Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Walton, 'The Walton Experience' / 'Fire in the Sky'
Travis Walton's account of his reported abduction in the Arizona forest in November 1975, reissued as 'Fire in the Sky' after the 1993 film.
1978 CE · 34.43, -110.59 · status: disputed
The account
For: six co-workers said they saw him struck by a beam, Walton was missing for five days during a police search, and the crew passed polygraphs about seeing the light.
The sceptical view
Against: Walton failed an early polygraph, the crew had a motive related to a forestry contract, and the timing followed a TV film about the Hills; skeptics such as Klass called it a hoax.
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