Alien Contact - The Pascagoula UFO Encounter (2020)

[Flack]

In 1973, two fellas -- 42-year-old Charles Hickson and 19-year-old Calvin Parker -- were out fishing near Pascagoula, MIssissippi, when they were visited by more than fish. According to the two men, a UFO appeared and three robotic creatures with slits for mouths and "crab-like pincers" emerged from the craft, injected them with a substance that immobilized them, and took them aboard the craft. After returning from their journey, Charles, the older of the two men, capitalized on the incident by giving interviews, appearing on television, and writing a book, while Calvin initially refused to talk about the incident and claimed not to remember any of the details. Later, Parker decided to cash in on the money train as well and, after making a few appearances at UFO conventions, founded his own television production company called "UFO Investigations."

J. Michael Long grew up in Mississippi and was 12 years old in 1973 when he claims to have seen the UFO in question on the same night. Since the sighting, a few other nuts (er, "witnesses") have come out of the woodwork claiming to have also seen the UFO that same evening. In Alien Contact - The Pascagoula UFO Encounter, Long recaps the incident and interviews multiple witnesses, including Calvin Parker. (Charles Hickson passed away several years ago.) Through the interviews, Long establishes several details, like his memory of the UFO's bright orange lights. For his part, Calvin claims that the lights were blue. Another witness says they were red, green, blue, and yellow.

According to the two men, on that fateful night in 1973 three robotic creatures with pincer claws emerged from the UFO and paralyzed them with an injection before taking them onto their ship. Although he originally claimed to have no memory of the incident, through hypnotherapy Calvin has remembered many details of his encounter. Once on board the ship, a female alien with blue-green hair reached inside his mouth and "tugged on that thing that hangs down in the back of yer throat." Calvin didn't take too kindly to this unusual galactic greeting and beat up the lady, causing black liquid (alien blood?) to shoot out her ears. The scuffle was broken up by one of the original robotic aliens who gave Calvin another injection, after which he was submitted to a light ray that caused him to see terrible visions of a destroyed future. "Then she used her powers to pulled everything I knowed out of my head," he adds.

Despite the fact that Charles refused to take a polygraph and both men changed their stories multiple times, the Pascagoula Abduction incident has its believers (most serious UFO researchers are not in that group). As for Long, he laments that for many, alien abductions are "an all too real reality," and that who those who have seen UFOs, "we don't have to believe, we KNOW."

Alien Contact - The Pascagoula UFO Encounter is available to watch for free on Tubi, although I wouldn't if I were you.

[Flack]

If there's any reason to watch this 2020 documentary, it would be for the CGI animated recreations that appear to have been made using the Windows 98 version of The Sims.

[Jizaboz]

Huh. I thought I knew all the UFO stories but never heard of this. Sounds a lot less feasible than Travis Waltons story, but probably fun to watch. Walton and his co-workers passed multiple polygraphs. Something bizarre did happen to him, but I don’t put too much faith in reciting memories in a trance like state.

[AArdvark]

They always just tell accounts of what happened to them. There's never any scientific evidence. When I was in school I bought the Travis Walton book from Scholastic thinking it was definite proof ( I was twelve, :€ ) To my surprise and dismay the book was mostly filler crap around a three page account of Walton's story.

[Flack]

The thing about this case, and many abduction cases, is that there is 0 physical evidence. In fact, I listened to one of the so-called hypnotic recollections Calvin made of the encounter and said that while he was paralyzed the female alien scratched his eyeballs with her creepy alien fingernails, and yet there was no report of any scratches or injuries on the men later that evening at the sheriff's office. In a case like this all you can do is go by the credibility of the witnesses -- who they are/were in life, how they acted afterward, possible motives, etc.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I remember it being a big deal that A Fire in the Sky, which I think was Travis Walton's book, was categorized as non-fiction.

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In a case like this all you can do is go by the credibility of the witnesses -- who they are/were in life, how they acted afterward, possible motives, etc.

And also whether or not there are aliens.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I remember it being a big deal that A Fire in the Sky, which I think was Travis Walton's book, was categorized as non-fiction.

"Fire in the Sky" was the name of the movie based on his book, I see now.

[AArdvark]

I was hoping!