Fire in the Sky

Paramount Pictures sent out this postcard to promote its 1993 film Fire in the Sky, the story of the Travis Walton abduction of November 5, 1975. In 1978, Walton wrote the book The Walton Experience detailing his claims, which became the basis for the film. Paramount decided Walton’s account was “too fuzzy and too similar to other televised close encounters,” so they ordered screenwriter Tracy Tormé to write a “flashier, more provocative” abduction story. Walton has passed some polygraph tests and failed others.