HISTORICAL

Pascagoula abduction — Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, fishing on the Pascagoula River, claimed they were taken aboard an egg-shaped craft by three robotic beings with claw-like hands.

On the evening of October 11, 1973, two shipyard workers fishing on the bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi reported being floated aboard an egg-shaped craft by three robotic, claw-handed beings, then returned unharmed. The case became one of the most prominent first-generation abduction reports in the United States. 【Background】 Charles Hickson, 42, and his 19-year-old co-worker Calvin Parker were night-fishing from a deserted pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River, just south of downtown. The night was clear with little wind, and traffic on Highway 90 nearby was light. 【The Encounter】 Around 9 p.m. the men heard a buzzing sound and turned to see a luminous, egg-shaped craft hovering just above the riverbank. A door opened and three roughly humanoid figures with wrinkled grey skin, conical projections in place of ears and nose, and pincers instead of hands floated out and toward the men. Hickson later said he was paralysed and floated aboard. Parker, who was younger, lost consciousness. They were examined by an instrument resembling a large eye on a flexible arm, then returned to the riverbank. 【Investigation】 The men drove to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in Pascagoula and gave detailed accounts. Sheriff Fred Diamond, suspecting a hoax, left them alone in a room with a hidden microphone running. The recorded conversation between Hickson and Parker, with no audience present, showed both men genuinely shaken and corroborating each other's recollections. The case was investigated by Dr. James Harder of the University of California Berkeley and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the former Project Blue Book scientific consultant. 【Modern Assessment】 Pascagoula remains one of the strongest two-witness abduction reports because of the surreptitious sheriff's recording, the absence of pre-encounter UFO interest from either man, and the consistency of Hickson's account over the next thirty-eight years until his death in 2011. Skeptical analyses have proposed shared hypnopompic hallucination, but the corroborated detail of the conversation while alone has never been fully explained. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_abduction

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