Abductee Charles Hickson has died

[MS6SSNatalieH]

Hickson, 80, died last Friday of a heart attack, his family said on Tuesday.

Hickson, then 42, was fishing with 19-year-old Calvin Parker Jr. on a pier near Pascagoula, Mississippi in October 1973 when they said a cigar-shaped UFO with flashing blue lights suddenly appeared above them.

A door opened up, the two men later told authorities, and they were pulled into the craft by aliens, who paralyzed them, examined them on a table and then let them go.

Although Hickson was reluctant to share the story -- he said all he and Parker wanted to do "was go fishing" and he feared people would "laugh me out of Jackson County" -- he and Parker eventually went to local police and reported the incident.

"They weren't lying," the chief investigator for the Jackson County Sheriff's Department told reporters at the time. "Whatever it was, it was real to them."

As word of their claims leaked out, Hickson and Parker became minor celebrities, celebrated by believers in extraterrestrial life but derided by skeptics.

In 1974, after wire services picked up the story, Hickson appeared on a number of national TV programs, including The Dick Cavett Show.

In 1983, Hickson wrote a book about the incident called "UFO Contact at Pascagoula" with William Mendez.

[MS6SSNatalieH]

R.I.P Charles Hickson.

[Carol Nistri]

I wonder if taped interviews with him are available on the net,this was a case that is hard to put down,I believe both men.

[dr wu23]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction

The "Secret Tape"
Diamond interviewed the men, who related their story. After repeated questioning, Diamond left the two men alone in a room that was, unknown to Hickson or Parker, rigged with a hidden microphone.
As Jerome Clark, writes, "Sheriff Diamond assumed that if they were lying, that fact would become immediately apparent when the two spoke privately. Instead, they continued to talk in the voices of the terribly distressed." (Clark, 447) This so-called "secret tape" was held on file at the Jackson County Sheriff's department, and has since earned wider circulation amongst UFO researchers and enthusiasts.[2] Parker, who seemed particularly shaken, spoke repeatedly of his wish to see a doctor. A partial transcript of their interrogation and of the "secret tape" is available;[3] immediately below is part of the conversation on the "secret tape", as transcribed by NICAP:
CALVIN: I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy. CHARLIE: I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep. CALVIN: I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy. CHARLIE: Well, Calvin, when they brought you out-when they brought me out of that thing, goddamn it I like to never in hell got you straightened out. His voice rising, Calvin said, "My damn arms, my arms, I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake." "They didn't do me that way", sighed Charlie. Now both men were talking as if to themselves. CALVIN: I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life. CHARLIE: I've never seen nothin' like that before in my life. You can't make people believe- CALVIN: I don't want to keep sittin' here. I want to see a doctor- CHARLIE: They better wake up and start believin'... they better start believin'. CALVIN: You see how that damn door come right up? CHARLIE: I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know. CALVIN: It just laid up and just like that those son' bitches-just like that they come out. CHARLIE: I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it- CALVIN: I paralyzed right then. I couldn't move- CHARLIE: They won't believe it. They gonna believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me. CALVIN: You know yourself I don't drink CHARLIE: I know that, son. When I get to the house I'm gonna get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sittin' around for. I gotta go tell Blanche... what we waitin' for? CALVIN (panicky): I gotta go to the house. I'm gettin' sick. I gotta get out of here. Then Charlie got up and left the room, and Calvin was alone. CALVIN: It's hard to believe . . . Oh God, it's awful... I know there's a God up there... Seeing that the police were skeptical of their story, Hickson and Parker insisted that they take lie detector tests to prove their honesty

[Carol Nistri]

Thanks Dr.Wu,thats it exactly,I dont believe these men were lying,they truely experienced what happend. Then for some reason those little guys (the aliens) got wise.They didnt dream this would make national news and there would be lie detectors,for all we know the entire abduction experience could have changed completely.Time has passed now someone should get Parkers story before its to late.Now that hes had time to reflect and calm down it might be of interest to see what he has to say. That guy on that radio show should contact him.

[Skeptical]

I still wonder why Parker has held his silence all these years. Hixson told the story to just about anyone who would listen but Parker shunned the spotlight. I'm suspicious but, then again, there are war vets that adamantly refuse to talk about their experiences too.

Something happened to these two but I think, like other high-strangeness cases, the experience may not have been a physical one.

S

[Carol Nistri]

I had to look at your name for a moment Skep,I thought I was talking to Dr.Wu. According to Hicks himself Parker was so dismayed by the experience he never spoke of it again. I believe the guy went into a kind of shock.As far as I know Parker has never ever spoken of the experience to anyone since it happend,but Ill bet he would tell the story as if it happend last night,you dont forget that which is profound.

[starman2003]

Interestingly, the entities described were unlike others e.g. in the Hill case, so, in addition to evidence for veracity cited above, they don't look like copycats.

[Carol Nistri]

Maybe it was then that we were supposed to surmize that were being visited by many many entities,not just those the Hills discribed,I wonder if Parker has ever given a statement or interview to anyone,seems to me this would have been a choice person to interview and money talks.

[Skeptical]

Originally Posted by starman2003

Interestingly, the entities described were unlike others e.g. in the Hill case, so, in addition to evidence for veracity cited above, they don't look like copycats.

Star - this is one of the confounding things about the phenomenon - you never get two cases exactly alike. How are you supposed to draw any real conclusions about something that exhibits no consistency?

S