I'm pretty interested in the Walton case...it's been widely
scrutinized but I have a bunch of thoughts that no one seems to
address...if no one cares about Travis Walton you can stop reading
here...

-If Walton wasn't abducted where the hell was he for five days?

-How do 7 people with no loyalty or allegiance to each other (other
than Walton and Rogers) keep the same exact story for 20+
years....unless it really happened?

-What motive did these people have for pulling off a hoax?  Money?
No...they got, I believe, five grand from the tabloids...split 7 ways
that doesn't seem like much...the only one who made any profit from
this was Walton and not till the movie came out twenty years
later...Walton is also the only one who got any fame for this....other
motives include those guys being way behind on their contract and
doing the hoax to get out of it...but this theory has already been
shot down by the logging people....they agreed Rogers would have
gained almost nothing by doing this....

-failed/passed lie detector tests...ahh the biggest thing about this
case...debunkers point to the first lie detector test as Walton
failing...which he covered up with his brother and believers point to
all the other ones in which they passsed....well you can't have it
both ways....whether or not you believe this happened you have to take
into account that Walton covered up the first test he failed miserably
but he passed most of the tests given to him and the crew passed
almost all of theirs....

-mother and brother comments...while Walton was "missing" supposedly
the mother showed no emotion and/or fear of her son being
gone...meanwhile the brother Duane wished he was with his brother who
was having a hell of a time and knew they'd bring him back...he
publically said all this....I love how the skeptics use this as a sign
of a hoax....ummm people if they were in on the hoax...why would Duane
have been so open about him being so sure they would bring Travis
back?  Wouldn't he pretend to think the crew murdered him or
something?  Or just pray he would be found?  Same goes for the
mother...wouldn't she be in tears in public and be afraid if this was
a hoax?

-the site of the alleged ufo encounter.  There was no evidence at the
site...absolutely nothing that looked like something extraordinary had
gone on.  If this had been a hoax, wouldn't the crew (or whoever was
in on it) have planted something there?  Maybe some torn clothing,
blood, chopped down tree(they were lumberjacks weren't they?),
whatever...my point is they may not be smart but they weren't brain
dead...no evidence at all suggests either the story is true...or these
people were reeeaaally stupid and didn't think it would be important
to make it clear something happened...

-Finally...I dunno this is just me but I don't think these blue collar
types were capable of the great acting that would be needed to fool
law enforcement and others (they were said to be genuinely shook
up)....or set up a hoax in which they would need to remove all
evidence before the cops showed up with absolutely no evidence of any
human activity....if all were in on the hoax and there wasn't anything
going in the area at all...well I have a tough time believing they
would think they could get away with it with no evidence at all...this
is an interesting case....thoughts?