S5 Ep28: The Wheel in the Sky Keeps on Burning: The Abduction of Travis Walton

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Science, Society & Culture

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the 1970s, it seems, everyone and their grandma was being abducted by aliens. The stories were almost always the same. One instant they were here on earth, the next instant they weren't, and then in the blink of an eye, they were back again with a tale of aliens and probes. But when Travis Walton mysteriously disappeared, he was gone for almost a week, and had a tale like none other.

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0:00.0	How can you convince the world of something so unbelievable with nothing but a stunning lack of evidence?
0:12.5	Does a lack of evidence automatically discount a story?
0:16.8	What if the lack of evidence is the best evidence you've got?
0:22.9	Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.
0:26.8	I saw a post recently that said any UFO that might visit our solar system would probably
0:31.8	just be filled with some other solar system shitty billionaires.
0:36.3	I suppose that might be what all those fish thought when
0:38.7	those billionaires went down in the submersible that imploded on itself. Call me an optimist,
0:44.0	but I would hope that any civilization that could figure out how to travel to different solar
0:48.0	systems would have also figured out a more egalitarian and humane form of government. Then again,
0:53.8	I suppose that's what the fish
0:55.1	thought too. And also, why do alien abduction stories all include a catch and release scenario?
1:02.6	If we somehow manage to make it to another planet with life on it, I don't think we'd experiment
1:06.6	on them and then let them go back, you know? We don't even do that with animals from our own planet.
1:13.5	At the very least, you'd think aliens would wipe our memories if they were going to drop us back
1:17.8	on Earth after probing us and whatnot. What good does it do them to have a few people running around
1:23.8	and claiming to have been abducted by aliens and experimented on,
1:32.4	unless it's some kind of psychological experiment to see how humans react to stories of alien abductions. And perhaps the reason there aren't too many stories these days of people being
1:37.6	abducted and experimented on and then dropped back off on Earth is because the aliens already got
1:42.9	all the data they need back in the 70s
1:45.2	when it seems like there was a new story of an alien abduction just about every month.
2:09.8	Music Travis Walton was born and raised in Arizona.
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