by Marshall Parks

Created on: July 27, 2008

Back in the summer of 1971, I was 13 years old. My family lived in an old, ancient country home. I remember it having no indoor plumbing, a pump instead of a faucet adorned the kitchen sink, but it was home. I was just coming back home from a creek about a quarter mile from home. I had been doing my favorite thing; shooting at minnows in the creek with my BB gun. I never, ever hit one of those things, but it was fun to try.

Mom was sitting on the front porch and called me over. She pointed at a large thunderhead in the distance; off to the northwest. She told me to watch the top of the cloud. I watched for a moment, not knowing what I was watching for. A tiny orange light popped out from above the thunderhead and hovered there. It was too far away to really make out any details. Soon, it darted back above the thunderhead and out of sight. We watched it for about five minutes and the light repeated its movement eight or nine times. It was like it was playing hide and seek with us. So, in essence, I saw a UFO.

Even seeing one for myself, it did not really solidify my belief in UFO's. Two years later an event happened that made big news. A reported alien abduction, widely publicized. It happened October 11, 1973 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. I remember watching it on the news, but my interests were elsewhere. I didn't really pay any attention other than to watch the television account about it and listen to Dad scoff at the story. It wasn't until my interest piqued that I actually read the account. I believed them.

On that night, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing in the Pascagoula River. According to them, they heard a whizzing sound and blue flashing lights appeared as a football shaped craft they estimated to be a hundred feet long descended within a couple feet of the ground and hovered there. A door opened on the craft and three beings floated toward the paralyzed men. They were both grabbed by the beings, who paralyzed and levitated the men and then transported aboard the craft. Parker, the youngest of the two men at nineteen fainted from fright. Hickson was forty seven and remembered the details well.

His claim was that he was floating in the air in a prone position while a large "mechanical eye" examined him. The creatures around were human in form, but were described as having claws like lobsters, no mouth and a conical shaped protrusion for a nose. Their skin was wrinkled and gray, no mouth to speak of and the same conical protrusions for ears.

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