{"it":{"id":"UFO-WAL1975","name":"Travis Walton abduction","kind":"ufo","sub":"Historical sighting","place":"Near Heber, Arizona, USA","lat":34.4,"lon":-110.6,"date":"1975-11-05","rep":"Taken aboard for 5 days.","off":"Sceptics: hoax, possibly to break the forestry contract.","src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: Travis Walton incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_incident"}],"tags":["Sightings"],"sum":"On 5 November 1975 a seven-man Arizona forestry crew said co-worker Travis Walton vanished after a craft encounter. Five days later he called his sister from Heber.","nsrc":1,"new":1,"qs":["After 46 years, crew boss Mike Rogers renounced his witness status. Does that end the Walton case, or does it raise new questions?","Seven men told the same story for decades and a man really vanished for five days. Can a hoax hold together that long?","The crew got $5,000 from the National Enquirer. Does money poison a case, or do we only say that about the ones we already doubt?"],"yt":"Check the contract status claim.","rel":["UFO-HILL1961"],"hook":"A seven-man crew said a beam of light struck their co-worker. Five days later he phoned his sister.","why":"Several crew members passed a police polygraph, but Walton's own first test pointed to deception. Sceptics see a hoax to escape a late contract; Walton still stands by his account."},"S":{},"rec":{"id":"UFO-WAL1975","sum":"On 5 November 1975 a seven-man forestry crew in Arizona reported that a beam of light from a hovering craft had struck their co-worker Travis Walton. The crew said they had fled, thinking he was dead. Five days later Walton phoned his sister from a booth in Heber.\n\nThe crew were thinning trees in the Apache-Sitgreaves forests under a government contract. Their driver, Mike Rogers, said he had stopped the truck when they saw a light, and that Walton walked toward it. Police searched with volunteers and a helicopter. Some officers suspected murder.\n\nWhat makes the case hard is the conflicting tests. On 10 November in Holbrook, the state polygraph examiner Cy Gilson tested six crew members: he judged five truthful and one, Allen Dalis, inconclusive. On 15 November Walton took a test arranged by a UFO group and the National Enquirer. The examiner, Jack McCarthy, called it \"gross deception\". The Enquirer still gave the crew $5,000 for the year's best case.\n\nPhilip Klass and Michael Shermer have called it a hoax, suggesting the crew wanted to escape a contract they were behind on. Walton has stood by his account in his 1978 book and in the 1993 film Fire in the Sky. In March 2021 Rogers posted that he renounced his status as a witness, then apologised to Walton in May.\n\nIf it was a hoax, how did seven men hold it together for nearly half a century?","qs":["After 46 years, crew boss Mike Rogers renounced his witness status. Does that end the Walton case, or does it raise new questions?","Seven men told the same story for decades and a man really vanished for five days. Can a hoax hold that long?","One test said truthful and another said deception. How much should polygraphs count?"],"gal":[{"src":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Travis_Walton_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Travis_Walton_2019_(cropped).jpg","title":"Travis Walton 2019 (cropped).jpg","lic":"CC BY-SA 4.0","by":"SMG2019","alt":"Travis Walton 2019 (cropped)"},{"src":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Gentry_Fire_Lookout_Tower_in_Apache-Sitgreaves_National_Forests_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gentry_Fire_Lookout_Tower_in_Apache-Sitgreaves_National_Forests_(cropped).jpg","title":"Gentry Fire Lookout Tower in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests (cropped).jpg","lic":"Public domain","by":"US Forest Service - Apache Sitgreaves National Forests","alt":"Travis Walton abduction: Gentry Fire Lookout Tower in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests (cropped)"}],"ms":[],"aa":[],"ac":[],"src":[{"t":"Wikipedia: Travis Walton incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_incident"},{"id":"VUFO-WAL1975-2","t":"APRO Bulletin vol. 24 no. 5: The Travis Walton Case (RR0)","u":"https://rr0.org/time/1/9/7/5/11/AproBulletin_v24_n5/TheTravisWaltonCase"}],"pts":[{"p":"Seven-person forestry crew reported Walton missing.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Travis Walton incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_incident"},{"p":"The National Enquirer awarded the crew $5,000.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Travis Walton incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_incident"},{"p":"In March 2021 Mike Rogers renounced his witness status.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Travis Walton incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_incident"},{"p":"Walton was missing for five days and called his sister from Heber.","g":"SINGLE SOURCE","b":"S","t":"Wikipedia: Travis Walton incident","u":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton_incident"}]},"img":null,"md":null,"hh":null,"hs":{},"lh":{"s":"img/h/UFO-WAL1975.webp","w":1280,"h":1547,"o":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Travis_Walton_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original"}}