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Friday, 23 September 2022
ALIEN CHRONICLES (S1E11) - TRAVIS WALTON - ALIEN AND UFO ENCOUNTERS. Comments and Thoughts
In UFO Contact? One of the cases that I wanted to shoot down was that of Travis Walton.
Why?
Well, the UFO bunko TV celebrities keep pushing the Walton story as well as that of the Hills. You would think there had only ever been two such cases and both in the United states. I did not set out with a conclusion already in my head as that is not research but debunking. My intention was to look at the case from "outside Ufology" and look at the anecdotal evidence since there was no actual physical evidence.
The debunkers attack Walton and the others from every angle and Phillip Klass even attempted to bribe a false confession to prove it all a hoax. Unfortunately, at every turn the only thing I found was that the debunkers were made to look worse than any "UFO hoaxer" and their credibility and angles fell apart.
That was slightly annoying since I had assumed that after 40+ years someone would have seriously dented the case.
I am not talking about that 'film maker' who guested on three of Erica Lukes' podcasts and gas-lighted everyone and was not even hiding it. Hey, the area, 4 5 years on, looks different than it did in 1975 so that proves it was all a hoax seemed to be the argument and one of Walton's companions that night...age and recall was poor but he was pushed and twisted to prove it was a hoax.
I tried a couple avenues others had not looked into and...
I was frustrated to be honest. The more I looked into the case the more convincing it seemed. In fact I even started re-writing the book a couple times thinking I must have missed something.
Then there are the interviews with Walton and although he has become more adept at hiding the body language when re-telling the account the eyes cannot be hidden and they say a lot. Critics argue that Walton does not get worked up when he is criticised or his account attacked. He has come to accept it happened and moved on but those questions are still in his head. Questions that cannot be answered.
The important thing is that we have all of the original interviews and material from the 1970s. What has come out in more recent times is Walton trying to work out what happened? Why did it happen? That leads to speculation and it is to be expected.
Even Mona Stafford (Liberty, Kentucky abduction) a few years back was visibly still shaken by what happened to her and her companions and had so many questions.
Is Travis Walton a fraud? He has not become rich from what happened and he wants to make money from the experience? Why not because so many in Ufology, TV and movies have made a lot of money out of his account. He's not getting any younger and no one is paying him a big fee.
If Walton is a fraud then he should have been a professional actor and though actors can feign "the look" the genuine thing cannot be "put on". I cannot prove that he was abducted by aliens and I have tried (and failed) to prove that he was not. In such a case you can only go by the gut feeling you get. I think Walton underwent an experience that affected him for decades after. Aliens? Only Walton and his companions saw the UFO and only Walton was "abducted".
ONLY they know 100%
"The Dave Emmons and Tom Althouse Show" with Thomas Ferrario -a personal opinion: Messengers of Deception
It appears that we have a new UFO cult. Unless you are a complete conspiracy nut then this video is going to leave you asking what the **** is going on?
If you seriously study UFO reports you can define what you are doing with; natural (but not yet scientifically studied), misidentification and seemingly genuine unknown craft. That's it. But it seems that many "names" in Ufology are NOT doing that research. For this reason they mix up all three and see "totally unknown, impossible phenomenon -it can't be aliens!" Basing any opinions on the poor research of Vallee etc only adds to confusion.
I have been in and working outside Ufology since 1974 and befrore that I was reading UFO books and publications. In the 1950s cults were established via infiltration of Ufology by intelligence agencies and the contactees were the ones everyone were led to believe were the ones telling the truth and Borderland Frontiers was a right wing, racist organisation behind a lot of this -again with "someone" pulling the strings. The contactees became discredited so we then were told, in the 1960s, "flying saucers are hostile -trust the USAF to look into this!" followed by "Oh, its all BS. Don't panic. The USAF ain't even going to bother with them any more!"
Then, in the 1970s the whole UFO and cults came back again. This time the secret force behind UFOs were the Rosicrucians. We found out that the Men In Black were operated by the Risicrucians. Add a smatter of fake stories and sensationalist tales in popular books and there you have it.
At the same time Richard Doty working for the Office of Special Investigation (OSI) carried out a disinformation campaign and paid some top Ufolohgists such as William Moore and paid them to spread lies. In the case of Mr Bennewitz it was Doty and his pals that drove him to insanity and he ended his years in a mental facility. Doty then became a Ufologist and for having destroyed US Ufology for decades -became a star speaker and is definitely 'not' continuing his deception.
Incidentally, mail gets torn, lost, a postal worker looks inside for various reasons but this ALWAYS falls down to the "secret influences".
The Illuminati became popular in books and movies and TV and...the Illuminati are behind UFOs...or the Vatican.
This video is basically pushing religion, conspiracy theories that fall apart on scrutiny and are nothing new -this was going on in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and continues as we see here. Either these people are schmucks and are being deceived and led into what they are spouting; for one thing Stanton T. Friedman was an interplanetary nuts and bolts man right up to his death and some of the others mentioned in lead booted name-dropping to add credibility to these ridiculous claims were not all shouting out "inter-dimensional!"
Jacques Vallee
Those that did start leaning that way were influenced by the Messenger of Deception Jacques Vallee and whether that was because of his poor research or deliberately I have no idea. He still says (paraphrasing) "Aliens are boring I think they are interdimensional".
Budd Hopkins
For goodness sake when will Ufology, a fringe group at best, wake up? Budd Hopkins destroyed one major aspect of Ufology and Jacobs (a "reliable source" we are told in this video) has put and is still putting Ufology through a blender and people are falling for it.
Elizondo and all of those other counter intelligence guys that lied to Ufology and everyone else about UFOs for decades tell a story and suddenly we have no more UFOs it's all "UAP" and everyone is using that tag. Ufology has people attacking those who for decades have tried to dig for the truth but now they are pointing out all the problems in the Elizondo and AATIP story they become "the enemy". What is currently going on is not new and it was tried in different ways from the 1950s into 1990s and what we see now (increased secrecy on UFOs seems to counter the open-ness promised by Elizondo et all) will be repeated again in another 10 years.
David Jacobs
Ufology is being played and it seems only a few have any idea this is happening but they are, of course, "the enemy" of Disclosure (which has been coming every year since 1999). And now we have this video.
Sit back with a cup of coffee or tea and watch and LISTEN to this again. There is a religious narrative plus so many mentions of how "sources" have passed this information along but these people have NEVER seen the evidence -why would someone feed them a line?
Ferrario has successfully destroyed his scientific credibility and that is sad as I had hoped that he might come up with some of the Ted Phillips files with trace evidence and test results that no one has apparently ever seen. I now have to be suspicious of his Marley Woods claims and, again, nothing has changed since Phillips' day -the same "its just a light" photos/video and some strands of hair the test results of which we are told and not shown.
This is the point; if you have collected and tested "UFO" evidence you do not keep it in the collection. You publish the results so that it can all be peer reviewed by other scientists and confirmed. To me Marley Woods is just another Skinwalker Ranch and US Ufology itself has been corrupted from within by counter intelligence and weakened even more by claims such as we hear in this video. John Keel would be rubbing his hands and loving this.
£30,000 and Three Years -anyone got spare cash?
The other day I posted this to the CE3K/AE Face Book page:
"Trying to make my files easier to get at and not bulky -the US needs at least two large folders and France and Spain require one each.
32 CE3K/AE files and starting next January I want to clean up some of the reports by getting more details. However, about 75% of cases from W Europe and the USA were never investigated and, sadly, we have lost those (though re-opening some as cold case files might save some)."
I continued the tidying up and adding sources/reports to the files and had to split up the United States files making three new file folders so now 35 in total covering the reports from around the world.
Neither the Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) noir the Archive For the Unexplained (AFU in Sweden) has as complete an archive of these reports and, of course, I get asked (often in a roundabout way as no one likes to ask outright) what happens to coming up to 50 years of records and work?
Well, my four books cover aspects of the work but most of it has never been published and I did have an idea for a fifth book on the subject but no one appears interested in the subject. I do not intend to go anywhere just yet but the UK needs a UFO archive even if it's doubtful anyone is really going to be visiting one unless its to swipe information for books -research is a dirty word in the UK. I had thought CUFOS at first but they are low on staff and funds to ship a cupboard full of files do not exist. The AFU travel to the UK to collect archives but I do have concerns.
The Great British UFO Archive opens up in early 2023 so it is an option so long as its continuation and future is guaranteed.
The original idea was to ensure that CUFOS and AFU got records and somewhere in the UK got all the paperwork! The Bristol Central Library and Records Office were initially interested but as a lot gets dumped when "budget is low" by Bristol City Council I had to re-think.
Someone I am acquainted with has seen the files and is aware of the contents. He is also an accountant and studied maths at university. I told him of my plans and he told me to do nothing yet but hold on and he would look into things. He did -and quickly, too!
He is aware that the files contain "thousands" of pages and that I am continuing the updating every month (I spend more than a couple hundred £/$ a year on ink cartridges and document wallets!). Each one of those pages would need, after updating to be scanned and placed on to a mass storage device -USB sticks with very high gig counts. The scanning would take, with only one man doing the work, an estimated three years at 8+/- hours per day and that time, etc needs paying for. His estimate is that the work would need funding to the tune of £30k/$30k.
That does not shock me as the wildlife work I have done since 1976 runs into the many thousands and the same can be said for the CE3K/AE work to date. The likelihood of getting such funding is zero (underlined about ten times). I know what you are thinking "Start scanning now" and I would but I don't even have a scanner that works but I do have a very -very- old PC that is cranky. New PC and new scanner costs money and I barely survive day to day so getting new ones is a fantasy.
The idea of CUFOS, the AFU and the Great British UFO Archive each having a full set of CE3K/AE storage devices sounds good but at the moment it is very unlikely. Until either the books start to sell or some rich UFO enthusiast decides to invest £30k.... I plod on.
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