The Abduction of Travis Walton
Arizona Logger Claims to Have Been Taken by Aliens
In November 1975 Travis Walton and his crew encountered a strange object in the sky over the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona.
Travis Walton is an ordinary man but something extraordinary and unexplainable happened to him on November 5, 1975. Walton and six other men were working near Turkey Springs, Arizona on a tree thinning contract, and the day was progressing as usual. When Walton gave the signal to stop working, all of the men got into a pickup truck and headed for home. Nothing prepared them for what they were about to see a few minutes later.
A strange object in the sky
There was a brilliant yellow light shining through the trees, and at first the men thought that it might have been a forest fire. As they got closer they looked up into the sky and saw that it wasn't a fire, but a UFO. Walton got out of the truck for a closer look despite the protests of his companions. What happened next was terrifying. A blinding blue-green light emanated from the disc shaped object and lifted his body into the air, then dropped him flat on the ground. His workmates drove away fearing for their lives. When they returned with the police to the clearing in the woods where they had seen the unearthly craft, it was gone. And so was Travis Walton. Groups of volunteers helped the police to search for him, but there was no sign of him anywhere.
He was missing for five days.
What he saw onboard the UFO
According to his own admission in his book Fire in the Sky, Walton encountered inhuman creatures with bulging heads and large, catlike eyes. Their physical appearance frightened him more than anything. They were short, less than five feet tall, and he could see no fingernails on their hands. He also claimed that they did not speak to him, or to each other. In fact, their mouths did not move once. Walton also said he came into contact with other beings, this time human, or so they seemed. Large and muscular and with strikingly clear skin, they made no attempt to communicate with him. They did not say a single word. After entering a room with a single table, Walton had what looked like an oxygen mask placed over his mouth and nose, and was unconscious almost immediately.
Trying to piece the puzzle together
The local police in Snowflake, Arizona believed they were dealing with a murder. But Travis Walton was not dead, because he regained consciousness on a lonely highway near the town of Heber. He ran down the highway to a phone near an Exxon station. No cars passed in either direction, and there was nobody else around. He placed a call to his brother-in-law shortly after midnight.
The police gathered all of Walton's crewmates and gave them polygraph tests. They all passed except for one man named Allen Dalis, whose results were inconclusive. It was discovered later that he was wanted for questioning because of his involvement in a crime unrelated to Walton's disappearance. To this day there is no evidence that proves it was a hoax. All of the men have stood by their stories, and even today they are absolutely sure that it wasn't a dream or a hallucination. There was something out there that night, something that defied a logical explanation.
What did happen to Travis Walton? The case has mystified UFO experts for years. In 1993 the film Fire in the Sky was released which recreates Travis Walton's abduction.
