- We're on our way to
Pascagoula, Mississippi,
home of the 1973 UFO abduction
of Charles Hickson
 and Calvin Parker.
We're going to
 meet several people
who also saw that
 UFO, including myself.
This is the Calvin Parker story.
Everything you see in
 this documentary is true.
[bluesy rock music]
The road to Pascagoula winds
through picturesque small towns
and communities
 toward the Gulf Coast.
Many of these little communities
haven't changed much since 1973.
Our first stop is
 the tiny village
of Ellisville, Mississippi,
about 100 miles
 away from the coast.
This is where I grew up,
and on October 11th,
 1973, I saw a UFO.
[bluesy rock music]
It was just after dusk.
I was 12 years old and
playing with a football
under the streetlight
 in front of my house.
The ball bounced into the
 yard and when I retrieved it,
I looked to the north and saw
 a large orange ball of light
moving southward
 and over our house.
The object drifted slowly,
and made the tops of trees
 behind the house glow orange.
It moved toward the
 south and the Gulf Coast.
I was paralyzed with fear,
and watched it for
 about 15 minutes
as it passed into the
 distance over the horizon.
This UFO encounter
changed my life forever.
[suspenseful music]
Little did I know that
 over 100 miles away,
in Pascagoula, Mississippi,
Calvin Parker and Charlie
 Hickson were about to have
the most horrific
 experience of their lives.
[suspenseful music]
Three robotic creatures
emerged from the craft,
and with machine efficiency,
 they took Calvin and Charlie.
[suspenseful futuristic music]
Both were injected
 with something
that paralyzed and
 immobilized them.
The injections were
 painful and sedative.
[suspenseful music]
The two men were lifted up and
 carried into the spacecraft.
They were examined and scanned.
Calvin was abused
 by a female alien.
The men were then
removed from the craft,
and dumped on the riverbank,
still paralyzed
 from the encounter.
[suspenseful music]
There they agreed to never
 talk about the incident,
however, after Charlie
 reported the encounter
to the local sheriff, the news
 media picked up the story,
and their lives
 would change forever.
In 1973, I was 12 years old.
I didn't pay
 attention to the news,
so when the incident happened
in Pascagoula after
 my UFO sighting,
the only information that
 I got was from adults
who were making jokes about
 those two guys in Pascagoula
that said they got picked
 up by a flying saucer.
And the jokes drifted
 around for awhile,
but I was very curious
about what happened
 to Charlie and Calvin,
because I had seen a
UFO that evening myself.
And it wasn't until a year
 later when this book came out,
"Beyond Earth: Man's
 Contact with UFOs,"
by Ralph and Judy Blum.
In here was the whole story,
and they were there right
 after the incident happened,
so they took excellent notes,
and produced a really
 great book on the subject.
Then is when I knew about Calvin
Parker and Charlie Hickson.
Now during the aftermath
of the incident,
Calvin told a little white lie,
and he told it for good reason.
The media was hounding
 Charlie and Calvin,
and he needed a way to
 get the media off of them,
so he could go back to
work and start his life,
and have a life.
So he said that he passed out
during the encounter
 with the UFO.
Well, he didn't, and he
 remembered a lot of things
that had happened
 inside the spacecraft.
Later on, Budd Hopkins
would hypnotize Calvin,
and bring out even more details
of what had happened
onboard the spacecraft.
We're gonna get to that
in just a little bit,
but our next stop is
 Lucedale, Mississippi,
where we will meet
 another witness
who saw the UFO that night.
[light acoustic guitar music]
Lucedale is a town north of
 Pascagoula, along Highway 63.
It's here we meet Susan Snow.
In 1973, Susan was walking
 her dogs that night,
near the Pascagoula River.
Her story adds to the
 timeline of events
on the evening of
 October 11th, 1973.
- Well, I was outside
 in my backyard.
We're probably about
 two miles or so,
give or take, from the
 river where I lived.
And I noticed a light,
 first time I saw it,
it was coming from the north,
 moving toward the south,
and it went to a certain point.
It wasn't moving too
 terribly fast at that point.
It moved back to
 the north a little,
and then a little back to
 the south, and it stopped,
and it was pretty stationary.
It looked pretty much like,
I would call it a band of
 different color lights.
They appeared to be,
from where I was,
appeared to be rotating.
It was like blue,
green, yellow, and red.
They were, I would
describe it looking as,
I say is if they were
 rotating around a flat object,
or possibly the
 edge of something.
It was pretty bright.
It stayed there, probably
 hovered there for about,
I'm gonna guess
 about 15, 20 minutes
that it stayed in
 the same location,
and then without
 much warning at all,
it drifted just a
little bit to the south,
shot off to the north
 and it was gone.
- Now, was this before
 Calvin's sighting,
or after, or about
 what time was it?
- Well, at the time, it had
 to be about the same time,
because of course in those days
we didn't have
 Facebook, Twitter,
or anything where you could
post it, "Oh, look what I saw,"
as if you were gonna
admit to it in that day.
So, I didn't find out about
 anything until the next day.
It was on the news the next
 evening, on the local news,
and they had mentioned that
 there had been this encounter
that Calvin and Mr.
 Hickson had reported,
that they were out fishing
 and this craft stopped,
and they were
 abducted and all this.
I knew nothing about any
 of this until the next day,
but it was in fact
 when they said
that it had happened the
night before, it's like,
"Wow, I was out in my backyard,
"and I saw something like that."
I wondered at the
 time what it was.
- When you say you
 were in your backyard,
were you looking
 towards the direction
of where they were abducted?
- Yes, I was.
Yes, I was.
- So, just around that area?
 - Yeah.
I had taken, we had
 a couple small dogs,
and I had taken my dog
 out in the backyard.
I was waiting for her,
and she was kind of in
 that direction in the yard,
so I was kind of
 watching over her.
She was real little and that's
 why I happened to notice
that yes, I was facing.
We were east of this area, and
 I was facing toward the west.
- I'm just curious why
 you didn't call anyone
or tell anyone the next
 day or the day after that,
hey, you had seen
 the same thing?
- Because that
 night when I got in,
my parents had been in the
 house when I was doing this,
and I lived at home, and
I went in and I said,
"Mom and Daddy, guess what
 I was just watching outside?
"This looked really weird."
And they had me describe it
 to 'em, and they were like,
"Um, I don't think
 I'd tell anybody."
So, I didn't. [laughs]
In that day and time,
if you said you saw a UFO,
 people would look at you like,
"What, oh no, you've
 made this up."
Or whatever, something.
I just chose not to really
 admit it to anybody.
I didn't mention it to
 anybody at the time.
- Hmm, have you ever met Calvin?
- No, I haven't.
I'd love to.
I always wanted to
 meet Mr. Hickson,
never had the opportunity.
I would love to have
talked to him about it,
and told them that I saw
it, but I never have.
- Do you remember how old
 you were about that time?
- I had to be, it was what, '73?
So I had to be,
 what month was it?
I don't remember, it
 was a long time ago.
Well, I would've been
turning 19 that October.
You had mentioned to
 me on the phone about,
that you had seen it
and what it looked like,
and I talked it over with
 my daughters after that,
and Jennifer, I think
 it was Jennifer,
wondered about if
 it was a possibility
why it looked like an
 orange glowing ball,
if you saw it shortly after
 it came into the atmosphere?
- It could very well be.
I know that what
 they saw was blue.
What you're describing
 was multicolored.
- Yeah, primarily blue.
- Primarily blue.
- [Susan] Primarily blue,
but it did have the
 other colors too.
- Yeah, and what I saw
 was an orange ball,
and I just assumed that
 whatever mode they're in,
maybe they shift the
 color of the craft.
- That could be too,
 that could be too.
- You know, if they're just
 cruising along, it's orange.
If they're about to
 land or do something,
it turns more bluish.
 - You never know.
- Or they turn
 lights on, you know?
Or something, I don't know.
But this thing was so big
that I remember thinking
as I'm watching it,
that you could put my
mom's car in this object
at least twice, possibly more.
- Wow.
- And she drove a
 Ford Galaxy 500.
- Not a small car!
 - Not a small car, big car.
And I was just riveted
 by it when I saw it,
'cause I just stood there
 and Charlie actually said,
or it was Calvin that
 said that when it came in,
it was like he had
 stepped on a rattlesnake.
He just froze, and I
know that exact feeling
because just when it came over
 the house, I couldn't move.
I was just looking at it just
 stuck in place, you know?
- Well, it's kind of
 sorta probably why
I stayed as long as I
 did in the backyard.
I don't know where my little
 dog was in all of this,
obviously she was okay.
- [J. Michael] Yeah.
- She went back in
 the house afterwards,
but I normally didn't
stay outside that long,
but it was the same thing.
It just was, you
 couldn't look away.
You just had to stay
 there and watch it,
and I remember that feeling
when I heard about
 it on the news.
It's like, and of
 course everybody was,
as I thought they would
with me, and was saying,
well, these guys are
 just couple crackpots.
They're just out for the
 fame and fortune type thing,
that's why they've made up
 this weird story and all that.
But I remember hearing about
it and it's like, "I saw that!"
They didn't make it up.
I saw that.
- Interesting.
It is fascinating
 that we're kind of
brought together
 these years later.
- I know, I'm finding
 that interesting too,
that there are more and more
 people that are coming forward
that actually saw what
 we saw that night,
and I think it's
probably the same thing
as what got me all those years.
It's like, we're just gonna
 sweep this under the rug.
This never happened.
I'm probably the
 only one that saw it.
Anybody else would
 think I'm crazy.
I'm not gonna bring it out,
and now there are
 more and more people
coming forward that are like,
"Yeah, I saw that too."
It's interesting how many
 people it did affect.
- Well, I was 12
 years old at the time,
and I mean, it scared me, but
 it changed me also, I think.
- Yeah, yeah, it's like
burned in your memory.
You'll never forget it.
You know, I still
remember standing there
and what it looked like,
and those goosebumps
 that you get
watching something like that.
- Time went on, I grew up.
They all grew up, you know?
Charlie passed away.
Now Calvin's out with his book,
and I thought now's
 the time to see
if we can get all
 these people together,
and let's talk about
what we saw that night,
and it's just, it's been
a fascinating journey.
- Yeah.
It's amazing how many of us
 shared the same experience,
and we've all done
 the same thing I have.
It's like, we just
 won't talk about this.
- [J. Michael] Right.
- You know, I'm the
 only one that saw it,
and anybody's gonna
think I'm off my rocker
if I come out with this.
Oh yeah, you just made this up.
You were watching a plane,
 you saw a cloud, whatever.
And it's like, I
know what I saw,
and it was not of
 this world, I feel.
- And back then, they
 actively tried to make
that it was swamp gas,
or it was an odd little
something in the air.
This is some weird aerial
 phenomenon, but not aliens.
But I, the more that
 I've seen myself,
and then in talking with
 Calvin, and you, and others,
I'm convinced that it is
probably somebody
 else's spacecraft.
- Yeah.
- You know, if it's not ours,
 and it's not the Russians,
and it's not the Chinese,
 and it's in fact nobody,
no human on Earth
 could invent a craft
that could do what
 these things do.
If we didn't build
 it, somebody else did,
and so it's gotta be theirs.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, thank you so
much for the interview.
I appreciate it.
 - Thank you, I enjoyed it.
- [J. Michael] Thank you.
[bluesy rock music]
In the book, "Beyond Earth:
 Man's Contact with UFOs,"
there's mention of
 a crane operator
who was on the other
 side of the river
during the abduction of Calvin
 Parker and Charles Hickson.
His name was Louis Lee and
we're going to talk to him next.
Next up, Pascagoula,
 Mississippi.
[upbeat country music]
Pascagoula is a small
 shipyard and fishing village
at the mouth of the Pascagoula
 River flowing into the Gulf.
Nearby Biloxi, Mississippi
attracts tourists with
 casinos and beaches.
There were no casinos in 1973,
and Hurricane Katrina
 has changed the
 landscape since then.
This is where Calvin lives,
along with others
 who also saw the UFO
that abducted him and Charlie.
One of those who saw the
 UFO that night is Louis Lee.
- I was seeing a strange object
I've never seen in my life
over the Pascagoula River,
 just sitting up there,
this still spot.
It wasn't moving, but it had
 the weirdest lights around it.
It was round, kind
 of egg shaped.
Blue and white, several
lights around it.
It had a silver glow around it,
and the middle of the
 craft looking thing
was to me, looked like
 it had clear plastic.
I had a piece of
 plastic somewhere,
like clear plastic, like
 you could see through it,
even though it was nighttime.
But I seen that and I
 kept saying to myself,
"Jesus Christ, what is that?"
So, I don't know.
I think this was probably
 five or 10 minutes,
while the mechanic was
 setting his tools up,
and it had his
 lights and things.
Lights 'cause he was
 gonna be under the crane,
around the crane, and
really up in the crane.
I was just a stoolie.
You know, you just don't see
 something like that every day,
but I said, you know, it can't
 be a helicopter. [laughs]
It can't be a jet or nothing.
It's gotta be a UFO, but I had
 never seen nothing like that.
- Describe exactly
 what it looked like.
- You ever seen a
 welder at night,
that welding arc at night?
If they're welding steel
 at night from a distance,
it was like that, blue, white.
Rays, you know?
Several rays.
That looked a little
 bit like that.
It had a lot of rays
 glowing around it,
but I've never seen nothing
 like that in the sky before.
It wasn't even moving.
It was just sitting up there.
- From your vantage point,
could you see Charlie and Calvin
over there under
it or around it?
- No, Calvin and Charlie
was the other side,
that would be the west bank
 and I was on the east bank.
They would be like
 diagonally across.
There was a bridge there,
and they would've had
 to go over the bridge
to get to where
 they were fishing.
They wasn't that far away,
but they were
diagonally across like.
Well, I thought I witnessed
 the UFO that picked them up,
but I told the crane operator.
I mean, I told the crane
operator mechanic what I'd seen,
and he just kind
 of laughed it off.
"Oh yeah, right, right."
Back in them days,
1973, most of us locals,
man, we didn't believe in
 UFOs or Loch Ness monster,
or Bigfoot, nothing like
 that, so he laughed it off,
and the next day I worked
 my day job at the shipyard.
It had already got out on the
 news somehow or the other.
The local people
 spreading it around.
I told them I'd
 seen something and,
"Yeah, yeah, right, right.
"You're pulling our
 leg, come on, Louis."
I said, maybe I'll
 just stay out of it.
Lots of people think that
 he was hallucinating,
'cause maybe he
 had hit the bottle
a little bit too
 much or something,
but no, I actually
 thought of that,
but I just kept my mouth
 shut and stayed out of it.
I told my family, my friends,
my deer hunter
 buddies and all that.
- Yeah, so it wasn't a secret
 that you kept to yourself.
People you knew,
 knew you had seen it.
- [Louis] Oh yes,
 my whole family.
- It just wasn't
 in the newspapers.
- But I know Charlie.
Charlie could hold a job,
 he was a good, hard worker.
But I don't think he would
 tell a lie like that.
I think it really happened
 to him from what I know.
- Well, I really appreciate
 you talking to me,
and telling what you had seen.
This helps corroborate
 Calvin's story,
and we all kind of share
something in common,
'cause we all saw
 something that night.
- Yeah, I really like him.
What little bit I seen
at the library that day,
I wouldn't mind
 talking to him again.
He seemed like a down to
earth, common sense man.
[upbeat music]
- For decades, the story
 of the Pascagoula incident
has been told from one man's
point of view, Charlie Hickson.
He was the one who spoke
out about the encounter,
and did UFO conventions
and interviews.
Over the years, there
have been several books,
magazine articles, and material
written about the
 Pascagoula abduction.
Some of it is inaccurate, but
 that is only half the story.
It has been decades since
 the incident happened,
and Calvin has stayed
 out of the limelight,
but now he is ready to tell
you his story in his own words.
- Wow, this is on the east
 side of the east river
and on the west side where
 these power poles are
was three little
 poles sticking up.
That was the pier where
 we actually got abducted.
That was in 1973.
I was living in Long,
Mississippi at the time this all
really started to begin,
 working in the oil field.
I was working seven days
a week, 16 hours a day.
I was engaged to get
 married, so I didn't want to
go into a marriage and
 never see her, so I decided
to get another job, so I
 called an old friend of mine,
Charles Hixson, and asked him
 if he could give me a job,
'cause I knew he was working
 down here doing something.
And he said yeah, come on up.
This was October the 10
was when I called him,
and he said come on up,
we will give you a job,
you can start tomorrow.
And what I was going to be
 doing was a ship fitter there.
So we worked all day slinging
 a 16 pound sledge hammer,
cutting and tacking
 the ship together
for those of you that
don't know what that is.
So we was pretty tired.
We stopped to eat lunch, and
 while we was eating lunch,
Charlie asked me, he said,
 "Let's go fishing this evening
"to kind of wind down."
I thought that was a
 good idea, going fishing.
So we left the shipyard
probably 4:30, 5:00,
something around there.
We picked up that,
 we drove to the place
where we was gonna fish.
We first tried an
 old grain elevator.
Then we went to the
 Shaw Peters Shipyard
which was just down the road
 from the grain elevator,
and we pulled up and the
first thing I noticed
was all the debris and the
 trash and the tall weeds,
and I thought, how this
can't be a shipyard
in business or
 anything right now
because it was
 just cluttered up.
I said, "Charlie, why don't
 they take care of this place?"
He said, "Well, they've
abandoned this place
"and the water gets up
 and when it goes back out
"it leaves all the
debris that it washes in
"from the woods and under
 people's houses and all."
Well, that made a lot of sense
 and it was old refrigerators
and everything else there
 where people had been dumping.
But we waded down, can't say
 waded, 'cause it was dry land.
We walked through the
 debris which took us about
15 minutes to get to where
 we was going to fish,
and there was an old pier
there, and there was an old log
laying back behind this pier,
 and I remember us grabbing
that log and throwing
 it up on the pier
to have something to sit on.
So when we started fishing I
 was looking across the river
at the old big ship over
 there, and I was thinking
to myself, now how
 does something made
 out of steel float?
'Cause steel is heavy, and
 I just experienced beating
on it all day with a sledge
 hammer, putting it in place,
and about that time coming
 from behind me, which would be
west, right straight
 behind me about 300 yards,
I noticed there was some
 blue hazy light splashing out
across the water.
[suspenseful music]
I didn't think nothing of
 it, but I was afraid it was
the law there to run us off.
So I stood up and turned around.
About that time
 Charlie stood up,
and the blue hazy lights
 was pretty bright by then,
and we really couldn't
 make out what it was,
but me was thinking
 it was the law,
then all of a sudden
 there was a bright light,
and it's just hard to
 describe this light.
It was so bright
it was blinding.
As a matter of fact, it was
 so bright that the next day
or so I had what they call
 the blue eye that you get
especially if you
 weld or something,
where it just hurts your
eyes, and they ache,
and they water, and you
 have to put drops in them.
But getting back, this
 light was so bright
we could barely make
 out what was going on,
and we seen three
figures approaching us,
but I couldn't make
 out what they were.
Charlie might could,
 I've never asked him.
But these three
figures getting closer,
and when they got right up on us
then that's when the fear
 kind of struck in me,
because I was able to see
 that they weren't human.
All the time I was thinking
 it was the law and we would be
safe and all, but when these
things got right up next to us,
they was probably five
 and a half foot tall,
didn't have a neck, it
 looked like their head
just set down on
their shoulders.
They had grayish wrinkled
 skin, and they had hands
that looked like they
 had mittens on them.
I think I described
them as claw-like hands
or crab-like hands
 for down here.
Well two of them reached
 and got a hold of Charlie,
and I remember
thinking, I need to run,
but there was no where to run.
There was water on the left,
water on the right,
and water in the front,
and they had bad debris
all in this water.
But I didn't really
have time to make a plan
it happened so fast.
One of them reached
 and grabbed me,
and immediately
 when they grabbed me
I heard like a cchhh noise,
and that was an injection
 going into my left arm.
This is what they
 figured out later.
But it was an injection
going into my left arm
that just really, and all of
 a sudden the fear was gone,
but my body was paralyzed.
Everything but my
 neck and my eyes.
I could look with my eyes
 to the left and the right,
and I could roll my
 head, but other than that
I couldn't have any functions.
But the fear was gone
 then, for some reason.
This time, this one creature
 elevated us up about two feet
off the ground, might have
 been a foot and a half.
Floated us in toward this craft,
which is like nothing
 I've never seen.
I was still kind of blinded,
 so I couldn't really
make it out 'til we come out.
And when we got to the
door I remember looking,
and that's what the
light was coming out of,
and I looked in to see if
 there was any light fixtures
or anything, just trying to
 figure out what was going on,
and it looked like the lights
 was coming out of the paint.
It was just being
 illuminated out of the paint.
Now how that happened, I
 don't know, but that's what
it looked like to me.
Well he kind of paused then,
and that's when I
 got a chance to look.
He made a left turn.
When he made a left turn,
 we just kind of raised up
a little bit, and on the
 right side they had a door
that was already open.
He, this robotic looking
creature that moved like a robot
took me in to a
 room and there was
an examination table there.
I think the table could be
made out of glass or something.
I really don't know
what it was made out of
'cause I didn't have the
 chance to look at it too good.
He laid us on the
 examination table,
and this table was at
about a 16 degree angle,
and that's when
 out of the ceiling,
well he backed up
 out of the way.
Out of the ceiling
 there was something
the size of a deck of
 cards that went around
and dropped down about a foot
 and a half between my eyes
and started rotating
 around my head and my body
and making a clicking noise.
So when it was doing
 this it got through,
and this thing just shot right
 back up into the ceiling.
Now I don't know if it had
 wires on it or what it had
on it, but it really
 couldn't have had wires to do
what it did, to swing around.
But when it went into the
 ceiling, this other creature,
I could turn my head and
 look, came out from a corner.
I don't know if it
 was another door there
or what it was, and it
appeared to be a female.
She came out and I
 could roll my head
and just look at
 her a little bit,
and I noticed she
 had facial features,
unlike this other ugly
 creature, kind of robotic.
This, and I call her the female,
and I really don't
 if it is that or not,
but there was facial
 features like ears, nose,
eyes, mouth, but I never
seen her mouth open.
Well she came up, and
I did notice one thing.
Her fingers, and I called
 it a her because I feel like
it was, but her two
 middle fingers was longer
on her hands than what
 ours would have been.
And she grabbed me by
 the cheek and she kind of
felt my skin and pinched
my cheek a little bit,
and I didn't have any
sensation if it was warm
or any feelings from her hands.
And then she grabbed,
 with her other hands,
she grabbed me by the jaw
 and she pushed it down,
and that's when
 she took her hand
and run her two middle fingers
 down the back of my throat,
and that little thing that
 hangs down that dangles
in the back of
 your throat there,
and tried to go up what I call
 my sinus cavities, I guess.
Well, at this time when this
 was going on, I was choking.
I couldn't breathe, and
 my nose started to bleed,
so anyhow she just kind
of pulled her hands out
and she said, telepathically,
 I never seen her lips move,
telepathically she said,
 we're not going to harm you.
And it was actually
 in a female's voice,
and it was in English, which
 that kind of surprised me,
you know, her being able
to communicate that way,
but her mouth never moved,
 so that's why I'm saying
it was telepathically.
But she backed up to the
wall then and she made
a strange mumbling noise, and
 it sounded like it was coming
all the way from the
 bottom of her throat,
like a glug, glug.
And recently I've heard
alligators made almost
that same noise when
 they were trapped.
And when she done that,
this robotic creature,
and I call him a robot
 because of the way he moved,
it was mechanical like, he
 came back, he grabbed me
by the arm and I felt
 another injection and I heard
the noise from the injection,
 and that settled me down some.
Well, she just back
 up out of the way,
and he picked me up off
the examination table
and carried me back out
 of the craft, all the way
to the river again.
Now what took us 15
 minutes to get there,
it didn't take him but
 just a blink of an eye
almost to put us back
 out on the river.
My hands and arms were
 stretched out facing the river
and I still couldn't move
 until I heard Charlie.
Charlie was laying on the
ground by me, right at my feet,
and I was standing.
And I heard Charlie say,
"Calvin, Calvin, you okay son?"
And that kind of brought me to,
and that's when I turned
around and I noticed
and kinda seen the
 back end of this thing
going back to the, might as
 well call it a space ship
'cause I believe that's
what it was, a UFO.
And went in the door.
When the door closed
the bright lights quit.
And that's when I seen the
 blue hazy lights again,
and this thing just
 picked up off the ground,
shot up into the
 air, and disappeared.
It was just like magic, that's
 how fast it disappeared.
Charlie and I were
 standing there.
He said, "You all right?"
And I said, "Yeah."
He said, "Let's sit down
and talk for a minute.
"The danger's over with."
- [Calvin Echo] "The
 danger's over with.
"The danger's over with.
"The danger's over with.
"The danger's over with."
[mellow music]
- [J. Michael] The danger
 of the abduction was over.
But the aftermath
 of this single event
would haunt Calvin and Charlie
 for the rest of their lives.
Charlie wanted to talk about it,
perhaps as a way to ease his
 mind and get it off his chest.
But Calvin was so traumatized,
 he wanted nothing to do
with going public.
- And Charlie said, "I don't
 know what happened, son,
"but did you?"
I said, "Nothing
happened, Charlie,
nothing happened to me."
'Cause I didn't want
 anybody to know,
'cause back in the 70s people
 would think you was crazy.
So I really didn't want anybody
to know what was going on.
And we sat there
 and talked about it,
and we agreed not to tell
 nobody what had happened.
And Cbarlie says, "Well,
guess we need to go."
So we stood up, we made
our way back to the car,
and it took probably 15
 minutes to get back to the car
wading through this.
The car was facing
where we was gonna sit,
so that put the passenger
 side on the side
where the craft had landed
 just a few yards away.
And the windows, and I still
 have the car, to this day.
The windows on a 1973 Rammer
 Hornet on the passenger side
was facing the craft, and
 they was shattered in place,
and I remember asking
 somebody back then,
"How come they
 didn't just fall out?
Which the one on the
passenger side door did
when he opened it.
They said that was a safety
 glass that had plastic in it
and that was in case you had
 a car wreck or something,
that the glass wouldn't
cut you to hold it.
So Charlie opened the door,
 and his window did fall out,
and the back window
 stayed in place.
And we got in the car, and
 I started trying to crank
the car, and it
 just wouldn't crank.
Now this was a brand new car
with just a very
few miles on it.
It took about 15
 minutes to crank it,
but I noticed the
battery never got weak.
And I backed out, and
we was going to go back
to the apartment where
 we was both staying,
and there was a store on
 the way to the apartment.
And there was a pay
phone there, so he said,
"Pull over, I've
 gotta call somebody."
Well I thought he was
going to call his wife.
I didn't know he was going
 to call the whole world.
Well, he called
 Keesler Air Force Base
and he told them he wanted
 to talk to somebody there.
I guess he explained to
them what had happened,
I wasn't paying much attention.
By then my mind was
way off somewhere else,
and they said we
 don't investigate
anything like that anymore.
So he must have told
 them we was been abducted
and the UFO had landed,
and they did, they said,
"We don't handle nothing
like that anymore."
And it wasn't long, I don't
 know exactly how long,
but I didn't have a watch on,
that the sheriff department
 showed up and they came
to my side of the car, I
 guess 'cause I was driving,
they asked to see
 my driver's license,
I showed them my
 driver's license.
They never did search the
 car, but they did look in it.
And he said, "Look, you
 don't appear to be drinking,
"so why don't you follow us
 back to the sheriff department
"and we want to talk to
 you about what happened."
I said, "Nothing happened.
"Nothing to talk to me about."
So we followed them back
 to the sheriff department.
Well, they separated
 Charlie and I,
and then they
 interrogated us both.
I don't know what
 they said to him
'cause I wasn't in
 the room with him,
but I'm sure probably the
 same thing they told me.
They put us in a room together,
and what I didn't know
they had a tape recorder hid
 in a drawer in this room.
And they was recording
everything that we said.
Well, I really don't
 know what I said then,
but they come in and got
the tape recorder out,
and I didn't see
them get it out.
They went in there and let
 the sheriff listen to it,
Fred Diamond, and when he
 got through listening to it
he told us, "Son, I want
to check in with y'all
"in the morning and see
 more about what happened.
"Y'all were upset.
"Y'all go home and
 get some rest."
- In Calvin Parker's
 book, on page 45,
there begins a transcript
 of a conversation
that took place between
Calvin and Charlie
while they were in
 Sheriff Diamond's office.
Now the sheriff had
 placed a cassette recorder
in his desk and was
secretly recording them.
They had no idea
 that it was there.
The idea of course was
 to try to see if they
would reveal that they
 were making up this story
or it was some kind of a rouse.
Now we've taken that recording
 and condensed it down
to a couple of minutes,
 and cleaned it up a little
so that you can hear it.
This is a recording
 that was made
immediately after
 their UFO encounter
in Sheriff Diamond's office.
Listen to the stress
 in their voices.
- And when we got
 to the apartments, I
 was asking Charlie.
We had talked about
 not telling nobody
other than who we had just told,
the sheriff department and all.
And I told Charlie, I said,
 you know, I'm really concerned
about having a virus
 or radiation on us,
because I had watched
 these Apollo missions,
and when they came back
they would quarantine
the astronauts for seven
 days even from their families
so they couldn't be
 around them and give them
any kind of virus or anything.
And the radiation, I was
worried about radiation
'cause I knew what it could do.
My father worked for the
 Atomic Energy Commission,
and I remember him wearing
 a badge at all times
and them checking it, and the
 FBI doing background checks
and all this.
But anyhow, get on past that.
So when I got back
 I went to my room,
and there was a bathroom.
There was a gallon of
 bleach sitting in the back
of the bathtub.
So I pulled off all my
 clothes, my shoes, everything.
I put everything in a paper bag.
Shoes, clothes, everything.
I closed it up, I
 got in the bathtub,
I turned the water scalding
 hot the best I could get it,
and I poured that bleach
 all over the top of my head
and all over my body,
 and I rubbed it in.
I didn't just pour it on me,
 I sat there and made sure
every quarter inch was covered.
And I took that bag that
I had to the dumpster
that was outside.
That's how concerned I was about
infecting anybody with anything.
When I went to bed,
 I was thinking,
you know, I was
thinking about the night
and what we had done.
- Charlie and Calvin had
 had a harrowing experience
that evening being
 abducted by a UFO.
But something they would
 find out about decades later
is that across the river,
 Maria Blaire, and her husband,
were in a car, and
 she watched the UFO
as it was sitting there and
 as it was abducting them.
She saw that UFO that night,
but she also saw something else.
- It was October 11, 1973,
 I was just 23 years old.
Hadn't been long been
 married and had gone
to take my husband down
to the boat for him
to go out on the boat.
We went and sat in
 the car and he decided
he was just going to take
 a nap while he was there
'cause he was going
 to be up all night,
so I was just sitting
 there stargazing
and looking up at the sky,
 and I happened to look,
I was looking over
 towards the west bank,
and noticed off to the
 south of Gochet there was
a blue light appear in the
 sky, which I just shook it off
as just being a plane,
 but nothing to do,
I just sat there and watched
 it coming in our direction,
and as it got closer
 to Pascagoula over,
it started coming down
 like it was gonna land
like a plane would,
 so I thought,
well, there must be a
 little landing strip
over there I never knew about,
so when it started coming down
I noticed that the
 blue light on it
kept getting brighter
 and brighter,
and as it got down
 close to the ground,
it just flickered
 out real bright,
and then I noticed
 a white light appear
on the west side of it.
And as it was like a door
 opened up on this craft,
and then I sat there,
 watching, just a few minutes
I noticed it and then the
 lights just went out on it
and then the blue light came
 back up again real bright,
and it was real bright
blue, and then I noticed
it come back towards
 where they had been,
where Calvin and them
 had been abducted,
and my husband told me, he said,
"Come on, let's me and you
 take my clothes on the boat,"
I said, "Okay."
So anyway, we started,
 when the aircraft started
coming down, that's when we
 were walking across the pier,
and that's when we heard
 a loud splash in the water
which he turned around and
 stopped and he looked at me
and he said, "What was that?"
And I said, "I don't
 know, what was it?"
And so he just started walking
 on off down towards the boat
and I'm left standing there,
 and I'm wanting to know
what it is, so I
 stood there watching,
and just as soon as
 we heard the splash
is when I looked
down and I seen,
it looked like something,
it looked like a
 human in the water.
And so, but just as soon as I,
I mean I couldn't really
 make it out all that good,
so I'm not really
 sure what it was,
but it looked, from what
 I could see it had a head
but no neck, and it
 just went on away
and it was a really loud
 splash, a very loud splash,
and I turned to him and I
 says, "I don't know what was."
I looked out and I could
see the water, the waves
coming on the water, and so
 that's when I looked down
as soon as we heard the
splash is when I seen it
in the water, but it was just
 there for just a few seconds
and it just took off,
 I mean, it just left.
- Can you describe
 what it looked like?
- They had a head and
they had arms and legs,
but the legs looked
like they were together,
like they were sewed
 together, they just,
the arms didn't move, and I
 seen the back of the head,
and we just real fast that
 I just got a glimpse of it,
and it just went on off
in the other direction
from the pier, but
 it had no neck.
It had a head and it had
arms and it had legs,
but the legs, when it was
 going through the water
it didn't move its arms,
its legs or anything,
it just floated.
And then it just went on
 off and then I didn't see,
but the water was kind
of, the water was dirty,
and it's hard to make it out.
I tried to make it out,
 what it was, but I couldn't
make it out that well, but
 it looked like a person
but it was hard to make it
 out and I probably never
will understand what it was.
- This book coming along, I
found out a lot more information
that I didn't know and
 one was during the process
of writing this book,
 I called Scot Philip,
and I told him, I said, "I
 got the privilege of meeting
"Budd Hopkins one time."
"Oh, tell me about it."
I said, "Well, he said he
 was going to hypnotize me."
I said, "He never did,
 but you know he tried
"and I just couldn't
 be hypnotized."
He said, "Well,
 Budd's dead now."
He said, "But he always
 documents everything he says."
I said, "Okay."
And it was amazing.
Philip transcribed
 the tape into writing
for the manuscript and the book.
Well he just sent
 me a copy of it.
So I just briefly read
 through the first chapter
where Budd was hypnotizing
 me, and I thought,
it started coming back then.
I thought, "Dang, he
 did hypnotize me."
Now the way that
come about in 93
I took a fishing
 trip to Cat Island.
I told my wife I was
 going to be gone,
I'd be back before
dark to fix me a lunch.
Well, when I got
 there I remember, this
 is close to 11:00,
and the tide was
 supposed to change,
and I was going to
fish the tide that day.
So I got my lunch out, going
 to get it out of the way.
Got me some water to sit
over there on the side,
and I laid it down.
Well, the next thing
 I seen this was 11:00
in the morning that morning.
It was 3:00 the next
morning when I woke up.
I didn't know where I
was or what time it was
'cause I still didn't wear
 a watch, or when it was.
So I left going home,
 'cause I figured I had just
slept a little while
 and it was dark.
My truck had a clock in it,
and I noticed it was 3:30
 or something in the morning
on the next day, and I thought,
"Wow, how do I explain this?
"But on the other
 hand, how do I explain
"the blood that's on my shirt?"
My shirt was drenched in blood.
I had blood on me.
There was a note on my
truck when I got there.
Maybe I'm going to call the
 coast guard, where are you?
I figured I'd better load
 my boat up and get on home.
I pulled up in the yard
and a friend of mine
just happened to
 come over that day,
and he said, "What's going on?"
I said, "I need to talk to you."
I said, "I went
 fishing yesterday.
"I lost a bunch of time
where I didn't know
"where I was or
 what I was doing.
"I don't know what
 to do about it."
I didn't even remember
 catching the fish.
Or maybe somebody else
caught them and put them
in the cooler to fool me.
He said, "Missing time?"
I said, "Yeah."
He said, "I know a man
 that just got through
"writing a book on missing time.
"His name's Budd Hopkins.
"He's giving a, he's at a
 conference in Tampa, Florida."
Now, I didn't know Budd
Hopkins from anybody.
So we drove over
 there, and he drove up
to a conference hall.
And he said, "This
 is where it is."
I said, "I'm not going in.
"I don't want to be
 around these people
"involved in these UFOs and
 these abductions and stuff.
"I don't want them
 to know who I am."
So he went in and he
 found Budd Hopkins,
and he was just about
 to go on the stage
and give a little talk, and
 he told my friend, he said,
"Well, y'all go to the
 room and wait on me,
"and I'll be there
 when I can get there,
"just real quick, and
 I want to talk to him.
"Tell him not to leave.
"Please don't leave."
So we shook hands, we sat down
 and talked for just a minute.
He said, "Calvin,
 let me hypnotize you.
"And let's find out
 what's going on."
I said, "I don't know, Dr.
 Harber tried to hypnotize me
"one time before, and I
couldn't be hypnotized."
He said, "Let me try, at least."
So I agreed to let
 him hypnotize me.
Well, I underwent
 hypnosis and he was taping
the whole thing
 so he could prove
that he was above ground.
Well, he taped me, he
regressed me back to this time.
He regressed me one time to
 1973 and he asked me questions
about the abduction of 73.
Well, I actually
 pulled information
out of that that was helpful.
One thing, there was a
 car that was parked there,
and I called the tag
 number out on the car.
And during this I was
 able to hunt the car down.
Got a private detective and
 actually hunted the car down
to see who it was.
Well, come to find
 out it was two people
that was parked out there
 making out in the car
like everybody used to do
 back in their teenage days.
They was making out
 and they seen this,
and they cranked the car
up, and they was actual
witnesses, and they hauled
 butt and got out of there.
Well, he recently passed away.
She's in a nursing
 home with Alzheimers,
but she remembered it
 enough to talk to me,
but I had to promise her
I wouldn't tell nobody
her name, where she was,
or anything like that
and I'm not going to do that,
because if I tell
 somebody something,
I'm going to keep
 my word on that.
Come to find out while
 I was on the island
I went to sleep and the
same, it seemed like
the same ones that had abducted
me, or they looked alike,
or something, had
 come back to get me.
I remember this and the
 only way I know it's true
in hypnosis is I remember
 something I'll tell my wife
and she'll go read it in
the book or look it up
or listen to the disk.
So my memory started coming
 back, which it got a flash
from Linda Motown Howe
when she started asking
some questions, and I
just kind of backed off
and didn't want to listen
 to what was said or done,
'cause I didn't want nobody
 putting words in my mind
that wasn't there.
But these things had came
 back and when I went onboard
the ship, I said, "I know
 this bitch, I know her.
"She's here to
 kill me this time."
And I was saying
 that on the tape.
And I was telling
 that to Budd Hopkins
while I was under hypnosis.
Well, we actually got in
 a physical confrontation.
She did the same thing, and
 I think they had installed
a tracker in my nose, and
 she was going to pull it out.
And I finally just
 got tired of it.
You know, you eventually
 get bullied around enough,
you're gonna get tired of it,
 and you're gonna fight back.
So while this was going
 on and she had her fingers
down my throat, choking
 me again, and me bleeding.
I yanked her hand out and
 I grabbed her by the head
and I started beating
 it against the wall.
She actually started
 bleeding out of her ears.
She got blood all over my shirt.
Me and her was both bloody.
She called her big
 ugly friend back,
the big robotic
 looking creature.
Now he could handle me, but
 my intentions was to grab her
around the neck and I was
 gonna jump out of that craft
where I was if I
 could find a door.
And I was taking her with me.
I didn't care how high off
 the ground I was, where I was,
if I hit the water, I
 didn't care if it killed me.
I was ready to die to
prove a point, I guess.
And I was tired
 of being bullied.
So I went through all this
 and I described what happened,
and I described in great detail,
even detail that's hard for
 me to remember right now.
There's no doubt in
 my mind that is true,
and there's no doubt
 in my mind that I,
that Budd had me hypnotized,
 and we actually got to tape,
and Philip Mantel transcribed.
- I've acquired the
 1993 Budd Hopkins
hypnosis regression
tape from Philip Mantel
who helped Calvin
 write his book.
I've cleaned it up,
 condensed it down,
so that you can hear
excerpts from this tape.
What you are about to
hear is very disturbing.
[bluegrass music]
- [J. Michael]
 While in Pascagoula,
I had the opportunity to
get most of us together
who had seen the UFO that night.
We were able to construct
 a complete timeline
of the events that evening,
 including information
from a new witness.
- I'm Louis Lee, and I
 witnessed the thing, 1973 UFO
over Pascagoula River.
- I'm Susan Snow.
I live outside of Lucedale now.
I would have been right at 19.
I saw it come in from the
 north, and I watched it,
and it stopped and went
back toward the north.
And then it stopped again,
 and it stayed in that one
position for about, I'm
 gonna guess about 15 minutes
or so, 15 or 20 minutes.
I was transfixed, I couldn't
 take my eyes off of it,
because almost immediately
 I knew it was not a plane.
I'd never seen a
 plane fly like that
or be lit like that one was.
I've been fascinated
 by it all these years.
- You're um.
- Judy.
- Judy, tell us what you saw.
- Judy Branning,
 and I was about 27.
I'd just moved
 back to Pascagoula
and went through a divorce.
We were sitting right there.
Now there's a few cars ahead
 of us at the red light,
and we was like right up
 close to the railroad track,
and some lights got my attention
and I kind of leaned in
and I kept staring at it and
 looking and it was coming
from west to east right
straight toward us
above highway 90 and
 the railroad tracks.
The closer it got, I thought,
 because Jackson County Airport
at the time was not
 very far from there.
And I thought, well, this
 airplane is fixing to crash,
and I got real kind of
 anxious and I warned,
and I said something
 to everybody.
I said, "Guys, look.
"Is that a plane?
"But no, the lights on it
 don't look like a plane."
And then it, the
 best of my memory,
I remember one real,
 real bright light.
I really couldn't make
 out the outline of it
until it got closer, and we
 were all talking and staring
by this time, "what
 is that, what is that?
"Oh my goodness," you know?
And when it got right up on us.
I said, "Hey y'all,
 that's a UFO."
And it got right
 there, so close to us.
There was no engine,
 no noise whatsoever.
And then it went over
 the top of the car,
and I looked behind
 me in the back glass,
and it went over the car and
 then it went straight up.
I mean fast.
And it all happened when
 it seems like a long time,
but it was really--
- About what time was that?
- And this was about a
 quarter to 9 or 9:00.
- Well, we've actually
 put a time line,
like you said, and
that's been bothering me
for a long time.
Maria was there at about
the time of abduction.
Of course, I didn't
 have a watch.
Working at a shipyard
 when you ship
and you're swinging a 16
 pound sledge hammer all day,
watches ain't gonna work.
So I never had a watch.
Maria might have a watch on.
- I didn't have one.
- You didn't have one?
- Time was something that
 night that just didn't exist.
- Time has never
 existed to me, though.
- Time just.
- Then again, at that time,
 the majority of people
didn't want to admit it.
- No.
So y'all are the few
 witnesses to come forward,
and I appreciate it.
And this helped
 establish time lines
but more important than
that, it's helped me
know that I wasn't crazy as
 hell for seeing all this.
There for a long time I
thought probably Charlie
was crazy 'cause all he wanted
 to do was talk about it.
And you know, me being with
 him and knowing this happened
and all, I can feel
better about Charlie now
than I did when he was
alive because me and him
had an agreement.
We sat here on the
riverbank, and we said,
"We're not telling nobody."
We're going to get
 up in the morning,
we're going to work,
and that's gonna be it.
And Charlie took it a little
 different than what I did.
He wanted his five minutes
 of fame 'til the day he died.
And I didn't want
 nobody to know.
I just didn't mention it.
You can ask my wife, I
 didn't talk to her about it.
I didn't talk to
 my family about it.
I didn't want nobody
 to know about it
because I wanted my life.
But little did I know when
 we got to work the next day
at the shipyard, the
 whole world knew about it.
- Yeah, whole world.
- And when they called
 me to come to the office,
when they come got me,
I remember getting down
on my hands and knees
 in the parking lot
throwing up because of it.
- Oh wow.
- You know, I was just
 sick of my stomach.
[mellow bluegrass music]
- We've come a long way to
 take a trip to the past.
But perhaps, the past is
where our future lies.
It's been over 46 years
since Calvin Parker
had his remarkable
 UFO encounter,
and still today there
 are those who say that
alien abductions don't occur.
For those who have
 had the experience,
it's an all too real reality.
You may not believe
 Calvin's story,
and that's your prerogative.
But for those of us who
have had UFO encounters,
we don't have to believe.
We know.
[suspenseful flute music]
- [Announcer] Ten, nine,
 ignition sequence started.
Six, five, four,
 three, two, one, zero.
[explosion]
[dramatic music]
