
Breaking out of its membrane, he finds himself in a zero-gravity environment inside a cylindrical enclosure whose walls contain other similar cocoons and he is horrified to inadvertently discover that one contains the decomposing remains of a human body.

In his flashback, he awakens inside a slimy cocoon. During a welcome home party, Walton suffers from a mental breakdown and flashback of the abduction by the extraterrestrials. Walton appears enraged by this and turns away from Rogers who blames the whole incident on Walton for getting out of the truck. Rogers visits Walton while in the emergency room and ends up telling Walton that he left him after he was struck by the light but came back to get him. A ufologist questions Walton but he is thrown out and Walton is taken to a hospital. He is found at a Heber gas station, alive but naked, dehydrated and incoherent. Travis Walton at the 2019 International UFO Congress.įive days later, Rogers receives a call from someone claiming to be Walton. The test's administrator reveals to Watters and Davis that, with the exception of Dallis (whose test results were inconclusive), the loggers seem to be telling the truth. Rogers is outraged and he angrily declines, the other loggers following suit. However, Watters declares that the tests were inconclusive and that they will have to return the next day to retake it. Though Dallis is initially hesitant, the loggers ultimately take the test in the hopes of proving their innocence. Watters, realizing that there was a great deal of tension between Dallis and Walton and that Dallis has a criminal record, suspects foul play, a belief that quickly spreads to the rest of the town, leaving the loggers as social pariahs.Īfter a large search party turns up no sign of Travis, the loggers are offered the chance to take a lie detector test. Making their way back to town to report the incident, the loggers are met with skepticism by investigators Sheriff Blake Davis and Lieutenant Frank Watters. Rogers decides to go back to the spot to retrieve Walton, but he is nowhere to be found.

Fearing Walton has been killed, the others escape from the scene. Curious, Walton gets out of the truck and is struck by a bright beam of light from the object and is sent flying several feet backwards as if pushed by an unseen force. On Novemin Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton, and his co-workers - Mike Rogers, Allan Dallis, David Whitlock, Greg Hayes and Bobby Cogdill - head to work in the White Mountains.ĭriving home from work, the loggers come across an unidentified flying object. James Garner, Craig Sheffer, Scott MacDonald, Henry Thomas and Peter Berg also star.įire in the Sky grossed $19.9 million domestically on a $15 million budget and received mixed reviews. Sweeney as Walton, and Robert Patrick as his best friend and future brother-in-law, Mike Rogers. It is based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience, which describes an extraterrestrial abduction.

Fire in the Sky is a 1993 American biopic science fiction mystery film directed by Robert Lieberman and adapted by Tracy Tormé.
