Gautier, Mississippi news release-- Charles Hickson, UFO abduction figure dies at 80. This is the story:

On October 11, 1973, at 9pm, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing on a pier in Pascagoula Mississippi, near the Shaupeter Shipyard. They heard a hissing sound behind them, turned around, and were terrified to see an approximately 10 foot wide, 8 foot high glowing egg shaped object with blue lights hovering above the ground no more than 15-20 yards away.
A door opened in the object and a brilliant light came out of it. Three "things" came out of the door on that beam of light and they never touched the ground. Hickson described the utter fear he and Parker felt as three gray wrinkly robots lifted the men up into the light and onto the craft. Hickson, a hand to hand combat veteran of Korea, said he had never experienced such paralyzing fear. He sensed right away these were'nt living beings, but robots of some kind.

The two men were taken aboard the craft then an eyeball about the size of a football came out of the wall and dials and gadgets moved around each of them (like an MRI etc) then the men were eased back out down on the ground and the craft vanished.

The men were so shook up and incredulous at what happened that at first they weren't going to report it, but they were going to pieces and called the sheriff's office. The lawmen saw two Mississippi good ole boys, straight laced Baptists who had probably never given a thought to aliens in their life, literally trembling in fear. They were placed in a cell with a concealed tape recording device and that's when the amused sheriff's office knew the men were serious about what had happened to them.

I interviewed Mr. Hickson in 1985 and wrote a column about the incident for the Hattiesburg paper. By then he had co-authored a book about the incident, titled "UFO, Contact At Pascagoula."
I found him to be a serious believable man. He and Parker were two ordinary men who had undergone an extraordinary experience. Hickson said religious people often asked how he could believe there might be other beings in the universe. He said he believed the Creator was powerful enough to create more than one kind of being.

Afterthought:
When I see scientist capturing an eagle or other creature and taking blood samples and banding them, I wonder how those animals could possibly describe their experience; it's too far out of their range of knowledge. That's how it is with those human/alien encounters--how can a human relate to what they have experienced and really know what happened to them?

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