I've never seen this, about to watch it now. It's got a pretty good rating and good comments so I'm interested to see if it's any good. The real Travis Walton interview.
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OK I just finished watching this speech. It's an interesting and entertaining talk. The 50 mins go by quickly. And it's compelling, to me, from a psychological standpoint....but I DON'T mean that in a good way.
My impression: he's COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT. He doesn't believe a word of what he's saying. He strikes me as a pathological & downright shameless liar. I take back what I said a couple posts earlier about nobody wanting that kind of fame or attention....this motherfucker is an obvious attention seeker, and LOVES this attention. He also seems extremely petty, vindictive, and spiteful towards several people he's speaking about in this story.
Cliffs:
- He speaks somewhat more intelligently than I was expecting. He's not exactly an eloquent speaker, but he's better than I thought he'd be and the speech IS entertaining.
- He shamelessly promotes the hell out of his book, and says he is trying to get a remake of the Fire in the Sky movie made, to depict the alien events the way he says they actually occurred. This asshole even asks the audience to write the studio to let them know they want a remake made (yeah good luck with that).
- He's now come to believe that the alien craft was about to take off, and that's when the beam of light knocked him out, accidentally. He thinks it was like a circuit that his body grounded when he approached the disc, and the aliens took him aboard and put him on the medical table to help revive him. He says they were probably trying to help save his life.
- At first he speaks at length in great detail about the craft; how it looked; what the other loggers said when they saw it; what he was thinking upon seeing it; how it sounded; the beam that hit him; etc. That part was very interesting I'll give him that.
- After all this great detail, when he gets to the most interesting part (when he's fighting off the 3 grays from his karate stance) he then says he's running out of time, and fucking skips right through that segment as quickly as possible.
- THEN, after saying he's running out of time and blurs right through the part everybody really wants to hear....this motherfucker goes into great detail and length again, about some famous debunker who apparently pissed Travis off. He goes into personal attacks about the debunker, and even says through the Freedom of Information Act, he was able to dig up letters that the CIA sent to the FBI about whoever this debunker guy is, and he says that the guy was found mentally unfit for duty and says that is "PROOF" that the CIA is using the debunker guy as a government shill to discredit his story. (During this part of the speech Travis pegged out my bullshit detector so hard that it fucking broke).
- He says the youngest logger on the crew most certainly WAS crying and scared out of his mind when the crew got back to town and talked to the sheriff. Travis says "i'm not attacking his toughness or anything....but he was crying. Everybody saw him cry. He says he wasn't. But he was." He says the guy in later years denied crying and even came to Travis's house to fight him because Travis wrote in his book that the guy cried. Travis wants to make sure everybody knows this guy was most definitely crying. It's REAL important that people know that. (Travis comes across as a piece of shit during this part of the speech).
- He talks at length about the crew member crying. And that was AFTER Travis decided to skip right passed all the best parts about fighting the aliens off, due to time constraints.
Holy shit man I can't believe people like this actually exist. Travis strikes me as a total scumbag. This guy has a very used car salesman type of vibe to him.
Watching him tell this story, I have little doubt that the guy hoaxed all this solely to sell books and make a movie. And damn, I have NEVER seen somebody try to milk a story the way he is, for every single penny he can squeeze out of it. Just wow.
