Summary
Travis Walton is the central figure in one of the most thoroughly witnessed CE4 cases on record. On November 5, 1975, he vanished in full view of six coworkers after approaching a hovering disc-shaped craft in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. He reappeared five days later with fragmented memories of being aboard a craft. Five of his six coworkers subsequently passed Arizona Department of Public Safety polygraph examinations corroborating their account of the initial disappearance. His 1993 memoir Fire in the Sky and the Paramount film adaptation of the same year brought the case to mainstream awareness. The case remains significant in CE4 research due to the number of independent corroborating witnesses and the documented multi-decade polygraph record.
Roles
- -Timber contract worker, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest (1975)
- -Author - Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience (1993)
- -UAP experiencer and public witness
Organizations
Education
- -Snowflake High School, Snowflake, Arizona
Early Career
- -Grew up in Snowflake, Arizona, a small community in Navajo County
- -Worked as a timber contract worker for crew boss Mike Rogers in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
- -One of seven crew members working a USFS reforestation contract in November 1975