It’s one of the greatest alien abduction stories of all time. In 1975 six men in north-east Arizona witnessed their crew-mate kidnapped by an UFO. But was Travis Walton really taken by aliens or did his crew-mates have something to do with his disappearance? Alien Abduction: Travis Walton, Discovery 2023
The story became an international sensation … November 5 1975 outside of Snowflake, Arizona … ‘The men started seeing a light through the trees.’ ibid. witness
Travis Walton may have disappeared without a trace but there is evidence that something very strange happened in those woods … A high level of radiation at the alleged UFO site. ibid.
Curious out-of-towners crop up among the search parties. ibid.
Five of the six men passed the lie detector test outright … [and [one] inconclusive. ibid.
Wandering the road for what feels like hours … Travis struggles to piece together his experience. ibid.
The Nordics step in and overpower him with superhuman strength. ibid.
How did Travis survive for those five days? ibid.
‘Two local men confronted authorities with a rather bizarre story. Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told of a strange craft landing near their fishing site and being taken aboard by three unearthly creatures.’ Files of the Unexplained I: Pascagoula Alien Abduction, TV news, Netflix 2024
On the evening of October 11th 1973 Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing on a river and claimed to have had an otherworldly encounter. ibid.
‘There was two men came into the sheriff’s department approximately 8:30, 9 o’clock; they were all excited, upset, wantin’ to climb the walls, hysterical, cryin’ …’ ibid. Sheriff Fred Diamond
Their story never changed. ibid.