Section F · Experiencers · abductees, contactees and entity witnesses

Charles Hickson

Shipyard foreman in Pascagoula, Mississippi · with Calvin Parker, the protagonist of the abduction case with the best-documented evidence of sincerity in the corpus (1973)

Biography

He was 42 and fishing with a 19-year-old companion when both said they were immobilized and taken aboard an object by three robotic-looking figures. What distinguishes the case is not material proof —there is none— but an involuntary experiment: Sheriff Fred Diamond, convinced they were lying, left them alone in a room with a hidden tape recorder, expecting to catch them coordinating the hoax. The tape recorded the opposite, two distressed men talking about their fear and praying. Hickson passed a polygraph, was questioned under hypnosis in a session that had to be halted because of his distress, and sustained the same version, without varying it, until his death.

Why they're here · 2 pieces

  1. 1973

    Jackson County Sheriff's Department covert recording

    The piece that sustains the case: it recorded genuine distress where a hoax confession was expected

  2. 1973

    Polygraph and questioning under hypnosis (James Harder)

    He passed the polygraph; the hypnosis session was halted because of his distress

Sources

  • Jackson County Sheriff's Department (1973) — The covert recording, made to catch a hoax, is the case's central evidence.
  • James Harder (1973) — Questioning under hypnosis; the session could not be completed.

Form they described (1)

roboticaRobotic / synthetic

Associated cases (1)

United States.

Pascagoula · abduction reported by two fishermen (USA, 1973)· 1973

On the night of October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson (42) and Calvin Parker (19) were fishing on the bank of the Pascagoula River (Mississippi) when, by their account, they heard a whirring sound, saw blue lights and an oval object from which three beings emerged and took them aboard the craft. They reported it to the USAF's Keesler base and to the Jackson County sheriff. Officers left them alone in a room and secretly recorded their conversation hoping to catch them in a lie; instead, the recording showed two genuinely terrified men, worried about their families and with no sign of deception. It is one of the best-known close-encounter (CE4) cases in the U.S.: sincere, consistent testimony, but with no physical evidence.

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Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-F).