Evidence and hindsight

You can’t hindsight anything. What happened happened, so why think you can do anything about it now? ... In reality there’s almost nothing that can be proven. All there really is, is evidence. - Mike Rogers, July 16th, 2021

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Mike Rogers just appeared on a UFO Classified with Erica Lukes livestream on July 16th with the same ol' tale and a few bizarre tangents. Erica encouraged him to emphatically state he was not involved in any hoax:

Did you, Travis, and Duane hoax the case for money?

"No absolutely not. Travis and I didn’t hoax it. Duane apparently didn’t. I don’t know anything about Duane."

Erica entices Mike to double-down a little later (unlike Chas from 51 Areas, Erica goes for the hard questions instead of the complex questions, thus getting Mike unambiguously on the record):

You are 100% backing up the story that this happened, there was no hoax?

"Right. One hundred percent."

After Mike's appearance, Ryan Gordon called into the show. Ryan is the producer who recorded Mike's confession on April 30th, 2021, and released it on July 4th. Mike has since said he has a secret recording from May 1st of the following:

Mike has not yet released this recording that allegedly says what he claims to have said.

You can skip to 1:55:00 of the UFO Classified podcast for Ryan's portion. His main concern was a professional one - Mike had accused him of digitally manipulating the audio confession in some way, to make him appear to say something he didn't say. It is obviously not legal to manipulate someone's speech and present it as accurate.

While Mike later retracted the accusation, in my opinion it was done in a way that made it seem he did so only to avoid accusing Ryan of criminal behavior. He has not explicitly admitted the audio is authentic: 

"I will say no comment but I’m going to explain why: I have one comment - it appears to be a federal law to accuse somebody of digital manipulation, so I don’t accuse him of that. Even though I did a while back, I won’t. Anybody can digitally manipulate anything digital. So that’s basically it. I have no idea what he did with that recording of me."

That's a piss-poor way to retract a serious allegation.

Ryan cleared up the matter: the call was not altered in any way. 

Mike's "damage control" over this recording is to claim he was telling Ryan about a day in 1977 when he and Travis were talking about what skeptics (like Phil Klass) had said about their 1975 UFO sighting. Listening to the audio, this explanation makes no sense at all.

Mike has been claiming for two weeks, and again in this interview, that Ryan is an unknown who "did it to gain a name for himself." But Ryan stated he has been communicating with Mike for months, and Travis for even longer, regarding his documentary, and that they both knew ahead of time that the audio was going to be released. The hosts confirmed they have seen the evidence for this.

It was clear Ryan had communicated to Erica (and co-host Scott Browne) before the podcast, sending them information and communications to back up his side of things.

Ryan directed listeners to Three Dollar Kit, for which I'm grateful, as my reason for creating the site was to lay out the evidence that the Travis Walton incident was hoaxed by Travis, his brother Duane, and Mike, against the other five guys in the truck. We have spoken in the past and talked about different theories. He told me the story of how one evening he mistook lit-up Gentry Tower for a UFO until he zoomed in his phone. Some of the photos on my site were provided by him, as he'd taken B-roll footage of the area while developing his documentary.

What do I want to be remembered as? A human being, a good guy. - Mike Rogers, July 16th, 2021