Abduction from Pascagoula River Pier — Mississippi

My name is Charles Hickson and I am making this statement voluntarily to the Jackson County Sheriff's Department. On the evening of October 11, 1973, I was fishing from a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River with my co-worker Calvin Parker. It was about 9 PM. We heard a buzzing or zipping noise behind us. I turned and saw a craft approximately 30 to 40 feet long and 8 to 10 feet high, oval shaped, hovering about two feet off the ground. It glowed blue-gray. A hatch or opening appeared in the front and three beings floated out. They were roughly five feet tall, pale, with wrinkled skin — the color of an elephant. Where their faces should have been there were only small slits where the mouth and nose would be. Their eyes were not like human eyes. Their hands were like a crab claw, two-fingered. I was frozen. Two of the beings took hold of my arms — I could not move or resist — and I was floated into the craft. Calvin fainted. Inside, I was suspended in the air in a horizontal position and a large eye-like instrument moved over my body slowly. I felt no pain. I was examined for what felt like 15 to 20 minutes and then deposited back on the pier. I was shaking so badly I could barely stand. Calvin was crying. I am not an imaginative man. I do not drink. I have no reason to fabricate this. I went to the police because I felt I had a civic duty to report what had happened, as frightening as I knew it would look.