Before they could even get out of the vehicle, the men became terrified and sped away, leaving their friend behind in his predicament. After driving about a quarter of a mile, they saw a bright point of light rise into the sky from the spot where they had just been. Once their fear subsided, they decided to return. They went back, but Walton was nowhere to be found. Both the UFO and the daring lumberjack had vanished. Travis Walton was searched for by the lumberjacks as well as the police; however, no trace of him could be found.
It was not until five days later that Travis Walton reappeared on his own. He was exhausted and emaciated. He remembered almost nothing of what had happened to him, other than the sensation of being struck by something akin to an electric shock. When he regained consciousness, he found himself lying on a table in a vast, brightly lit room. His coat was unbuttoned, and a metal object—which was causing him pain—lay on his chest.
Three beings, each about a meter and a half tall, moved about the room; they were hairless, pale-skinned, and had prominent foreheads. With their enormous eyes, they stared at Travis, yet they did not utter a single word. Travis sprang up from the table, knocked the painful object from his chest, and unleashed a torrent of every curse word he knew, berating the creatures mercilessly. They did not react; they simply left the room. Walton followed them. In the next room, he saw a being of human stature, dressed in a blue suit and wearing a helmet. This being led the logger into a third room and seated him in front of a console equipped with numerous levers and twenty-five buttons. On a screen, Walton saw stars that began to spin in a circle. Unable to contain himself, he asked, "Are you from Earth?" But he received no answer.
The extraterrestrial gestured for Walton to follow and took him into a space resembling a garage. The garage was divided into sections, each housing a small "flying saucer." In the fourth room, Walton saw two men and a woman, who likewise did not deign to speak to him. The examination inside the UFO concluded with Walton being brought back to the first room, laid on a table, and having a mask placed over his face. He lost consciousness again, and when he came to, he was lying on the roadside in a completely different location from where he had been struck by the beam and taken aboard the UFO.
Every story of alien abduction contains many strange and puzzling elements. Take, for instance, the “adventures” of Travis Walton… How could he have seen numerous large chambers inside a UFO if, from the outside, the object appeared to be no more than 6 meters in diameter?
Could his reappearance elsewhere be explained by the fact that, dazed with terror, he wandered off into the woods and spent five full days in a state of unconsciousness? Or perhaps he did indeed enter a UFO, but what he witnessed was merely an image implanted into his consciousness? Could it be that space and time inside a UFO differ fundamentally from the space-time outside—meaning that what appeared to the loggers as 6 meters in diameter was actually 6 kilometers across?
I have no doubt that many people who are convinced they have been inside a UFO, or have had “contact,” have truly experienced these things. Yet, experience is both objective and subjective. From a subjective—that is, a purely human—perspective, these individuals are sincere and have no intention of lying.