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1952-05-07;
Keesler AFB, MS
May 7, 1952; Keesler AFB, Mississippi. 12:15 p.m.
Witnesses: Capt. Morris, a Master Sergeant, a Staff
Sergeant, and an Airman First Class. Ten times, an
aluminum or silver cylindrical object was seen to dart in
and out of the clouds during a 5-10 minute period.
1952-10-01; Pascagoula, MS
Oct. 1, 1952; Pascagoula, Mississippi. 7:40 p.m.
Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. C.C. McLean and one other person.
One round, milky-white object, shaped like a powder puff,
hovered for 5-10 minutes then flew away very fast in an
arc. A loud blast was heard at the start of the 22 minute
sighting.
1953-08-27; Greenville, MS
Aug. 27, 1953; Greenville, Mississippi. 9:45 p.m.
Witnesses: USAF pilot, M/Sgt., others, all on the ground.
One meandering light was observed for 50 minutes. No
further details in file.
1954-12-03; Gulfport, MS
Dec. 3, 1954; Gulfport, Mississippi 12:12 p.m. Witnesses:
Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Mellen. One translucent grey, round,
flat object rotated on its vertical axis at high r.p.m.
for 30 seconds.
1959-11-18; Crystal Springs, MS
Nov. 18, 1959; Crystal Springs, Mississippi. 6:25 p.m.
Witness: J.M. Porter. A row of red lights flew slow, then
speeded up immensely. Sighting lasted 5-6 minutes.
1962-07-29; Ocean Springs, MS
July 29, 1962; Ocean Springs, Mississippi. 11:20 p.m.
Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Barton. One bright
cherry-red, diamond-shaped object flew slow, hovered,
made fast 1/2 loops for l0 minutes.
1962-09-21; Biloxi, MS
Sept. 21, 1962; WSW of Biloxi, Mississippi, in the Gulf
of Mexico. 7:37 p.m. Witness: fishing boat captain S.A.
Guthrie. Two objects, red and black with orange streaks,
one as big as the Moon, and the other smaller. Arced
across the sky for 13 minutes.
1965-04-04; Keesler AFB, MS
April 4, 1965; Keesler AFB, Mississippi. 4:05 a.m.
Witnesses: USAF A/2c Corum, a weather observer;
confirmation by college student R. Pittman not clear from
available data. One 40' black, oval object with four
lights along the bottom, flew in and out of the clouds
for 15 seconds.
1967-07-10; Lizelia, MS
July 10, 1967; Lizelia, Mississippi. 5:50 p.m. Witness:
golf pro Harold Washington (Capt, USMC, ret.). One object
with a dome, the top colored gunmetal blue, the bottom
the color of old lead. Moved east, crossed the highway
tilted upward, moved to the right, accelerated and
disappeared into the clouds after 3-5 seconds. Object
made a swishing sound.
The Pascagoula Incident
The Pascagoula Incident involved two men,
nineteen-year-old Calvin Parker and forty-two-year old
Charles Hickson, both of Gautier, Mississippi, who were
fishing in the Pascagoula River when they heard a buzzing
noise behind them. Both turned and were terrified to see
a ten-foot-wide, eight-foot-high, glowing egg-shaped
object with blue lights at its front hovering just above
the ground about forty feet from the river bank. As the
men, frozen with fright, watched, a door appeared in the
object, and three strange Beings floated just above the
river towards them.
The Beings had legs but did not use them. They were about
five feet tall, had bullet-shaped heads without necks,
slits for mouths, and where their noses or ears would be,
they had thin, conical objects sticking out, like carrots
from a snowman's head. They had no eyes, grey, wrinkled
skin, round feet, and clawlike hands.
Two of the beings seized Hickson; when the third grabbed
Parker, the teenager fainted with fright. Hickson claimed
that when the Beings placed their hands under his arms,
his body became numb, and that then they floated him into
a brightly lit room in the UFO's interior, where he was
subjected to a medical examination with an eyelike device
which, like Hickson himself, was floating in mid-air.
At the end of the examination, the Beings simply left
Hickson floating, paralysed but for his eyes, and went to
examine Parker, who, Hickson believed was in another
room. Twenty minutes after Hickson had first observed the
UFO, he was floated back outside and released. He found
Parker weeping and praying on the ground near him.
Moments later, the object rose straight up and shot out
of site.
Expecting only ridicule if they were to tell anyone what
had happened, Hickson and Parker initially decided to
keep quiet; but then, because the government might want,
or ought, to know about it, they telephoned Kessler Air
Force Base in Biloxi. A sergeant there told them to
contact the sheriff. But uncertain about the reception
their bizarre story might get from the local law, they
drove to the local newspaper office to speak to a
reporter. When they found the office closed, Hickson and
Parker felt they had no alternative but to talk to the
sheriff.
The sheriff, after listening to their story, put Hickson
and Parker in a room wired for sound in the belief that
if the two men were left alone they would reveal their
hoax; of course they did not. The local press reported
their tale; the wire services picked it up; and within
several days the Pascagoula Encounter was major news all
over the country. The Aerial Phenomena Research
Organisation (APRO), founded in 1952, sent University of
California engineering professor James Harder to
Mississippi to investigate; J. Allen Hynek, representing
the Air Force, also arrived. Together they interviews the
witnesses. Harder hypnotised Hickson but had to terminate
the session when Hickson became too frightened to
continue.
Hickson and Parker both subsequently passed lie detector
tests. Hynek and Harder believed the two men's story. And
Hynek was later quoted as saying "There was
definitely something here that was not terrestrial".
Coast Guard Cutter "Sebago" RV Case
Gulf of Mexico
November 5, 1957
Just after 5:00 a.m. the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Sebago
was about 200 miles south of the Mississippi delta. At
5:10 the bridge radar suddenly showed an unidentified
target at 246 degrees true, moving N to S., range 12,000
yards (almost 7 miles). On duty were Ensign Wayne
Schotley, deck officer, Lt. (j.g.) Donald Schaefer, first
class quartermaster Kenneth Smith, and radioman Thomas
Kirk.
Interviewed in New Orleans, Ensign Schotley was asked how
good the radar target was.
Schotley: "The ship's combat information center
confirmed the sighting. At that point it was reported
falling astern rapidly. It was a good pip [target]. It
was a very strong contact, considered good."
Cmdr. James N. Schrader, spokesman in New Orleans, said
that at one point "in two minutes it went 33 miles
straight away from the ship." (About 1020 mph.)
At 5:14 contact was lost.
At 5:16 contact was regained, object about 22 miles
north.
At 5:18 Object faded off radar screen, range about 55
miles.
At 5:20 contact regained, object appeared stationary,
seven miles due north.
About this time, A/lC William J. Mey, an Electronics
technician at Keesler AFB, Mississippi (about 320 miles
to the north on the Gulf Coast) spotted an elliptical
UFO. In his signed report to NICAP, A/lC Mey gives the
time as approximately 5:20 a.m. Looking south, he saw the
UFO approach on a northerly course at about the speed of
a propeller airliner, then accelerate rapidly and
disappear into some clouds.
This suggests that more than one UFO may have been
operating in the area, and that the Sebago's radar may
have tracked more than one of them. A/1C Mey's report is
fairly consistent with the 5:18 radar report of the UFO
headed north at over 1000 mph. If Mey actually saw the
UFO at 5:28, it would have averaged about 1590 mph., from
the time it faded from the Sebago's radar screen. If he
saw it precisely at 5:20 a.m., it would have had to
accelerate to nearly 8000 mph. to cover the distance in
that time).
At 5:21 the Sebago regained radar contact, and also saw
the UFO visually for 3-5 seconds as a brilliant white
object with no distinguishable shape. It was at a bearing
of 270 degrees true (west), elevation about 31 degrees,
moving horizontally from south to north. (A navigator
obtained the elevation by noting a star at the same angle
and taking a sextant reading of it). The UFO finally
entered a cloudbank and disappeared.
At 5:37 the cutter reported its last radar contact with
the object, about 175 miles to the north, traveling about
660 mph.
