AudioBlog: A Trucker Reports a Harrowing UFO Encounter

In 1973, the claims of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker that
they’d been abducted by elephant-skinned, robot-like creatures in
Pascagoula, Mississippi, opened researchers up to what have become
known as “high-strangeness” reports. The term comes from J. Allen
Hynek’s efforts at creating a system of strangeness ratings in
Chapter Four of his 1975 book, The UFO Experience. Hickson and
Parker were taken seriously because they seemed genuinely
traumatized by their experience while just the two of them were
waiting in a room at the police station where they first reported
their encounter. They just been interviewed, and unbeknownst to
them, a tape recorder in the room was left running, which captured
the bewildered men talking to each other about their experience.
Their story was reported in newspapers and UFO publications
worldwide. After that, abduction reports began to increasingly
appear. In the midst of this new openness to high-strangeness
reports, in 1979, there was a story told by a trucker that was
highly unique, and highly strange, and yet was still given serious
consideration by the local newspapers and investigators who
examined it. Read more