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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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Thursday, October 09, 2003
Halifax International UFO Symposium
The first annual Halifax International UFO Symposium is a must for those interested in the mysterious. Five of North America's top UFO researchers are coming to Halifax to talk about the latest findings in the ongoing search for an answer to the UFO phenomenon.
The opening day of the event will take place at Alderney Landing, located on the Dartmouth waterfront overlooking the beautiful Halifax skyline. Dr. David Jacobs, Stanton Friedman, Antonio Huneeus, Chris Styles and Don Ledger will cover an eclectic range of topics involved in UFO research. The latest on triangle sightings, reality transformations, cover-ups and crashes will be a part of this unique symposium. You'll have a chance to talk with the speakers in an intimate venue and ask questions from the experts. Video footage from the event will be used for part of an upcoming 2-hour feature documentary being produced for SPACE: The Imagination Station.
Day two will be an exciting lecture tour to the only official UFO crash site in the world. We'll journey along Nova Scotia's famous scenic highway to Shag Harbor - where you'll be able to explore the fishing village that made UFOs an international sensation. The motor coach tour will be an all-day event where you'll be able to sit back, relax and learn about Shag Harbour from knowledgeable guides.
"One of Canada's most famous and still unexplained UFO cases" - Maclean's August 13, 2001
The Halifax International UFO Symposium is set to be the most interesting and enlightening event in the Maritimes this year. UFO Halifax is also hosting a gala "Alien Bash" on Saturday, October 11, featuring out-of-this-world cocktails, artwork by local science fiction artists, live music and the chance to win an actual slice from a meteorite. Come dressed as your favorite alien or just arrive with your usual extraterrestrial attitude and get ready to enjoy a night of unexplainable enjoyment.
UFO Halifax
Phone: 902 463-4723
Fax: 902-492-0226
Email us at: info@ufohalifax.com
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Monday, October 06, 2003
Our Galaxy is a Cannibal
Chicken Little was right. The sky is falling.
Thousands of stars stripped from the nearby Sagittarius dwarf galaxy are streaming through our vicinity of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new view of the local universe constructed by a team of astronomers from the University of Virginia and the University of Massachusetts.
Sagittarius is 10,000 times smaller in mass than the Milky Way, so it is getting stretched out, torn apart and gobbled up by the bigger Milky Way.
"It's clear who's the bully in the interaction," said Steven Majewski, U.Va. professor of astronomy and lead author on the paper describing the results.
In model images made to show the interaction in 3-D, available at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~mfs4n/sgr/, the Milky Way appears as a flattened disk with spiral arms, while Sagittarius is visible as a long flourish of stars swirling first under and then over and onto the Milky Way disk.
"If people had infrared-sensitive eyes, the entrails of Sagittarius would be a prominent fixture sweeping across our sky," Majewski said. "But at human, visual wavelengths, they become buried among countless intervening stars and obscuring dust. The great expanse of the Sagittarius system has been hidden from view."
Not any more. By using infrared maps, the astronomers filtered away millions of foreground stars to focus on a type of star called an M giant. These large, infrared-bright stars are populous in the Sagittarius galaxy but uncommon in the outer Milky Way. The 2MASS infrared map of M giant stars analyzed by Majewski and collaborators is the first to give a complete view of our galaxy's meal of Sagittarius stars, now wrapping like a spaghetti noodle around the Milky Way.
"This first full-sky map of Sagittarius shows its extensive interaction with the Milky Way," Majewski said. "Both stars and star clusters now in the outer parts of the Milky Way have been 'stolen' from Sagittarius as the gravitational forces of the Milky Way nibbled away at its dwarf companion. This one vivid example shows that the Milky Way grows by eating its smaller neighbors."
"Astronomers used to view galaxy formation as an event that happened in the distant past," noted David Spergel, a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University after viewing the new finding. "These observations reinforce the idea that galaxy formation is not an event, but an ongoing process."
The study's map of M giants depicts 2 billion years of Sagittarius stripping by the Milky Way, and suggests that Sagittarius has reached a critical phase in what had been a slow dance of death.
"After slow, continuous gnawing by the Milky Way, Sagittarius has been whittled down to the point that it cannot hold itself together much longer," said 2MASS Science Team member and study co-author Martin Weinberg of the University of Massachusetts. "We are seeing Sagittarius at the very end of its life as an intact system."
Does this mean we are at a unique moment in the life of our galaxy? Yes and no.
"Whenever possible, astronomers appeal to the principle that we are not at a special time or place in the universe," Majewski said. "Because over the 14 billion-year history of the Milky Way it is unlikely that we would just happen to catch a brief event like the death of Sagittarius, we infer that such events must be common in the life of big spiral galaxies like our own. The Milky Way probably dined on a number of dwarf galaxy snacks in the past."
On the other hand, Majewski and his colleagues have been surprised by the Earth's proximity to a portion of the Sagittarius debris.
"For only a few percent of its 240 million-year orbit around the Milky Way galaxy does our Solar System pass through the path of Sagittarius debris," Majewski said. "Remarkably, stars from Sagittarius are now raining down onto our present position in the Milky Way. Stars from an alien galaxy are relatively near us. We have to re-think our assumptions about the Milky Way galaxy to account for this contamination."
"The shape of the Sagittarius debris trail shows us that the Milky Way's unseen dark matter is in a spherical distribution, a result that is quite unexpected," Weinberg said.
"The observations provide new insights into the nature of the mysterious dark matter," said Princeton's Spergel. "Either our galaxy is unusual or the dark matter has richer properties than postulated by conventional models."
High-resolution color images of the Milky Way's interaction with Sagittarius are available at http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~mfs4n/sgr/
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