AudioBlog-A UFO Encounter in a Pickup Truck

1973 was a great year for fans of high-strangeness UFO reports. The
most famous of these is the October 11th case from Pascagoula,
Mississippi, where Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker said they were
taken aboard a craft by elephant-skinned humanoids with crab-claw
like hands. After their story hit the papers, an article appeared
in the October 18, 1973, edition of The Pensacola
News ( part 1, part 2 ) headlined “Pickup
by UFO Reported.” According to the article, a “Pensacola
businessman” (later identified as an electrician) reported an
encounter of his own, and his story was even more dramatic than
Hickson and Parker’s. UFO investigators at the time seem to have
mostly ignored it, as it doesn’t appear in periodicals of the day
such as The APRO Bulletin or Flying Saucer
Review. This might have been due to the continued focus on
the Pascagoula case and the extreme nature of the claim by the man
in Pensacola. Read more