File 034 · 5–10 November 1975
Travis Walton, Apache-Sitgreaves
Near Snowflake, Arizona, United States
Opened 9/4/2026
Ledger illustration of the file — not a photograph of the object. Ledger illustration of the report. Ponderosa night in the high country. — Night Ledger illustration of the file
Standing
Unidentified
On the public record, and still open. A claim, paper, or film — not a finding that it was ours, and not a finding that it was not.
What was claimed
A logging crew reported a disk in the trees and a beam that struck one of them. The man was missing five days. The crew passed polygraphs.
What is on the record
This file is a working record — a report, not a verdict. Official paper, if any, is linked where we have it.
A seven-man crew was driving out of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest after dark when they saw a glowing disk among the pines. Travis Walton left the truck and approached. The others described a blue-green beam; Walton fell. The driver panicked and left, then went back. Walton was gone. They were suspected of murder until he reappeared near a Heber gas station five days later, thinner, confused, with a story of a metallic interior and beings.
The crew took polygraph tests arranged by the National Enquirer and Arizona officers; the results were presented as passing, with one disputed chart. Skeptics, notably Philip Klass, argued a hoax aimed at a logging contract. The men have kept the same outline for fifty years.
The written statements of six coworkers who thought they had just watched a friend die are the load-bearing part of the file.
Could this have been ours?
The known sky, that night.
Satellites were already up. The station was not. Starlink was not.
Always
Aircraft, balloons, meteors
Landing lights, flares, lanterns, reentries, fireballs. They are on the known sky. They do not close a file by themselves — they are what a serious look has to hold the claim against.
The known sky
None of the above land
Stations, trains, and planets do not set down in a field or leave a body. This file is a ground report. The known sky still has to be named. It does not answer the claim.
Orbit · Space — the desks for lights that are already named.
Sources
Paper on this file
Official or public documents that belong with this case — not a verdict.
Related files
Same craft, same place, same years. A neighbor in the catalogue — not a conclusion.
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Ethel May Field Sighting
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Unidentified
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Broad Haven school, Wales
Broad Haven, Wales · United Kingdom
Unidentified
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Lech Chacinski Encounter
Near Szczecinek, Poland · Poland
Unidentified
Truck driver Lech Chacinski encountered three tall humanoid figures in silvery suits standing in a triangular formation on the road. They communicated telepathically, stated they were from the 'Eight Galaxy,' and entered a large disc-shaped craft via a beam of light. Traces were reportedly found in an adjacent field.