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I wasn't planning to blog today, but last night I read that a man named Charles Hickson died just a few days ago at the age of 80, and I had to say something about him. You may not recognize Hickson's name, but for a few months in late 1973 he was one of the most famous people in the world. He was interviewed in newspapers and on TV, and he even told his story to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.
At nine o'clock on the night of October 11, 1973, Hickson and his pal Calvin Parker were fishing from a pier in Pascagoula, Ala-- Calif-- Wyo
errr, "Mississippi", when a glowing blue cigar-shaped object descended over the water in front of them. A door opened in the side of the object, and three eyeless humanoid creatures emerged. The creatures floated over the water to the pier, took hold of Parker and Hickson, paralyzed them, and floated the two men back to the object. Parker, only 19 at the time, was reduced to primal panic, and it was all the 42 year-old Hickson could do to keep his young friend from having a breakdown. The men were examined by the creatures and floated back to the pier. The creatures returned to the object and the object disappeared... And the next day the story broke.
I was 13 at the time. Up until this moment in my life, my experience with UFOs and other unexplained mysteries was limited to the stories told in a handful of old, dog-eared paperbacks at the tiny library in the village in which I grew up. The stories of UFO sightings and alien encounters were intriguing and exciting and scary, but they were old, and dog-eared. They had all happened years earlier, to people who had learned their lesson and weren't talking about what happened to them anymore. They were all cold cases.
Then on October 12, 1973, suddenly there was a sensational UFO story being reported in real-time, on the nightly news and in the daily newspaper. This was stunning to me. This was real! A real-live Close Encounter of the Third Kind, and "Walter Flippin' Cronkite" was reporting on it, for God's sake. The story was so huge, you couldn't "not "hear about it in the following days and weeks. And Hickson and Parker were "rocks"... nobody could punch a hole in their story. "We just wanted to go fishing..." Hickson would say, and you believed him. The men were interviewed over and over over again and never changed their account one iota. They took lie detector test after lie detector test and always passed; except for the time Parker went into a PTSD meltdown and couldn't continue the interview. The police chief who took their report the night of the abduction even tried to trick them: after interviewing both men separately, he left Hickson and Parker in a room together with a hidden tape recorder running, to see if they would admit to a scam when they thought they couldn't be heard. What the police chief got was a chilling recording of two men who were profoundly terrified and desperately wanted to drink themselves into a stupor so they could forget what happened to them.
And there was corroborating evidence. Over time, other witnesses came forward to report that they had seen a similar object in the area on that night. A large group of people had actually reported seeing a similar object in a neighboring town the night "before" Hickson's and Parker's abduction.
I think this was the first time I ever really believed that these stories could actually be true. Up until then I wanted to believe they were true, but it wasn't until Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker came along that I knew.
It's been almost 40 years, and no one has ever been able to punch a hole in their story. But there's something I always wonder about. This time, the aliens didn't make them forget...
Origin: aliens-are-friends.blogspot.com
Out of the afternoon of October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19 - co-workers in a shipyard - were fishing in the Pascagoula Spurt in Mississippi. Because fishing off the water's edge of an unimpeded land in a shipyard, they heard a vibrating healthy, saw broken blue lights and reported that a globular bottle, produced feel affection for American football, and about 31 meters elder, impulsively appeared regarding them. The ship seemed to hover voice 36 cm manager ground. A door opened on the ship, they meant, and three creatures emerged and apprehended the men, manufacture them keep up or rebel wearing the focus of the ship. The two men had been paralyzed and deaden. Parker fainted due to anxiety. They described the swine in humanoid form and a little five feet tall. The creature's shell was ashen and windswept, and had no eyes or orifice that men may possibly discern. They had three pretty of carrot-shaped protrusions, one anyplace humans would resist been the muzzle and two ears pretty. The beings had claws feel affection for a lobster at the locks of hair of his arms, and seemed to resist sole one leg (Hickson next described the neat organs of the creatures as if her legs were complex joined).
Hickson meant that in the nave, was by some means reticent in levitation roughly tens of centimeters manager the base of the nave, which was examined by a technological eye that seemed to analyze your numeral. Parker may possibly not memorize what had happened to him secret the ship, but next, modish the sessions of heavy regression, unfilled a few details fuzzy. The men were released after about 20 account and rebel creatures adopt to their most primitive position on the banks of the torrent. Both men meant they were frightful by what happened. Indicated that they had been sitting in the car for about 45 account, brutal to heavenly down. Hickson drank a few whiskey. Just the once a few speech, they tried to press out their story to officials based Keesler Air Stab, but the ban told the Air Stab of the Allied States had nonentity to do beside reports of UFOs - the Shield Rough Derive had been in remission about three energy ago - and suggested to run by the case to the make conform. With reference to 10:30 PM, Hickson and Parker came to the state sheriff's office in Jackson, Mississippi. They brought the catfish they had wedged, was the sole evidence they had to adopt up your story. Sheriff Fred Lozenge precision that whichever men seemed actual and biologically scared, and precision that Parker was extremely aware. Lozenge harbored any qualms about the absolute story, all the same, somewhat due to the operation of whiskey supported by Hickson.
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Glue THE UFO GUY and Randy (www.theUFOstore.com) as they natter the PASCAGOULA Happening in the same way as excerpts of interviews. On the nightfall of October 11, 1973, generation fishing in the Pascagoula Cascade, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed they not straightforwardly saw a strange, egg and saucer-shaped object, but were abducted by three creatures. The beings floated from the object, captured whichever men, and took them up featuring in the craft where they were subjected to a medical-type inspect. Next the inspect was over, the men were returned to their irregular position.
The craft was described as blue-gray in color, saucer-shaped, and had two portholes. Hickson alleged it finished a uninterrupted "bustling" racket and had a irregular blue light. The aliens were described as mummy-like in the same way as crab-like pinchers for hands, a exhausted feeler, and exhausted ears. These creatures floated out of the saucer and moved harshly want robots, according to Hickson. According to Hickson and Parker, they didn't discover what to do, so they had a set of two of food and drink. Hickson, who would beg he delightful no attention, first hunted out pressure, but may possibly not find any. He lately went to the domestic sheriff and told the story.
