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Summary: Alien Abduction?
Review: Along with Betty and Barney Hill's story, the Rozwell incident, and the Area 51-Bob Lazar stuff Travis Walton's intriquing experience makes for some pupil-dilating, pulse-quickening occult reading. If it's science fiction, it leaves "2001", "Star Wars", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Hangar 18" and all the rest of them in the dust. If it's not...what is it? Did Travis tap into another level of reality? Or did he expose himself to a *natural* phenomena which electrocuted him, and caused him to wander around the Arizona woods in a semi-conscious state where his dream chemistry took over his brain for awhile?
Travis uses alot of space (printed page space, that is) to try to convince us that although he has a definite history of risk-taking and has a super inquisitive mind, he does not have the fertile imagination or the inclination to cook up such a story. He dispenses plenty of sentences in a defensive stance against the criticisms of folks such as Philip Klass, the noted UFO debunker. The final chapter is a tedious counterpoint to Klass' summation of the situation as...bunk.
The most interesting is Chapter 8, "The Aliens". It is absolutely fascinating; finely written. But it is revealed that these details originated in a question and answer hypnosis session.
That transcript, along with the actual interviews with his friends who claim they all witnessed the mysterious object's effect on Travis, is also not provided, and this technique (used effectively in Fuller's "The Interrupted Journey") makes up in riveting "realism" what it loses in literary quality.
On one TV documentary about fifteen years ago Walton came across as a very down-to-earth (pause) individual who sincerely wants the world to know that *something* happened to him in '75, and he's got many witnesses to that fact. He conveyed his message briefly and convincingly. Here we have a 170-page book running at 370 pages!
By the way, the color artwork is attractive.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: First of all the abduction in the movie is nothing like the book, what was that about. The most interesting part of the book was of course the abduction but only two short chapters are about the abduction. The rest of the book was quite boring. There was no dialog with the extraterrestrials, we didn't find out that the hell they wanted, no message, no nothing. Your better off watching the movie and reading the two short chapters in the book about the abduction. Very intersting if the story really is true but you don't find out too much in this book.
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Summary: It originally had us all going.... but its a hoax!
Review: In its day, this book about an alien abduction experience, was something of a shocker. In a nutshell, a group of young men working as lumberjacks drive home one evening only to be stopped in their tracks by a glowing object in the sky. They get out of their vehicle, Travis Walton gets beamed up, the rest flee. Back in the town, and without Travis, they have to explain his disappearance. People start suspecting that one of them killed Travis and so a missing persons/possible homicide investigation gets underway. The men are given a polygraph test - they pass, and so they seem to be telling the truth about Travis and the UFO.Then Travis turns up five days later and doesn't look the best. He tells a story about an alien abduction and he becomes a national celebrity. It certainly makes quite an interesting read. A 22-year-old forestry worker goes missing, six witnesses passing a lie detector test, say that he was last seen with a huge UFO, later he turns up to tell the tale. For years this encounter was heralded as one of the most important accounts ever of a UFO abduction and it certainly had me fooled too. I was a firm believer, no doubt about it, Travis Walton had indeed been abducted by aliens and had enough witnesses to prove it. You must read this book, but please note that a lot of new information had since come to light which has debunked the entire story. I refer to the articles "Profitable Nightmare of a Very Unreal Kind" by Jeff Wells (from The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 6 January 1979), "Ground Saucer Watch" Memo on the Walton Incident and "Fire in the Sky" -- The Walton Travesty by Anson Kennedy which can be found on the internet. Basically the lie detector tests where botched and Travis even failed a number of them. The person who conducted these tests was paid to never talk about them again, but he did. When you couple this with the facts that the Walton's have a UFO history and their original statements in the missing persons case are somewhat suspect because his family said that he would "turn up" because "UFOs are good" without expressing any emotion of loss and the refusal of the family and Travis to talk to anyone who doubted their story ended up with numerous researchers/reporters/investigators simply walking away from the case. The Waltons sold their story to the National Enquirer and it is not the same as how the events actually occurred. So basically the book is good and believable until you do a little more research and find that the story has been twisted and the participants in the story did indeed fail numerous polygraph tests. So it just goes to show how a little more checking out here and there can make all the difference when drawing your conclusions.
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Summary: "JUST SET ME ON FIRE; I'M SOO BORED!!!
Review: O.K. O.K. SOO JUST BLOODY WELL KILL ME NOW!!! THIS IS SOO SOO BORING; AND ONLY 2 CHAPTERS DEAL WITH THE "CULPRIT" ALIENS. PLEASE!!! THE MOVIE WAS FANTASTIC; BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS BOOK!!! I'M SORRY I BOUGHT THIS PIECE OF TRASH!! AND HOW DOES A 20 SOMETHING HICK FROM ... EGYPT COME UP WITH THE WAY HE NARRATES THIS BOOK. WHAT DECENT ALIEN WOULD EVEN BE INTERESTED IN KIDNAPPING THIS " HOLIER THAN THOU ATTITUDE " C'MON LUVS!! THE "ALIENS" IN THIS BOOK, PROBABLLY GOT RID OF HIM, FASTER THAN HIS WIFE DID! BOTH OF THEM WERE BORED TO TEARS WITH HIS CONSTANT BABBLING. SORRY!!! ANYONE WANT THIS BOOK? I'LL GIVE IT AWAY FOR FREE!!!
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Summary: "JUST SET ME ON FIRE; I'M SOO BORED!!!!!
Review: O.K. O.K. SOO JUST BLOODY WELL KILL ME NOW!!! THIS IS SOO SOO BORING; AND ONLY 2 CHAPTERS DEAL WITH THE "CULPRIT" ALIENS. PLEASE!!!! THE MOVIE WAS FANTASTIC; BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS BOOK!!! I'M SORRY I BOUGHT THIS PIECE OF TRASH!! AND HOW DOES A 20 SOMETHING HICK FROM BUM ... EGYPT COME UP WITH THE WAY HE NARRATES THIS BOOK. WHAT DECENT ALIEN WOULD EVEN BE INTERESTED IN KIDNAPPING THIS " HOLIER THAN THOU ATTITUDE " C'MON LUVS!! THE "ALIENS" IN THIS BOOK, PROBABLLY GOT RID OF HIM, FASTER THAN HIS WIFE DID! BOTH OF THEM WERE BORED TO TEARS WITH HIS CONSTANT BABBLING. SORRY!!! ANYONE WANT THIS BOOK? I'LL GIVE IT AWAY FOR FREE!!!!
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Summary: There is no evidence. None at all.
Review: This is a classic UFO story with a predictable ending. there is only one man and his friends say so that he was abducted by aliens and placed on their UFO. But there is no hard evidence to back it up. No trace of alien toxins in his blood system. No evidence that other people other then his friends saw this happen. No alien artifacts, no strange alien writing, Nothing. The fact that both he and his friends later failed to pass lie detector tests and kept changing their story over and over again, only raises more toward that these were several men who made up the whole thing just to gain publicity, when it appeared in the tabloids. That was the end of taking any of it seriously. It was a hoax end of story, and the movie is now shown on the Sci-fi channel where all other garbage stories of that genre belong.
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Summary: The Real Thing
Review: This is excellent book, must read if you are interested
in studing of UFO and our Big brothers from Cosmos. On opposite, the movie "Fire in the sky" is real disappointment,
since it does not reflect what really happened,
but rather shows those extraterrestrials as bad and evil. Have they really been so cruel and bad as shown in movie
they would not let Travis go back, or even worst...
After all, it was him who approached the craft, nobody
pulled him out of the truck on that day. The book is based on real event, and I highly recommend
reading the book, written by Travis Walton.
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