I was just watching this
- I rather enjoy this chap's (sometimes dryly amusing) take on various criminals (look, don't judge my true crime habit please) but this time he's talking about Travis Walton.
I must say, I don't know what to make of the story entirely. As you say, Sharon Hill, he's certainly made some money out of it over the years. That might be quite motivating. And Dr Grande also has a monetary theory. But (without invoking any actual aliens or abduction), Walton is one of these people who had Weird Experiences as a child (eg some large-headed little figure coming to see him in the night... the sort of thing we'd have put down to fairies in a previous time). So maybe he did experience something real (to him at least) and so when he's recalling it he's not "making it up" deliberately. ?? (there's a recentish film isn't there? which I must get round to watching).