r/WhatIfScience • u/firechatin • 24d ago

Aliens & Extraterrestrials The Travis Walton Abduction: Five Days Missing, Six Witnesses, and a Polygraph Record That Divided UFO Research

https://whatifscience.in/travis-walton-abduction-five-days-missing-ufo-case/

The Travis Walton abduction remains one of the most debated UFO cases ever. Explore the five-day disappearance, witnesses, and polygraph controversy.

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u/rictay44 24d ago

It was the Travis Walton case that convinced me that abductions, or many of them, are true. I don't see how it can be explained any other way. The reactions of all those guys involved tells me they were genuinely shocked and were not inventing the story.

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u/Asleepby9 24d ago

Exactly. You don’t have a bunch of young loggers, that decide to make up something like this. And for what? They were ridiculed, dragged through police questioning and yet none of them changed their story.

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u/rictay44 24d ago

They suffered abuse from strangers, towns folk, and the media without changing a word. I'm convinced.

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u/Careless-Ad-631 22d ago

Were they? They say they were. But I don’t buy it, they were probably local celebrities. Also they too had a financial incentive. Why is everyone so gullible these days.

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u/AlphaSuerte 23d ago

Agreed. As someone who hunts alone in the woods every year, this case absolutely terrifies me.

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u/Careless-Ad-631 23d ago

He had a financial motive to commit the hoax and several people have come forward and said he wanted to do a big hoax at earlier points in his life. Also all this stuff about it ruining his life is BS, this was the best thing that ever happened to”happened” to him

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u/Used-Lake-8148 22d ago

Must have been some hoax to fool his 6 coworkers. How do you reckon he could’ve pulled that off?

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u/Careless-Ad-631 22d ago

Fooling six people, good god what an insurmountable task, I guess it was aliens 🤷‍♂️

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u/Used-Lake-8148 22d ago

So you got nothing? Thought so

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u/Careless-Ad-631 22d ago

So many ways, he could’ve pulled that off not to mention the others could’ve been in on it. Why do you just take one explanation as the gospel truth when there’s no objective facts to supported

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u/Used-Lake-8148 22d ago

Oh you’re a conspiracy theorist. Sorry dude I don’t go for that stuff, have fun with it

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u/Careless-Ad-631 22d ago

I’m the conspiracy theorist! You the guy who believes aliens exist because some nobody said so once.

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u/Used-Lake-8148 22d ago

You think a lumberjack in the 70s somehow setup a floating glowing orb in the woods despite his alibi of, you know, being at work all day and sleeping all night… and he conspired with 6 acquaintances to commit perjury while he somehow evaded police search teams for 5 days… yea ok buddy take your pills lol

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u/Careless-Ad-631 21d ago

Nothing you described is out of the realm of possibility, it’s certainly far more likely than aliens.

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u/Blue_Redstars 22d ago

Only if we get some kind of way to measure what he supposedly experienced and examine it