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Saturday, October 11, 2003
30 years later, UFO incident still hovers over Pascagoula River
GAUTIER, Mississippi - Charles Hickson has spent the last 30 years living with something most other people couldn't even imagine.
On Oct. 11, 1973, Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing on the Pascagoula River, enjoying the cool fall evening. What seemed to be the beginning of a peaceful night turned to chaos when the pair suddenly found themselves in a close encounter with an alien craft and its occupants.
In 1973, media reports show a rash of UFO sightings across the country, including many reported by law enforcement officials that September and October in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.
In October 1973 alone there were more than 500 sightings reported, said John Schuessler, international director and founding member of Mutual UFO Network, which tracks sightings and contacts with alien vessels and beings.
"There's no way to know why things happen that way," Schuessler said.
Schuessler said a similar rash of sightings were reported in 1961, the year Betty and Barney Hill reported having contact with aliens while returning from vacation in Canada to their New Hampshire home.
Schuessler said he has been researching UFO phenomena since 1965, but takes it all with a grain of salt. Retired, he worked for a contractor at NASA's Johnson Space Center, so he takes a more scientific approach to ufology -- the study of unidentified flying objects.
Hickson's reported abduction is one Schuessler said he believes happened.
"He's credible because of his background," Schuessler said. "He's not a loose can of nuts."
Hickson is a religious family man and demonstrated strong leadership skills as a foreman when he worked in the shipyards in Pascagoula, Schuessler said.
An Army veteran with five battle stars from his service in Korea, Hickson was honored by the Republic of Korea in 2000, 50 years after he was stationed there. The Korean government gave Hickson a certificate and medal to thank him for giving his all to protect and preserve democracy around the world.
Hickson, then 42, and Parker, then 19, like others at first, did not want their abduction publicized, but a reported leak to The Mississippi Press made publicity inevitable.
Not knowing what to do after their experience, Parker and Hickson went to the Jackson County Sheriff's Department to report what happened. The two men's interviews were taped as they talked with the sheriff and deputies at the Pascagoula station.
In the days and weeks that followed, the two men underwent hypnosis with UFO investigator Dr. James Harder. Under hypnosis, they provided further details of their abduction. Hickson and Parker were interviewed by Dr. Allen Hynek, a noted UFO expert. Both abductees took polygraph tests and were deemed to be telling the truth about their experience.
Then-Sheriff Fred Diamond in 1973 said he believed the two men shared a terrifying experience.
"Their stories -- told individually and together -- were the same," Diamond told The Mississippi Press in 1973. "To them, their experience was real. They showed it emotionally."
Capt. Glen Ryder, who worked for the sheriff's department, at the time at first expressed doubt over the two men's tales.
"I thought they were pulling my leg," Ryder said in a Mississippi Press interview in 1973. "I didn't believe their story at first, but I do now, after I got them on tape. If they were lying to me, then they should be in Hollywood."
Hynek and Harder both said Hickson's and Parker's stories are credible.
Hynek told the Press soon after interviewing the men, "There is no question in my mind that these men have had a very terrifying experience."
The experience was documented in a book written by Hickson and William Mendez called, "UFO: Contact at Pascagoula." The book, published in 1983, is in its third printing.
A documentary about Hickson's and Parker's experience has been filmed for public television for "Mississippi Roads." The video is in the editing stages. No date for airing has been set.
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