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Is it true: Pascagoula abduction (Charles Hickson, Calvin Parker, 11 Oct 1973)?

Debunked4% confidence

No — this has been debunked.

Hickson and Parker maintained their account under hidden police recording and Hickson passed a polygraph. No physical evidence — no trace evidence, no radar contact, no corroborating witness to the abduction — has been produced in 50+ years. Behavioural consistency and polygraph are not substitutes for physical corroboration of an extraordinary claim.

The claim

On the night of 11 October 1973, shipyard workers Charles Hickson (42) and Calvin Parker (19) claimed they were abducted from the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi by three robotic beings w

Key evidence

Hidden recorder: both men maintained account when unobserved

No physical evidence: no trace on pier, no material samples, no radar contact

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