Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers by Stanton T. Friedman

Author:Stanton T. Friedman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Career Press
Published: 2016-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Travis Walton, Kathleen Marden, and Stanton Friedman

Klass refused to accept the enormity of this evidence. Instead he stated that sometimes celestial bodies, such as Jupiter, which was particularly bright that night, are mistaken for UFOs. This argument is weak indeed. The men had all observed a low, hovering craft. The blue-green beam that struck Walton and threw him backward caused them to fear for their lives. Apparently Klass realized that his argument was weak when he added, “If they were all partners in a pre-arranged hoax, all might be able to answer ‘yes’ to this one UFO–related question without displaying overt signs of telling a significant falsehood.”13

Walton has consistently stated that he awakened on the side of a winding, hilly stretch of highway just west of Heber, several miles from the site of his disappearance, five nights after his disappearance. The craft shot vertically into the air, and in an instant disappeared from sight. Dazed and in a state of shock, he ran down the hill toward Heber, stopping at a lighted building. His desperate knocks on the door did not rouse the occupants, so he ran farther to a row of phone booths at the Exxon station. He asked the operator to call his sister, who lived about 33 miles northeast of Heber near Snowflake. It was 12:05 a.m. when Walton’s brother, Duane, and brother-in-law, Grant, found him collapsed in the phone booth.

Philip Klass used a fragment of incorrect information in the National Enquirer to support his claim that Walton was lying. The reporter had mistakenly written that Walton had phoned his mother when in fact she didn’t have a phone. Klass used this small error to conclude that Walton had lied. The evidence in Klass’s archival files indicates that Walton’s sister told Klass that her brother was “slumped in the bottom of the phone booth…so shook up, he was so upset…he was very panicky…even talking to us was a real strain. He was very upset.”14 Klass believed she was lying.

Klass speculated that Duane’s decision to whisk his brother to Phoenix was a ploy to prevent law enforcement officers from seeing him in a confused state of mind, possibly from injecting LSD. The fact is that blood tests did not find drugs in Walton’s system, nor did the doctor who examined him find a puncture wound over a vein. Despite the evidence that Walton had not injected LSD or any other drug, Klass played the drug card, claiming that Dr. Steward told him that Walton might have been experiencing drug withdrawal symptoms from a combination of LSD and PCP. We know that Klass was highly manipulative and often put words into people’s mouths. It is indeed difficult to understand why a psychologist who knew nothing about Walton would jump to the conclusion that he had been on a drug binge. The fact is LSD can be detected in urine for 12 to 24 hours and PCP for 24 to 48 hours. But why would Klass let the facts get

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