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The Travis Walton Abduction

Travis Walton (born February 10, 1953) is an American logger who was supposedly abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton was nowhere to be found.

Originally it was thought that the crew he was working with, murdered him. The crew claimed that they saw a UFO in the woods at 6pm on Nov 5th (as they were driving home) and that Walton got out of the truck and walked towards this silver disc in the air. They claimed that Walton was “beamed” into the aircraft and that was the last they saw of him.

Police, of course, was suspicious of this claim especially since there was no physical evidence of anything near the abduction site. The police suspected homicide and began searching for a body as well as administering polygraph tests to all the crew members. It was determined that the crew members were telling the truth and that they had not brought any harm to Walton.

Five days after the abduction, Travis’ brother-in-law Grant Neff said he received a midnight phone call from Travis asking him to come pick him up at a pay phone outside a gas station. Walton claimed that he awoke in a hospital-like room (after his abduction), being observed by three short, bald creatures. He claimed that he fought with them until a human wearing a helmet led Walton to another room, where he blacked out as three other humans put a clear plastic mask over his face. Walton has claimed he remembers nothing else until he found himself walking along a highway, with the flying saucer departing above him. He took a polygraph test which he passed. He went onto write a book which eventually turned into a movie (Fire in the Sky).

There were a lot of issues to this story and skeptics don’t believe Walton. Walton had a lot to gain financially from this story and even though him and all the crew members passed polygraph tests (which are a poor determiner of truth) skeptics believed this was a hoax. Its believed that the TV show The UFO Incident (story of Betty and Barney Hill Abduction) influenced this hoax.

This is probably one of the most famous UFO abduction cases in American history and there’s a lot of information (read the source below).

What are your thoughts?