The Pascagoula Abduction
The account
Two fishermen were allegedly taken inside a craft by wrinkled-skinned beings and examined.
What investigators found
No physical evidence ever surfaced; skeptics see contradictions and a possible hoax, but the two men's fear impressed investigators.
The story
On the night of October 11, 1973, coworkers Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, were fishing on the Pascagoula River when, they said, an object with bluish lights stopped near the pier. Three beings with wrinkled skin and pincer-like hands reportedly floated them into the craft, where they were examined by a device that looked like an eye.
The two went to the sheriff that same night. Left alone in a room with a hidden tape recorder, they kept talking about the incident in apparent terror, which convinced many that they were not lying. Skeptics point to contradictions in their statements over the years and the absence of any physical trace. The case remains one of the most debated in the United States.