There have been some significant developments regarding this case.
Following on from our discussions here, it came up as a topic on the Facebook 'UFO Research List' (UFORL) group, which I have been operating since mid-April.
As Philip Mantle is a subscriber and has a publishing association with Calvin Parker, I had a thorough look back through the material highlighted on this thread, simply to pass on any material which may be of particular interest.
In doing so, it became clear that a transcript of the audio from those seminal interviews with Hickson and Parker, later that same night, was paramount.
In search of one which might already exist, I began to come across further clarifications, from previously unknown case material, of the entire context.
One key breakthrough, was finally understanding an aspect which had puzzled us...
How could the object have landed behind the men, who were facing towards the river, yet the entities statedly floated above water to both pick up them up from the fishing pier and subsequently return them.
Answer; there was also water located behind Hickson and Parker, in the form of some marsh they had to wade through, before reaching the pier.
That's the water being referred to, not the river.
Increasingly becoming obvious, as more parts of the audio became available - some helpfully already transcribed - was that both the interview with Hickson and clandestine recording of dialogue between Hickson and Parker, had iin fact captured critical, unequivocal evidence of a sinister, anomalous incident.
Whilst it only extends to the point when they first encounter the object and three bewildering entities, it does exist as pristine, documented evidence.
Moreso and crucially, Parker, is caught on tape corroborating same.
Another factor and quite a surprise, is that Hickson or Parker - excepting one brief interview for Biloxi TV station, WLOX-TV - did not actually give any interviews to the press during the following two weeks, or near enough.
Then, they published a full account, which first appeared in the 'National Tatler' and later in mainstream media.
Almost everything before then is second-hand and eminates from law enforcement personnel, within the Sheriff's office. It's basically their recollections of what occurred during the interview session.
It's perfectly obvious this was intended to be confidential and neither of the two men wanted any publicity.
There's more to it all, which has become unravelled and if you wish to check out the UFORL discussions, I have added a link.
Otherwise, this is a copy of my most recent appraisal - as matters presently stand - regarding an extraordinary case and a direct consequence of our earlier contemplations here:
PASCAGOULA THE MISSING EVIDENCE
I have, eventually, been able to obtain a transcript of what may be the most crucial conversation in our secretly recorded dialogue between Hickson and Parker:
Parker: "I got to get home and get to bed or get some nerve pills or see the doctor or something. I can't stand it. I'm about to go half crazy."
Hickson: "I tell you, when we're through, I'll get you something to settle you down so you can get some damn sleep."
Parker: "I can't sleep yet like it is. I'm just damn near crazy."
Hickson: "Well, Calvin, when they brought you out, when they brought me out of that thing, damn it I like to never in hell got you straightened out."
His voice rising, Parker said, "My damn arms, my arms, I remember they just froze up and I couldn't move. Just like I stepped on a damn rattlesnake."
"They didn't do me that way", sighed Hickson.
(Now both men were talking as if to themselves).
Parker: "I passed out. I expect I never passed out in my whole life."
Hickson: "I've never seen nothing like that before in my life. You can't make people believe.
Parker: I don't want to keep sitting here. I want to see a doctor."
Hickson: "They better wake up and start believing. They better start believing."
Parker: "You see how that damn door come right up?"
Hickson: "I don't know how it opened, son. I don't know."
Parker: "It just laid up and just like that those son-of-bitches, just like that they come out."
Hickson: "I know. You can't believe it. You can't make people believe it."
Parker: "I paralyzed right then. I couldn't move."
Hickson: "They won't believe it. They going to believe it one of these days. Might be too late. I knew all along they was people from other worlds up there. I knew all along. I never thought it would happen to me."
Parker: "You know yourself I don't drink."
Hickson: "I know that, son. When I get to the house I'm going to get me another drink, make me sleep. Look, what we sitting around for. I got to go tell Blanche. What we waiting for?"
Parker: "I got to go to the house. I'm getting sick. I got to get out of here."
(Hickson left the room, and Parker was alone).
Parker: "It's hard to believe. Oh God, it's awful. I know there's a God up there."
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Here we have the critical, missing component - within a few hours afterwards, a clear confirmation from Parker, in what might be the only existing, related evidence from himself...
"You see how that damn door come right up?"
"It just laid up and just like that those son-of-bitches, just like that they come out."
It's what I gleaned he had said, yet could not be absolutely certain of accuracy.
This corroborates Hickson's infinitely more descriptive account, up the the point where three entities appear from a doorway, in a vehicle, which closely approached them.
The marsh terrain, littered with garbage, was evidently unsuitable for any vehicle to have driven there and even if so, surely would have been detectable, as opposed to "that damn door came right up" from nowhere.
What happened thereafter, is a separate conundrum.
At this snapshot, we already have a now unequivocally corroborated, somewhat disturbingly menacing, mystery on our hands.
The above is taken from an obituary to Charles Hickson and perhaps appropriately, seems to 'set the record straight'.
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