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UFO Landing
It’s been half a century since the chilling, unwavering alien encounter tale told by Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson was solidified deep in modern Mississippi folklore and history.
The alien abduction account has led some to claim the city of Pascagoula as a beacon for out-of- this-world visitors over the past 50 years. In fact, the Parker, Hickson recount of the October 1973 event is one of the most well-documented cases of extraterrestrial landings and abductions in American history and will make a believer out of the most stubborn skeptics.
The fishing buddies had settled on the bank of
the Pascagoula River to drop a few lines. Hickson was 42 and Parker was 19, and both men recalled
a football-shaped vessel emerging from a misty cerulean glow and a few seconds later, three extraterrestrial beings were looming before them. The aliens paralyzed both men, abducted them, and then released them back on the riverbank.
Hickson died in 2011 at the age of 80 and maintained until his death the mission of the aliens
Windsor Star in Canada, 2013
Charles Hickson, left, and Calvin Parker, 1973
was to one day walk among us helping mankind. Parker also passed in 2023 a few weeks shy of the 50th anniversary celebration of the greatest encounter.
These days, a newly released book has just landed online and on store shelves with fresh information, secretly recorded police files, regressive hypnosis sessions, and a slew of new witnesses who claim they were also abducted that fateful night. “Beyond Reasonable Doubt – the Pascagoula Alien Abduction” includes photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, exclusive artwork, and a foreword written by Parker.
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Newspaper clipping from The
Artwork from “Beyond Reasonable Doubt – the Pascagoula Alien Abduction” book