Over a period of several weeks in October and November of 1975, several Strategic Air Command bases (“SAC bases”) in northern tier states were placed on a high priority alert because of repeated reports of unidentified aircraft flying at low altitude.

 

 

 

Travis Walton claims to have been abducted by a UFO near Snowflake, Arizona, USA on 5 November 1975.

This incident is Case 11 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 114 of the books covered by that article.

The National Enquirer reported on 13 June 1976 that it was awarding Travis Walton $2,500, and the other witnesses a total of a further $2,500 following the recommendations of the members of its “blue ribbon” panel of UFO experts.

Allen H Greenfield (a ufologist) has suggested that the Travis Walton incident “may be the most iron-clad UFO case in history”

This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:

• a list of cases produced by Stanton Friedman as part of a survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.

a list of Dennis Balthaser’s “ten favourite cases” in an article in the MUFON Journal in 2003.

 

 

 

The movie “The UFO Incident”, dramatizing the Betty and Barney Hill incident, was broadcast on NBC-TV on 20 October 1975. It starred James Earl Jones as Barney Hill and Estelle Parsons as Betty Hill. It was directed by Richard A Colla.

 

 

 

On 24 November 1975, NASA sponsors a workshop (“A Workshop on Cultural Evolution”) chaired by Joshua Lederberg on the evolution of intelligent life and technological civilizations.