You're listening to Unexplained Season 4 Episode 20, The Homecoming Part 2.

Not long after Grant Neff hung up the phone in the early hours of Tuesday morning, just

over 30 miles away in the Navajo County Sheriff's Office in Holbrook, Sheriff Marlene

Gillespie was enjoying a rare moment of peace. With the search for Travis Walton called

off for the day and all his deputies gone home, the well-liked Lawman took a moment to reflect

on the events of the previous week. First and foremost, a young man was missing and

no matter what anybody else said, though he couldn't rule anything out. It was his duty

to take the family at their word, that they knew nothing about any of it. And if so, that

was a family desperately worried about the fate of a brother and a son. Of the rest of

it, he couldn't make head nor tail. He certainly wasn't ready to accept that Travis

might genuinely have been attacked and possibly even abducted by a UFO. And yet, as

his own man, Sai Gilson had attested, Travis' co-workers in all statistical likelihood were

telling the truth about what they'd seen. And hadn't he too seen the odd unexplained

object or light in the sky from time to time, driving those quiet forest roads alone

at night. Just then, the phone rang. Startled, Gillespie grabbed the receiver. The local

phone company had traced a call, placed close to midnight to Allison and Grant Neff's

property from outside a gas station in Haber, the town closest to where Travis had gone

missing. It must be him thought Gillespie. And yet, if it was Travis, why hadn't he called

the police instead? It was barely 30 minutes later when Deputy Chuck Ellison and Lieutenant

AM Romo, on Gillespie's orders, pulled up to the Haber gas station. With the plays completely

deserted, Ellison and Romo made their way over in the dark to the three phone booths at

the front of the store and began dusting for prints. In the end, however, there were

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