821 --> 00:54:53,540
If he has something that
files like these things
1447
00:54:53,590 --> 00:54:54,207
we got a problem
1448
00:54:54,257 --> 00:54:55,725
because we can't handle it.
1449
00:54:55,825 --> 00:54:57,243
And 3) perhaps the
most important,
1450
00:54:57,293 --> 00:54:59,462
a kind of philosophical-political
problem:
1451
00:54:59,829 --> 00:55:01,314
as soon as it becomes
obvious to
1452
00:55:01,364 --> 00:55:02,615
the people on the planet
1453
00:55:02,665 --> 00:55:03,316
and widely accepted
1454
00:55:03,366 --> 00:55:04,751
that flying saucers real
1455
00:55:04,801 --> 00:55:05,902
and from off of the Earth,
1456
00:55:06,102 --> 00:55:09,305
there's going to be a push for
a view of man as earthlings,
1457
00:55:09,472 --> 00:55:10,423
the people on this planet
1458
00:55:10,473 --> 00:55:12,475
Instead of: "I am an American,
or Russian, or Chinese",
1459
00:55:12,709 --> 00:55:13,576
"I am an earthling."
1460
00:55:13,843 --> 00:55:15,428
There is no government
that wants
1461
00:55:15,478 --> 00:55:16,896
its citizens to hold
1462
00:55:16,946 --> 00:55:19,265
their primary allegiance
to the planet,
1463
00:55:19,315 --> 00:55:20,333
as oppose to the country.
1464
00:55:20,383 --> 00:55:21,918
Nobody wants to give-up
their power.
1465
00:55:22,218 --> 00:55:23,770
Richard Dolan: And that is
really how this system works.
1466
00:55:23,820 --> 00:55:25,538
Now there are a few
brave people
1467
00:55:25,588 --> 00:55:27,857
who are able to go
beyond that.
1468
00:55:28,291 --> 00:55:29,509
But if you are going
to go beyond it
1469
00:55:29,559 --> 00:55:31,511
you got to be brave and you
got to be prepared to fight,
1470
00:55:31,561 --> 00:55:32,612
you got to be prepared
1471
00:55:32,662 --> 00:55:33,596
to have
1472
00:55:33,863 --> 00:55:35,148
people like Philip J. Klass
1473
00:55:35,198 --> 00:55:37,700
go after you if you
become too good at it.
1474
00:55:42,405 --> 00:55:45,875
(car passing)
1475
00:55:49,012 --> 00:55:51,581
(indiscernible conversation)
1476
00:55:57,153 --> 00:55:58,705
Steve Pierce:
I hated Travis for a long time
1477
00:55:58,755 --> 00:55:59,689
after this because
1478
00:56:00,123 --> 00:56:01,157
my whole world was just...
1479
00:56:02,759 --> 00:56:04,527
just torn up...
1480
00:56:05,328 --> 00:56:05,962
and people...
1481
00:56:07,263 --> 00:56:08,314
thought that we were lying,
1482
00:56:08,364 --> 00:56:09,799
thought that we were crazy.
1483
00:56:10,733 --> 00:56:13,119
And "Why you sticking up with
Travis for all this time?"
1484
00:56:13,169 --> 00:56:14,704
"You know this really
didn't happen."
1485
00:56:14,971 --> 00:56:16,356
John Goulette:
It changed my like in a way
1486
00:56:16,406 --> 00:56:17,223
I am kinda sorry about.
1487
00:56:17,273 --> 00:56:18,908
You know, I had to leave here.
1488
00:56:20,777 --> 00:56:21,494
I can't stand there
1489
00:56:21,544 --> 00:56:22,912
and have somebody
call me a liar.
1490
00:56:23,012 --> 00:56:25,131
Travis Walton: People were
desperate to explain it away.
1491
00:56:25,181 --> 00:56:26,666
And some of it was very
1492
00:56:26,716 --> 00:56:28,818
simply fear-based,
1493
00:56:29,085 --> 00:56:29,719
You know?
1494
00:56:29,819 --> 00:56:31,771
People in the community
wanted reassurance
1495
00:56:31,821 --> 00:56:33,523
"This can't happen...can it?"
1496
00:56:33,556 --> 00:56:35,175
John Goulette: It's a really
strong religious community
1497
00:56:35,225 --> 00:56:38,745
and this kinda "messed up"
their whole program,
1498
00:56:38,795 --> 00:56:39,662
you know what I mean?
1499
00:56:39,829 --> 00:56:41,081
Their way of thinking
about it.
1500
00:56:41,131 --> 00:56:42,715
Steve Pierce: My mom
still don't believe it.
1501
00:56:42,765 --> 00:56:44,300
She thinks this is all
from the Devil.
1502
00:56:44,367 --> 00:56:46,319
Richard Dolan: When you think
about how significant it is
1503
00:56:46,369 --> 00:56:47,153
in our society,
1504
00:56:47,203 --> 00:56:49,806
the most important thing
that ever happens to you,
1505
00:56:50,039 --> 00:56:51,124
that really freaks you out
1506
00:56:51,174 --> 00:56:52,425
and you don't know how
to process it
1507
00:56:52,475 --> 00:56:53,760
and now you're not
able to talk
1508
00:56:53,810 --> 00:56:54,811
about it with anyone,
1509
00:56:54,944 --> 00:56:55,895
because you know
1510
00:56:55,945 --> 00:56:56,863
that they're going
to laugh at you,
1511
00:56:56,913 --> 00:56:58,548
that they are going to look
at you like you're crazy.
1512
00:56:58,948 --> 00:57:00,550
"Alien abduction, what's
wrong with you?"
1513
00:57:00,583 --> 00:57:02,335
Stanton Friedman:
This fear of ridicule
1514
00:57:02,385 --> 00:57:05,488
encourages people not
to report their cases.
1515
00:57:06,122 --> 00:57:08,224
I check my audiences, I say:
1516
00:57:08,491 --> 00:57:09,809
"How many people here
1517
00:57:09,859 --> 00:57:12,378
believe they've seen
what I would describe
1518
00:57:12,428 --> 00:57:13,613
as a flying saucer?"
1519
00:57:13,663 --> 00:57:15,198
And the hands go up at first...
1520
00:57:16,065 --> 00:57:17,834
like this, you know?
1521
00:57:18,034 --> 00:57:19,018
And I point and count
1522
00:57:19,068 --> 00:57:20,286
1, 2, 3, 4...
1523
00:57:20,336 --> 00:57:21,654
by the time I get
over there,
1524
00:57:21,704 --> 00:57:23,173
their hands go up vigorously.
1525
00:57:23,339 --> 00:57:25,358
10% of the people in
my audiences
1526
00:57:25,408 --> 00:57:26,943
believe they have seen one.
1527
00:57:27,143 --> 00:57:28,077
That is a lot.
1528
00:57:28,711 --> 00:57:30,296
Most of them think they
are the only ones there,
1529
00:57:30,346 --> 00:57:30,847
you know?
1530
00:57:31,147 --> 00:57:32,115
But then I ask:
1531
00:57:32,682 --> 00:57:34,984
"How many of you
reported what you saw?"
1532
00:57:35,351 --> 00:57:37,720
90% of the hands
go down.
1533
00:57:38,254 --> 00:57:39,639
So that is what we
are dealing with,
1534
00:57:39,689 --> 00:57:40,807
we don't get access to data
1535
00:57:40,857 --> 00:57:42,542
because people are
fearful of ridicule,
1536
00:57:42,592 --> 00:57:44,377
because even though
they are believers
1537
00:57:44,427 --> 00:57:45,478
they think somebody else,
1538
00:57:45,528 --> 00:57:47,046
everybody else, isn't.
1539
00:57:47,096 --> 00:57:48,815
Steve Pierce:
I've got a younger brother
1540
00:57:48,865 --> 00:57:50,783
that is really smart
1541
00:57:50,833 --> 00:57:53,703
and he works for a
college in New York...
1542
00:57:54,237 --> 00:57:56,839
and he doesn't
understand why
1543
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:58,858
they pick people like us
1544
00:57:58,908 --> 00:58:00,443
instead of people like him.
1545
00:58:01,377 --> 00:58:02,428
You know what I mean?
1546
00:58:02,478 --> 00:58:04,514
Why would they come
to somebody that is a...
1547
00:58:05,748 --> 00:58:06,566
I don't wanna say
1548
00:58:06,616 --> 00:58:07,884
that word on camera.
1549
00:58:08,017 --> 00:58:08,434
Travis Walton:
"Redneck?"
1550
00:58:08,484 --> 00:58:08,918
Steve Pierce:
Yeah.
1551
00:58:09,018 --> 00:58:10,653
Travis Walton:
Yeah, you can say "redneck".
1552
00:58:11,020 --> 00:58:12,505
Steve Pierce:
A "redneck" instead
1553
00:58:12,555 --> 00:58:13,890
of "educated people".
1554
00:58:14,023 --> 00:58:16,342
Ben Hansen: There is some
fear and I think fear is the
1555
00:58:16,392 --> 00:58:17,177
basis of this.
1556
00:58:17,227 --> 00:58:17,860
But...
1557
00:58:18,294 --> 00:58:19,345
solely when people
1558
00:58:19,395 --> 00:58:21,231
don't understand
something
1559
00:58:21,497 --> 00:58:23,800
It is a natural human
tendency to mock.
1560
00:58:24,033 --> 00:58:25,985
Songs were written
about Travis,
1561
00:58:26,035 --> 00:58:28,004
various forms of ridicule.
1562
00:58:29,005 --> 00:58:32,909
And I think that, if
he would tell you
1563
00:58:33,176 --> 00:58:35,211
was almost, or
if not harder
1564
00:58:35,745 --> 00:58:36,863
than everything
that happened
1565
00:58:36,913 --> 00:58:38,648
in those few short days
that he was gone.
1566
00:58:38,848 --> 00:58:40,833
Kathleen Marden: From a
psychological perspective,
1567
00:58:40,883 --> 00:58:42,285
I can't imagine
1568
00:58:42,552 --> 00:58:44,871
what it would have
been like
1569
00:58:44,921 --> 00:58:48,691
for a young 22
year old man
1570
00:58:48,958 --> 00:58:51,444
working out with a
logging crew
1571
00:58:51,494 --> 00:58:52,595
in the woods,
1572
00:58:52,695 --> 00:58:55,031
to have undergone this
1573
00:58:55,598 --> 00:58:58,568
radically life-changing event.
1574
00:58:58,801 --> 00:59:00,336
Travis Walton: Its a net
negative, you know?
1575
00:59:00,603 --> 00:59:03,339
We lost our jobs in the
immediate aftermath of it.
1576
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:05,925
You know? I definitely got
the feeling that
1577
00:59:05,975 --> 00:59:06,659
you know,
1578
00:59:06,709 --> 00:59:09,395
many opportunities
that I had in life
1579
00:59:09,445 --> 00:59:10,663
were forever closed to me
1580
00:59:10,713 --> 00:59:12,181
on account of having
had this happen.
1581
00:59:12,448 --> 00:59:14,684
Ben Hansen: He decides
to stay in Snowflake.
1582
00:59:15,151 --> 00:59:17,370
Everyone knows who he is,
1583
00:59:17,420 --> 00:59:18,788
what happened to him.
1584
00:59:19,088 --> 00:59:19,722
And...
1585
00:59:19,989 --> 00:59:21,991
from then on,
he is labeled
1586
00:59:22,358 --> 00:59:23,993
and identified...
1587
00:59:24,827 --> 00:59:25,812
in everything that
he does,
1588
00:59:25,862 --> 00:59:27,797
every job that he
goes and gets,
1589
00:59:28,231 --> 00:59:30,600
every friend and association.
1590
00:59:30,867 --> 00:59:31,918
So you can imagine
1591
00:59:31,968 --> 00:59:33,019
his whole self identity
1592
00:59:33,069 --> 00:59:34,737
is now related
1593
00:59:35,271 --> 00:59:36,539
to this abduction.
1594
00:59:36,606 --> 00:59:37,890
Travis Walton: There
were times over the years
1595
00:59:37,940 --> 00:59:39,108
where I thought:
1596
00:59:39,242 --> 00:59:41,794
you know, "If I could just
get this off my back",
1597
00:59:41,844 --> 00:59:42,695
any way I could,
1598
00:59:42,745 --> 00:59:44,814
not just clam up but
just tell them:
1599
00:59:44,981 --> 00:59:47,400
"Oh yeah, we were all
drunk that day!", you know?
1600
00:59:47,450 --> 00:59:50,970
Even though it is a lame
and silly thing to say
1601
00:59:51,020 --> 00:59:53,389
and it wouldn't fit with
any of the facts...
1602
00:59:54,023 --> 00:59:55,675
The people who were
so anxious
1603
00:59:55,725 --> 00:59:57,193
to hear something like that
1604
00:59:57,493 --> 00:59:58,845
would latch onto it
1605
00:59:58,895 --> 01:00:00,663
and leave us alone.
1606
01:00:01,764 --> 01:00:03,032
But I never did it.
1607
01:00:03,599 --> 01:00:05,301
Peter Robbins: He was
somebody I looked up to
1608
01:00:05,635 --> 01:00:07,904
because he had...
1609
01:00:08,404 --> 01:00:10,456
the courage
1610
01:00:10,506 --> 01:00:12,675
to speak about this.
1611
01:00:12,775 --> 01:00:14,727
And my sense hearing
him speak
1612
01:00:14,777 --> 01:00:17,113
was that Travis was
not comfortable.
1613
01:00:17,647 --> 01:00:19,415
He was not having
a good time,
1614
01:00:19,749 --> 01:00:22,585
he felt a sense of
responsibility...
1615
01:00:23,219 --> 01:00:25,922
that he had to do this.
1616
01:00:26,522 --> 01:00:28,791
Because it was important
and because it was true.
1617
01:00:29,492 --> 01:00:31,344
R. Leo Sprinkle:
We all have choices.
1618
01:00:31,394 --> 01:00:33,162
Travis, in my opinion
1619
01:00:33,696 --> 01:00:34,797
made the right choice.
1620
01:00:35,331 --> 01:00:36,666
He came forward.
1621
01:00:36,699 --> 01:00:38,918
Stanton Friedman:
I give him an A-plus rating
1622
01:00:38,968 --> 01:00:41,137
if you will, for integrity.
1623
01:00:41,437 --> 01:00:43,272
For intelligence,
1624
01:00:43,706 --> 01:00:44,273
for...
1625
01:00:44,907 --> 01:00:45,658
aplomb.
1626
01:00:45,708 --> 01:00:48,778
Being able to handle
himself under "fire".
1627
01:00:50,246 --> 01:00:52,398
How he could put up with
some of the debunkers,
1628
01:00:52,448 --> 01:00:53,349
I don't know,
1629
01:00:53,516 --> 01:00:54,917
because they're nasty.
1630
01:00:56,252 --> 01:00:57,553
I'm not sure I would
be able to.
1631
01:00:57,820 --> 01:00:59,305
David Jacobs:
Travis has withstood that
1632
01:00:59,355 --> 01:01:01,391
for most of his life now,
1633
01:01:01,557 --> 01:01:04,744
and as have the other
participants in this,
1634
01:01:04,794 --> 01:01:06,512
and they have all
maintained
1635
01:01:06,562 --> 01:01:09,799
the truthiness of their story
without embellishment,
1636
01:01:09,932 --> 01:01:11,567
all the way through
to the present day.
1637
01:01:12,034 --> 01:01:13,703
John Goulette:
I admire him and Mike
1638
01:01:13,936 --> 01:01:15,071
for all the time.
1639
01:01:16,038 --> 01:01:17,423
I got away from it,
you know?
1640
01:01:17,473 --> 01:01:19,425
I moved to a place where
nobody knew me.
1641
01:01:19,475 --> 01:01:20,960
Mike and Travis, you know,
1642
01:01:21,010 --> 01:01:23,229
they stood there and just
kept telling the truth.
1643
01:01:23,279 --> 01:01:24,013
You know what I mean?
1644
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:25,715
Stood up there,
you know,
1645
01:01:25,848 --> 01:01:27,400
like all of us should have
done, I guess.
1646
01:01:27,450 --> 01:01:28,351
He is just one of
those people.
1647
01:01:28,551 --> 01:01:32,121
Ben Hansen: Travis became
kind of the poster child
1648
01:01:32,288 --> 01:01:32,688
for...
1649
01:01:33,356 --> 01:01:35,758
for people who have had
similar experiences.
1650
01:01:36,492 --> 01:01:39,145
It allowed them to
see somebody
1651
01:01:39,195 --> 01:01:40,496
who's overcome
1652
01:01:41,597 --> 01:01:44,367
the most intense ridicule,
1653
01:01:44,434 --> 01:01:47,470
and focus "you can"
in the public eye.
1654
01:01:47,603 --> 01:01:49,722
And to come out and stand
back up and say:
1655
01:01:49,772 --> 01:01:54,577
"Look, I did question everything
that I kind of knew about
1656
01:01:54,844 --> 01:01:58,481
you know, who I was and
how I fit into the universe,
1657
01:01:58,848 --> 01:02:00,149
but I put it back together...
1658
01:02:00,383 --> 01:02:01,751
and I am ok with it."
1659
01:02:02,018 --> 01:02:04,487
John Goulette: And now Steve
is doing quite a bit I guess.
1660
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,072
Save Pierce:
What changed my feelings?
1661
01:02:06,122 --> 01:02:06,839
interviewer: Yeah, cause you
1662
01:02:06,889 --> 01:02:08,063
said you hated Travis
for a while
1663
01:02:08,113 --> 01:02:09,714
after this happened.
1664
01:02:10,693 --> 01:02:14,530
Steve Pierce: We're on tape here, dude.
[laughs]
1665
01:02:14,697 --> 01:02:15,598
Hm...
1666
01:02:16,165 --> 01:02:17,500
My wife and my kids.
1667
01:02:18,267 --> 01:02:18,951
They told me:
1668
01:02:19,001 --> 01:02:20,486
"You know, you got to forgive
Travis for what happened,
1669
01:02:20,536 --> 01:02:23,005
you can't blame him
for all this."
1670
01:02:23,172 --> 01:02:25,741
They believe that, you know,
it's time to heal.
1671
01:02:26,275 --> 01:02:28,010
You know, I have
a story to tell
1672
01:02:28,411 --> 01:02:30,813
and people should, you know,
should know about it.
1673
01:02:31,147 --> 01:02:33,299
If you don't come out and
tell your story,
1674
01:02:33,349 --> 01:02:35,117
somebody else is going
to tell it for you.
1675
01:02:35,451 --> 01:02:39,455
Ben Hansen: For me to see Travis
continue to go out and speak...
1676
01:02:40,156 --> 01:02:40,973
to reach out to people
1677
01:02:41,023 --> 01:02:43,476
when he could kind of just
brush it aside and say:
1678
01:02:43,526 --> 01:02:45,261
"I don't want to be
that guy anymore."
1679
01:02:45,528 --> 01:02:47,747
"I don't want to be know as
the guy who was abducted."
1680
01:02:47,797 --> 01:02:49,298
"I just want to
forget about it."
1681
01:02:49,465 --> 01:02:51,567
But instead he
embraced it,
1682
01:02:52,034 --> 01:02:55,054
and that speaks very
highly of him because
1683
01:02:55,104 --> 01:02:56,589
if not to serve him,
1684
01:02:56,639 --> 01:02:58,574
I think it has helped a lot
of other people.
1685
01:02:58,808 --> 01:03:00,593
Peter Robbins: He certainly
rose to the occasion.
1686
01:03:00,643 --> 01:03:02,111
He certainly rose
to the occasion,
1687
01:03:02,411 --> 01:03:04,280
and has to meet it
1688
01:03:04,647 --> 01:03:06,766
every single step
along the way.
1689
01:03:06,816 --> 01:03:08,100
And that, for me
1690
01:03:08,150 --> 01:03:10,169
is a mark of
1691
01:03:10,219 --> 01:03:12,655
fine and extraordinary
character,
1692
01:03:12,855 --> 01:03:15,007
decency and everything that
1693
01:03:15,057 --> 01:03:16,642
most good people should
1694
01:03:16,692 --> 01:03:20,429
be aspiring to and living a
decent and contributing life.
1695
01:03:20,596 --> 01:03:23,332
Travis Walton: There is a
degree of responsibility
1696
01:03:23,499 --> 01:03:26,068
to try and make something good
come of it, you know?
1697
01:03:26,702 --> 01:03:29,105
I certainly have to
accept the bad.
1698
01:03:29,338 --> 01:03:32,024
So if I can direct
what's happened
1699
01:03:32,074 --> 01:03:33,759
in a way that I can make
something good happen
1700
01:03:33,809 --> 01:03:34,809
in the world,
1701
01:03:35,244 --> 01:03:36,412
I am looking for it.
1702
01:03:42,251 --> 01:03:44,053
Travis Walton:
This was the road we took
1703
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:46,455
on our way to work everyday.
1704
01:03:46,789 --> 01:03:48,808
We would all meet like,
at Mike's house,
1705
01:03:48,858 --> 01:03:51,160
sometimes he would go around
and pick everybody up.
1706
01:03:51,427 --> 01:03:54,113
We worked on the contract
a great deal
1707
01:03:54,163 --> 01:03:56,432
and much of it had already
been cut but,
1708
01:03:56,532 --> 01:03:57,366
much of the...
1709
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,436
allotted time had
already elapsed.
1710
01:04:00,536 --> 01:04:02,655
So we were under pressure
on the dealine
1711
01:04:02,705 --> 01:04:03,589
and we extended
1712
01:04:03,639 --> 01:04:04,857
our working hours
1713
01:04:04,907 --> 01:04:06,659
to try to get it all done before
1714
01:04:06,709 --> 01:04:07,610
the snow came.
1715
01:04:08,110 --> 01:04:09,662
A lot of this drive
looks the way it
1716
01:04:09,712 --> 01:04:10,663
looked back then
1717
01:04:10,713 --> 01:04:11,697
but then there's
other parts that
1718
01:04:11,747 --> 01:04:12,598
have been changed
1719
01:04:12,648 --> 01:04:14,617
by the "Rodeo-chediski" fire,
1720
01:04:14,884 --> 01:04:16,352
which burnt up
1721
01:04:16,652 --> 01:04:19,755
over half a million
acres of forest.
1722
01:04:20,289 --> 01:04:22,291
At that time it was
the biggest...
1723
01:04:23,025 --> 01:04:26,996
recorded fire in
Arizona history.
1724
01:04:27,296 --> 01:04:29,632
We spent so many
back-breaking hours
1725
01:04:30,132 --> 01:04:31,817
improving this forest
1726
01:04:31,867 --> 01:04:34,487
and then have all that work
just go up in smoke
1727
01:04:34,537 --> 01:04:36,939
because of just one little
careless moment...
1728
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:39,241
a hundred miles from here.
1729
01:04:39,308 --> 01:04:41,627
Turkey-spring contract
is pretty much
1730
01:04:41,677 --> 01:04:42,862
everything on our left.
1731
01:04:42,912 --> 01:04:44,463
All the way over
to that far ridge
1732
01:04:44,513 --> 01:04:46,215
that is all burned off.
1733
01:04:47,316 --> 01:04:49,235
And I think there's one
more pass that,
1734
01:04:49,285 --> 01:04:52,021
was the ridge where
we were at that day.
1735
01:04:52,321 --> 01:04:54,640
Keep an eye out for
the wild horses,
1736
01:04:54,690 --> 01:04:56,158
they like this area.
1737
01:04:56,692 --> 01:04:58,260
Okay, turn right here
on the left.
1738
01:04:58,628 --> 01:05:00,796
We won't be able to drive
all the way up to
1739
01:05:01,030 --> 01:05:04,300
the site because
it's all been closed,
1740
01:05:05,034 --> 01:05:06,969
but we can walk there now.
1741
01:05:10,906 --> 01:05:13,242
I've been struggling to
come to terms with this
1742
01:05:13,709 --> 01:05:15,628
and especially to try
to understand,
1743
01:05:15,678 --> 01:05:16,762
or take some meaning,
1744
01:05:16,812 --> 01:05:18,080
at least personal meaning.
1745
01:05:18,180 --> 01:05:19,448
You know, after
4 decades
1746
01:05:19,682 --> 01:05:21,684
I've come to...
1747
01:05:22,351 --> 01:05:24,136
a little different take
1748
01:05:24,186 --> 01:05:25,321
than I had initially.
1749
01:05:25,421 --> 01:05:27,873
I took extreme exception
1750
01:05:27,923 --> 01:05:29,558
to what had happened.
1751
01:05:29,925 --> 01:05:32,261
You know, the fear,
the horror of it all.
1752
01:05:32,728 --> 01:05:35,247
It was only gradually
did I just
1753
01:05:35,297 --> 01:05:36,782
come to realize that
1754
01:05:36,832 --> 01:05:37,566
they didn't
1755
01:05:37,933 --> 01:05:40,219
just bring me a board
1756
01:05:40,269 --> 01:05:41,787
to do experiments on me
1757
01:05:41,837 --> 01:05:43,055
or just torment me
1758
01:05:43,105 --> 01:05:43,572
to see...
1759
01:05:43,839 --> 01:05:46,058
what pain does to humans
1760
01:05:46,108 --> 01:05:47,977
or something of that nature.
1761
01:05:49,178 --> 01:05:50,346
Most likely...
1762
01:05:51,213 --> 01:05:52,548
you can infer that...
1763
01:05:53,082 --> 01:05:55,768
that, with that amount
of energy hitting me,
1764
01:05:55,818 --> 01:05:58,454
it would have been
probably fatal.
1765
01:05:59,021 --> 01:06:01,340
And that they probably
took me aboard
1766
01:06:01,390 --> 01:06:03,559
in order to revive me,
1767
01:06:04,226 --> 01:06:05,494
to correct the damage.
1768
01:06:05,594 --> 01:06:09,181
Travis Walton:
I don't blame you for doing...
1769
01:06:09,231 --> 01:06:11,317
Steve Pierce: I don't blame
Mike for taking off either
1770
01:06:11,367 --> 01:06:13,352
because he had
all of us others
1771
01:06:13,402 --> 01:06:15,404
to worry about too,
you know?
1772
01:06:15,838 --> 01:06:17,356
If he would have went
1773
01:06:17,406 --> 01:06:19,358
to my mom's house that night
1774
01:06:19,408 --> 01:06:21,827
and said that I was
zapped by a UFO,
1775
01:06:21,877 --> 01:06:22,962
my mom would have
shot him
1776
01:06:23,012 --> 01:06:24,513
off the porch.
1777
01:06:25,114 --> 01:06:26,265
Travis Walton:
I think they understood
1778
01:06:26,315 --> 01:06:28,117
that I was getting too close
1779
01:06:28,484 --> 01:06:29,568
in a way that was putting
1780
01:06:29,618 --> 01:06:30,903
myself in great danger.
1781
01:06:30,953 --> 01:06:32,838
They were trying to
move the the craft
1782
01:06:32,888 --> 01:06:34,790
a little bit out of range,
1783
01:06:35,057 --> 01:06:37,426
before I got myself hurt.
1784
01:06:37,626 --> 01:06:38,711
And it was too late,
1785
01:06:38,761 --> 01:06:40,379
the energy hitted me
1786
01:06:40,429 --> 01:06:41,797
and damage was done,
1787
01:06:42,131 --> 01:06:44,366
possibly cardiac
arrest or worse.
1788
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:45,584
And so,
1789
01:06:45,634 --> 01:06:47,486
these beings were in
a position to, or
1790
01:06:47,536 --> 01:06:49,171
they could leave a body there
1791
01:06:49,338 --> 01:06:51,357
or they had the
responsibility,
1792
01:06:51,407 --> 01:06:53,309
being a part of
this accident,
1793
01:06:53,676 --> 01:06:54,660
to do their best
1794
01:06:54,710 --> 01:06:56,812
to try to bring me aboard and
1795
01:06:57,146 --> 01:06:58,180
revive me.
1796
01:06:58,380 --> 01:06:59,365
Ken Peterson:
My big theory about
1797
01:06:59,415 --> 01:07:01,283
what it was all about,
1798
01:07:01,417 --> 01:07:02,818
that it was an...
1799
01:07:04,420 --> 01:07:06,272
intentional display of the
1800
01:07:06,322 --> 01:07:07,923
Mythology of
the Phoenix.
1801
01:07:08,257 --> 01:07:10,042
The death part of
the display
1802
01:07:10,092 --> 01:07:11,744
was, you know,
him getting knocked
1803
01:07:11,794 --> 01:07:12,978
to the gound like that
1804
01:07:13,028 --> 01:07:15,147
making some of the
crew members even
1805
01:07:15,197 --> 01:07:16,899
think he might be dead.
1806
01:07:17,633 --> 01:07:18,884
'Course all many other people,
1807
01:07:18,934 --> 01:07:19,785
during the 5 days
1808
01:07:19,835 --> 01:07:20,836
he was gone,
1809
01:07:21,337 --> 01:07:22,638
thought that he was dead.
1810
01:07:22,838 --> 01:07:24,774
Figurative rebirth is when...
1811
01:07:25,207 --> 01:07:26,792
they dropped him off
1812
01:07:26,842 --> 01:07:28,277
right outside Heber here.
1813
01:07:28,644 --> 01:07:30,529
John Goulette:
I tried to convince myself that
1814
01:07:30,579 --> 01:07:32,314
Travis actually was killed.
1815
01:07:32,481 --> 01:07:33,766
But they picked him up
1816
01:07:33,816 --> 01:07:34,800
to fix him up.
1817
01:07:34,850 --> 01:07:36,285
So it had...
1818
01:07:36,752 --> 01:07:37,653
a happy ending to it.
1819
01:07:38,487 --> 01:07:39,221
You know what I mean?
1820
01:07:39,588 --> 01:07:40,506
They didn't just pick him up
1821
01:07:40,556 --> 01:07:41,140
to mess with him.
1822
01:07:41,190 --> 01:07:42,324
They picked him up
to help him.
1823
01:07:42,424 --> 01:07:45,444
Travis Walton: I am actually
fortunate, if that was the case,
1824
01:07:45,494 --> 01:07:46,378
that they did so,
1825
01:07:46,428 --> 01:07:48,147
because the nearest hospital
1826
01:07:48,197 --> 01:07:49,665
was over an hour away,
1827
01:07:49,965 --> 01:07:51,183
and none of the crew
1828
01:07:51,233 --> 01:07:52,802
knew CPR or anything
like that.
1829
01:07:52,968 --> 01:07:54,503
Steve Pierce:
When you hit the ground,
1830
01:07:54,703 --> 01:07:56,605
you, I mean, you went "thunk".
1831
01:07:57,239 --> 01:07:58,240
You know?
1832
01:07:58,774 --> 01:07:59,658
Travis Walton:
Limp, huh?
1833
01:07:59,708 --> 01:08:00,693
Steve Pierce:
Yea, you went, "tew tew",
1834
01:08:00,743 --> 01:08:01,443
you bounced...
1835
01:08:02,077 --> 01:08:03,028
and then you hit
the ground.
1836
01:08:03,078 --> 01:08:04,480
Travis Walton:
When I finally...
1837
01:08:04,980 --> 01:08:05,731
came to rest,
1838
01:08:05,781 --> 01:08:07,199
was I face up or face down?
1839
01:08:07,249 --> 01:08:08,684
Steve Pierce:
You were like this: [face up]
1840
01:08:08,984 --> 01:08:09,702
Travis Walton:
Dead man, huh?
1841
01:08:09,752 --> 01:08:10,519
Steve Pierce: Yeah.
1842
01:08:11,086 --> 01:08:12,705
We saw something
go across the sky
1843
01:08:12,755 --> 01:08:13,672
Travis Walton:
Yeah.
1844
01:08:13,722 --> 01:08:15,457
Steve Pierce: So we
thought it was gone.
1845
01:08:15,958 --> 01:08:17,076
So we were more
worried about coming
1846
01:08:17,126 --> 01:08:18,310
back and seeing you
1847
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:19,862
lying there dead.
1848
01:08:20,129 --> 01:08:20,596
Travis Walton:
Charcoal?
1849
01:08:20,696 --> 01:08:21,163
Steve Pierce:
Yes.
1850
01:08:21,263 --> 01:08:22,715
There would be
nothing left of you.
1851
01:08:22,765 --> 01:08:24,733
That was what was
our biggest fear that.
1852
01:08:24,967 --> 01:08:27,486
Richard Dolan: You see the
process of this, of this...
1853
01:08:27,536 --> 01:08:29,855
person who was once
a very young man,
1854
01:08:29,905 --> 01:08:31,657
who's now more mature
and had time to
1855
01:08:31,707 --> 01:08:33,442
reflect on this
over his life.
1856
01:08:34,243 --> 01:08:35,411
And he is still.
1857
01:08:36,078 --> 01:08:37,613
You really get the
sense that he is
1858
01:08:37,746 --> 01:08:39,782
still trying to process this:
1859
01:08:40,182 --> 01:08:41,367
"What happened to me?"
1860
01:08:41,417 --> 01:08:42,868
"Will I ever get closure on it?"
1861
01:08:42,918 --> 01:08:44,253
Ken Peterson:
I really believe that...
1862
01:08:44,887 --> 01:08:46,722
it was done on purpose and...
1863
01:08:47,022 --> 01:08:48,657
someday we are going to find...
1864
01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:50,259
find out why.
1865
01:08:50,893 --> 01:08:51,610
The first time I came
1866
01:08:51,660 --> 01:08:52,928
out here to camp...
1867
01:08:53,562 --> 01:08:54,797
It was restricted.
1868
01:08:55,297 --> 01:08:58,033
Nobody, soon after
the fire,
1869
01:08:58,267 --> 01:08:59,902
nobody was supposed
to be here.
1870
01:09:00,202 --> 01:09:02,354
Travis Walton:
Did you feel any fear at night?
1871
01:09:02,404 --> 01:09:02,905
Ken Peterson:
No.
1872
01:09:03,038 --> 01:09:05,641
Travis Walton: Not even about
bears or anything like that?
1873
01:09:05,741 --> 01:09:06,675
Ken Peterson: No, I was...
1874
01:09:07,543 --> 01:09:10,312
actually in the back of
my truck, the camper. [laughs]
1875
01:09:10,412 --> 01:09:11,847
Travis Walton:
Oh, pretty safe.
1876
01:09:11,947 --> 01:09:13,883
Ken Peterson: I wasn't camping
out on the ground.
1877
01:09:14,550 --> 01:09:16,919
Travis Walton: Did you,
like, stay up late at night?
1878
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:21,156
Ken Peterson:
No. Actually I was...
1879
01:09:22,558 --> 01:09:23,692
drinking...
1880
01:09:24,393 --> 01:09:25,861
drinking a little bit. [laughs]
1881
01:09:26,695 --> 01:09:28,330
I guess, that helped
me through it.
1882
01:09:28,864 --> 01:09:30,416
Travis Walton:
I don't... I didn't know
1883
01:09:30,466 --> 01:09:32,534
you'd ever be a drinker. [laughs]
1884
01:09:33,235 --> 01:09:34,386
That must have been
a phase
1885
01:09:34,436 --> 01:09:35,604
you were going through, huh?
1886
01:09:35,771 --> 01:09:36,438
Ken Peterson:
Yeah.
1887
01:09:36,839 --> 01:09:37,723
Mike Rogers: There
have been several times
1888
01:09:37,773 --> 01:09:38,557
in the last 40 years,
1889
01:09:38,607 --> 01:09:39,491
I thought it would just
1890
01:09:39,541 --> 01:09:40,776
fade off. You know?
1891
01:09:41,243 --> 01:09:42,828
Like things do, but it hasn't.
1892
01:09:42,878 --> 01:09:43,946
It has just been
the reverse.
1893
01:09:44,213 --> 01:09:47,716
Travis's name is just known
internationally and...
1894
01:09:48,250 --> 01:09:50,135
my name isn't, I think,
1895
01:09:50,185 --> 01:09:51,587
but it is in association.
1896
01:09:51,987 --> 01:09:54,206
Travis Walton: Some of the
crew have intimated that
1897
01:09:54,256 --> 01:09:56,425
they kind of wish that
it happened to them.
1898
01:09:56,859 --> 01:10:00,212
I think, some of it is
based on, you know,
1899
01:10:00,262 --> 01:10:02,164
a kind of a...
1900
01:10:02,731 --> 01:10:04,583
a wistful desire
1901
01:10:04,633 --> 01:10:06,919
to have the kind of insight
that I've gained
1902
01:10:06,969 --> 01:10:08,320
from having this experience.
1903
01:10:08,370 --> 01:10:11,390
Some of it, maybe, even
connected with, you know,
1904
01:10:11,440 --> 01:10:12,825
the attention that came my way.
1905
01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:14,743
I'd certainly be happier
without it.
1906
01:10:14,910 --> 01:10:15,961
I have responded:
1907
01:10:16,011 --> 01:10:17,563
"You know, guys, you know...
1908
01:10:17,613 --> 01:10:19,598
you would not want this
to happen to you."
1909
01:10:19,648 --> 01:10:21,166
I wouldn't wish this
off on anybody
1910
01:10:21,216 --> 01:10:23,385
other than some UFO skeptics.
1911
01:10:23,552 --> 01:10:25,204
They would be served well
1912
01:10:25,254 --> 01:10:26,488
by having it had
happen to them.
1913
01:10:26,655 --> 01:10:29,875
Travis Walton:
When you did come... did it...
1914
01:10:29,925 --> 01:10:31,076
refresh your memory?
1915
01:10:31,126 --> 01:10:32,611
Did it like, bring those...
1916
01:10:32,661 --> 01:10:33,679
the feeling
1917
01:10:33,729 --> 01:10:35,464
that we had back then?
1918
01:10:36,131 --> 01:10:37,299
Ken Peterson:
Yeah, it's...
1919
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:39,501
it's kind of a....
1920
01:10:40,903 --> 01:10:43,605
kind of an invigorating
type of thing.
1921
01:10:45,207 --> 01:10:46,775
Times of emotion.
1922
01:10:47,109 --> 01:10:50,562
Little bit of the bad
memories of it,
1923
01:10:50,612 --> 01:10:51,780
parts of it.
1924
01:10:53,048 --> 01:10:54,783
This is a special spot for me.
1925
01:10:54,984 --> 01:10:57,786
I mean, what an experience!
1926
01:10:59,121 --> 01:11:00,339
Travis Walton:
You know, the skeptics who say:
1927
01:11:00,389 --> 01:11:01,807
"Why if they are really
coming here
1928
01:11:01,857 --> 01:11:03,742
don't they just land on the
White House Lawn?"
1929
01:11:03,792 --> 01:11:04,493
Well...
1930
01:11:04,927 --> 01:11:06,912
they are not going
with open contact
1931
01:11:06,962 --> 01:11:09,798
and they are not going
with total cloacking.
1932
01:11:10,065 --> 01:11:11,333
So what's going on?
1933
01:11:11,433 --> 01:11:13,569
I think:
a conditioning process.
1934
01:11:13,902 --> 01:11:16,088
I get email after email
of people saying:
1935
01:11:16,138 --> 01:11:18,123
"Give me the GPS coordinates!"
1936
01:11:18,173 --> 01:11:20,275
I am not giving that to
nobody, except...
1937
01:11:22,144 --> 01:11:23,879
them there [film crew].
1938
01:11:24,346 --> 01:11:27,633
Ken Peterson: Here the big concern
was, you know, was fire.
1939
01:11:27,683 --> 01:11:30,352
Starting a fire and burning
the place down.
1940
01:11:30,619 --> 01:11:32,287
It happened naturally.
1941
01:11:32,654 --> 01:11:34,039
Travis Walton:
Well that was one concern.
1942
01:11:34,089 --> 01:11:35,774
I was concerned that
people would cut up
1943
01:11:35,824 --> 01:11:37,426
the trees for souvenirs...
1944
01:11:37,926 --> 01:11:40,062
then there would be nothing
to do research on.
1945
01:11:40,195 --> 01:11:42,464
Or even people doing
something to try to...
1946
01:11:43,165 --> 01:11:43,999
you know...
1947
01:11:44,566 --> 01:11:46,335
cast doubt on things.
1948
01:11:46,735 --> 01:11:49,021
We're being gradually
conditioned in a way
1949
01:11:49,071 --> 01:11:50,639
that's the least destructive
possible.
1950
01:11:51,173 --> 01:11:51,957
So I think, you know,
1951
01:11:52,007 --> 01:11:53,792
in a way, by talking about this,
1952
01:11:53,842 --> 01:11:55,711
I am playing a part in that.
1953
01:11:56,011 --> 01:11:58,764
That people need to
come to that realization,
1954
01:11:58,814 --> 01:12:00,382
in a way that they can handle.
1955
01:12:00,482 --> 01:12:02,034
Richard Dolan: When you look
at the Travis Walton case,
1956
01:12:02,084 --> 01:12:03,936
it really is a situation of:
"the more you look
1957
01:12:03,986 --> 01:12:04,870
the more you find".
1958
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:06,655
It's been 40 years now...
1959
01:12:07,189 --> 01:12:09,458
you've got a very
credible subject
1960
01:12:09,658 --> 01:12:10,776
in Travis Walton.
1961
01:12:10,826 --> 01:12:12,928
You've got 6
credible witnesses
1962
01:12:13,195 --> 01:12:15,814
You have a situation
where the debunkers
1963
01:12:15,864 --> 01:12:17,049
have tried to throw this out
1964
01:12:17,099 --> 01:12:18,767
and they failed every single time.
1965
01:12:19,935 --> 01:12:22,604
It's stood the
test of time.
1966
01:12:27,843 --> 01:12:28,927
Ken Peterson:
And it is just right at the
1967
01:12:28,977 --> 01:12:30,345
top of the rise.
1968
01:12:33,582 --> 01:12:35,350
Kind of in a saddle...
1969
01:12:36,418 --> 01:12:39,021
In the saddle of these
two hills coming down.
1970
01:12:40,022 --> 01:12:42,524
Yeah, its got to be right
in here someplace.
1971
01:12:44,793 --> 01:12:46,361
Definitely the spot, Travis.
1972
01:12:46,428 --> 01:12:47,029
Travis Walton:
Yeah.
1973
01:12:47,863 --> 01:12:48,981
Interviewer:
So Ken, how does it feel,
1974
01:12:49,031 --> 01:12:50,649
38 years later,
1975
01:12:50,699 --> 01:12:53,068
the first time you and
Travis are back?
1976
01:12:53,268 --> 01:12:56,538
Ken Peterson: I think he
deserves a hug on this day.
1977
01:12:58,073 --> 01:12:59,291
38 years, we had
1978
01:12:59,341 --> 01:13:01,510
that tremendous experience.
1979
01:13:02,377 --> 01:13:03,178
Travis Walton:
It's just...
1980
01:13:03,345 --> 01:13:05,130
you know, the other day I was
1981
01:13:05,180 --> 01:13:07,649
talking about this and I
said 28 years
1982
01:13:07,983 --> 01:13:09,401
and everybody
hastened to remind me:
1983
01:13:09,451 --> 01:13:11,553
"No, it was 38 years!"
1984
01:13:12,821 --> 01:13:14,573
You know, it is just incredible
1985
01:13:14,623 --> 01:13:16,825
to think that much
time has gone by.
1986
01:13:17,426 --> 01:13:19,311
I tell people, in spite
of the fact
1987
01:13:19,361 --> 01:13:21,146
that I have come to
terms with it better
1988
01:13:21,196 --> 01:13:22,781
and realized that
it wasn't as
1989
01:13:22,831 --> 01:13:26,034
malevolent as I first
thought it was.
1990
01:13:26,468 --> 01:13:26,935
That...
1991
01:13:27,302 --> 01:13:28,470
even now...
1992
01:13:29,104 --> 01:13:30,939
I'd rather it never happened.
You know?
1993
01:13:31,807 --> 01:13:35,160
Interviewer [1975]:
"Travis, what would you like
1994
01:13:35,210 --> 01:13:36,261
for your future?"
1995
01:13:36,311 --> 01:13:37,212
"What would you like to...
1996
01:13:38,313 --> 01:13:39,648
have come of this?"
1997
01:13:41,383 --> 01:13:44,036
Travis Walton [1975]:
"Just acceptance of myself
1998
01:13:44,086 --> 01:13:45,220
and the future, I...
1999
01:13:46,555 --> 01:13:48,774
I have had a lot of offers
2000
01:13:48,824 --> 01:13:50,909
of people trying to
turn it into some kind
2001
01:13:50,959 --> 01:13:52,127
of profitable thing, but...
2002
01:13:52,728 --> 01:13:53,812
I have no interest
2003
01:13:53,862 --> 01:13:55,080
in any of those
kind of offers."
2004
01:13:55,130 --> 01:13:56,782
"I just want the
truth to be known."
2005
01:13:56,832 --> 01:14:00,302
"I have intentions to cooperate
with research,
2006
01:14:00,402 --> 01:14:01,520
with
2007
01:14:01,570 --> 01:14:02,838
reputable men, that...
2008
01:14:03,071 --> 01:14:03,922
you know...
2009
01:14:03,972 --> 01:14:05,107
genuinely
2010
01:14:05,340 --> 01:14:06,875
scientifically interested."
2011
01:14:07,109 --> 01:14:07,726
Interviewer [1975]:
"Do you wish that
2012
01:14:07,776 --> 01:14:09,077
it never happened to you?"
2013
01:14:09,945 --> 01:14:11,697
Travis Walton [1975]:
"Well, hindsight
2014
01:14:11,747 --> 01:14:12,614
I don't know...
2015
01:14:12,981 --> 01:14:14,483
what happened, happened."
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