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Walton leapt from the truck and approached the craft. A beam of blue-green light struck him and threw him backward through the air. His terrified crewmates fled — and when they returned, both Walton and the craft were gone.

The six witnesses reported the incident to the sheriff, who immediately suspected foul play. All six men submitted to polygraph examinations. Five passed definitively; the sixth gave inconclusive results due to extreme anxiety — not deception. Walton himself was missing for five days. He reappeared on November 10th, disoriented and physically depleted, phoning his family from a gas station.

Walton described regaining consciousness on what appeared to be an examination table, surrounded by beings with large domed heads and enormous eyes. He panicked, fought them off, and was led to a room where he met humans in helmets who would not respond to his questions. He was placed in a pod and lost consciousness again — waking near a road outside Heber, Arizona.

The Travis Walton case is unique in having six independent witnesses to the initial abduction event — all of whom passed polygraph testing. The National Enquirer awarded the case its prize for the best documented UFO report of the year. The 1993 film Fire in the Sky dramatized the events, though Walton has always maintained the film took liberties with the details of his onboard experience.