- Look at the spin here! They title the story: 'Observers
Question UFO Experience'
- regarding the now famous and well documented Pascagoula,
Mississippi abductions of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, but most
everything in the piece only serves to support UFO experiences. This is
a perfect example of media manipulation with simultaneous exploitation
and sensationalization! - Webmaster/James Neff
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- Observers Question UFO Experience
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- By Donna Harris
- The Mississippi Press
- 10-10-3
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- MOSS POINT -- More than a
decade before Charles Hickson claimed an intergalactic encounter, Fritz
Breland had his own brush with an object of an unidentified sort.
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- "You could feel the hair rise up on the back of
your head," said, Breland, an 80-year-old retired commercial fisherman
from Moss Point.
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- (** Now read what Ms. Harris writes - and then
read what the man actually says! Super Spin! **)
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- Even though the Moss Point man has his own UFO story,
he's not sure if he can believe Hickson's claim. However, he doesn't want
to call him a liar either.
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- "I don't dispute people's word if they have anything
to say," he said. "Evidently, I saw something and he did too."
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- Breland's tale, so far untold, started on Gray Bayou
on Three River Lakes in the 1950s. He was casting for bass on the bow of
his boat, when he noticed the trees on the right side of the Pascagoula
River had lost their leaves. That's when he noticed three objects, like
blurry clouds, speeding through the sky.
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- "I don't know how I saw it because it was moving
so fast," he said. "I couldn't swear to it, but it sounded like
it made a swooshing sound."
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- Breland fished with his father as a child, and continues
his treks on the water today. Never in all that time has he seen that sight
repeated, he said.
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- "I saw that one thing that I couldn't explain, but
I never saw anything else. And I didn't tell anybody about it," he
said.
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- When Hickson's story made the national news, Breland
thought about his own sighting.
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- "To this day I'm not sure what I saw," he said.
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- Hurley resident Lynn McCoy, a tour guide on the Pascagoula
River, never saw a UFO near the water. Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster
have been no-shows too, but McCoy said that doesn't mean they don't exist.
They could be out there, he said, so he shouldn't doubt their existence,
just because he hasn't seen them.
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- "I never really looked for them either," he
said.
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- McCoy thinks Hickson and his fishing buddy, Calvin Parker,
may have seen a UFO that night. "I ain't never seen nothing like that,"
he said. "I believe something happened. I don't know what happened
though. I heard they were really shook up."
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- McCoy has spent hundreds of nights on the river without
extraterrestrial interference. "I've never seen anything I couldn't
explain," he said. "I ain't saying they ain't there, but I've
never seen them."
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- He still looks into the night sky though, wondering if
he might catch a glimpse of a hint of another world. "Oh yeah. I guess
we all do that sometimes," he said.
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- When Hickson went public with his story, Regina Hines
of Ocean Springs, now a columnist for The Mississippi Press, was the first
to land an interview with him. She met the shipyard worker soon after his
abduction and wrote about the encounter.
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- "I don't know what happened, but I really think
something did happen to them," she said. "I can't say if it was
extraterrestrial or not, though."
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- She said she doesn't know if she fully believes that
Hickson and Parker were abducted by aliens.
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- "Those were two pretty frightened men," she
said. "I can't say it was a UFO, but it was something."
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