Fire in the Sky (1993)

The 1993 film *Fire in the Sky* dramatizes the first-person account of logger Travis Walton^[1]: in November 1975, near Snowflake, Arizona, he was knocked down by a beam of light in front of six co-workers and then vanished for five days. The film renders the object as a metallic, disc-shaped craft^[2] and stages a claustrophobic, dehumanizing on-board sequence to evoke the dread of a "close encounter of the third kind." In a genre saturated with fictional invasions, it is unusual for resting on a real case that entered the public record.