The remarkable Pascagoula Alien Abduction case

Here is a Washington Post article on the 26th of June 2019. The newspaper interviewed the two main characters of this story, who claimed they were abducted by aliens and were subjected to a physical examination, back in 1975, with the incident taking place on the 11th of October 1973 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The two alleged abductees were Charles Hickson 42 and Calvin Parker Jr 18 (at that time).


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They told authorities they had just been abducted by aliens. Each had a puncture wound in one arm. Police tried to catch them in a lie, but it didn’t work. Both men later passed polygraph tests.

On Saturday, the riverbank where the men said the close encounter happened got a historical marker, calling it one of the “best documented” cases of alien abduction. After decades of avoiding media attention, Parker was there for the dedication. Hickson died in 2011.

In 1973, Hickson was Parker’s foreman at a shipyard. The two had gone fishing after work at an abandoned boat launch and were still there after the sun went down.

“I was just getting ready to get some more bait,” Hickson told The Washington Post in 1975, “when I heard a kind of zipping sound. I looked up and saw a blue flashing light. Calvin turned around too. We saw a 30-foot-long object with a little dome on top.”

As it hovered just above the ground, three small creatures emerged, also hovering, he said. The men were suddenly paralyzed. The creatures grabbed them with pincer-type claws and pulled them toward the object, he said.

“I floated inside,” Parker told the Biloxi Sun Herald in 2018.

Hickson said they were subjected to a physical examination by something that looked like a “big eye,” a constant mechanical sound buzzing the whole time

And then, they were dropped off, right back in the dark delta where they started. Hickson found Parker standing up, arms raised to the sky and screaming, he told The Post. They ran for help.

The two men told their story to the Sheriff's investigators who were certain the men were lying or have been drunk. They even left a recorder in the room secretly taping but nothing happened as the two men kept talking about their experience. The investigators hoped they will catch them discussing their lie. Later on the passed a polygraph test. The two men became famous but there were skeptics who were still arguing the pair have lied and there was nothing going on.

New witnesses have come forward in March 2019 with corroborating accounts about the sighting of a UFO with flashing blue lights going up and down the Pascagoula River. The witnesses didn't want to get involved earlier as they said they didn't want the publicity and were afraid of the people's reaction.



I was lucky enough to find a very rare video back from 1975 available on YouTube where the pair is interviewed by reporters. Here is the video and it has over 1.6M views.

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The case is truly remarkable and you can make your own conclusions.

I’ve read up on this before but never knew or perhaps forgot some details like them being examined by some ‘eye’. Don’t even know how to understand what that could be about or the purpose behind that. Anyways, I believe them. Pretty interesting case that’s for sure.

originally posted by: Techno92LFC
I’ve read up on this before but never knew or perhaps forgot some details like them being examined by some ‘eye’. Don’t even know how to understand what that could be about or the purpose behind that. Anyways, I believe them. Pretty interesting case that’s for sure.

Yes it's a very interesting case.
If you have the time read the article I linked and watch the video which is very rare. It's one of them interviewed in 1975, Charlie Hickson. He should have been 44'years old in 1975, two years after the incident.

I've seen a few good interviews of Calvin Parker telling about that incident. He said besides the robotic looking creatures there was a female entity that came out and stuck her two middle clawed fingers down his throat until he started bleeding and coughing from it. Some strange stuff. Inside the craft were tons of dials and gauges literally everywhere on the walls.

The robotic things had skin like an elephant's skin, grey and crinkled. And when one of them grabbed Calvin Parket he felt a needle like injection which sedated him.

I remember people talking about this in 1973 when it happened, I was 11 at the time.

Lucy
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Sky
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It was the 70s , man .

originally posted by: AlienBorg
The case is truly remarkable and you can make your own conclusions.

Unfortunately it didn't happen the way you told it, but you're not the only one telling the story that way. Even if you listn to the tape the police secretly made, they aren't discussing a mutual abduction experience. They are largely talking past each other because Hickson is the one who had the abduction experience. Parker did not initially recall any abduction, is the truth of the story which is rarely told, though he later changed his story, another fact which is rarely told.

Famous Alien Abduction in Pascagoula: Reinvestigating a Cold Case

That author has his own hypothesis for what may have actually happened, but everyone will have to decide the plausibility of that for themselves. The more important point in the article is that he relates the story in a more factually correct manner than most other sources, and includes the part about Parker initially not recalling any abduction, and then later changing his story.

what about Parker? Actually, he need not have been in such a state himself because, as he told officers, he had passed out at the beginning of the incident and failed to regain consciousness until it was over (United Press International 1973).
Later he “remembered” bits and pieces of the alleged encounter. This would be consistent with an example of folie à deux (a French expression, the “folly of two”) in which a percipient convinces another of some alleged occurrence (as by the power of suggestion, the force of a dominant personality, or the like) or the other person simply acquiesces for whatever reason

If you listen to the police recording,there is nothing to contradict what Parker told officers, that he passed out at the beginning and failed to regain consciousness until it was over.


The men claimed they were abducted by aliens.

Parker, on the other hand, was 18 or 19 when it happened. He had just arrived in Pascagoula from an even smaller town and had planned to earn some extra money before returning home to get married. He told the media he had passed out at the beginning of the whole affair and couldn’t remember what happened.

So why is this significant? Because if you accept what Parker told police initially that he was unconscious during the incident, we are left with a single witness who actually recalled the experience when they related the story to police. There could be explanations for that story other than abduction, possibly the same explanation as many other abduction cases.

Alien Abduction? Science Calls It Sleep Paralysis
Once you realize Hickson is the only one who told police of the abduction experience and that Parker told police he was unconscious the whole time, the scientific explanation for abductions starts to sound more plausible.

Hickson also changed his story eventually too, and claimed to have more "abduction experiences", but he and Parker both may have been telling the police the truth as they remembered it from their perspectives. That doesn't mean they were necessarily abducted, as explained in the article linked above. In the following video, Hynek talks about the credibility of the witnesses, and they may have been telling the police the truth from their perspective, even if they weren't actually abducted.

Hynek also says this starting at about half a minute in:
"I was never able to substantiate (the story) in any manner I would call a scientific manner...
I was completely disbelieving the story, and I still disbelieve it, because it's my nature not to believe unless I have firm evidence."

So all we have initially is a story from Hickson, and later, the stories told by both Hickson and Parker changed, so actually we have more than one story from each of them. So then when you get into discussions about witness credibility, you then have to ask which version of the stories they told you're talking about. This statement from the OP is NOT what Parker told police:

"“I floated inside,” Parker told the Biloxi Sun Herald in 2018. " Parker told police he was unconscious and the secret police tape would seem to confirm that version of his story. So which version of the story do you want to believe? That he was unconscious, or that he remembers floating inside? They can't both be true. I usually tend to favor the initial version most recently told after the event, when the witness has had less time to alter their story, and especially in this case if the secret police tape confirms he was passed out, that version has more credibility.

originally posted by: Arbitrageur

originally posted by: AlienBorg
The case is truly remarkable and you can make your own conclusions.

Unfortunately it didn't happen the way you told it, but you're not the only one telling the story that way. Even if you listn to the tape the police secretly made, they aren't discussing a mutual abduction experience. They are largely talking past each other because Hickson is the one who had the abduction experience. Parker did not initially recall any abduction, is the truth of the story which is rarely told, though he later changed his story, another fact which is rarely told.

Famous Alien Abduction in Pascagoula: Reinvestigating a Cold Case

That author has his own hypothesis for what may have actually happened, but everyone will have to decide the plausibility of that for themselves. The more important point in the article is that he relates the story in a more factually correct manner than most other sources, and includes the part about Parker initially not recalling any abduction, and then later changing his story.

what about Parker? Actually, he need not have been in such a state himself because, as he told officers, he had passed out at the beginning of the incident and failed to regain consciousness until it was over (United Press International 1973).
Later he “remembered” bits and pieces of the alleged encounter. This would be consistent with an example of folie à deux (a French expression, the “folly of two”) in which a percipient convinces another of some alleged occurrence (as by the power of suggestion, the force of a dominant personality, or the like) or the other person simply acquiesces for whatever reason

If you listen to the police recording,there is nothing to contradict what Parker told officers, that he passed out at the beginning and failed to regain consciousness until it was over.


The men claimed they were abducted by aliens.

Parker, on the other hand, was 18 or 19 when it happened. He had just arrived in Pascagoula from an even smaller town and had planned to earn some extra money before returning home to get married. He told the media he had passed out at the beginning of the whole affair and couldn’t remember what happened.

So why is this significant? Because if you accept what Parker told police initially that he was unconscious during the incident, we are left with a single witness who actually recalled the experience when they related the story to police. There could be explanations for that story other than abduction, possibly the same explanation as many other abduction cases.

Alien Abduction? Science Calls It Sleep Paralysis
Once you realize Hickson is the only one who told police of the abduction experience and that Parker told police he was unconscious the whole time, the scientific explanation for abductions starts to sound more plausible.

Hickson also changed his story eventually too, and claimed to have more "abduction experiences", but he and Parker both may have been telling the police the truth as they remembered it from their perspectives. That doesn't mean they were necessarily abducted, as explained in the article linked above. In the following video, Hynek talks about the credibility of the witnesses, and they may have been telling the police the truth from their perspective, even if they weren't actually abducted.

Hynek also says this starting at about half a minute in:
"I was never able to substantiate (the story) in any manner I would call a scientific manner...
I was completely disbelieving the story, and I still disbelieve it, because it's my nature not to believe unless I have firm evidence."

So all we have initially is a story from Hickson, and later, the stories told by both Hickson and Parker changed, so actually we have more than one story from each of them. So then when you get into discussions about witness credibility, you then have to ask which version of the stories they told you're talking about. This statement from the OP is NOT what Parker told police:

"“I floated inside,” Parker told the Biloxi Sun Herald in 2018. " Parker told police he was unconscious and the secret police tape would seem to confirm that version of his story. So which version of the story do you want to believe? That he was unconscious, or that he remembers floating inside? They can't both be true. I usually tend to favor the initial version most recently told after the event, when the witness has had less time to alter their story, and especially in this case if the secret police tape confirms he was passed out, that version has more credibility.

I am aware of all the versions of the story including the one you listed here.

You don't know how it happened either. I relied on the Washington Post article and the video I linked together with the other sources that describe the story.

It's also on the Washington Post article that Parker told initially he was unconscious but later on he admitted he wasn't. But you don't know which version is correct and why he had to keep it this way. In addition there are more witnesses who appeared many years after according to the article. Around 2019 as it seems and they described on this night a UFO sighting in the area.

What is important is that when the recorder was secretly taping the pair didn't behave the way the Sheriff's investigators were expecting as they thought they were going to catch them lying about the matter and admitting it on tape.

The police eventually believe them as they had no motive lying (according to them), they didn't seem to lie after the recorder was secretly taping, and later in the passed a polygraph test according to the Washington Post article and the information online. Hickson didn't change his story and Parker maintained the incident happened back in 1973 regardless of whether he remembered it or not.

I won't rely on Alen Hynek for anything. He was a very controversial issue and he doesn't have good credibility. I regard him an obstacle btw in these cases.

I was never able to substantiate (the story) in any manner I would call a scientific manner...
I was completely disbelieving the story, and I still disbelieve it, because it's my nature not to believe unless I have firm evidence."

What Hynek said. But who cares about what he said and what he believed. Better not get involved in any of these cases.

The idea the story has been changed significantly isn't correct either. There could be minor changes and admissions but doesn't change the main story about what they think it happened. There could be many reasons for this and they are very understandable, for example people don't want publicity and want to live in peace, or they are afraid of how their friends and family will react, they are afraid of their reputations and this may have an impact on their jobs, personal relationships, finances etc.

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The book written by Parker and Mantle is rather good, I recommend it.
It seems that Parker, the quiet one, had several other experiences, his family also had experiences. And Budd regressed him, I didn't know any of that.

originally posted by: flamengo
The book written by Parker and Mantle is rather good, I recommend it.
It seems that Parker, the quiet one, had several other experiences, his family also had experiences. And Budd regressed him, I didn't know any of that.

What is the name if this book?
Thanks for recommending it btw.

a reply to: AlienBorg

www.amazon.co.uk...=sr_1_3?crid=TEP11FNRO82F&keywords=pascagoula&qid=1692836555&spr efix=pascagoula%2Caps%2C450&sr=8-3

Been reading about this case, and all their interviews, for quite some time, and it is difficult to not believe Parker and Hickson.
Maria Blair came forward in 2019 to claim she saw the UFO land exactly where the two men said they were abducted, validating their story.

www.wlox.com...

originally posted by: RonnieJersey
Been reading about this case, and all their interviews, for quite some time, and it is difficult to not believe Parker and Hickson.
Maria Blair came forward in 2019 to claim she saw the UFO land exactly where the two men said they were abducted, validating their story.

www.wlox.com...

If you take a look at the Washington Post article it mentions people have come forward to verify the sighting by Hickson and Parker.

a reply to: AlienBorg
Missed that, it was in the last paragraph of that article, and it's basically a rehash of everything I've read before, this story never seems to leave the news.
Obviously we are being visited by robots, examining us exactly the same way we examine animal life right here on earth. The real question is, who is sending these vehicles to our planet, and what is their ultimate intention?
Betty and Barney Hill were early abductees in 1961, more than 60 years ago, and the 'aliens' they reported were different from the Pascagoula 'robots'.
Very strange.

The Pascagoula area is a high abduction area, I spoke with Hickson on the phone a couple of times and was supposed to have had lunch with him but he became ill and passed. There was a lady working as a janitor in a nursing home in the area that had a saucier almost touch her hood at 3:00 a.m. in Gautier, she will no longer drive by herself at night. I know of at least a half dozen abductees in the area. My sister and I both saw hovering saucers, she in Moss Point and me in Gautier.

originally posted by: RonnieJersey
a reply to: AlienBorg
Obviously we are being visited by robots, examining us exactly the same way we examine animal life right here on earth. The real question is, who is sending these vehicles to our planet, and what is their ultimate intention?

Hi Ronnie, I disagree and unless you only associate the whole UFO and aliens phenomena with nuts and bolts craft (for which there is overwhelming evidence that is not the case) whatever it is it definitely isn't the obvious. Whatever it is obviously has abilities way in advance of the need to send vehicles to our planet with robots.

However, the real question remains the same.

a reply to: chunder

There is overwhelming evidence that there is a "nuts and bolts" aspect to it, it is not because there are many mental aspects that the technological aspect disappears. That is exactly this type of intellectual disjunction that you are proposing that has been clogging a proper understanding of what is going on.

Conspiratorially, some believe this incident to be a MILAB CIA drug-induced episode.

originally posted by: introufo
Conspiratorially, some believe this incident to be a MILAB CIA drug-induced episode.

Do you have any link/article or even some testimonies/opinions on this?

I met Calvin Parker at a UFO conference in Phoenix in 2019 - he and his wife were smoking a cigarette outside the hotel the conference was being held at. We spoke mostly about Bret Farve as his father and Brett's father were friends and Mr Parker knew Bret (didn't like him, he said)
VERY interesting abduction case.

a reply to: AlienBorg