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official report: UPI October 1973

UPI Report from Pascagoula... OCTOBER 12,1973, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 240B Creatures 10-12 Night LD

Jackson County Chief Deputy Barney Mathis said the men told him they were fishing from an old pier on the west bank of Pascagoula River about 7 p.m. Thursday when they noticed a strange craft about two miles away emitting a bluish haze. They said it moved closer and then appeared to hover about three or four feet above the water then

"Three whatever-they-were came out, either floating or walking, and carried us into the ship," officers quoted Hickson as saying. "The things had big eyes. They kept us about 20 minutes, and then took us back to the pier. "The only sound they made was a buzzing-humming sound. They left in a flash." The sheriff's office received several other calls during the night from residents of the area about sighting a strange "blue light" in the sky. Numerous UFO sightings also have been reported in many parts of the state during the past couple of weeks.

Captain Glen Ryder of the sheriff's department, who questioned both men Thursday night, said he thought at first "They were pulling my leg." "We did everything we knew to break their stories," Ryder said, "but both stories fit. If they were lying to me, they should be in Hollywood." Mathis said Hickson appeared to be a "reasonable man" and was not a heavy drinker, according to his wife and employers. Authorities said both men said they were not drinking when the incident occurred but admitted "they went to a have a drink or two" after it was over."

They had to have something to settle their nerves," said Mathis. He quoted Hickson as saying: "I was so damn scared I didn't know what it was." Officers said Parker reported he passed out when the three creatures- purportedly with pointed ears and noses and pale skin-type covering- emerged from the craft. He said he didn't regain consciousness until he'd been released back on the pier. Deputies took statements from both men and then left them together in a room with a hidden tape recorder in an effort to check out the story. Mathis said there was nothing on the tape to indicate a hoax. Hickson estimated he and Parker were inside the unidentified craft for 15 for 20 minutes. He told officers he was placed on same kind of table and examined from head to foot by what described as something like an electronic eye.

More on Pascagoula...Retold in 91

03-25-91 BILOXI, Miss. It's been 17 years, but Charles E. Hickson still remembers every detail of his intriguing abduction by aliens onto an unidentified flying object in Pascagoula in 1973. Hickson, 1 of 4 speakers at the first UFO International Conference held in Biloxi, told of his unique UFO experience that occurred on a fishing trip with his friend, Calvin Parker. Sitting on a bank near a bridge on the Pascagoula River, Hickson & Parker unexpectedly saw an unusual round or oblong aircraft about 30 feet long land near them. Immediately they were approached by 3 robot-like creatures who picked Hickson up & carried him aboard the aircraft. "Calvin fainted so he didn't know what'd happened, but I was carried aboard by these robots. Once inside an object came out of the wall which seemed to scan my entire body from top to bottom. I saw living beings through a window but they never touched me or said anything to me." The beings in the window looked similar to humans, with light colored skin & normal facial features. "I didn't know what was going on. But I felt suspended for about an hour or hour & a half while they inspected me." Eventually, the robots took Hickson back outside to the river bank & the aircraft left, leaving him in a state of shock & disbelief. However, knowing that his experience wasn't his imagination playing tricks on him, Hickson's come very strongly to believe that what happened to him was a visit by real alien beings who arrived on earth from another planet or sphere in what're known as unidentified flying objects.

He's continued to've contact with the aliens in the years since that time & that there'll be further UFO activity in the near future. "There's no doubt in my mind that UFOs exist." Also speaking at the conference, which drew several hundred UFO enthusiasts from across the Gulf Coast & other parts of the United States, were UFO experts Antonio Huneeus, a UFO investigator & researcher; Budd Hopkins, an author of UFO books who himself experienced a sighting in 1964; & Stanton Friedman, a UFO investigator, scientist, author & maker of documentary UFO movies. Huneeus said UFOs're a global phenomenon & has recently, since the period of Glasnost in the USSR, been able to study many sightings in Russia which were formerly kept secret. Sightings've occurred in almost every country around the world. Showing slides of photographs said to be taken of actual UFOs, 1 of the problems all legitimate UFO investigators must deal with're the people who deliberately take photos or make claims which later're proven to be hoaxes. "We do study UFOs seriously, & we may not've the final answers, but we do believe we've some evidence that some UFO sightings're real." Friedman, who's studied the phenomenon for 32 years, is convinced that some UFOs're indeed alien aircraft & that the US government's known this to be true since 1947. "None of the arguments made by the skeptics can stand up under careful scrutiny. Alien visits're the biggest story of the past millenium."

From: Executive News Svc. [76374,303]

Subj: APla 03/21 UFO Man

By JOHN MAINES The Jackson Clarion-Ledger

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) -- When Charles Hickson hears of UFOs, he has more reason to listen than the average terrestrial. "I probably get thousands of letters over the years. People sit down and write me a long letter about something they've seen. They're afraid to tell people they know, but (they're) willing to write a stranger," Hickson said. On Oct. 11, 1973, Hickson and fishing buddy Calvin Parker walked into the Jackson County Sheriff's office and told the kind of story nobody wants to believe. It made news around the world: two Mississippi men claim to have been briefly abducted by floating creatures from a strange spaceship. More than 13 years later, Hickson, now 55 and living in Gautier, remains unwavering in his story about what happened that night. Parker, 33, of Gulfport, has only recently begun to retell the story.

The two men were "pioneers" in what is becoming an increasing phenomenon: claims of human abductions by strange space creatures, who, the victims often claim, seem only interested in taking them into a spaceship for the purpose of conducting some sort of physical examination.

Only 10 years ago, there were perhaps a dozen reported cases of UFO abductions, including the Hickson and Parker incident. Now there are about 300, according to Walter H. Andrus Jr., director of the Texas-based Mutual UFO Network, a group of volunteers that records UFO reports.

Mississippi's most notorious abduction case began early in the evening on Oct. 11, 1973, a year when numerous UFO sitings were reported across the nation and in other countries -- an event observers call a UFO "flap." Hickson and Parker worked together at Wagner Shipyard in Pascagoula. On Oct. 11, the two decided to go fishing on the East Pascagoula River near U.S. 90. Shortly after dusk, Hickson had gottten a nibble and was reeling in his line when he heard a strange noise behind him. "It was like a hissing sound," he said. "I turned around and there was some sort of craft hovering about a foot above the ground. "It had flashing blue lights, like a police car," he said. "A door opened, and there was a bright light coming from inside." Three creatures floated down from inside. Hickson says they were some sort of robots, making no noise or effort to communicate and going about their task as if routine. "I couldn't move. I don't know if it's because I was so frightened, or what," Hickson said. He said the creatures had no neck and had skin that was very coarse and wrinkled, like an elephant's. "I couldn't see if they had eyes, their skin was so wrinkled," he said. They had pointed projections where a person's ears would be, and hands shaped like mittens with no fingers, Hickson said. Hickson said the creatures floated him into the spaceship, where he was examined by a football-shaped probe that emerged from the wall and moved around him. "I don't know how long it was, a half hour or an hour and a half. I didn't have a watch," he said. "There was light everywhere, from the ceiling, the walls, the floor." When he was finally released, he found Parker standing in what seemed like a trance at the river's edge, his arms stretched out in front of him. "He was in shock," Hickson said. "We got out of there and decided we had to report it to someone," he said. "We called Keesler Air Force Base, but they said they didn't handle that sort of thing, to call the sheriff." They did, and a squad car came out to get them.

Hickson said he told Sheriff Fred Diamond not to publicize the incident. But word leaked out anyway, and the next day Wagner Shipyard was flooded with telephone calls from the media. Today, Hickson continues to tell his story to anyone who will listen. He visits local schools and talks about the abduction. Children are fascinated. "I don't tell 'em in a way to scare 'em," Hickson said. "You can't scare these kids now, with what they watch on TV." He is expecting to receive from the publishers the second printing of "UFO Contact at Pascagoula," a book he wrote a few years ago about the incident. In the meantime, he has appeared on public access television in Pascagoula. Hickson is not worried about the visits. He believes the aliens are superior beings who are waiting for the right time to make contact -- and possibly keeping a caring eye on the human race. "There's always the threat that we are going to blow the world all to pieces," he said. "I'd like to think they are watching out for us, to see that we don't."

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SUBJECT: Aliens are just make-believe!

11-11-90 BILOXI, Miss. Space aliens're just make-believe, Eddie Hickson's father told him. Years later, the elder Hickson said those same space aliens'd snatched him from the banks of the Pascagoula River in Jackson County & took him on board their dome-shaped craft. Charles Hickson Sr., a modest Gautier man & a retired shipfitter foreman at Ingalls Shipyard, told a crowd of about 200 conventioneers at the Great Gulf Coast UFO Gathering in Biloxi about the day that changed his life. Hickson, now 59, & fellow shipfitter Calvin Parker were fishing at an abandoned shipyard Oct. 11, 1973. "All of the sudden I heard some kind of hissing sound like steam leaking out of a pipe," Hickson said. "I saw some kind of craft hovering about 18 inches about the ground. I didn't know what to do. It appeared round with a dome on top & there were two blue pulsing lights on what appeared to be its front. A door opened & a very brilliant light came out, then three things came out & two of'em took ahold of me & one took Calvin. When the one took hold of my left arm, it hurt, & then I didn't feel anything but my eyes. They were about 5-foot, 6-inches tall & they'd elephantlike skin, grey & very wrinkled. The skin ran horizontal. Their arms were very long in proportion to the rest of their bodies." His book, UFO Contact in Pascagoula, may soon be made into a movie. Once the beings released him inside the craft, Hickson became suspended in midair & watched an electronic eye come out of the craft's wall, scan his body, then retract into the wall.

After hypnosis unlocked his subconscious, Hickson recalled the faces of three male human-looking beings, who observed the examination from behind a window. "I kept wondering what they were going to do to me. They glanced at my eyes; then they carried me back & out through the brilliant light & put me down on the ground. Calvin was lying there on the river bank, his arms outstretched, & he seemed to be going into shock. I'd to slap him & scream at him to get his attention," said Hickson, a Jones County native & Army veteran of the Korean War.

Parker now lives in south Louisiana & has suffered two nervous breakdowns since the incident. Fearing they'd be labeled insane, Hickson & Parker considered keeping their experience a secret, but reported it to the Jackson County Sheriff's Dept. that night. Since that eerie evening, the aliens've communicated with Hickson telepathically. Rubbing a flat, gray, quarter-sized object, Hickson explained that the disc heats up before he receives telepathic messages. Hickson's undergone numerous psychological evaluations. "I know these things sound very strange & I don't expect you to believe them, but I hope one day you will." Eddie Hickson, 36, has never thought his father was insane. He's watched him turn down handsome cash offers for his story over the years, fearing people'd think it a hoax. "I know in my heart & my mind that daddy didn't make this up."
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