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Posted: Sep 16 2008 10:39 pm

I dunno.

Posted: Sep 16 2008 10:47 pm

I don't know either, but since I don't see any hard evidence I'm going to have to pull the shenanigans card.

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Since many people (me) probably don't know who this guy is, here is a very brief explanation.

wikipedia wrote:

Travis Walton (born April 23, 1957), claims to have been abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton could not be found, but reappeared after five days of intensive searches.

Posted: Sep 17 2008 09:41 am

Yeah, this thread was very poorly thought-out and executed.

Posted: Sep 17 2008 03:35 pm

Posted: Sep 17 2008 03:43 pm

I WANT TO BREAK FREE?

Posted: Sep 17 2008 04:52 pm

S. McCracken wrote:

Yeah, this thread was very poorly thought-out and executed.

You may be right. But I thought maybe more people would know who he was. Also, I thought maybe the people who didn't would actually look him up. I thought if I just said it was a guy who claimed to taken away by aliens, the first thing to come to somebody's mind is going to be, "BULLSHIT!"

I was really only curious because I was watching the special on aliens and UFOs last night on ABC (why it was on who knows). It didn't talk about him (that I saw) but I thought most of the people who said they were abducted were full of shit. Travis Walton is really the only person who I have thought was believable.

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

I missed that episode of The Waltons. Sad

Posted: Sep 17 2008 05:17 pm

DarkMaze wrote:

I missed that episode of The Waltons. Sad

SPOILERS:
John Boy doesn't make it.

Posted: Sep 17 2008 06:58 pm

I will bet my life that the 1 person who voted "yes" was MEGAMAN

Posted: Sep 17 2008 07:24 pm

anorexorcist wrote:

I will bet my life that the 1 person who voted "yes" was MEGAMAN

Maybe. But the story actually seems a little believable.

When Walton disappeared, the police were trying to build a murder case against the crew he worked with. They stuck to their guns about the UFO story. They even took polygraphs for the Arizona Department of Public Safety and all passed. I believe they took multiple polygraphs for other people after that initial one. Once Walton returned, he took polygraph tests as well.

As far as I know, all of the polygraphs they have taken show that the crew "believe" they saw a UFO, and Walton "believes" he was abducted. Polygraphs don't always mean anything. I don't know how hard it is to beat the polygraph, but the fact that all of them pass the test and have appeared to remain consistent throughout the years seems to make it tough to discredit their claim.

Posted: Sep 17 2008 08:25 pm

anorexorcist wrote:

I will bet my life that the 1 person who voted "yes" was MEGAMAN

Actually, I never voted >_<

Edit : I voted the second yes

Joined: Aug 05 2008 Location: CA Posts: 867

Yeah I had no idea who he was. Thanks GP, I saw your post and it immediately made me think you the movie "Fire in the Sky", a movie based on his supposed experience. I remember seeing that movie in theaters when I was a kid. It scared the crap out of me. For years I thought the UFO's were going to abduct me and stick needles in my eyes. So far they have not found me. Therefore I vote "He's full of Shit".

Posted: Sep 17 2008 09:50 pm

"Fire in the sky! Can't you see that all my castles are bur-urning??"

I don't know whether to believe him, but I believe that other lifeforms exist out there.

Joined: Aug 05 2008 Location: CA Posts: 867

Nekkoru wrote:

I WANT TO BREAK FREE?

Is that Freddie Mercury?!

Posted: Sep 17 2008 09:53 pm

Yes, from the 'I Want To Break Free' video. Hence the joke.

Joined: Aug 05 2008 Location: CA Posts: 867

ross_rifle113 wrote:

Yes, from the 'I Want To Break Free' video. Hence the joke.

Oh I see...

Never seen the video