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By Hal McKenzie
Part II
"Hollywood changed things quite a bit" from the true story of his 1975 abduction, said Travis Walton Saturday. As keynote speaker at the Alternate Realities Conference June 27-29 in Roan Mountain State Park, TN, he gave the facts as he remembered them of being taken into a shiny craft and his encounter with alien beings, which was made famous in the movie "Fire in the Sky" starring Patrick Sweeney playing Walton.
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Travis Walton
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Walton also provided previously unpublished data about strange effects on the trees at the spot where he was transfixed by a blue beam from a glowing UFO as six terrified witnesses looked on. Analysis of tree rings shows growth within the area 36 times the rate prior to the encounter.
Walton showed a slide of a tree cross-section that clearly shows much wider rings after the year of the encounter than before. UFO researcher Earle Benezet in an earlier lecture mentioned that a similar phenomenon was recorded in the plants within the radius of crop circles.
Further backing the reality of Walton's abduction is the fact that it occurred in the presence of six eyewitnesses, all of whom passed lie detector tests. No other abduction account on record has this much corroboration.
Walton backed up his talk with slides from illustrations of the book Fire In The Sky: The Walton Experience. It happened on Nov. 5, 1975, as Walton and his co-workers were driving home from a day of logging in the White Mountains of Arizona.
At first they saw a glow through the trees, which then became a shiny metallic object. Walton, a reckless youth at the time, told the driver to stop the truck so he could get out and investigate. "I thought it might get away before I could get a look at it," he said.
Walton described the object as circular, with panels of a metal that seemed to glow "kind of like moulten metal" separated by bands of a reflective material that mirrored the trees below. It gave off a low rumble, barely within the range of human hearing, and a faint "cyclical sound, high pitched, like something scraping," he said.
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