Fire in the Sky

Mike Rogers considered Travis Walton his best friend. The two worked together, along with five other local men, as loggers on a contract clearing lesser timber in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. On November 5, 1975, after a long day of work, the party returned to Snowflake, AZ, short one Travis Walton. A five-day search ultimately turned up nothing, though local opinion (including that of Rogers’s wife) remained that the loggers had killed the missing man and successfully hid the evid...