Now, about the time(s) claimed for the incident's occurrence, specific events within the overall 11 October storyline, and the sequence of any such subsidiary events mentioned ...
I've assembled another listing of snippets relating to these issues from the earliest documentation (we've seen so far), using the same format as my earlier listings. This listing includes an additional source - an interview conducted by a radio station reporter with Sheriff Fred Diamond on 12 October. This is an important source in which which Sheriff Diamond clearly and specifically states times for the incident's onset and the witnesses' arrival at the Sheriff's Department - times which don't match what's typically cited.
I've included any mentions of specific timepoints as well as passages indicative of relative ordering in happenings or actions. As it turns out, this is a very sparse and disparate data set.
EARLY DOCUMENTATION: TIME POINTS / EVENTS / EVENT SEQUENCING
SHERIFF'S OFFICE INTERVIEW: NIGHT OF 11 / 12 OCTOBER 1973
THE INCIDENT:
"It wasn't too long after dark."
CH claimed the visitors had left him alone (inside the object) for about 20 - 30 minutes.
CH claimed he'd had a drink 45 - 60 minutes before calling the sheriff's office.
THE INTERVIEW:
"approximately eleven o'clock Thursday evening" (11 October) (per
Beyond Earth)
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KEESLER AFB INTERVIEW: 12 OCTOBER 1973
"We hadn't been there very long" (Before the first cue to the object's arrival)
(At the Schaupeter site; 2nd fishing site that night)
(While Hickson was describing his experience inside the object)
Derrington: What time of day was this.
Hickson: It was at night.
Derrington: What time?
Hickson: Well, I don't exactly know what time it was because I don't have a watch. It was quite a while after dark.
Derrington: Quite a while after dark?
Hickson: Yes.
Derrington: How long were you on board?
Hickson: I don't know how long we were on board. There was no sensation of moving or anything. I don't know if we moved. I don't know. After it was all over we couldn't believe it and knew we couldn't convince people of what we seen and we waited a while before we went to the Sheriff's Department and told them. I wanted to get the military in on it. I didn't want any publicity and I didn't want any news people, but after I thought about it a while I figured that was what I should do.
Derrington: What time would you say elapsed from the beginning until you were released?
Hickson: Oh, it had to be -- it's hard to say.
Derrington: Was it hours or minutes?
Hickson: It had to be an hour or so. It had to be that long, but it seemed like an eternity. ...
Derrington: During this time do you recall seeing Mr. Parker?
Hickson: I don't recall seeing him until after I was out.
Derrington: You didn't see him on board?
Hickson: No, sir, I didn't.
Derrington: When was the first time you noticed Calvin?
Hickson: When they brought me back out on the ground, I believe, is when I seen him again.
Derrington: Did you discuss what had happened between you?
Parker: I passed out. I did not remember anything.
Hickson: We discussed what had happened to me. We talked a while trying to decide what to do. We drove to a quick service store and discussed it for almost an hour before we decided to go to the Sheriff's office...
Derrington: When you regained consciousness, where did you go first? After you left this area?
Hickson: Well, we went over across— we live in Gautier. We stopped over there at the — close to the Li'l General Curb Market and talked about it a long time again.
Derrington: What time was this now?
Hickson: Oh, this must have been — aw heck, it was around 10 or 11 o'clock, or something like that.
Huntley: They came into the Sheriff's office at, I believe, 1118...
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MISSISSIPPI PRESS REGISTER: 12 OCTOBER 1973
"shortly after dark" (When the object came to rest and they first saw it)
Afterward, they went to the newspaper office. "No newsmen were present, however, and they decided to go to the sheriff's office."
Larry Booth (service station on Rt. 90 @ Market St.) reported he'd seen a UFO circa 2000 heading eastward.
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SHERIFF DIAMOND INTERVIEWED BY A RADIO REPORTER ON 12 OCTOBER MORNING (AFTER THE INCIDENT & NIGHT VISIT).
http://www.noufors.com/Pascagoula_Abduction_Audio_Files.html
Diamond stated the 2 men were fishing "shortly after 8 o'clock" when the incident began.
- Sheriff: The object had been spotted circa 45 minutes earlier in the Van Cleave (sp?) area / community northwest of the incident site. Two or three other people had seen it in Pascagoula.
- Reporter states the incident apparently happened "early yesterday evening, say around (1930 or 2000)", then asks why they waited so long to contact the sheriff's office.
- Diamond: They didn't know who to report it to. They first went to the newspaper, but the newspaper was "closed."
- Diamond: "It happened shortly after eight o'clock, and they were in the sheriff's office here around nine or five minutes to nine."
- Reporter: We'd heard they arrived at the sheriff's department around 2300 - 2315. Diamond reiterated what he'd stated (2000 and 2055).
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GAFFNEY (SC) LEDGER: 12 OCTOBER 1973 (UPI)
Quoting Chief Deputy Burney Mathis (who hadn't been in the night interview) quoting the men:
"They kept us about 20 minutes, photographed us, and then took us back to the pier."
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KINGSPORT (TN) NEWS: 13 OCTOBER 1973 (UPI)
"Jackson County Chief Deputy Barney Mathis said the men told him they were fishing from an old pier ... about 7 p.m. Thursday."
"They kept us about 20 minutes, photographed us, and then took us back to the pier."
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MISSISSIPPI PRESS REGISTER: 18 OCTOBER 1973
"It all happened, Hickson, says, at 8 p.m. last Thursday while he and Parker were fishing ..."
"I hadn't drank anything," Hickson told officers, in a recorded interrogation. "But in the 45 minutes before I decided to call you, I did drink then. ..."
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MISSISSIPPI PRESS REGISTER: 19 OCTOBER 1973
Hickson (describing the exam inside the object):
"The two things left me for a while, maybe half a minute, and I was in there just motionless."
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BERKELEY DAILY GAZETTE; 19 NOVEMBER 1973
NOTE: This is essentially a clone of the 19 October Mississippi Press Register article.
"The two things left me for a while, maybe half a minute, and I was in there just motionless."
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CLARION-LEDGER (JACKSON MS): 22 OCTOBER 1973
The visitors released the 2 men "after an indefinite period."
"After being released, the men went first to the offices of the Mississippi Press in Pascagoula. No one was there so they told their story to the sheriff's Department."
"Following their experience the next day the men reported for work at 7."
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APRO BULLETIN V22 NO 2 (SEPT / OCT 1973; ISSUED LATE '73 OR EARLY '74)
HARDER'S REPORT
"The actual incident took place between 9 and 10 in the night of the 11th but the two men waited a full hour before going to the sheriff's office, debating whether or not they would be believed."
"Hickson estimated that they were in the ship between 14 and 20 minutes after which they were "floated" outside and returned to their original location."
"After about an hour passed the two men, after debating whether to report it, called the Sheriff's office and then went down and made a statement to Deputy Ryder."
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FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR): V 19 NO. 6 (NOV - DEC 1973; Issued in early 1974)
NOTE: This article apparently is a clone of the Berkeley article of November 1973.
"The two things left me for a while, maybe half a minute, and I was in there just motionless."