Date was November 5th 1975 place Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Arizona. Travis Walton along with his best friend Roger was employed by united states forest reserve for logging contract. They had five more men in their crew. The fateful day was just an ordinary day. Typical day that no one remembers for long but it was about to deviate from typicality. Travis along with his friends left for his home at around 6 pm. Sun already had said goodbye to Arizona so headlights of their truck were sole source of light in the dark world. Destination was far and atmosphere had bit of creepiness inside it. Travis was driving and pressurizing the accelerator to get out of the black forest as soon as possible when unexpectedly he noticed out of nothing spherical light shinning on the top of trees. It was luminous and had no logical explanation for its presence but still it was nothing that few work exhausted men would care for but as the vehicle started closing in the light source started becoming more and more mysterious. It was large spherical metalish object hovering independently in the air. Travis applied the brakes he was now as close as he could be on the road to the strange flying object. He got of the truck. Curiosity is one of the greatest bliss and equally great bane for the man. His friends stayed in shouting at Travis to get going but Travis was adamant to find out what the thing is. He left the road and stood under the mysterious object. Just after few seconds light flashed from metal giant above and Travis rose few feet above the ground and then quickly thrown back to the ground. He was uncounciously lying on the dirt. His friends were in shock they were having hard time to fathom that their friend was murdered by the UFO. When they gained some senses back one of them occupied driver’s seat and flew away as if whole world was ending behind them. On reaching home they contacted police (It was not easy to persuade administration that an UFO killed your friend) but police started search nonetheless.They found no body at that location. They suspected Walton’s friends of murdering him and burying him somewhere and then coming with ridiculous story. Five of Travis’s friend who were even subjected to polygraph test or lie detector test attested that they were telling truth. The incident attracted so much attention because for first time there was UFO abduction with so many witnesses and to make things even more eerie Travis Walton was found lying unconscious on the highway on November exactly 10 five days after the event. Travis Walton wrote his experience when he first came to senses after losing his consciousness in forest in his book fire in the sky as “I looked at the vague but reassuring forms of the doctors around me. Abruptly my vision cleared. The sudden horror of what I saw rocked me as I realized I was definitely not in a hospital. I was looking square into the face of a horrible creature . . . with huge, luminous brown eyes the size of quarters! I looked frantically around me. There were three of them! Hysteria overcame me instantly.” Travis Walton became overnight celebrity. He wrote fires in the sky based on his personal experience even a movie was made based on his narration. There was many skeptics who doubted Travis’ s narration as doubtful. Recently a team of national geographic researchers reached to the site and found that trees in the area are showing accelerated growth after the incident although they also stressed that it could be result of environmental factors. Whatever truth is. Travis walton’s abduction was and is one of the most talked event among Ufologists and conspiracy theorists

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