By: Pony Godic The following is an excerpt from "UFO ABDUCTIONS True Cases of Alien Kidnappings" Edited and with Commentaries by D. Scott Rogo, 1980, Signet Books. In this compilation there is a chapter by Bill Barry, on the Travis Walton abduction, titled "Kidnapped." There have, of course, been whole books written on this case. And, in recent times, it came back into prominence due to the release of a film based upon Walton's experience. Since this film involved details not experienced by Walton, i.e. artistic licence was used, and since the case has suffered skeptical attack and therefore been attended by a certain amount of controversy, I thought a brief outline of Walton's experience, minus the arguments and counter arguments which have waged around it, might be of interest. In Bill Barry's write up there is a section in which Walton, in his own words, relates what happened to him. For the information of all, and intending no infringement of copyright, I have extracted this small section. But first time and place: November 5, 1975, sometime around 6.30 p.m. approx., Sitgreaves National Forest, 156 miles northeast of Phoenix. "TRAVIS WALTON'S STORY: "The slash pile stopped me from getting directly beneath it. It was glowing this yellowish-white golden color, like a huge light bulb... A sound was coming from it, not very loud, like beep-beep-beep. Then I heard Mike, or somebody, holler, `Get away from there!' And I looked around at them. When I looked back at the craft, it suddenly made a real loud noise, and it started to move, like it was coming alive, kind of an erratic spin-type movement. I jumped down behind this log, and I made up my mind right there. I was going to get the hell out of there. "I stood up, and as I turned to go, I just felt this electric shot, and blow, like I'd been hit with a baseball bat. It all happened very fast. Then I went out. "I don't know what happened after that, but when I woke up, I was lying on my back. There was light about three feet above me... I couldn't focus my eyes, and I had a lot of pain, in my head and chest mainly, but all over. I kept going in and out. "When I regained consciousness, I could hear movements around me. So I looked and saw these creatures standing there. I just came unglued, became hysterical. They were short, maybe five feet, with large, domed heads - very large, bald. They had these enormous brown eyes - oh, man, those eyes - they just stared through me. They didn't have any eyelashes, no eyebrows, and their mouths and ears and noses seemed real small, maybe just because their eyes were so huge. They were wearing loose coveralls, orangish-brown, tan. "I jumped up, screaming at them, and this thing fell off my chest. It was like a thick plastic strap that went half way around me. When it hit the floor, it rocked back and forth. A light came from beneath it, but there weren't any wires or tubes in it. When I jumped up, I hit this one creature on my right, pushed him back, and he fell real easy into the next one. They had this white, marshmallowy skin, and their bodies were real light-weight. "I couldn't stand up very well. I staggered back against the wall. There was a shelf on the wall, and I grabbed this clear tube from it and tried to break the end off it for something sharp to defend myself with. It was too light for a club. They started toward me, and when that tube wouldn't break, I just lashed out at them with it, screaming stuff like: `Get away from me! What are you? What's going on here?' "I was just hysterical. They stopped and kind of thrust their hands out, like they meant no or stop or something. They didn't try to attack me or anything. Then they all just turned and walked out, hurried out. Shoo! they were gone. "This room was really hot. The air was so wet and heavy I could hardly breathe. And my mind was just raging the whole time. I felt like I was burned, inside and out, and I ached all over, too, like I'd been crushed... "Anyway, after a couple of minutes, I went to the door and looked down the way they had gone. It was a curved hallway that went right and left. I couldn't see anybody. They had gone right; so I went down to the left. I just took off running and went right past another door. I wanted to find a way out, but I was just hysterical. That's the one thing I had in my mind: get out of here. I was claustrophobic, frantic. But I finally got hold of myself a little and told myself to check out the next door. I ran up to it, on the right, and it was open; so I went in. "It was just a round room with nothing in it, except a metal chair sitting on one center leg in the middle of the room. It was high-backed, and I was afraid there might be someone sitting in it. So I kind of sidled along the wall, until I could get a look into the chair. And a real funny thing happened. "When I got closer to the middle of the room, it got darker. And when I stepped back, it got lighter again. When it got darker, I could see the stars - through the walls, the ceiling, the floor. Everywhere I looked. "There was nobody in the chair. On the right armrest there was a panel of buttons and a small, green screen with black lines across it. The left armrest had one lever on it. I wanted to find a way out of there, and across the room there were some rectangles on the wall, like they might be doorways, just cracks really. I thought if I pushed the right buttons, I could open the doors. So I punched a couple of the buttons, and nothing happened. Then I moved the lever... and the stars started moving all around; and the lines on the screen moved. The stars stayed in their same patterns. They just moved all together, on the ceiling and through the walls. "It was upsetting. I didn't know what was going on. But I quit doing that. I was afraid I would really mess something up. I could really hurt myself. Then I heard a sound. I turned around, and there was a man standing there, near the door. He was a man just like a human being - not exactly Caucasian, but like a dark, evenly tanned Caucasian. He was big, over six feet, built heavy, and he was wearing tight-fitting blue coveralls, with a helmet over his whole head. "He motioned me over to him with his right hand, and I ran up to him, screaming stuff like: `How'd you get in here? How do I get out? What is this?" I thought he was American, just people, as far as I could tell. This helmet on his head was like a clear bubble, flattened on top and it came down to his shoulders. There weren't any wires or hoses or anything on it. He didn't answer me; so I thought maybe he couldn't hear me. "He just kind of smiled, tolerantlike, and he took me by the arm and led me out of there. I thought, I'll go with him, and maybe we'll get someplace where he'll take that helmet off and he can hear me. His eyes were kind of strange, bright golden hazel. "We went down that hallway and through some empty place, kind of an air lock. I thought we were outside. The air just got cooler, fresher; it felt like out of doors. And the light was much brighter, like sunlight. I felt really relieved, out of that heat, and I could breathe again. "We were in this building, or larger craft, that had a high curved ceiling. It was like a quarter of a cylinder on its side. The ceiling curved into one wall at one side, and there were three flat walls. There were two or three craft parked in there. They were shaped differently. They were rounded, oval, and saucer shaped, but they didn't have any angles to them. They were smoother and shinier. "We went through that room and down the hallway to another room, smaller. There were some other people in here, two men and a woman... They weren't wearing helmets. Their hair was long, dirty blond. "The first man put me in a chair and went across the room and out a door without saying a word. I was talking to these others, asking them questions, but they wouldn't answer me either. They just kind of smiled at me. Their expressions hardly changed. Then the woman and one of the men took me by the arms and started to put me on a table. I was going along with it, but they wouldn't answer my questions, and I started to resist, yelling: `Hey, hang on there a second.' I was getting hysterical again. They just smiled, tolerant, like I was misbehaving. They weren't mad or anything. They started to pull a mask down over my face, like an oxygen mask. I reached up to pull it off, and I went out... "That's the last thing I remember till I woke up on the highway outside Heber. It was dark, and I saw one of those rounded craft hovering about four feet over the highway. I looked up just as a light went out, like a hatch closing, or just a light going out. And then it just shot straight up. I don't see how anything could move that fast without shrieking. It didn't make a sound. It was just gone. "I ran down to the phone booths at the gas station, and I called my brother-in-law because he was the only nearby one in the family with a phone. "Then I just slumped down in the booth, thinking about it. I couldn't get those eyes out of my head. They were big, glassy eyes, hardly any white in them, all brown. When they blinked, it was like shades on a window going up and down. I didn't want to look at them, and I couldn't avoid them either. "I was really tired and thirsty, but I didn't hurt so much anymore. I just burned and ached a little bit. That's how Duane and Grant found me, stuffed down in the phone booth. They took me back to my mother's house in Snowflake. On the way somebody said something that struck me funny, something like how everybody had been worried about me. And I said something about how it had only been a couple of hours. And Duane said, `Travis, feel your face!' I had a real heavy growth of beard. "And he said, `You've been gone five days.'" Bill Barry, an investigative reporter, began following the Travis Walton Case when it first happened. His book on the incident "Ultimate Encounter," appeared in 1977. It's many years since I read it, but as far as I recall, I found this a well rounded book, packed full of information, and have no hesitation in recommending it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + UFO Research Australia Secretary - Cairns QLD + + e-mail to ParaNet: 9:1040/6 - Internet: pony.godic@paranet.org + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++