I've known Travis for decades. Our life-changing events happened within 6 days in 1975.

His then sister-in-law was one of the first people I met after moving to Phoenix in 1981. After a brief discussion, which included Travis, she thought it imperative that I meet him. That didn't happen until 1997.

In 2010, at the IUFOC, Travis and I were near each other in the vendor area. I knew he was still angry about the event, yet I was moved to engage him from a different perspective. I asked if it was possible that 'they' had actually saved his life.

I got a look that could have killed. I dared to ask the question that I believe he'd known the answer to for some time and just hadn't accepted it, let alone speak openly about it. That changed shortly thereafter.

A few years later a small group of us were sitting outside of the conference building, all but Travis having attended the first IUFOC in Tucson in 1991; Miriam Delgado, Jim Dilettoso, Dave Thompson and myself.

I turned to ask Travis is he remembered our conversation. He didn't, which was disappointing and still unnecessary. His story now included the reality that they did save his life.

And... the five day stay was similar to what one would expect from being struck by lightning, though in his case is was the static charge that had build up around the ship and discharged through the human lightning rod. It just makes sense.