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1993: Fire In The Sky – The Taking Of Travis Walton

The following appeared in the March/April [1993] issue of The Georgia Skeptic, the newsletter of the Georgia Skeptics: by Anson Kennedy On November 5, 1975, a 22 year old logger by the name of Travis Walton was allegedly abducted by a UFO near Snowflake, Arizona. Witnessed by six companions, his experience is possibly the most unique and controversial alien abduction tale in the short history of the phenomenon. Now, some seventeen years later, Paramount Pictures has brought this incredible story to the silver screen. On March 12, 1993, Fire in the Sky> opened in theaters across the country. Scripted by Tracy Torme’, who also wrote last year’s CBS miniseries on alien abductions, Intruders, the movie is loosely based on Walton’s book, aptly named The […] Read More

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2001: The Case for Extraterrestrial UFOs

While most sights described as UFOs turn out to be misidentified known natural and artificial phenomena, many hundreds do not. It is these that form the core of the UFO mystery. That UFOs constitute a distinct category of describable sights is based on hundreds of highly detailed and consistent descriptions by professionals (especially airline and military pilots) of their close-up, broad daylight observations of unique flying machines. This is supported by the permanent files of the U. S. Air Force‘s Project Blue Book UFO investigation (1948-1969). Of 572 cases admittedly unidentified (and not simply lacking sufficient information), 15% (85) are from military pilots, most of them the USAF’s own. Adding to them the unexplained sightings by commercial airline and professional test pilots, the figure […] Read More