Red Onion Lounge – Heber, Arizona
On 5 November 1975, a seven-man logging crew working in the Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber, Arizona experienced what has become the most documented UFO (UAP or unidentified aerial phenomena, if you prefer) sighting and abduction in history. As the crew was wrapping up for the day, they saw a bright light off to their right. When they approached, they espied a bright saucer-shaped UFO (UAP) hovering about 20 feet over a clearing. Travis Walton was the only one who got out of the truck to investigate. He was quickly knocked to the ground by a bright, blue-green beam of light. Five days and six hours later, Walton awoke on the outskirts of Heber. Not surprisingly, the veracity of the crew’s account has been called to question. Initially skeptics outnumbered believers by a significant margin, despite multiple polygraph lie-detector tests the crew passed. Theories abounded as to what “really” happened. Among the most prevalent was a contention that the logging crew was about to miss a November 10th deadline to finish the logging job, after which they would be docked 10 percent of the contract. With no physical evidence available, we may never know exactly what happened on that November…