Regarding the Likeliness of the Walton Abduction Being a Hoax

So I listened to Walton on the podcast circuit a while ago, and after light digging, assumed it to likely be a true story. After more recent research, my mind has changed.

I was posting the following stuff in another thread and was downvoted out of sight, so I thought I’d make a post for it to see the light. Most of the information comes from a blog, but I think the facts presented stand on their own, and I don’t see much of an ulterior motive present from the author besides truth seeking.

The blog in question: https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/blog/it-was-a-hoax-steve-pierce-knows-the-truth

It centers around the author’s communication with a co-worker of Walton’s who was present, Steve Pierce, and who recently retracted his belief in there being a ufo abduction that day. Supposedly Walton and their crew leader conspired.

Why:
Walton was big into ufos before this, and the national enquirer magazine was holding a $100,000 contest that year for best ufo story. That magazine was in their work truck. They applied for the contest, but only got 5,000 because they failed the polygraph. They paid for another polygraph later that was inconclusive, which they used as a victory. There’s also a lot of weird facts regarding how they acted in relation to the police investigation surrounding the missing persons case.

How:
There’s a fire lookout station called Gentry Tower that used to be near where this all went down. It was manned by employees at certain hours, but was frequently empty. The boss of Walton (who he conspired with) admits to leaving the group shortly before they ended work that day to go off on his own. [Edit: this same boss was recorded on a phone call recently admitting knowledge of the hoax by Walton. Link is below in the comments.] He says he was checking other work sites or something, but he probably went to check on the tower to make sure it was empty. They drive by it later in the work truck and see a light resembling a spotlight, Travis gets out by himself, is “flung” (witnesses admit that part gets embellished; that he only fell back a few feet,) and the boss that was in on it was driving and floored the gas away from the scene. Only after the workers say they wanted to go back, he does, and then Walton is “missing.”

I wanted to believe too, but I think we’re left with a simple “Occam’s razor” scenario given this stuff is true.

by dripstain12