Joe Rogan Experience - #1597: Travis Walton

In this episode:

Joe sits down with Travis Walton, a man who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1975. His story inspired the film, “Fire in the Sky” and he wrote a book in 1978 called, “The Walton Experience.” The two discuss Travis’s story and recent UFO sightings.

More from Travis Walton:

• Travis Walton UFO Incident Wiki page

• Book- The Walton Experience

• Movie- Fire in the Sky (1993)

Show Notes:

• 00:30- Betty and Barney Hill abduction story (second source)

• 1:00- Critics of Travis’s story

• 5:45- Movie based on Travis’s story- “Fire in the Sky”

• 14:30- Travis saw a craft similar to the recently reported Tic Tac shaped UFO

• 19:00- Fulgurite (crystals formed when lightning hits the earth)

• 23:30- Documentary- Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton

• 27:00- New York Times UFO story in 2017

• 38:00- Hypnosis and false memory syndrome

• 47:00- Potentially habitable exoplanets

• 66:45- Aerial phenomena research organization (investigated Travis’s claims and ran tests)

• 81:00- Air Force’s Project Blue Book

• 82:00- Josef Allen Hynek (UFO researcher)

• 85:00- CIA releases UFO documents 2021

• 88:00- Bob Lazar’s UFO story

• 88:30- UFO Extraterrestrial Alien Area 51 S4 Model by Testors

• 94:00- UFO research group MUFON

• 107:00- The Drake Equation

• 109:00- Video- Travis Walton extended interview