The Travis Walton Experience - What really happened and didn't happen. Travis Walton’s UFO incident is one of the most famous cases in the annals of ufology and abduction.

When Travis Walton was 22 years old, he was working a logging contract in central Arizona in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. While driving home one evening, Walton and his co-workers came across a hovering disk-shaped object that drew him closer to get a better look. What ensued became known as the Travis Walton UFO incident.

Walton jumped out of his truck and approached the flying object, against the will of his colleagues. When he got within close proximity, he was struck with a jolt of energy that hurled him 20 feet through the air, knocking him unconscious and scaring off his friends. Walton allegedly woke up laying on a gurney in what he thought was a hospital emergency room.

His chest was heavy and his vision blurry, as he struggled to gather his bearings and figure out where he was. But when he focused his line of sight, he found a trio of extraterrestrials wearing orange surgical gowns, staring at him with, “luminous brown eyes the size of quarters.”

Walton disappeared for nearly a week, before he turned up in Snowflake, AZ, traumatized and bewildered by the chain of events he was subjected to.

Travis Walton’s UFO incident is one of the most famous cases in the annals of ufology and abduction. The story is also one of the more highly contentious cases in a realm that has had its fair share of attention-seekers and frauds.

After Walton returned, he and the six coworkers who supposedly witnessed his abduction, submitted to a battery of psychiatric and polygraph tests, many of which they voluntarily subjected themselves to. Walton has since submitted to 16 different lie detector tests, including one on a popular Fox game show called The Moment of Truth.