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80 The Travis Walton Abduction Case

The Travis Walton

Abduction Case: Fact,

Fiction Or Psychosis?

You be the Judge & Jury

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After a short, tense standoff, the beings
turned around and exited quickly out the door
immediately behind them.
Shortly thereafter Travis himself ran out
of the room and headed left into a curving
corridor three feet wide. In short order he came
to an open room on his right. It was round,
domed, and apparently empty of anything
except a high-backed metal chair in the middle.
The chair was supported by a single center leg.
Since its back was to him, Travis could not be
sure that someone was not sitting in it., but he
decided to take a chance. Moving slowly and
quietly with his back pressed up against the wall,
he positioned himself so that he could glimpse
the chairs occupant, if there was one. There
wasn’t. enough to cover his ears, and he was dressed in larger ship.
When he stepped back toward the chair, a tight-fitting, bright blue coverall suit with a The two walked across a floor of spongy
the light began to fade. He stepped forward black band or belt across the middle. He wore green rubber like material to a door in the hangar
again and suddenly was surrounded by stars. He black boots. In his excitement Travis failed to room. It opened from the middle and brought
could not tell whether the walls, ceiling, and appreciate just how odd the man’s eyes looked. them into a hallway six feet wide and eight feet
floor had become transparent, revealing the A “strange bright golden hazel,” they were not high. They walked some 80 feet past a number
space through which the craft presumably was really eyes of a human being. of closed double doors. “When do we get to go
moving, or star like points of light it had been The figure motioned to Travis, who home?” Travis wanted to know. “Where are we
projected, planetarium-fashion, on all approached with a series of frantic questions to going now?” As usual his companion acted as if
surrounding surfaces. Except for the fact that the which the only response was a “tolerant grin.” he had not heard him.
walls were still vaguely visible, “the effect was Travis thought that man had said nothing They finally came to another pair of
like sitting in a chair in the middle of space,” because his helmet blocked out his hearing; doors at the end of the hallway. As they slid
Travis would later write. maybe they were going someplace where the silently open, Travis saw two men and a woman
There was a panel of buttons on the right man would remove the helmet and then they sitting in a room. They were dressed like his
armrest, along with a screen with vertical black could talk. Led by the arm, Travis was taken into companion and even bore a family sort of
lines. The left armrest held a lever. Travis the curving, narrow, hallway, the man in the resemblance to him. Like him, they were good-
pushed a couple of buttons, but nothing lead, until they came to a closed door to their looking and perfectly featured. The woman, who
happened. Then he sat in the chair and pushed right. It opened into a tiny “metal cubicle” of a appeared to be wearing no makeup, wore her
the lever forward. room which the two entered as the door closed hair longer than the men did.
The back lines on the screen moved, and the behind them. Travis asked where they were The three were not wearing helmets,
stars started rotating, though keeping their going, but his companion again ignored the which gave Travis false encouragement. “Would
relative positions all the while. Frightened and question. somebody please tell me where I am?” he asked
disorientated, Travis pulled his hand off the They then entered an enormous room desperately. The beings only looked at with him
lever, which then returned to its original position which Travis thought of as an airlock or hangar. pleasant expressions on their faces, as the
on its own. The stars stopped rotating and were Inside the air was fresh and cool with gently helmeted sat him down in a chair before leaving
frozen into their new positions. flowing breezes, almost as if they were outside, through another door, entering a corridor, and
Soon he was fooling with the lever again, and the light was as bright as sunlight. Travis departing to the right.
and now more radically, pushing it in all descended a short, steep ramp and looked As Travis continued to talk the woman
directions, hoping that he could open one of the around him. He would recall: and one of the men stepped over to him, one on
doors whose thin rectangular outlines he thought The ceiling was sectioned into each side, and took him by his arms to a nearby
he could see on the wall in front of him. The alternating rectangles of dark metal and those table. Though initially cooperative, Travis grew
stars again whirled around. Travis let go once that gave off light like the sun shining through a less so when he realized that they were not going
more, fearing that if he kept playing with the translucent panel. The alternation of the light to tell him anything. He shouted at them, but
instruments, he might cause some real damage. and dark panels reminded me of a checkerboard. they continued to look on him with the same
He got to his feet and walked over to the The ceiling itself was curved down to form one silent, kindly look, which amount to a small,
wall. The stars faded away, and the room lighted of the larger walls in the room. The room was toothless grin. Even as he struggled, the beings
up. Travis ran his fingers along the outline of shaped like one quarter of a cylinder laid on its managed to force him on his back. Once he was
what he thought be a closed door, then walked side. down, he noticed that the woman had in her
back to the chair. As he was standing beside it, The craft Travis and the strange man had hand something that “looked like one of those
he heard some sounds and looked at the open just left looked like the one he had seen in the clear, soft-plastic oxygen masks, only there were
doorway behind the chair. There he was startled woods except that it was considerably larger, no tubes connected to it. The only thing attached
to see a human figure wearing a transparent blue perhaps 60 feet in diameter and 16 feet high. To to it was a small, black, golf ball-sized sphere.”
helmet over his head. A relieved Travis reflected his left were two similar but smaller vehicles (40 She placed it over his mouth and nose, and as
that he was among his own, to 45 feet in diameter) parked close to the wall. Travis prepared to rip it off his face, he lost
The man looked like a deeply tanned, A silver reflection nearly looked as if it could consciousness.
muscular Caucasian, about six foot two inches have from a third craft, but he was not sure
tall, 200 pounds. He had sandy blond hair long because its source was mostly obscured by the (Continued on Page 81)