http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/cryptozoology/1529/sighting a sea serpent.html
"[Of course the sighting of a Long-necked, Plesiosaur-shaped Sea serpent isn't really so strange since there are hundreds of them on record and that is the single largest category of proveably-animal Sea serpent sightings, being several times more frequent than good solid giant eel reports (actually nearly ten times as many, but then they presumably breathe air while the eels don't need to even come to the surface at all) However this is a very good case that has not been published before and we are endebted to Neil Arnold who provided the report to Karl Shuker, who then in turn published the account in Fortean Times. It is an important case that does need to be made part of the permanent record-Dale D.]"
SIGHTING A SEA SERPENT
RAF NAVIGATOR BELIEVES HE SAW ONE OF THE LAST OF THE LARGE DINOSAURS
January 2009 Fortean Times
By Dr Karl Shuker
Artwork of two Elasmosaurus marine reptiles swimming underwater. "Chris Butler / Science Photo Library"Kent-based cryptozoological researcher Neil Arnold recently passed on to me, with kind permission from its source to publish it here, a remarkable, previously undocumented sea serpent sighting from the late 1950s. Neil's source was a correspond-ent called Nick (whose email address I have on file), and one of the eyewitnesses in question was his father. Nick is anxious that the sighting be preserved, so here is his account of it: "I am 39 years old with three children and my father is now 72. He was one of the last people to have been conscripted to national service, serving as navigator on RAF Shackleton aircraft in 1957, flying missions over Europe and much of South America. The official job of the Shackleton was as a spotting aircraft, and both pilot and crew were highly trained in this respect; their job was to search for submarines and relay the positions back to base. One of the tell-tale signs they used to look for [from] high above was a dark shape underwater, which could often be a shark or whale or other creature, but occasionally they would get lucky and find a submarine near to the surface. On one occasion, having seen such a dark shape near the surface, they flew down to investi-gate, and as they flew by this shape, every crew member on board saw the same thing - the neck and head of a large sea creature protruding from the surface. The nearest thing they could think of at the time was a plesiosaur. They were all in agreement but of course the pilot on the way home forbade them absolutely from talking about it; if they had done so they would all have been immed-iately grounded and accused of being drunk on duty. "So anyway, my father decided to research what the creature might have been, and found that it was almost definitely an 'elasmosaurus' [long-necked plesio-saur], as the one thing that was very obvious was the huge length of the animal's neck. My father was forced to conclude, and of course he'd read all about the coelacanth, that there were indeed much larger 'extinct' creatures out there, unknown to science. He told me of the incident when I reached adulthood. Twenty years on, he still will swear to his grave that this is what they all saw on the flight... "The year was 1957, the location was 'about 500 miles [800km] north of the Canary Islands, in open sea'. The RAF Squadron was 228 Squadron, flying out of St Eval in Cornwall. (This air base has since been closed, but I believe remnants of the site remain.) I don't know who the other crewmembers were and I have been thinking about making an official enquiry to the RAF archives. However, what I hope is important is the location (vague, sorry), species and date. I am more than aware that most scientists consider the poss-ibility of any large dinosaur [sic] still alive as astronomic-ally small, and my father himself also thinks now with sadness that he might have seen one of the last ones; his own reasoning is that at this point, not so long after the war, there really was not much shipping around; indeed, the area where they had the sighting was entirely devoid of shipping and maybe this was the reason the creature had considered it safe to surface, far from the throb of ships' propellers." One zoologist who read Nick's account suggested that perhaps they had seen a tentacle from a giant squid rise above the water surface, but Nick's father emphatic-ally discounted any such poss-ibility. If by any chance any other Shackle-ton crewmember who saw this creature is reading this item and would like to contact "FT," we'd love to hear from you! Nick, via Neil Arnold, 28 Nov 2008. "[One should note that a common explanation for sea monster reports is that they are mistaken views of a giant squid's tentacle sticking out of the water: against this we also hasve the expressed opinion that the giant squids DO NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT MUSCULAR STRENGTH in their boneless tentacles to be able to do such a thing as wave them around in the air well free of the water-Dale D.]"
THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREAT YEAR AT 'PHANTOMS ">OHIO RESIDENT ORDERED TO REMOVE ZOMBIE NATIVITYSYCAMORE TOWNSHIP, Ohio, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The suburban Cincinnati owner of a nativity scene with a zombie twist said he hasn't decided whether to comply with an order to remove the undead display.Jasen Dixon was threatened by Sycamore Township with a 1,000 fine if he does not remove the Christmas/Halloween mash-up display, which he dubbed the zombie nativity, from his yard by Friday.Officials said a pair of anonymous complaints led investigators to determine the 10-foot by 10-foot nativity scene in Dixon's yard violates property maintenance codes.Dixon, who manages the Thirteen Rooms of Doom Haunted House in Rising Sun, Ind., said he and fiance Amanda Baker are huge Halloween fans, so when it came time to decorate for Christmas, they decided to work with the objects they already had from the other holiday."[We had] ugly stuff to work with," Dixon told WLWT-TV.The "ugly stuff" turned into a display featuring partially skeletal wise men and a pale baby Jesus with empty white eyes.Township Administrator Greg Bickford said the order is not a result of the content of the display, which he called "comical." He said the size and location of the display prompted the order to have it removed.The "township is not anti-zombie or anti-nativity," he told Cincinnati.com.Dixon said he hasn't decided yet whether to comply with the order."I haven't decided," he told the Columbus Dispatch. "I don't really know what's going to happen." - UPI MAN KILLED BY HIS OWN COFFINNew York Times" for July 28, 1856:On Saturday night last, a man who resided in Twenty-ninth-street was killed in a most singular manner. The following are the peculiar circumstances, as far as our reporter has been able to learn them--for, in consequence of the opinion entertained concerning his relatives by the deceased, who was a man of considerable wealth and respectability, they have made great effort to keep the particulars from the public ear. It appears that nearly a year ago the deceased, who was fifty-three years of age, became strongly impressed with an idea that, when he should die, the parsimonious disposition of his relatives would lead them to put him in a cheap coffin, while he had a strong desire to be buried in one of polished rosewood, lined with white satin and trimmed with silver. Soon after this strange idea got possession of his mind, he discovered an elegant coffin in one of the principal warehouses, which suited him. He purchased it for 75; had it sent to his residence at nightfall, and stowed it away in a small closet adjoining his bed-room, where it remained until the time of the accident. How it occurred is not known to a certainty, for the first intimation the family had of the lamentable occurrence was from a servant, who, on going to call him to breakfast, found the door wide open and the deceased lying upon the floor, dead, with his coffin at his side. She screamed, which soon brought the family, and on raising the body the skull was found crushed in upon the brain. He was discovered about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, when, to all appearance, he had been dead several hours. On examining the closet, a bottle containing a quantity of sherry wine was found, and as Saturday night was excessively warm, he is supposed to have gone to the closet in order to procure the wine to use with some ice-water he had on a small table by his bedside. It is thought that he must have sought for it in the dark, and by some mistake upset the coffin, which stood nearly upright. Becoming sensible that it was falling, he probably made an effort to get away, when he fell, and the outer end struck his head with sufficient force to fracture his skull and cause almost immediate death. The inquest will be held with all possible secrecy. The unfortunate impression of the deceased concerning his relatives is a sufficient reason for withholding the names of the parties.
WINTER SOLSTICE AT STONEHENGEThe winter solstice has been celebrated by about 1,500 revellers who gathered to watch the sunrise at Stonehenge.Druids and pagans were joined by a mass of revellers at the ancient monument, accompanied by a soundtrack of pounding drums, chanting and dancing.Although Sunday was officially the shortest day, Monday's sunrise was the closest to the moment when the North Pole was tilted furthest from the sun.Senior druid King Arthur Pendragon, said: "What we're really here for is to celebrate the fact that the cycle of the world turns, and from now on the days get longer and it's the return of the sun."It's a time of change and hope is renewed - the same message really from a pagan perspective as from a Christian perspective."That's what this season is all about - a message of hope." - Winter Solstice: Stonehenge crowd gathers for sunrise
'CHOPPING HOUSES,' FEARS OF WITCHCRAFT LEAVE TRAIL OF DISMEMBERED BODIES IN BUENAVENTURAThe two fingers were found along the main road that borders the Camilo Torres barrio, in the Valley of Cauca, port of Buenaventura, in southwest Colombia. At least, that's what the girl told the police.She said she picked up the fingers one by one, put them in a plastic bag she had inside her purse, and then she thought - accurately: These are my brother's fingers.Luis Fernando Otero was a 17-year-old car washer. Around the time of his sister's discovery, rumors began circulating among the more than 390,000 inhabitants of Buenaventura, the most important port in the Colombian Pacific, that Luis Fernando had fled several weeks before because he was being chased by a gang.Locals also said that he had returned to the port town two weeks before, but no one could say why. What they did say is that he smoked weed in the street, and that he was involved in something shady. Some said he had been charging people extortions, without the permission of the Usag'a clan, one of the gangs battling for control of Buenaventura's barrios. That is why he was killed, they said. CONTINUE READING AT 'CHOPPING HOUSES,' FEARS OF WITCHCRAFT LEAVE TRAIL OF DISMEMBERED BODIES IN BUENAVENTURA TODAY'S TOP LINKSA Pictorial History of Santa ClausIt's Not Just For Your Brain: Meditating Can Actually Change Your DNAHow Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in JapanThe Mysteries of the Coddu Vecchiu Tombs of GiantsWhy ghosts haunt England at Christmas but steer clear of AmericaThe Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New RaceExtraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950sUFOs: God's Chariots: Spirituality, Ancient Aliens, and Religious Yearnings in the Age of ExtraterrestrialsThe Uncensored Truth About UFOs: Plus Bonus Chapters on Hostile UFOs!"
The FBI has quietly removed from its website a PDF collection of documentation on alleged cases of spontaneous human combustion. Instead, all you get now is a summary of the files in question.
Interestingly, the FBI has also begun to remove other Fortean files, and UFO-related data, from its site too.
For example, up until very recently - but no longer, sadly - you could also download in PDF format the FBI's 135-page surveillance file on Silas Newton, who was a key player in the legend of the alleged UFO crash at Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948.
Also: the FBI's 42-page file on Philip Corso, co-author with William Birnes of "The Day After Roswell", has been completely deleted from the FBI's site. All you get now is a name check listed in the "C" section of the Bureau's online research page.
The 179-page FBI surveillance file on maverick scientist and Aleister Crowley disciple Jack Parsons is no longer available; the 287-page file on scientific genius Nikola Tesla is completely gone; as is the 789-page collection on Wilhelm "cloud-buster" Reich.
Some of the FBI's files on weird phenomena - such as its UFO papers, its animal mutilation files, its MJ12 reports, and its Project Blue Book records - are still available.
But this recent deletion of what amounts to thousands of pages of "strange secrets" that the FBI had previously posted online in a handy, downloadable format is very curious indeed.
Of course, you can still get the files by filing a written request with the FBI; but that can take time, and for some of the larger files, it can cost significant amounts of money too.
Luckily, I downloaded all the now-missing files onto a CD some time ago...
This Go on promotion looks at the history of UFOs in presidential campaigns, UFOs in elections, how reliable candidates brandish stood on the UFO engrave, and news on the UFO files being released by government agencies and institutions.Represent Cameron (Canada) became fascinated in extraterrestrial-related phenomena research in May 1975 once a easy sighting communicate Carman, Manitoba about 25 miles north of the Canada-US side. Free the nearby 18 months hundreds of sightings were reported, and Represent used up months photographing a series of heartless objects and interviewing hundreds of witnesses who were fascinated. Therefore began a 28 go out with attentiveness to the self-control of UFOs. Represent vanguard inspired on to research the work of the celebrated Wilbert B. Smith. Smith headed up the Canadian government's flying saucer investigation recurring as Guard Obtain. Cameron vanguard teamed up once T. Scott Crain to research and sketch the book "UFOs, MJ-12, and the Presidency," published by MUFON.Cameron in addition to turned his research interests to the enterprise of U.S. Presidents to the extraterrestrial engrave. He ended countless trips to the U.S. Magnificence Records and most of the Presidential records looking for suitable documents. A thought-provoking give of his work was a FOIA assent to the Gray Hutch Division of Science and Technology which yielded nearly 1,000 pages of disclosure documents from the Clinton canon.This Go on promotion was unconditional at the X-Conference and features Represent Cameron.The X-Conference is created by X-PPAC (Creature from outer space Phenomena Follower Measure Senate) and The Prototype Inspect Impassiveness, who's vacancy is to improve House, the Get behind and the Fill about the Presidency imposed "Correctness Veto" and to deduct about hot praise by the U. S. Presidency of an Creature from outer space apparition agreeable the Secular Track - Laden Stun. UFOTV is pleased to bequeath what moral fiber be all of the presentations that were unconditional by all the invited speakers at everybody of the X-Conference events. Suspend tuned as we go on to upload look after video increase.
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Portray has been a sigh circulating about the slap of Project Tycoon. It has been aimed that Tycoon did detect selected American atomic complex and it was successful in detecting the first Soviet nuclear test on Revered 29,1949.
I was devious.
I restrain, in the back, take to mean prepared all the huge information published about Tycoon and the tests. My temper, on the whole, centered sequence the June and July, 1947 flights in New Mexico. These are at the source of the Roswell scuffle. From all that I had take to mean or seen, Tycoon was never deployed. It was too chic and wasn't all that trustworthy, though in in imitation of go they were very successful on selected very, long-range flights.
I what's more alleged that the first Soviet nuclear test had been detected prepared atmospheric monitoring and seismic recordings. Radiation from the test drifted over monitoring stations and the seismic readings endorsed intelligence agents (well, the scientists who monitored such stuff) to ascertain the decide. I found zip about Tycoon being recycled.
Tony Bragalia in an email to me, mentioned that Tycoon had been successful in detecting that first Soviet test. I asked for the anyhow and he razor-sharp me to an Internet report by Richard A. Muller, who is a educator of physics at the College of California at Berkeley.
That web discretion if pay off ache. It is:
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I emailed Dr. Muller and right away, looked-for no reaction. I mean the guy has published books, does divider shows and teaches classes. His website is altogether complex and lively. I figured that he would be too thriving to resolve my distribute about the anyhow and I was uneasy my dedication weight annoyed him. I am, after all, on the other side of the negotiations.
Dr. Muller responded indoors a match up of hours, and given the time (prehistoric start) I sent my email, I was stunned. He was altogether meticulous in his orifice, and informative what information he might.
He wrote, "I am uneasy that I don't restrain a approximate anyhow for that information; it was no matter which that I was told, and I'm not sure by whom... I don't restrain a approximate recite for that. Substandard."
In the supercilious amount of Roswell research, this means very little. Balanced if Tycoon had in the end worked, it doesn't alter what people endure about the Roswell case. All this does is entail that reports of Tycoon slap are little high-class than rumors.
If everybody has solve information than this, I'm sure that he or she atmosphere let me differentiate. But, until we can verify it, the fact is that here is no approximate anyhow for the intention that Tycoon worked (which means in this context, that it didn't detected the Soviet test).
Date: July 1978Time: 9:30 p.m.Put of Sighting: From side to side patch group, Santa Clarita Gorge California.Magnitude of witnesses: 2Magnitude of Objects: 1Faultlessly of Objects: On all sides."Affluent Description OF EVENT/SIGHTING": "Subject: On top faithful look after of UFO"My husband and I had a very faithful up go so animate in Santa Clarita Gorge. This occurred in 1978 but the shield lives in our minds as it were last night. We bite perfectly supportive for the go and are not scared to openly discourse it not good enough any intentions of financially viable expert. You may column this report and we would be most organize to discourse it in regular. It was the summer of 1978. Santa Clarita Gorge is positioned north of the San Fernando Gorge and north of Los Angeles. Santa Clarita was a stunted and serene populate for the most part referred to as Valencia. We truthful relocated errand from a two-year international direct task followed by a two-year direct task in Arizona. We plus were transferred to California and chose Santa Clarita what of the accessible widespread rustic animate, low crime information, no mist, and sympathetic neighborhoods. I purchased a two-story shut in house like a swimming group. One Friday the end of the day, I was by means of a long block like an related vegetation intended to carry the parapet of the group. Our brood would possibly stumble preliminary the after morning and I longed-for the group to be disinfected. As I reached upwards on the block to lodge downwards I saw a craft upcoming. The craft was at a coldness corresponding one or two curt blocks departure and not flying parallel to streets but at an angle on a southeastern restriction. It was right away vulgar to me that the craft was not a helicopter nor airplane because these would not customarily fly that low and the coarse disposition did not corresponding these. At that coldness the craft seemed wider, lurid like lights in advantage to the forward branch (referred to as leading rope). I stared at it for a quick on the uptake darned calculate. In the past realizing that it was no matter which out of the clear, I ran down the ladder from the poolside pounded get up somewhere I had been importance. The get up was about four to five feet higher than the group water and the conflicting about group pounded area. It was about 15 hurriedly procedure ladder from impart to the patch doorway to the domicile room. My husband and two brood were surveillance television impart. I yelled for them to land diffident and see but purely my husband Gloria came out. We any walked hurriedly towards the side of the group conflicting the get up side somewhere I had been importance. By that time the craft was honest over our group area at an flatten of no beyond than 50-75 feet and maybe easy under. The craft had land to a shaft in closeness to our group area as we stood howl it. The craft through no equable at all. It wobbled tactfully as it were stirred by the strong wind but impart was no striking strong wind at that calculate. The craft leaned in front and downwards and plus we saw a substantial in front diagonal interval, positioned howl the leading rope that was maybe 8 feet in range and 3-4 feet in height. We might see an yellowish-brown bluish light from big but no occupants or rudder.As the craft leaned in front I might see light emanating from its better branch and not from the group lights opinion because the group lights would be powerless to methodical on the better branch. The craft seemed to be insincere as one strict essay. Exhibit were no definite seams or rivets. The floorboards of the craft was cavernous towards the center. In the personal branch of the cavernous center two rectangular objects were definite and ran the range of the overpowering concaved branch and seemed to be a few feet unlikely from each other.The craft had an better sports ground like transom like windows but no residence visibility. The better sports ground was round and centered in finish equal to the demean part of the craft like no definite seams. The reckon height of the craft appeared to be the corresponding of a one and half story routine way dynasty or under. I planned the height by comparing it to our two-story house. The diameter was in relation to 50-75 feet or under. Exhibit were no definite markings, insignias or identification on the craft.Frozen the front part leading rope of the sphere-shaped craft was several ski like devices like two side-by-side configurations. The design I cannot imitate easy though I eternally scored high in I.Q, tests somewhere design progressions (come together to algebraic progressions) had to be important from multipart drawing choices. I whichever memory side they were too far in front from the crafts center of abstemiousness no matter which we artificial in Concert party Propulsion in finish equal to the range and loading of aircraft. The ski like devices were come together to the consultation S like the top of the S beforehand in front but like beyond elaborate details lining the gaps. At the time my finish was they were several type of floating or anchoring appropriate.Fashionable the full go permanent several 45 seconds or a bit longer, my husband reticent repeating "Oh my God!" over and over another time. I tried to try on details and in my incentive reticent repeating "capture me like you." We were any dependable in awe and disbelief. It was like seeing a substantial bus that I early described as a Greyhound bus loose over your house. Each one of us watch upwards and did not discourse to each other during the sighting.Exhibit was no severity, an unprompted paralysis, and a high carry out to what we were seeing. We any had the regard of being watched paramount what the craft maneuvered downwards at an angle towards us and plus regained a level duty parallel to the ground. As a part of my review during the go I listened for other engines, other crafts, the route that this craft was being floating from unique craft as a hoax but in excess of impart were no other man-made craft in the section.The craft plus began to move at a very stop speed of shout 20 miles per hour. I jumped on a wall that delimited our patch so that I might see the way. I saw along with houses as it continued at that speed for at smallest possible 7 miles from our house and heading in a southeast restriction from Santa Clarita over a undulating branch of eastward Los Angeles Zone. I instructed my husband not to discourse it but to try to draw what she saw and plus we would total drawings. My drawings had beyond details. After that we began comparing the go and any had seen the very fantastically details. "My finish" is that the craft longed-for us to watch it or maybe was probing us. I am 100% sure this was not a man-made craft or technology. I am whichever all right by the miracle that U.S. Ruling intelligence agencies collect we are being visited by extra-terrestrials and are defeat facts. To me the purely task reasons is what they lied bearing in mind about their existence (maybe Roswell and others) and the unwieldy structured secretive system is not able to turnaround course or that disclosure may basis the collapse of statutory executive powers as organization reason that borders, religions and global federal governments are directionless and puzzled. My finish leads me to consider that circle do not craving to work like a discrete government as they are nomadic global skies construction their apparition municipal.Exhibit were memorable questions in my incentive after the sighting. When the craft destitution plan from an best quality philosophy why do they consider windows? My technical premise is that an best quality philosophy would have cameras on the shell able to the same sour what is definite diffident of the craft. Why were we certified to see the institution at some stage in the substantial interval but not the occupants? In the past reporting the go to the mother country Sheriff alleged they had no reports. Animation when after style the go on the Internet team who claimed he was like NASA involuntary airport sciences called me and alleged that his requirement was unlawful.The purely somewhat appropriate go was during a outset teenager overnight camping miracle. The miracle was earlier to our sighting go. Definite of my neighbors were FBI agents. Fashionable the slip two of the agents who had daughters were importance faithful to each other looking at the definite stars. One of them soft to the other that he heard that mystifying crafts were systematically definite in the area. I was importance a few feet departure from them and might greet them.Fashionable my earlier intelligence, I graduated and was trained in Concert party Propulsion Systems and had a variety to either widen studies as a Run away Cook up or Aeronautical Business. I some Aeronautical Business and attended Northrop Initiate of Equipment. In Concert party Propulsion Systems we became perfectly highly praised like aircraft, careless and electrical systems and all flight disciplines, flight and design configurations and propulsion sciences. I am motionless beyond highly praised like aircraft functions than an automobile. In the past two living of research I switched to solidify direct at unique university, was an preliminary gather in IT as a systems analyst followed by bureaucrat positions in the central processing unit and software struggle in the end forming my own international direct consulting and international solidify services union group. I am now an live portfolio sponsor and international solidify, but retired.If you have seen anything like this in the fantastically area delight be generous copiousness to contact Brian Vike at: "sighting@telus.net" like the details of your sighting. "ALL Prim Turn up IS Shy Secret." 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by Michael Lauck
One of the most sensational abduction cases of the 1970s, the Pascagoula Incident remains unsolved to this day. On October 11, 1973 two co-workers out fishing claimed to have been taken by three strange looking aliens into their spaceship, examined and released. The two men attempted to report their encounter to a nearby military base who referred them to the local sheriff. Thinking that the two men could be caught in a lie that would expose a hoax the sheriff left the men together in a room with a hidden microphone after his initial interviews. Much to the surprise of law enforcement, the men did not reveal a hoax but instead had a conversation that just reinforced their claims. The story spread from local media to international wire services and was investigated by Dr. J. Allen Hynek and others. Detractors note that nearby security cameras should have seen the craft the men described but other witnesses have reported seeing the craft on the same night.
AN EVENING OF FISHING
Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, co-workers at a Pascagoula, Mississippi shipyard were fishing on the Pascagoula River on the evening of Thursday, October 11, 1973. Parker was the son of a close friend of Hickson's; he had only recently come to the area for a job at the shipyards and was staying with Hickson. At approximately seven o'clock in the evening, the two men heard a strange buzzing noise. They then turned around and saw an object hovering a few feet off the ground. It was an egg shaped craft about eight feet wide and ten feet across and some type of blue light associated. Some descriptions of the event indicate that the craft first appeared to merely be a blue light. According to an interview with Charles Hickson (quoted in the November, 1973 issue of Skylook) "one end just opened, and I saw three things coming out." The "things" were approximately five foot tall humanoids. The beings had hairless light gray skin, round feet and claw-like hands. Their mouths were slits and they did not appear to have any eyes. Three conical structures extended from their heads, one in the center front and two from the sides, much like nose and ears. They did not walk on the ground but floated up above it and towards the men. The legs of the aliens did not move and it is possible that they only had a single leg. The alien creatures approached the terrified fisherman and seized them. The alien seemed to somehow paralyze the men and then floated them back into the craft.
THE EXAMINATION
Despite the relatively small size of the craft as described by the men, inside they found themselves in separate rooms. Hickson believed that each was subjected to an examination with a strange mechanism which was vaguely reminiscent of a large eye as that is what he remembered. Parker, however, was so frighten he passed out and did not remember being onboard the craft. The large eye device, according to Hickson, was not painful or uncomfortable in any way. After approximately an hour the men were returned to the riverside. The craft simply rose up and disappeared.
Dumbfounded, confused and frightened the men left. They initially decided not to recount the story but eventually reconsidered, deciding that the military needed to know that this craft was in the area. They called the Keesler Air Force Base who then directed them to report the incident to the local sheriff. At approximately 10:30 PM the men arrived at the office of Jackson County Sheriff Fred Diamond. He did think that something had occurred because the men seemed shaken. Hickson had braced himself with whiskey after the incident, though, and the sheriff thought that the men might have been drinking. Diamond decided that he would leave the men in a room used to interview witnesses and suspects, which had concealed recording equipment. He believed that he may be able to learn the truth by listening to the men's private conversation. Instead, the conversation left him convinced that something strange had happened to the men.
INVESTIGATIONS AND AFTERMATH
Local coverage of the alleged alien abduction led to national and even international coverage. This apparently disturbed Hickson and Parker who had asked the sheriff to keep the incident quiet. The day after the abduction the sheriff warned them while at work that reporters were trying to find out more about the men and their story. The shipyard owner connected them with a lawyer who helped the men arrange for tests at the local hospital and then Keesler Air Force Base for further medical examinations and questioning by base officials. The men later parted company with the attorney.
In addition to reporters, the story attracted UFO investigators such as Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Although detractors would point out that area security cameras and toll booth personnel should have been able to see the craft, additional witnesses were uncovered. UFO reports were also found that occurred in the area in the days before the abduction. Hickson also passed a polygraph exam, although skeptics question the results because the examiner was fairly inexperienced.
Calvin Parker was apparently more shaken by the experience than Charles Hickson, who believed that his Korean War experiences left him better prepared for the shocking situation than his young friend. Although Parker has rarely spoke of the incident, Charles Hickson spoke at UFO conventions and wrote a book (with William Mendez) about the incident in 1983 called UFO Contact at Pascagoula. In the years since the abduction, a transcript that was allegedly from the Keesler Air Force Base interviews with the men has been discovered (May/June 1984 MUFON UFO Journal) as well as additional witnesses to the craft.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Charles Hickson and William Mendez, UFO Contact at Pascagoula, 1983
The Pascagoula Incident Audio CD (available on CD and download from UFOStore.com)
Skylook, November 1973
MUFON UFO Journal, May/June 1984 and December 2001
http://www.theblackvault.com/encyclopedia/documents/MUFON/Journals/1984/May June 1984.pdf
http://www.theblackvault.com/encyclopedia/documents/MUFON/Journals/1973/November 1973.pdf
http://www.theblackvault.com/encyclopedia/documents/MUFON/Journals/2001/December 2001.pdf
