Post by Joanna on Nov 8, 2015 2:02:04 GMT -5
The Walton Experience 40 Years Later
Six men questioned on suspicion of murdering a missing fellow employee claimed he was abducted by a flying saucer, leaving police incredulous. But five days later, the missing man turned-up, saying he had, indeed, been abducted by aliens and forced to punch his way out.
The loggers reported Travis Walton missing after they saw him get blasted back 20 feet by an energy beam from a UFO that “appeared over the trees.” Police thought it was an elaborate coverup and the men had actually killed him and disposed of the body. But thorough searches of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Phoenix, Arizona, which included the use of helicopters and tracking dogs, were fruitless. Temperatures dropped below zero the first two nights of the search, making the chances of finding Walton alive unlikely. Then, five days later, he mysteriously reappeared after making a distress emergency call from a phone booth. And, 40 years later, Walton and his former co-workers still stick by their account of what is recognized as the world’s most remarkable UFO sighting and alien abduction claim on record.
Travis Walton today and in 1975.
On Sunday, November 8, he will lead people attending the Skyfire Summit Conference to the scene of where he says it happened after several speakers, including himself and some of the co-workers, address the audience. The same co-workers were suspected of killing Walton until he suddenly reappeared. The seven reported how they were driving in the forest in a truck when they first saw mysterious lights, which then appeared to be a flying saucer. A mesmerized Walton was the only one among the group to venture out of the vehicle and approach the craft, despite his colleagues’ pleading with him not to go near. Walton said, “My eyes were just riveted on this thing. Then it threw me back through the air 20 feet.” His colleagues reported seeing him fly backwards with his back arched from a beam of light bearing down from the craft.
The terrified men fled in the vehicle, but returned later when there was no trace of the UFO or Walton, who insists he awakened inside an alien craft, lying on a table surrounded by three aliens with other humanoid-looking beings in the background. “I got this rush of adrenaline and jumped from the table and just lashed out,” he continued. “Then I blacked out and woke up on the side of the road and ran to the nearest call box and collapsed.” What he didn’t know at the time was that he had been gone five days.
Abduction site today.
After passing lie detector tests, it became one of the most significant alien abduction cases on record, but he has also faced detractors. The incredible story was even turned into the 1995 movie called Fire in the Sky. It has left Walton in no doubt we are not alone. “The knowledge [of aliens] has reached the tipping point,” he insisted. “It is the debunkers and the skeptics who are the kooks.”
There are still skeptics however, and those who claim it was an elaborate hoax. The OccupyTheory website, part of the Occupy movement, is not convinced by the story and indicates there were no witnesses to Walton’s being drawn up into the spacecraft, adding that he could have hid for five days before reappearing.
Sources: Jon Austin, The Express, November 6, 2015, and Geoff Price, UFO Evidence.
