AudioBlog: A Trucker Reports a Harrowing UFO Encounter
In 1973, the claims of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker that they\u2019d been abducted by elephant-skinned, robot-like creatures in Pascagoula, Mississippi, opened researchers up to what have become known as \u201chigh-strangeness\u201d reports. The term comes from J. Allen Hynek\u2019s efforts at creating a system of strangeness ratings in Chapter Four of his 1975 book,\xa0The UFO Experience. Hickson and Parker were taken seriously because they seemed genuinely traumatized by their experience while just the two of them were waiting in a room at the police station where they first reported their encounter. They just been interviewed, and unbeknownst to them, a tape recorder in the room was left running, which captured the bewildered men talking to each other about their experience. Their story was reported in newspapers and UFO publications worldwide. After that, abduction reports began to increasingly appear. In the midst of this new openness to high-strangeness reports, in 1979, there was a story told by a trucker that was highly unique, and highly strange, and yet was still given serious consideration by the local newspapers and investigators who examined it.\xa0Read more\xa0\u2192
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