Fire in the Skyby Anonymous

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August 26, 2004: This is an interesting movie, based on a UFO encounter by an individual, whose story has held up, even under hypnosis, for more than twenty five years. The film is more like a detective story at first, looking for some explainable scenario or motive to account for Travis Walton's 'alleged' alien encounter; there is none. The last third of the film where he, played by DB Sweeney, recalls the actual abduction experience aboard the alien space ship, again under hypnosis, is nothing short of spectacular film-making. If this was all a fraud, the story (I have read the book, too) it would never have withstood the test of time over the years. Walton was a working guy, a power company linesman out in the southwest, and had absolutely no reason or discernable ulterior motive to concoct such a story. Several other witnesses (co-workers) also witnessed the abduction. The fact that this is all based on a supposedly true, and well documented, story for which there has been no satisfatory explanation, makes the film all the more interesting. I have been waiting for this film to come out in DVD format for awhile; it's about time.

This review was written about the DVD Wide Screen edition.