in 2014 UFO researcher and former federal agent Ben Hansen returns to the clearing site of the original incident with Travis by his side to try and uncover any remaining evidence of the so-called UFO encounter they located the exact spot of the supposed abduction and as it turned out they found compelling new evidence that Hansen thinks could be the Smoking Gun [Applause] We Begin here just after dark in the White Mountains of Arizona in the fall of 1975 there’s a world of difference between and Justice sometimes doing is right when we get back remind me that we need to put some gas in the Chainsaw for tomorrow I for these seven young men it’s a night they’ll both never forget and also struggle to remember they’ve been working all day chopping down the pine trees that cover these mountains what they don’t know is that their drive back
to town will become a road trip like no other one of these men will suddenly vanish in jaw-dropping circumstances setting off one of the most gripping and bizarre missing person cases in history pretty soon people all across the country and the world will be asking what really happened to Travis [Music] [Applause] Walton [Music] give in the summer of 1975 Travis Walton is a member of a seven-man logging crew hired to thin out trees in the Apache sit Greaves National Forest they’re a tight-knit hardworking group then several months into the job on November 5th as they head back to town everything in their world [Music] changes we get home we’re going to have a as they drive along the rocky Forest Road that they’ve traveled countless times before suddenly the men are stunned by a large mysterious object floating in the sky what the hell is
that while fear grips the rest of the crew something inexplicably draws Travis Walton towards the light come back here D it TR it Travis come back hey Travis come on back here man Travis [Music] Tris come on on gripped with panic his friends flee the scene [Music] PR pres 15 minutes later when the light appears to be gone they returned to the site to find nothing no craft No Light No Travis their friend has vanished so they race to the nearest phone to call the sheriff Chuck Ellison our friends been say though he’s skeptical Sheriff Ellison accompanies the men back to the scene D it it D it come back D it it but after a search that drags late into the night they’re forced to call off the hunt as the temperature plummets if Travis is out there somewhere he’s in for a brutally cold
night over the next 5 days the Sheriff’s Office and volunteers frantically search the [Applause] area in an odd moment that would become relevant decades later the logging foreman and others recall an investigator using a Geer counter when they test the men’s hard hats the needle jumps way up but let’s file that away for now because this small logging crew is about to have their feet held to the Fire 3 days after Travis goes missing the sheriff’s department administers polygraph tests for the six loggers the men deny any involvement in Travis’s disappearance and they all recount the same bright light in the sky they pass with flying colors but there’s still no explanation for where Travis Walton could be 5 days after Travis’s disappearance his brother-in-law receives a call hello who is this that’s Travis he’s stumbled to a pay phone on the outskirts of a small town about 10
miles from where he disappeared Travis buddy you’re going to be okay when they find him all he remembers is waking up earlier that night lying flat on the road with a light above him that [Music] disappeared but in the days to come Travis would remember more and more and what he remembers transforms this from a simple missing person’s case to an out of this world alien abduction nightmare unlike anything anyone had heard before when the word gets out to the public newspapers all over the world run with the story creating a feverish interest that will last decades but doubters also come out of the woodwork the loggers are accused of fabricating an elaborate hoax to get them off the hook from running behind schedule on their logging contract other Skeptics write it off as ball lightning a runin with a military craft drug induced hallucinations or simply a drunken prank
but Travis and the rest of the logging crew stand by their story and none of the alternative theories can be [Music] proven but if it all really happened where is the evidence well some of the best evidence is Travis himself blood tests taken soon after Travis’s return come back completely clean for drugs and any intoxicants though he is dehydrated and a few pounds lighter five nights of no food in the forest should have left his body much more malnourished you’re going to be okay and perhaps the most amazing thing is that Travis survived at all at night the forest can reach below freezing temperatures few could survive such an ordeal wearing just jeans and a flannel shirt anywhere another point in Travis’s favor is that he just like the other crew members takes a polygraph test he too passes so at the very least Travis
believes his own story and as days turn to weeks months years and even decades Travis’s story always stays remarkably consistent never changing or shifting like lies sometimes do and Travis seemed genuinely honest that the event had affected him deeply when I sat down with him 40 years later for years the memory was so clear that uh every time I recounted the events that I would re-experience that level of fear my uh heart and respiration would go way up and it was I would just be drenched and sweat after describing what had happened at that time well thank you for for letting us consider the facts thank you for for sharing your story with us I really appreciate it the Travis Walton story has been a mystery for 50 years but it may not be a mystery for much longer thanks to an unexpected find at the original site we
may be able to reveal the remarkable truth of his story in 2014 UFO researcher and former federal agent Ben Hansen returns to the clearing site of the original incident with Travis by his side to try and uncover any remaining evidence of the so-called UFO encounter they located the exact spot of the supposed abduction and as it turned out they found compelling new evidence that Hansen thinks could be the Smoking Gun I regard the Travis Walt incident as the most well-documented case of alleged UFO Abduction in history but a lot of people dismiss UFO cases because they say there’s no video of it but there’s no hard evidence in my previous careers of law enforcement investigations you have to approach things very methodically as if you’re going to present this in court so when I went back with Travis to the scene of the original 1975 incident it
was very important that we actually processed the scene like a crime scene we quarantined an area boundary we defined it we mapped it out we gritted it out and that’s when we discovered that the the area that was surrounding where the craft was hovering had trees that seemed to have grown like exponential growth compared to the other trees and on one side of the tree it’s thicker meaning those Rings after 1975 were spaced further apart but they also had an unusual quality about them they were all pointing towards one specific point in the middle no matter where those trees were they were growing thicker and bigger facing the side where the craft was hovering after the 1975 event there were high levels of radiation that were documented over Ground Zero where the craft had been hovering I started to research radiation and I came across a couple of papers now
these academic papers were written um after the Chernobyl incident in the Soviet Union now when the the leak and the radiation had spread most people would assume any living organism within that radius is dead but if you also remember think about radiation and its ability to mutate and what they found was there was a certain type of pine tree and these trees were growing much much quicker because there was residual uh radiation left at the scene so I thought this is compelling because with the Travis Walen case the side of the trees facing where the craft was is where the exponential growth and the wide tree wings were occurring so is it possible that the propulsion system or this discharge or whatever the effects of this craft had had then radiated the trees but only on the side facing where the craft was and for years to come it
caused this unusual growth so now we have evidence that seems to support the idea that something quite unusual happened in the forest that night will this remarkable new discoveries silence the doubters and finally prove the most high-profile case of alien abduction in history studying the data it certainly does seem to show something beyond our understanding happened and it happened in the very same place and at the very same time as Travis’s alleged alien attack but was Travis Walton taken by extraterrestrials his controversial story has perplexed the public for 50 years and in all that time Travis himself has never wavered from his account meanwhile science has come a long way on the question of extraterrestrials experts now theorize there could be 40 billion earth-sized planets in our galaxy alone there is a growing consensus that it is not only possible but likely that alien life does
exist
