Now some of you heard of him obviously. He was some person who claims to be abducted by aliens and made a book about it. If what Mr.Walton claims is real, that is pretty much proof that Aliens do exist. And this from a movie about his experience on the UFO ship. (Keep in mind that the movie is inaccurate) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzSxzYNfkGA&feature=related

So do you think that he telling the truth? Or is he lying? And if he is telling the truth, why did the aliens wanted to "experiment" on him? Oh and to avoid confusion, I'm not one of those people who wastes their time finding ever little evidence about Extra Terrestrials being legit, I just happen to find this story interesting.

I can tell you one thing...his showrooms are always MT.

It's my conclusion that Travis Walton is a liar. He's failed two polygraph tests and his abduction story is HIGHLY abnormal. I think he was probably just playing a prank on his friends, then suddenly found out they told the police and were being accused of his murder, so he suddenly turned up and played it up as if he had been abducted (he was well aware of the phenomenon prior.) Next thing you know, the entire world is interviewing him and he's a big sensation, so he has to keep the lie going for the rest of his life or else look like an idiot.

If you want a good alien abduction case, stick with Betty and Barney Hill.

If what any crackpot farmer says about his cows getting abducted or whatever is true it's proof of aliens.

I think this guy is bogus, that said I think the size of the universe makes it improbable that we are the only sentient life form, but the same fact also makes it highly improbable that they would be able to find us, and then abduct us and make crop circles and whatever else is in the wacky news section.

Or the guys that flashed SOS using a flashlight at a ufo.

Strange, I thought he took a lie detector test and passed. I must of got the wrong source..

Ofcorse, that's why I sad IF he was telling the truth.

That is a fairly redundant thing to say.

If I'm telling the truth about the magic pixie people dancing in my shower and serenading me as I scrub my nethers, than this may indeed be proof to the existence of magic pixie people!

But I know they are real. I see them every time I take my medicine that the guy living in a crate prescribed to me. They give me good advice... advice that helped me get rid of my girlfriend when she started to get to nosy.

~Vidicus

Interesting story...

Sleep paralysis?

Not a sustainable theory for the entire phenomenon. I certainly think it applies for those who think they're being abducted out of their beds, but not for those who are outside when it happens. It's unreasonable to think people (sometimes two or more) randomly fall asleep at the same time after spotting a UFO, have sleep paralysis for the first and only time in their lives, share the same experience, then all of them forgetting it (save for missing time) until suffering recurring nightmares or else undergoing regressive hypnosis. Throw in the handfuls of physical traces--including but not limited to metal objects implanted into the abductees' bodies--and there's really no way to write the whole thing off as sleep paralysis.

I still think it implausible aliens would seek out the Earth considering the size of space, not impossible, but implausible.

Bogus I say. Conjecture and testimony is often regarded as, but never is, solid proof. Ever.

The fact that it's still an "if" (and a big one at that) means that it's not proof at all, so this statement is pointless.

As Niel DeGrasse Tyson said in a video that I watched today right after reading the OP: The next time you get abducted by aliens, grab something off of one of their shelves when they aren't looking, because whatever it is, it will be unlikely anything we have ever seen in our world.

Until concrete evidence is presented that can be supported with factual data, I will believe that you were visited by aliens as much as I believe Dumbledore was killed forever by the Balrog inside the Death Star.

Betty Hill took a book-type thing as proof, but they snatched it from her when she was leaving the ship.

Of course they did

Nobody has been abducted by aliens.

Yep. Makes sense for an alien species to do when they're also inducing memory loss of the abductions and not making open-contact.

Alternativly, she is making stuff up to get attention and/or is suffering from hallucinations.

Or, the fact that the Hills had absolutely no desire for their story to be public and that it was only revealed to the public against their wishes, and Betty being the only one who passed a polygraph at the time, and having physical traces on her dress and on their car, and having other witnesses who saw the UFO at the same time and place before the Hills' story was publicly told, and having Barney's story match up with hers--both of whom displayed greater emotional responses while under hypnosis than war trauma victims--and the Star Map shown to her by her abductors which matched up perfectly with Zeta Reticuli even before all of the stars were known to astronomers, and along with plenty of other things, are all evidence pointing to the conclusion that she and Barney were abducted by aliens, or at the very least, not making up their story and not suffering from hallucinations.

Again: Eyewitness evidence is no good without any data or physical proof to go along with it. Until proven otherwise, hypothesis's and theories remain just that. As a matter of fact, when a hypothesis has absolutely no pillar to support it at all, it usually gets discarded.

I could just as easily say "A mermaid pulled me to Atlantas, but the pressure of the ocean scrumbled up my memory of it," as Ms.ALIENS!!!! made up her story. Doesn't mean I went to atlantas.

A polygraph could get a positive if it was a hallucination she genuinely believed, emotional responses also could be the result of a trauma she genuinely believes herself to have experienced. I admit I'm grasping at straws since the story sounds pretty unbelievable
I also find it hard to believe she could recall a star map from seeing it briefly presumably whilst being tortured. And although not the most concrete evidence for denial, I am surprised that with all the evidence it isn't more widely known.

Uh huh. So what do you have to say about the data and the physical evidence that goes along with it?

"Tortured" is an extreme word. I know a lot of media typically portrays the abduction experience as torture though. It's more of an invasive medical examination that people don't understand performed by beings that are unfamiliar and scary-looking. There's never any clear sign of malevolence or benevolence.
Also, hypnosis has been known to be able to help some people be able to recall documents word-for-word, and the Hill's hypnotist said they were both excellent subjects. Betty was instructed by her hypnotist to draw the star map only if she was able to remember it completely accurately. She did.

And yeah, I'm often quite surprised and appalled that with all the evidence it isn't more widely known either. Most of it can be credited to plausible deniability and the aura of ridicule.