Qualla: The Pascagoula Incident https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: The Pascagoula Incident https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident The Pascagoula Incident: Introduction https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident/ All they meant to do was go fishing. On the evening of October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson, a 42-year-old shipyard foreman, and Calvin Parker, his 19-year-old coworker, drove down to the old Shaupeter Shipyard pier on the Pascagoula River with their rods and tackle. What they reported happening next would land them on national television, draw federal investigators to Mississippi, generate headlines from Biloxi to Los Angeles, and turn Pascagoula into a place forever associated with one of the most widely discussed UFO close encounters in American history.

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/3/h/pascagoula-incident-wp/dj3h-the-pascagoula-incident-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Pascagoula Incident: A Night on the River https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident/ Around 8 PM, about an hour before Hickson and Parker made their report, a service station operator named Larry Booth called the Jackson County sheriff to say he had seen a strange craft with a blinking colored light pass overhead. Then Hickson and Parker arrived at the sheriff's ...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/3/h/pascagoula-incident-wp/dj3h-the-pascagoula-incident-a-night-on-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full The Pascagoula Incident: The Media Circus https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident/ The story detonated. By October 17, newspapers were cataloging a wave of UFO sightings across the region. By October 24, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was comparing the case to the famous Betty and Barney Hill encounter. Local reporters noticed the two men had stopped showing up to...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/3/h/pascagoula-incident-wp/dj3h-the-pascagoula-incident-the-media-circus.mp3 0:06 3 full The Pascagoula Incident: The Long Aftermath https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident/ Fame was not kind. In January 1974, Hickson was arrested for public drunkenness after being found wandering along a highway. He traveled to Detroit to address a UFO group in April. That same month, he told reporters he had experienced three additional encounters with the beings a...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/3/h/pascagoula-incident-wp/dj3h-the-pascagoula-incident-the-long-aftermath.mp3 0:06 4 full The Pascagoula Incident: Believers and Skeptics https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident/ Aviation journalist and UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass found discrepancies in Hickson's account, noted that Hickson had refused to take a polygraph administered by an experienced outside examiner, and concluded the case was a hoax. Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell pointed out that...

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]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/j/3/h/pascagoula-incident-wp/dj3h-the-pascagoula-incident-believers-and-skeptics.mp3 0:06 5 full The Pascagoula Incident: Pascagoula Remembers https://qualla.com/pascagoula-incident/ In 2019, a historical marker was unveiled at the site along the Pascagoula River. Netflix's Files of the Unexplained covered the incident in 2024. Every October, the City of Pascagoula hosts the Goula Palooza festival to mark the anniversary. Whether one sees Hickson and Parker a...

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