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75 shock. He had been missing for five days! Not only that, but his fellow employees were all suspects in a police investigation for having murdered Travis. Although the men had insisted from the beginning that Travis was abducted by a UFO, nobody believed them. Now that Travis was found alive, his UFO story became an instant media sensation. All of the men underwent a polygraph examination. Everyone passed except for one, who was too emotionally upset to Fire in the Sky. Many skeptics have attacked the case, saying that the story was made up and Walton could have hidden in the wilderness for the five days he was missing. However, no evidence of this was ever found and the case has never been disproved. Some skeptics have argued that people who think they were abducted by aliens were just imagining things. However, this theory does not account for multiple-witness cases, such as what happened to three ladies from Liberty, Kentucky. On the evening of January 20, 1976, Mona Stafford, Louise Smith, and Elaine Thomas were driving home after dining out when they saw a “fiery red” object swoop down from the sky. At first, they thought it was a crashing airplane, but then the object stopped and hovered above them. At this point, they could see that it was a large, disk-shaped craft, with a row of red lights flashing The disk quickly circled around behind their car, and then several things happened at once. The car began to speed along at 80 miles per hour, though Louise Smith, who was driving, had removed her foot from the gas pedal. At the same time, a bluish light filled the car, which began to shake and float and was then pulled backwards. The car then stalled and, as it was lifted into the air, all three felt a burning Taken Onboard take an accurate test. Years later, the event was made into the Hollywood blockbuster, THE SMITH-THOMAS-STAFFORD ABDUCTION around the circumference.