On the evening of October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing the Pascagoula River when they had a close encounter with a UFO. In this episode, Hickson describes being taken aboard an alien spacecraft!

After filing a report about their abduction they returned to their jobs at Ingles Shipyard. Hickson recalls not being prepared for the media circus that followed.

Hickson and Parker were questioned repeatedly by authorities and examined by the medical staff at Keesler Air Force. In a podcast extra, Hickson recounts the chain of events.

The lives of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were forever changed after that night in October of 1973. Hickson gave numerous interviews and wrote a book about his experience. Parker attended UFO conventions and started his own television production company in 1993 called UFO Investigations. Charles Hickson passed away at the age of 80 on September 9, 2011.

NOTE: When this episode was written and published, Hickson's name was incorrectly spelled Hickman.