Revisiting The Pascagoula UFO
The Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt returns with a new show exploring the 1973 Pascagoula UFO mystery, where two men fishing off a pier in Mississippi claimed they had been abducted by space aliens and taken on a joy ride in a flying saucer.
Both of the men in the abduction case — Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson — are now dead. But they both wrote separate accounts of the incident prior to their passing, although there were periods of time they shied away from any publicity.
Among the new wrinkles explored by Liszt? Parker and Hickson were dock workers, employed under the auspices of Ingalls Shipbuilding. This was where many of the U.S. Navy ships were built, and at its height had more than 27,000 employees, making it the largest employer in the state of Mississippi.
Interesting enough, Ingalls would become a division of the vast defense-based enterprise Litton Industries, run by a maverick Texan — Charles “Tex” Thornton — who had previously worked for the Las Vegas, Nevada, aerospace recluse Howard Hughes. Litton Industries had scores of divisions, ranging from outfits producing fast foods (Stouffer’s TV dinners) to microwaves to shipbuilding to aerospace technology.
Liszt notes how the space aliens described by Parker and Hickson wore space suits bearing a remarkable likeness to suits another division of Litton was designing for NASA in the early 1960s. In other words, the pair might not have been abducted by aliens at all, but by co-workers, garbed in space suits, testing out equipment for use by NASA. Litton Industries ceased to exist in the year 2000, as all of its remaining divisions at that time were bought out and incorporated into Northrup Grumman.
As always, this is a long broadcast, covering lots of ground — from the White Sands of New Mexico to Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce’s trances and his reflections on Lemuria and Atlantis. You’ll probably need a few sittings to watch this video in full.
