This may be one of those creepy tales that is best not to watch alone in the dark. Was that movement in the darkened room? What was that creak on the front porch I thought I heard just now? LOL! You know what I mean.
Travis Walton is a logger who is out at night with his friends and co-workers when they encounter a brilliant light in the sky. The group heads toward a better vantage point to investigate. Travis is a little too exuberant with his curiosity and jumps off the truck and runs to a spot directly under the uncomfortably close object. Walton is hit with a light beam issuing forth from the object and levitated skyward and then disappears! The credibility of the bystanders is then put under severe scrutiny by the legal authorities to determine if any foul play was involved in Walton’s disappearance. Foot searches are conducted, witnesses are questioned and administered lie detector tests, doubt is floated but the whereabouts of Travis are unknown. For all intents and purposes, it seems he was abducted by an alien intelligence!
An unsettling combination of a police procedural and a brief, nightmarish recollection of being bullied, prodded and injected with alien equipment in a grotesque abduction sequence.
Nice performances by D.B. Sweeney as Walton, Robert Patrick, Craig Shaeffer and perineal Old Pro James Garner add a lot of dramatic weight to the proceedings.
Walton insists to this day that he is telling the truth about what happened to him and The Aliens involved. It makes you wonder.
