A Deep Southern Throwback Thursday: The Pascagoula Abduction, 1973

Forty-five years ago today, on October 11, 1973, two men named Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported to local sheriffs that they had been abducted by aliens while fishing on the Pascagoula River in southern Mississippi. Hickson and Parker claimed that a spaceship whizzed by, paralyzed them, and took them onto the ship to look them over. The response from journalists was immediate and swift, and reading back over coverage from the time, it is clear the sightings weren’t limited to that one report. Less than a week after Hickson’s… Read more A Deep Southern Throwback Thursday: The Pascagoula Abduction, 1973 →