Thread by @likeitmatters3

A THREAD about evil deception.

Steve Pierce, originally from Texas, was 17 years old, cutting and piling wood for the Forest Service near Heber, AZ, in November 1975...

...when he witnessed a glowing craft zap his crewmate Travis Walton.

During the 5 days Travis was missing, the crew fell under suspicion of murder.

Steve’s mom didn’t believe the silly story about a UFO that had zapped and abducted Travis.
“She said I needed to get on my knees and repent.”

Steve hid out from the cops and press for much of those 5 days...
- terrified of what he’d witnessed
- terrified a body would be found
- terrified he’d be put away for murder.

That was Steve’s frame of mind when, 2 days after the incident, his uncle took him to Gentry Tower, almost 5 miles from the manhunt where Mike Rogers (mis)led the cops.

It wasn’t yet dark. The tower was unlit. Nobody was around.

Read this:

Steve faced two choices:

- justify his fears by going along with his crewmates’ belief that a craft had zapped and abducted Travis, or

- realize he’d been cruelly hoaxed, that his very real terror was completely unjustified, that he'd been made a fool of.

Once Travis returned, “people thought it was a joke”. Steve left town and didn’t invite any of those guys to his wedding 3 months later.

None of them could know how big this story would become over the next 4 decades.

It's Travis's job.

It's been 46 years that Travis Walton and Mike Rogers have lied about their role in a hoax that ruined five other lives.
Steve complains that Travis has refused to fix lies about him in his book, unable to accept the entire incident was a lie from the start.

Travis was going to confess – for a price, and in such a way that he’d remain blameless.
The truth would come out, Travis could retire from this “job” he’s become bored with, and he’d never face the consequences.
Sitting pretty after making fool$ of his crewmate$.

To this day, Steve maintains Mike and Travis were under mind control that night – the government sent the hi-tech craft to whisk Travis away to Area 51.

Other witnesses believe the official story, that he was abducted by aliens. Two have died none the wiser.

Five men duped by a stupid lie.
Two men clutching by their fingernails to a secret that’s turned them toxic.

Does Travis possess one gram of human compassion? Any guilt or sorrow at all for what he put a 17-year-old boy through? Let alone the subsequent 46 years?

Imagine your relatives trying to tell you that your teenage trauma, the loss of normalcy, and the tribulations of your entire adult life, were based on a devious hoax.

Imagine risking the friendship of a fellow witness if you dare to accept the truth.

What would you do?

I've been talking to Steve Pierce on and off since July, with his permission to share what he says.

Every time he tells me some (apparently) trivial detail I hadn't heard before, it supports the Gentry Tower hoax theory.

I was contacted unsolicited in July because of threedollarkit.com and told a lot of stuff even though I'm nobody. Recordings were played. I never signed anything.

Travis & Mike are liars. UFOlogy needs to dump them.

The truth is hurting Steve. I hope it hurts them more.

CODA: A couple of things Steve & John had recently said to support the theory that the UFO was Gentry Tower lit up at night. See threedollarkit.weebly.com/travis-walton.… for a detailed run-thru.

1. Steve says he NEVER thought Mike took them back to the same spot to look for Travis.
Travis gaslights him by saying he doesn't remember, he was young, etc.

2. John told me it took 5, 10, 15 minutes to see the glow of the "UFO", which was officially less than a quarter-mile from the work site. Should've taken mere seconds to see the glow after they set out.
Even Mike says it took 10-15 minutes.

3. Steve & John adamantly deny Mike chased a pickup along Rim Road for help. They still believe they never left the logging trail.
I believe Travis inserted the chase in his book in case any witnesses later recalled being on Rim Road.
(In fact they were always on Rim Road.)

It's important to realize that whatever Travis & Mike's plan was for that night, things didn't go exactly according to plan. They got lucky - things fell into place well enough, inconsistencies have been forgotten, and as a bonus they even got famous.

1. Travis did not know, while he was hiding out, that there was a huge manhunt for him. The cops weren't supposed to be involved but witness Ken Peterson insisted on calling them.
Travis returned to a circus. His overbearing older brother forced him to maintain the charade.

2. Their eyes were on the prize: $100,000 from the National Enquirer. In the end they got $5000 to split. But the book, the UFO conference circuit, the movie and several documentaries encouraged Travis & Mike to keep on keeping on.

Incidentally Mike & Travis made a mutual devil's bargain. Neither can rat out the other without implicating himself in 46 years of deception, illegal activities on federal land, and censure by the UFO community.

3. The blue beam that zapped Travis? That was a powerful spotlight. It was supposed to look like a Star Trek transporter (with Mike driving away before Travis dematerialized), but it was so bright that Travis was stunned and fell backwards.

Note: NOT like this:

Travis actually hurt himself when he fell. He climbed 70 feet up into the cab (where he hid for 5 days) and was treated by the Forest Service accomplice who'd manned the spotlight.

Trivia re. the UFO:

"it had some markings but they were too complicated to describe.” -Mike Rogers, Chicago Tribune, Nov 75

NEVER mentioned again. Never drawn in his many renditions.

Someone oughta ask him about it.

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