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> [It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the darkening Arizona sky. But when I made that fateful choice to leavethe truck, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-walton/it-was-many-years-ago-that-i-got-out-of-a-crewtruck-in-the-national/)

Travis Walton

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## More by Travis Walton

> [The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-walton/the-truth-of-course-is-that-a-billion-falsehoods-told-a-billion-times/)

Travis Walton

> [I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-walton/i-ve-come-to-realize-that-the-biggest-problem-anywhere-in-the-world/)

Travis Walton

> [It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-walton/it-was-many-years-ago-that-i-got-out-of-a-crewtruck-in-the-national/)

Travis Walton

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