
On the evening of November 5, 1975, a group of loggers saw a bright crimson light in a forest in White Mountains, Arizona. Curious, Travis Walton goes out for a closer look and is pushed to the ground by a blue-green energy beam. His co-workers escape in terror and they inform the police that Travis has been abducted by a flying saucer. For the next five days, Travis remains missing and the loggers endure ridicule and contempt as they are accused of murder. When he is found a... (Full plot summary below)
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On the evening of November 5, 1975, a group of loggers saw a bright crimson light in a forest in White Mountains, Arizona. Curious, Travis Walton goes out for a closer look and is pushed to the ground by a blue-green energy beam. His co-workers escape in terror and they inform the police that Travis has been abducted by a flying saucer. For the next five days, Travis remains missing and the loggers endure ridicule and contempt as they are accused of murder. When he is found alive, Travis is unable to account the missing days, but the amazing ordeal slowly begins to emerge.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzOne of those the truth is stranger than fiction stories. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonThis might do for a television report on humans who have enjoyed, or hated, close encounters of the third kind. But for a movie, especially an only fleetingly artful one, it seems unduly coy. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe scenes inside the craft are really very good. They convincingly depict a reality I haven't seen in the movies before, and for once I did believe that I was seeing something truly alien, and not just a set decorator's daydreams. Science-fiction and special effects fans may find these scenes worth the ticket price. But the movie's flaw is that there's not enough detail about the aliens, and the movie ends on an inconclusive and frustrating note. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Achieves a very good balance between horror, drama, and mystery. |
| 7M PicturesKevin CarrLame-brain version of a classic UFO abduction. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA concrete slab of science-fiction melodrama that, for all its obvious limitations as a movie, plays on zeitgeist fantasies of an alien visitation as surely as Spielberg’s blissed-out fable did. |
| Chicago TribuneJohanna SteinmetzNever scratching below the surface "facts" of the story, this is too thin and unsophisticated to truly compel. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyEssentially, this is a film about humans as victims of alien abuse, a mediocre look at helplessness. |
| The Seattle TimesJohn HartlFire in the Sky treats the story with cautious, unimaginative, quite boring politeness. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFire in the Sky is grim. I'm not sure why director Robert Lieberman chose to fashion his movie like this, but the result is distinctly unpleasant -- dark, gloomy settings with harshly disagreeable characters and no sign of anything remotely resembling comic relief. |