Caught it on YouTube late Thursday night and couldn't sleep after. Mike Rogers has always struck me as the most credible voice in the whole case - he was Walton's boss and friend, no obvious motive to fabricate any of it, and he passed the polygraph when several others did too. What gets me is how consistent his account has remained over nearly 50 years. Most hoaxes fall apart under that kind of time pressure.
Did anyone else notice he got a bit emotional talking about the initial disbelief from authorities? That part felt very genuine to me.
What I'd love to know is whether anyone here has looked into teh photographic record from that period. There were apparently some images taken around the Sitgreaves National Forest around that time and I've never managed to track down decent reproductions. If anyone has leads on that I'd be very interested. The symbolism in some of the sketch work Walton produced later is something I've spent a fair bit of time with and it raises some fascinating questions about whether he was drawing from memory or something else entirely.