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I remember one night as a child, I was watching that movie, War of the Worlds.

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It scared to live in daylights out of me.

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The walls of all the spaceships, they were going around zapping people and houses.

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My dad told me, son, that is just a movie.

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He said things like that don't exist until one day.

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Two local men confronted authorities with a rather bizarre story.

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Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker told of a strange craft landing near their fishing

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site and of being taken aboard by three unearthly creatures.

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I said, now daddy tell me what happened that night.

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He started telling me and all of a sudden I noticed he got tears in his eyes.

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I said, what's the matter daddy?

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He said, son, I've been scared in my lifetime, but I've never had anything scare me like

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this before.

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I was so afraid that they were going to take me away from here and they would never know

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what happened to us.

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On the evening of October 11th, 1973, Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing on

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a river and claimed to have had an otherworldly encounter.

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For 50 years, many have asked, what really happened that night?

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I love everything about Mississippi.

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Sound of a train whistle, barks, root beer.

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It's just a way of life, the way I was brought up.

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We don't get in a hurry.

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It's just a way to live down here.

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Dad and I moved to Pascagoula in 1969.

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Pascagoula was a sleepy, small fishing village until the construction of a shipyard, Engle

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Shipbuilding began manufacturing destroyers for the US Navy back in the 50s, which required

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workers and recruited workers from all over the state.

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The crime rate was very low.

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You could still, at that time, sleep with your windows up and your doors left open.

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Daddy was my best friend.

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We did a lot of fishing.

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Daddy just knew how to catch fish and he used to make me so mad he'd be yanking them in

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the boat and I wouldn't catch anything.

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And I'd put my cork or throw it over beside him and I still wouldn't catch anything.

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We used to go pick dewberries and all that kind of stuff.

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We raised our own pigs and cows and we did it all.

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We survived on our own.

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Calvin and I went to school together.

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We didn't live very far apart from each other.

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He was 18 at the time, same age as me.

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Calvin and his dad and my dad would all go camping.

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We spent a lot of time together.

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My dad helped get him a job down at one of the shipyards.

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One day they decided to go fishing after work and that's how they ended up down on the

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river and that's when everything happened.

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I had just gotten a bite and I was reeling it in as I turned almost froze with fear.

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Zipping sounds all I heard.

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About 60 or 70 feet away some type of craft was approaching the ground.

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He said this thing was sitting there above, it wasn't touching the ground, above the ground

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and it had lights on it.

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It seemed to just stop, just land.

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All of a sudden it, uh, one end of it just opened up.

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It seemed to hold me spellbound.

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Maybe it would just leave.

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We can run for the car, get the hell out of here.

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And then all of a sudden these three beings come out.

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They never touched the ground.

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Two of them came straight to him and one went to Calvin.

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I don't remember seeing any eyes.

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They had something in about the center of what I would call a face, something that came

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straight out.

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Well, it's about four nose and the human being's face would be.

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I didn't see any neck, it looked like it just sit down on a, on a body and it didn't have

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hands as we have.

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They had more or less like pictures or cloth.

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They grabbed him by his arm and he said from that point on he could not move his eyes,

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he could not speak.

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He was just totally paralyzed.

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One of them took hold of Calvin.

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I saw him go limp and found out later he had fainted.

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It was kind of like a humming noise.

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Just one of them made it as a human, just like that.

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And the only one I seen that made it the rest of them I didn't hear anything because I was

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at the point where I passed out.

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Two of them reached for my arms, one on each side.

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They took them both inside of the spacecraft and he described it as being inside of a light

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bulb.

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It was so bright.

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I was alone for what seemed an eternity.

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God help us.

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Where is Calvin?

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What have they done with it?

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Then I saw him.

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Something that resembled a big eye seemed to come out directly from the wall.

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I tried to close my eyes but couldn't.

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The eye came closer, stopped about six inches from my face.

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The guy lingered there for a while and started to move down my body and returned to move

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over my entire body.

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Daddy estimated that he was in there probably 30 minutes.

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He said when they bought me out they took me back to the same place they picked me up

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and he said Calvin was standing there by the river.

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With his arms out straight like that, just like he was staring at something.

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Before I reached him I heard the zipping sound again and as I looked around I saw the blue

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flashing lights and almost instantly the craft was gone.

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Their first instinct was to get in the car and go home.

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That's what they started heading over there.

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They were talking and said we need to let the authorities know about this because it

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could be somebody getting ready to invade us.

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It was two men came into the Sheriff's Department at approximately 8.30 and then a clock.

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They were all excited and said what climbed the walls?

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It was terrible, crying.

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That's actually all I know is what happened.

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As far as we see and what happened I don't know.

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The Sheriff's Department of Fred Dime, they felt like an interrogation more than somebody

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you could talk to.

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I didn't know what I was going to do or where I was going to go or who I was going to see

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or who I was going to tell.

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I didn't make it to my mind that I didn't tell nobody though.

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Well I didn't find out about it right away.

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I think it was about three days into it and I had heard something had happened.

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I didn't realize the extent of it until I actually laid eyes on Calvin.

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Back then I wanted to protect her and I didn't know how.

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This happened October.

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We got married November.

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I didn't know how to keep it a secret because all the news media had hammered down.

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Two Mississippi men say they were examined by creatures from the spaceship.

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There's some question about how the story got out so quickly.

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Calvin used to think that Charlie might have leaked it because for the national media to

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pick up on it so quickly was pretty phenomenal.

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Rolling Stone came to town.

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I don't ever remember reading the article that they wrote.

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I was twelve and I remember that weekend I think it sort of broke like headline.

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I was going to a sleep favorite one of my friends house and all I remember is saying

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why is your daddy putting a lumen on full in the windows and she said well I don't know

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so I went and asked him and he said it's to keep the aliens from getting to our brains.

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UFOs are here now.

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A number of scientists take them very seriously.

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The sheriff's department was getting something like two or three thousand phone calls during

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that week.

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Those were mostly people afraid or worried or curious.

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It was a mess here.

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I mean how the town was.

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I know how the police department works with you know calls coming in.

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I just can't imagine all the calls that they had gotten not only there but you know at

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the county seeing blue lights and people were scared.

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At first it was treated as a big joke but no one who has talked to the two men is laughing

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now.

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There's two different reactions.

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There were people who were afraid to stay at home by themselves at night.

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You know aluminum foil hats and things like that.

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There were some people that dismissed it.

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Most people in Pascagoula probably just discounted it and said that couldn't have happened.

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It was just too out there to be something that possibly occurred.

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You know the first thing someone asked me when I went to church and they were like yeah

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well those guys drunk.

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I knew he was telling the truth without question.

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With no hard evidence to prove they were abducted the town was divided on believing

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Charlie and Calvin's claims.

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Even so their story never changed.

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Daddy was always kind of jovial like to laugh and everything like that and after this happened

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to him he kind of lost some of that.

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I could just see it in his eyes and his face and his mind was always thinking and for a

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long time I do know that he did have problems sleeping.

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My mother she was scared to death.

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It freaked her out.

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I mean really it did.

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He had cold sweats.

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Had to change his sheets at least two and three times a night from cold sweats and he's never

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been the same since and I have it either.

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My dad of course being older and what happened to him in Korea and stuff like that he was

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more prepared for something like that than Calvin.

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When Calvin got out of the car first of May I had seen him since it happened four days

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later.

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I can't say he ran towards me but he got to me pretty quickly.

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We embraced and hugged for the longest time.

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I noticed his mouth was quivering.

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Just very traumatized very unsettled.

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You experienced a couple of breakdowns is that correct?

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You know it was a time or two that I had to go in the hospital and count my nerves and

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you know I still have problems with my nerves.

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When he went to the emergency room he tried to have a place up.

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He just couldn't handle it and that's why I believe daddy went off and tried to let

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everybody know this.

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Calvin didn't want to talk about it.

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All he wanted to do at that time was forget about it.

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I don't know what happened.

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I truly don't.

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I don't but after I met Mr. Parker something happened to that man.

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There's not a doubt in my mind.

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Do you remember the first time you saw me babing when I met you out of the car?

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Yeah I was so glad to see you.

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So glad.

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How long we held each other.

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Yeah.

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I could tell he didn't want to talk to me about it which was fine.

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I didn't want to do anything that was going to upset him.

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I gave him his space and I felt like in my heart that when he got ready to talk to me

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about it he would.

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There was a lot of UFO activity in the area in the 70s.

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There was UFO sightings all along the Mississippi coast.

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There was a lot of it.

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A lot of some kind of activity.

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The area where Calvin and Charlie fished that night was near the Pascagoula River drawbridge

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which at the time was operated around the clock by a bridge tender.

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One thing that really bothered me when I started looking into this case the bridge tender

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did not see anything.

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So there were two bridge tenders and you can see by one of the photographs of Charlie down

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by the site you can see that bridge tender's box in the background so it was not far away.

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Why didn't the bridge tender see it?

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It was so bright if it happened right there it was a reflection on the water all these

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other things why didn't the bridge tender see it?

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Calvin and Charlie thought they were alone in what they saw but the spot where the encounter

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occurred was not far from working shipyards and private residences and there were others

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who saw something the night of October 11th.

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I was at my home and I was leaving right at about dusk with my girlfriend.

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When I got in my car I seen these strange lights over on this side of the river.

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They were like LED lights like 6k LED lights that were so bright and LED was unheard of

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then and I thought maybe it was a big plane coming in or something then wrong place for

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a plane to be landing.

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But when we got up on the bridge good then the lights got brighter and they were right

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over the old shipyard area there on the south side of the bridge and as we got on top of

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the bridge the lights didn't move they were just staying right there.

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I happened to be outside my backyard and saw something odd that I watched for 20 minutes.

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It was basically blue it appeared to have a line of lights you would say rotating around

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it and it stopped and it just stayed there and it had actually lowered down to the coast

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of the horizon.

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We were stopped at a red light and I could see an object coming toward us and I couldn't

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make out what it was.

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I said look it was so low just above the light poles but there was no engine noise and it's

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got a really bright light under it that you couldn't look at it at a long period of time.

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The radio started acting crazy and we were freaking out and we were saying what is this

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what in the world is that.

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And then the only way I can describe it is it shot off to the north of the pier really

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high rate of speed just like it was gone.

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We didn't know what it was either all of it came together in the same time frame same

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evening we didn't know what we'd seen but we we seen the lights from it.

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I headed back in house and I told my parents and they told me they was like well you know

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I wouldn't tell anybody about this they're gonna think you're crazy.

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That was the way things were looked on in that day.

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Everybody was saying well I'm not telling anybody they won't believe us you know and

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they'll make fun of us and we kind of made a pact that nobody was gonna say anything

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about it.

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I think people were nervous and worried about what someone else would think about them.

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Whether they believed it or not it was taboo.

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They couldn't relate it to being in the Bible or being a part of something that God created.

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Daddy was a very religious man he was raised that way by his mom and dad and daddy raised

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me the same exact way.

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He turned to his faith because he knew that God's not gonna put on anything on him that

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he can't handle.

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I certainly believe in God and I think that God in all of his greatness didn't only create

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this little wall here he created all those walls out there.

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There's been some witnesses that's come forth after the fight way after the fight.

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I'm not so sure that people much care anymore about what someone says about them.

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Who we to say God didn't create something else out there.

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I remember the Tonight Show and other national media that picked up on the event.

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I mean the story is an amazing story that two average guy shipyard workers fish for

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a little while after they got off work and all of a sudden what happened apparently changed

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their lives.

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After the story broke Charlie and Calvin were flooded by media requests.

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News outlets and TV shows were eager to have the men share their experience and profit

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from it.

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Daddy appeared on several shows he was on Johnny Carson the cavit and to tell the truth.

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Number one could you did you have the power to resist or to restrain yourself or was

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you sort of hypnotizing?

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I didn't have any power to resist no.

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So will the real Charles Hickson please stand up.

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There was money to be made off a UFO story and Charlie in particular didn't miss an

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opportunity to recount the abduction.

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Charles Hickson is preparing to tell his story on stage before an audience or a price.

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Hickson has teamed up with a group of hypnotists and psychics for a series of personal appearances.

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The price of tickets is five and ten dollars.

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When he's not busy making personal appearances or appearing on radio and television talk

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shows or promoting his record Hickson works on the book he's writing about his experience.

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My dad has been all over the country on interviews and stuff like that and I want you to know

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that he did not profit from this by any at all.

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All he would ask these people is to pay him what he would lose in a day's work.

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Charlie I lost confidence in him because we agreed.

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Me and him weren't going to tell nobody.

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I felt like he told the world.

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So I didn't have nobody I didn't feel like down here.

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I had a lot of people that I didn't feel like I had anybody I could talk to.

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The news media was just everywhere.

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It started to get to daddy.

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He was being pulled this way, pulled that way and anybody watching to tell the truth

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they could tell and look at his demeanor and tell that it took a lot out of him.

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He wasn't the same Charlie.

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Mr. Hickson was out front and very visible after this happened.

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Mr. Parker had significant emotional problems as a result of the incident and sort of shunned

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the publicity.

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I think he was struggling to comprehend it himself.

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He was questioning himself mentally.

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I don't know how you couldn't.

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He wanted to stay out of the public eye because you know you never know how people will treat

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you after something like this.

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I do remember Mr. Calvin telling me that he was at a funeral here local and somebody

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recognized his name and came up to him and said are you Calvin Parker and he said yes

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but he said he did not hang around.

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He said there was someone mourning someone being gone and he said he and his wife just

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got in the car and left and went home.

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Several of them followed us out to the car even so we got away from them and we were

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on the way home and shortly after that in 2018 that's when he started opening up to

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me about it.

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I knew whatever it was was traumatizing but I didn't realize the extent.

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You know something coming from the unknown and they have you and they're poking and

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probing and I mean you don't know if you're going to live or die.

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I don't think anyone really knew what to think back then.

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The ones that say they saw the lights said they were scared.

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They were scared that if they came out and admitted to seeing it that they'd be shown

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too.

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Did you believe it immediately?

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I'm not sure.

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I probably not.

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I mean I was young at the time but the secret recording of the two characters involved that

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went a long way to letting people know that this was a very possibly an actual incident.

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I guess they really put a form on this one.

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In early 2020 a recording surfaced that to many added credibility to Charlie and Calvin's

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story.

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The night they reported the abduction, Haska Gula police officers recorded the men without

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their knowledge.

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The sheriff put Charlie and Calvin back in that room by themselves.

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He put a tape in a drawer or up under the desk somehow he had installed it.

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They put these two guys back in that room by themselves and left them.

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That would have been an opportune time for them to say gosh you think they believed us.

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We need to get our story straight but there was no change in the story.

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You could hear the fear in their voices and the sincerity and especially Calvin said you

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could tell he was scared half dead.

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They were absolutely convinced that what had happened to them was reality.

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Years later Calvin claimed to have been visited again and unlike before Calvin shared his

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second encounter freely in an effort to work through his experience.

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One of your thoughts today is that I'm just magnitude having to.

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I am more mentally stable now than what I've ever been in my whole life and I can deal

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with this in a more mature manner.

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Talking about it kind of gave them a little relief.

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You know it can't be good for anybody to case something stored up that long.

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There's probably some that still think he's crazy but you know what the great thing is

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he don't care anymore.

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Honestly I think telling his story sort of set him free.

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Charlie Hixon also claimed to have been visited a second time in 1974.

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He was sitting under a tree eating an orange one day and he said he just got this feeling

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something was watching him and he said he turned around a look and there was two of

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them standing right behind him and they never came any closer and he said it was just like

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a radio that turned on in his head that we mean you know harm and we will be back.

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He said all of a sudden they were gone just boom that fast.

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My daddy was one of the first that was captured by UFO.

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He stuck to his word the day he died it never changed under anything and that's good enough

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for me.

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You can't live a normal life you always got this in the back of your head.

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She slipped through this and I know it's been hard on her.

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She hadn't got much credit for putting up with me through the whole thing.

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Really I didn't do her right because I waited a long time to talk to her about it.

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Eighteen years.

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No more than that.

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More than 18 darling.

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Yeah.

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How do you tell somebody that you love something like that?

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Or they think you're an idiot or something?

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This is the marker that was dedicated in my father and Calvin Parker across from where

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the actual incident happened and I'm very proud of it and it's a legacy to him is the

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way I see it.

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My dad was to me a super super man and I miss him dearly.

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The marker brought healing not only for a community that I think at the time didn't

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believe but especially for Mr. Calvin so we laid that out and we made that happen.

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Mr. Calvin was blown away.

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It felt real good to have a city to acknowledge it and I thought it was a big honor and I

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told one Ed when I died just got her my ashes right around the marker somewhere because

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I have a marker there and people will be able to come visit.

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Mr. Charlie's family was there as well and they got a chance to talk about their life

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growing up with the whole scenario.

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The experience of Charles Hixon and Calvin Parker is so unique that it cannot be ignored

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as part of our our culture here.

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On Fridays are events that are held in the downtown area, bands, food trucks and one

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of the Fridays is dedicated to the alien abduction.

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I believe as a city we need to celebrate that story.

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Now I have you know the the blow up green ones.

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As tall as him I've got actually one taller than him that we have to sort of tie you know

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to one of the poles.

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There's one in just about every business.

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But this is my prize.

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This is just the cover of the first book that Mr. Parker wrote.

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I have bigger ones that he signed and only a few people got one and I happened to be

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one of them so I was very proud of that.

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This is in the 70s, early 70s.

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Times were different.

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I think people were open minded now.

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The bottom line is they were a couple of shipyard workers that did not ask for this and that

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it just occurred and have no reason why it occurred.

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But I think it's very good that they both have been able to come forward and say yes

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this happened yes we were part of it believe it or not it happened.

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I don't not believe I could not rule that out.

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You know when you think about it and this is probably why Pascugula reacted like it did.

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You think about it.

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It will rock your world.

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If you really believe that it happened then it should change your whole life.

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It certainly changed theirs.

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My daddy he always wondered why he was the chosen one.

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He didn't understand why they would want to chose him as just an old country boy.

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He thought about that a lot.

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I was going to lie about it.

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There's some kind of hopes that for sure come clean.

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You don't want to go meet your maker and have all that on you.

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I really wasn't planning on it.

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I figured the Lord has all his reasons for doing things.

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That if it's good enough for him it's good enough for me.

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Who knows what really happened on that river all those years ago.

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But for Charlie and Calvin and many others in Pascugula there is no question.

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You look in space at night time if you get away from life you can see thousands of stars.

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As far as we can tell right now they ain't down the end of it yet.

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So you can't tell me there's not something out there somewhere.

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My daddy believed that.

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I know there's other worlds out there with life on it and someday everyone will know

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that to be a fact without any doubt.