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Nov. 6, 2010
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My Own Private U.F.O.

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My Own Private U.F.O.

Poster for the 1993 film "Fire in the Sky," which was based on this UFO abduction story.

A rendering of Mormonism founder Joseph Smith's first vision of God and Jesus. "The First Vision" (Gary L. Kapp, 1998)

Ken Peterson on the site where he says he saw a UFO hover in the sky in 1975.

The site in the White Mountains where Travis Walton claims he was abducted.

The tent where Elna, Jonathan, and Josh camped out a hundred yards or so from the UFO site.

The phone booth in Heber, AZ, at the base of the White Mountains, where Travis Walton showed up after being missing for five days.

A tree stump from which Mike Rogers and Travis Walton took core samples. They claim the trees around the UFO site grew faster than those in the rest of the forest.

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