Calvin Parker

Shipyard Worker

Parker (right) and his co-worker Charles Hinkson (left) became instant sensations in 1973.

The 1973 Pascagoula Abduction is one of the most thoroughly investigated and credible alien encounter claims in American history, involving 19-year-old Calvin Parker and his 42-year-old coworker Charles Hickson. On the night of October 11, 1973, the two shipyard workers went fishing on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. Their lives changed forever when a strange, whirring oval craft with flashing blue lights descended and hovered nearby