Travis Walton, and fellow US Forest Service loggers, claim that he was abducted by aliens into a UFO on November 5, 1975 AD in the Apache-Seagreaves National Forest in Arizona.
Eventually, in 1993 AD, the movie Fire in the Sky was produced; it is “based on the true story.” Of course, “based” is a very wiggly word.
In the movie, Walton runs across a grey alien on the UFO; typical almond shaped head and almond shaped eyes yet, a moment later, realizes that it is merely an alien’s spacesuit. The movie aliens look like E.T.’s evil twin; much smaller eyes than greys and not grey but brown.
Travis Walton notes that what the aliens he saw were quite unlike those depicted in the movie and the spacesuit scene is simply movie fiction. This is a great example of fifty shades of grey aliens which is a project in which we engaged that seeks to trace the typical grey alien form and figure to speculation about future humans via fiction, sci-fi and fantasy literature, TV shows and movies.
Travis has taken many, many polygraph tests which conclude that he believes in that which he is claiming. What is of interest, within this context, is the differentiation between his story and the Hollywood depiction…but that is not all.
Well, Hollywood is that which it is and they will do that which they will do. The point is that for some unknown reason, even though they were supposed to have been depicting a true story, they decided to disregard Travis’ description. The that is not all portion is that Travis states that he saw two kinds of aliens. Firstly, he saw and interacted with aliens that were transformed into the evil E.T.s in the movie but also some that were just good ol’ fashioned good looking humanoids or, simply, humans.
Travis Walton wrote a book about his experience that is titled Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience. One chapter is titled The Aliens in which he described the aliens as:
a horrible creature
huge, luminous brown eyes the size of quarters
puny physique…more like fat than sinew. The creature was light [as in “not heavy”]
horrid entities
monstrous trio of humanoids
creatures
They were a little under five feet in height. They had a basic humanoid form: two legs, two arms, hands with five digits each, and a head with the normal human arrangement of features. But beyond the outline, any similarity to humans was terrifyingly absent. Their thin bones were covered with white, marshmallowy-looking flesh…
they had very small feet, about a size four by our measure
they had no fingernails. Their hands were small, delicate, without hair. Their thin round fingers looked soft and unwrinkled. Their smooth skin was so pale that it looked chalky, like ivory.
Their bald heads were disproportionately large for their puny bodies. They had bulging, oversized craniums, a small jaw structure, and an underdeveloped appearance to their features that was almost infantile. Their thin-lipped mouths were narrow; I never saw them open. Lying close to their heads on either side were tiny crinkled lobes of ears. Their miniature rounded noses had small oval nostrils.
The only facial feature that didn’t appear underdeveloped were those incredible eyes! Those glistening orbs had brown irises twice the size of those of a normal human eye’s, nearly an inch in diameter! The iris was so large that even parts of the pupils were hidden by the lids, giving the eyes a certain catlike appearance. There was very little of the white part of the eye showing. They had no lashes and no eyebrows.
In the chapter mentioned next, he also refers to them as “those awful creatures.”
He told the TV show Phenomena Television “these eyes blinked” and confirms that they had a pupil and iris.
During Travis’ first interview, in November 11, 1975 AD, he stated that he saw “men leaning over me. They weren’t really men, they were a lot like men but they weren’t quite human.” He states that they had underdeveloped features, no hair and were slightly shorter than myself. He notes that they were a “brownish orange” which more so matches the movie alien color than the ones depicted in his book that had white skin. The other human aliens were “Just like you and I.”
During an April 23, 1980 AD interviewed with Page Bryant and Jack Kennicutt, Travis Walton stated that the first thing he saw was “aliens” and recalls “those eyes were very large…they blinked” and were “extremely large.” He could not tell if they were male or female.
Another chapter of Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience is titled Human?, wherein he described the other aliens(?) as follows:
There, standing in the open doorway, was a human being!…He was a man about six feet two inches tall. His helmeted head barely cleared the doorway. He was extremely muscular and evenly proportioned. He appeared to weigh about two hundred pounds.
…three other humans! Two men and a woman were standing around the table…they had no helmets. The two men had the same muscularity and the same masculine good looks as the first man. The woman also had a face and figure that was the epitome of her gender. They were smooth-skinned and blemishless. No moles, freckles, wrinkles, or scars marked their skin. The striking good looks of the man I had first met became more obvious on seeing them all together. They shared a family-like resemblance, although they were not identical.
What this all mean, was it really real and other questions are, ultimately, left not altogether answered. Our purpose was to provide some of the relevant information about that which he claims about the beings with whom he interacted and how it fits into our concept of the Fifty Shades of Grey Aliens.
Jeff Wells was a member of The National Enquirer’s team that originally covered the Travis Walton case and, along with six other reporters, wrote the story “Arizona Man Captured by UFO” that was published on December 16, 1975 AD. He then wrote “Profitable Nightmare of a Very Unreal Kind” for the Melbourne, Australia paper The Age, January 6, 1979 AD.
Therein, he referenced, “The so-called facts, the carefully-woven tapestry” and that “We were to present a bold front for good footage of dedicated reporters sparing no expense to bring the public the true story of one of the most amazing incidents in recorded history.” Eventually:
…I sat down to detail everything that had happened in a 16-page memorandum designed to kill the story. It was all over…A few weeks later I picked up the paper I worked for and found that with the help of the professor it had turned my memorandum into a sensational front-page story…
An organization that is favorable to the UFO hypothesis, Ground Saucer Watch, noted that “The Waltons ‘sold’ their story to the National Enquirer and the story was completely twisted from the truth.”
He notes that, “My paper had offered tens of thousands of dollars to anybody who could positively prove that aliens had visited our planet” and that is was just “five days later” when “the young man we came to call ‘the kid’” Travis Walton “stumbled into a small western town, phoned his brother and claimed he had been kidnapped by the crew of an alien spacecraft we were ready”:
It was a tale of little men with heads like fishbowls and skin like mushrooms… The kid was a wreck and it was all the psychiatrist could do to get him ready for the lie-detector expert we had lined up. The test lasted an hour…The kid had failed the test miserably. The polygraph man said it was the plainest case of lying he’d seen in 20 years but the office was yelling for another expert and a different result. To head that off we had the psychiatrist put the cowboy and the kid through a long session of analysis. Their methods were unique. The next day the four of them disappeared into a room and soon a waiter was headed there with two bottles of cognac. At the end of it the psychiatrists were rolling drunk but they had their story…
…the professor had talked the brothers out of taking the sheriff’s polygraph test and into an hypnosis session in his room immediately…
Not only did this transpire five days after the offering of a reward but also, two weeks before the Walton event, NBC had aired a movie based on the experiences of Barney and Betty Hill. The movie, The UFO Incident, depicts the aliens as having large eyes but with whites and pupils, just like Travis’ and not like that which has become the standard description of large all black eyes. Also like Travis’ aliens, the Hills’ wore clothes which are also unlike the standard.
The failed test was the one with John J. McCarthy, a test that was not mentioned in the National Enquirer story. This is covered in chapters 18-23 of Philip J. Klass’ book UFOs The Public Deceived.
An interesting point is that, “It seemed that the kid’s father, who had deserted them as a child, had been a spaceship fanatic and all his life the kid had wanted to ride in a spacecraft.” In fact, Travis’ brother previously “began to talk about his own UFO experience when he had been chased by a flying saucer through the woods as a child.” During a UFOAZ interview, Travis stated that his brother’s had been a “pretty dramatic sighting.”
Moreover, GSW interviewed Travis’ family beginning whilst he was missing (they did so along with Dr. J. Allen Hynek of the Center for UFO Studies). One of their investigation’s eventual conclusions is that “The entire Walton family has had a continual UFO history. The Walton boys have reported observing 10 to 15 separate UFO sightings (very high).” Furthermore, during a November 8, 1975 AD interview with Fred Sylvanus, Travis’ brother Duane stated that he had regularly seen UFOs for the previous “ten or twelve years. I’ve been seeing them all the time.” So focused on UFO was the Walton clan that, as Duane put it, he and Travis had a general agreement that if the occasion ever presented itself they would “immediately get as directly under the object as physically possible.” At that time, he thought that Travis was “having the experience of a lifetime.”
Despite all of this, at one point, Duane told Arizona’s Daily Star, “I’m not a UFO buff and neither is my brother.”
He had seen something out there in the woods, some kind of an eerie light which had triggered a powerful hallucination which might recur at any time. There was no question of any kidnap by any mushroom men…
Reports began to filter in that the witnesses’ lie detector tests were not much help either – they supported the story that they had all seen the strange light but not that the strange light was identifiable as a spaceship…
The problem with hypnosis is that after a session who can tell what was real and what was not. In other words, the crew that worked with Travis can attest to having seen a “strange light,” (five of Travis’ crew passed the polygraph question, “Did you tell the truth about actually seeing a UFO last Wednesday when Travis Walton disappeared? with the sixth result being inconclusive) a basic story was related to McCarthy and resulted in a failed polygraph, Travis underwent hypnosis and suddenly, subsequent polygraphs result in Travis having told the truth about his experiences aboard the craft. However, this only mean that he believes that which he is stating and does not mean that he actually underwent the experience. What we do know that he did undergo is hypnosis. Thus, perhaps he has passed polygraphs because he is retelling hypnotically suggested false memory events.
In fact, the Ground Saucer Watch report concludes that “Walton never boarded the UFO. This fact is supported by the six witnesses and the polygraph test results.”
Another interesting note is that the GSW report has it that Travis’ brother stated “I have a feeling, a strong feeling” that “Travis will be found” because the “UFO’s are friendly.” When asked “If the UFO ‘captors’ are going to return Travis, will you have a camera to record this great occurrence?” he replied, “No, if I have a camera ‘they’ will not return.”
Also, Travis’ mother “showed no outward emotion over the ‘loss’ of Travis and stated that UFOs would not harm her son and that he would be returned” and stated, “Well, that’s the way these things happen.” She noted that UFOs had been seen by her family, including by herself, many times. His sister, Grant Neff, also took the news in a strangely calm manner.
Promoter of the Barney and Betty Hill, Karl Pflock noted, within the January 15, 2000 AD issue of James Moseley’s UFO gossip newsletter Saucer Smear, Vol. 47 No. 1, a statement by Steve Pierce, part of Travis’ crew, made during a recorded June 20, 1978 AD interview. When asked “What did you see?” by Philip Klass, he answered:
Uh, well, I thought it was something a deer hunter, you know, rigged up. You know, ’cause it was deer season, you know, so he could see. You know? And, uh, and, but I couldn’t see the bottom or a top or sides, all’s I could see was the front of it, you know. You couldn’t tell if it had a bottom to it or, you know, or a back to it or anything.
This is of interest as some claim that Travis could have rigged up some light source in the trees. Within this scenario, Mike Rogers, the driver, was also in on it and would have sped off once Travis neared the source of light so as to allow Travis to abscond to wherever he hid away for five days. This would have the convenient byproduct of removing the witnesses from being able to witness anything further; they saw a light and sped off.
The “Yes” answer to “Did you tell the truth about actually seeing a UFO last Wednesday when Travis Walton disappeared?” is true as they did see an object that they thought was flying but could not identify.
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