For Walton all one has to do is put themselves in the shoes of the business owner. If the admittedly guilty thief who had ripped you off came to you and said he was abducted by a UFO and wanted more money, what would you think? I thought so. Consider my position on Walton substantiated. Or are you really that gullible?
The Falcon Lake case is more of a challenge, but there's no doubt that there was only a lone civilian witness whose word about what happened is all we have to go on. Nothing alien or even terrestrially advanced was found in any of the trace evidence. For that matter we don't even know for sure they found the right spot when they went they went back looking for the scene of the event. As I mentioned on the show, radioactivity isn't that unusual in the area. There are naturally occurring deposits in the area and that particular spot may have just been hotter that others, and what's more, if it was a hoax, Michalak being an amateur geologist may have known it.
There's also nothing bizarre about silver. It was commonly used for tools and you can see antique examples for sale on eBay. Silver is also a byproduct of gold mining and that's been done at Falcon Lake as well. That means that silver and naturally occurring radioactive substances may have been mined together and at some point somebody fashioned something out of silver that contained radioactive impurities. If we assume it was part of the hoax, then we can add that Michalak was also a metal worker. Obviously he had the knowledge and means to melt silver down and sprinkle some radioactive powder from ore he'd collected at the site into it.
A burnt shirt isn't evidence of anything other than his shirt caught fire, maybe when he was making the silver artifact. Or maybe as others have suggested, it was just an accident and his disoriented behavior was partly alcohol and/or heat stroke induced. We just don't know. Nausea along with the variety of other symptoms and ongoing health problems are symptoms of overdoing it, and there are plenty of people who are very good at hiding their addiction, just ask anyone from AA. Then there's the marks left by the grate. Those look stenciled on, not burned in from some distance away.
I think all those factors are plenty enough to substantiate my position, which isn't that the case has been proven to be a hoax; only that as stated on the show, I'm jsut not comfortable with it, and the only reason I give it any credence at all is because Rukowski, who has a decent reputation in the field, seems to think there's more to it than a hoax or something mundane.