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14 Travis Walton - Fire in the Sky 14 Travis Walton - Fire in the Sky An Ordinary Day and a silvery reflection that could have been An Ordinary Day Continued from Page 13 another shiny, rounded craft. They were about Continued from Page 13 forty or forty-five feet in diameter, quite a bit smaller than the angular vehicle I had just come The experiment I was considering was out of. I saw no projections or breaks in the risky, but I was desperate. Maybe one of those smooth, shiny, flattened spheres. They sat on buttons would open a door or something. On very rounded bottoms and I could not see how impulse, I went ahead and pushed one of the they balanced that way. green buttons. I looked around the room and The man escorted me across the open listened carefully — nothing happened. When I floor to a door that opened silently and quickly pushed the button, I noticed that the lines on the from the middle outward. We were in a hallway screen had moved. I recklessly pushed another about six feet wide, illuminated from the eight- green one. The lines rapidly changed angles, foot-high ceiling, which was one long panel of slid down each other, then stopped. I pushed softly diffused light. The hallway was straight some of the other colored buttons. Nothing and perhaps eighty feet long. Closed double happened. Nothing moved and no sound could doors were distributed along the corridor. be heard. At the end of the hallway, another pair of Trembling, I sat down on the hard and silently behind us. Again I attempted to talk double doors. I watched closely this time. I did surface of the chair. I put my hand onto the to the man as we stood there. No answer. not see him touch anything, but again the doors molded T-grip of the lever. The handle was We spent approximately two minutes in slid silently back from the middle. We entered a slightly small for my hand. The whole chair the metal cubicle, no more than seven by five by white room approximately fifteen feet square, seemed a little too small. I rotated the handle of twelve feet. Then a doorway, the same size as with another eight-foot-high ceiling. The room the lever forward, feeling the slow, fluid the other door and directly opposite it, slid open. had a table and a chair in it. But my interest was resistance of it. I felt suddenly disoriented as the The brilliant warm light that came immediately focused on the three other humans! stars began moving downward in front of me, in through the opening door into the airlock-like Two men and a woman were standing unison. Quickly I pulled my hand off the lever, room was almost like daylight in color and around the table. They were all wearing velvety which returned to its original vertical position. brightness. Fresh, cool air wafted in, reminding blue uniforms like the first man's, except that The stars stopped moving, but remained where me of springtime in the out-of-doors, making they had no helmets. The two men had the same they were when I released the lever. me realize just how dark and stifling that place muscularity and the same masculine good looks If this thing is flying, I could crash it or had been. What relief that fresh air was! The air as the first man. The woman also had a face and throw it off course and get lost or something! I moved around me in a softly fluctuating current. figure that was the epitome of her gender. They resolved not to tamper with those controls I stood and inhaled deeply the clean, cool were smooth-skinned and blemishless. No anymore. I might escalate a desperate situation breeze. The last tinges of the ache in my head moles, freckles, wrinkles, or scars marked their into a fatal disaster. and chest almost completely disappeared. I had skin. The striking good looks of the man I had I got out of the chair and walked to the nearly forgotten the discomfort that had been first met became more obvious on seeing them edge of the room. As I did, the stars faded out with me constantly since I had regained all together. They shared a family-like and the surfaces of the wall, ceiling, and floor consciousness. resemblance, although they were not identical. came into sight. I moved over to one of the "Would somebody please tell me where rectangles resembling closed doors. I searched I am?" I implored. I was still utterly shaken the edges for a sign of a switch or an opening from my encounter with those awful creatures. mechanism. Seeing none, I put my eye to the "What in hell is going on? What is this place?" crack; I could not see any light. I looked around They didn't answer me. They only for some kind of symbol or writing that would looked at me, though not unkindly. One man help me figure out where I was or how to get out and the woman came around the table, of there. None. approaching me. Silently they each took me by I walked back to the chair and stood an arm and led me toward the table. I didn't beside it, looking at the buttons. I was thinking know why I should cooperate with them. They about pushing some of them, when I heard a wouldn't even tell me anything. But I was in no faint sound. I whirled around and looked at the position to argue, so I went along at first. door. There, standing in the open doorway, was They lifted me easily onto the edge of a human being! the table. I became wary and started protesting. I stood frozen to the spot. He was a man I decended a short, steep ramp seven or "Wait a minute. Just tell me what you are going about six feet two inches tall. His helmeted head eight feet to the floor. I looked around to to do!" (Continued on Page 15) barely cleared the doorway. He was extremely discover that, although I was outside that dim, muscular and evenly proportioned. He appeared humid craft, I was not out-of-doors. I was in a to weigh about two hundred pounds. He wore a huge room. The ceiling was sectioned into tight-fitting bright blue suit of soft material like alternating rectangles of dark metal and those velour. His feet were covered with black boots, that gave off light. The ceiling itself curved a black band or belt wrapped around his middle. down to form one of the larger walls in the He carried no tools or weapons on his belt or in room. The room was shaped like one-quarter of his hands; no insignia marked his clothing. a cylinder laid on its side. I ran up to him, exclaiming, babbling all The outside of the craft we had just left sorts of questions. The man remained silent was shaped like the one we had seen in the throughout my verbal barrage. I was worried by woods, but was very much larger, about sixty his silence. He took me firmly but gently by the feet in diameter and sixteen feet high. It did not arm and gestured for me to go with him. He led emit light; instead it had a surface of shiny me out of that room and hurried me down the brushed-metal luster. It seemed to radiate a faint Have you seen a UFO? narrow hallway, pulling me along behind him heat from its hull. The craft either sat flat on its Is your House Haunted? due to its narrowness. bottom or, if it had legs, they were only a few Have you seen a Ghost? He stopped in front of a closed doorway inches high. It sat nearly in the middle of the that slid open, into the wall. I did not see what large room. We would like to hear from you, see your caused it to open. The door opened into a bare On my left, toward one end of the large photos, listen to your EVP’s and look at your room so small it was more like a foyer or room, there were two or three oval-shaped video’s. Email The ‘X’ Zone today at section of hallway. 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