This new research is proof of alien life, says Philip Mantle

A stock photo of a UFO (Image: Getty) In recent days the internet has been buzzing after former US intelligence officer Davis Grusch testified under oath before members of the US Congress that he had seen conclusive proof that the US authorities have recovered crashed UFOs and their occupants. The one thing on everyone’s mind was, of course, ‘show us the evidence Mr. Grusch’. Sadly, he could not as it was classified. But the fact is there are cases already out there that would stand up in a court of law and prove that something quite extraordinary has happened. Such cases are close encounters or better known in the popular imagination as ‘alien abductions’. One such case that I and my colleague Dr Irena Scott in the USA have been working on does just that. The date of the close encounter was October 11, 1973; the location was the Pascagoula River, Mississippi. Two shipyard workers Charles Hickson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 18, decided to go fishing on the river after work. Both anglers were not having much luck that night and they thought about calling it a night when something happened that would change their lives forever. A dazzling blue light from behind them illuminated the entire scene. Turning around both men watched in awe as a rugby ball-shaped object descended. A door opened and three bizarre looking humanoid entities glided out across the terrain to the two terrified onlookers. Both Parker and Hickson later that night made their way to their local Sheriff’s Department to tell them that they had been abducted by aliens. It wasn’t long before the story found its way into the media and the story went around the world. Charles Hickson readily told his story, but Calvin Parker wanted simply to be left alone. Hickson co-authored a book with William Mendez in 1983 and it wasn’t until 2018 that Calvin Parker finally told his story in full for the first time. It was Calvin Parker’s book and subsequent publicity that made this case probably the best documented such event on record. It wasn’t necessarily what Calvin Parker related in his two books, but it is what happened when they were published. Much to everyone’s surprise, more and more firsthand eyewitnesses began to step forward. A number of these witnesses reported seeing something a few days prior to the Parker/Hickson encounter and others a few days after. UFO sightings were made in and around Pascagoula, Mississippi and in neighbouring states as well. Added to that more eyewitnesses stepped forward with their accounts of what they observed on the very same night. Two of these witnesses were on the other bank of the Pascagoula River that night at the very same time as Parker and Hickson were experiencing their close encounter. Former US intelligence officer, Davis Grusch (Image: Getty) One last thing that has left the authors completely baffled is what could be proof of a physical contact with something by Parker and Hickson that night. Both men reported that when the bizarre looking humanoids took hold of them, they felt a kind of scratch or prick similar to an injection. We uncovered a document written on October 13, 1973, just two days after the encounter, which describes a physical examination of the two men and that ‘puncture wounds’ were located on Charles Hickson’s arm and Calvin Parker’s foot. The document, located in 2018, also mentioned that photographs of these marks were taken. In the file sadly there was no sign of these photographs. In 2021 when this book was being written the authors received an email from a colleague that mentioned he had accidentally found a couple of photos that he thought we would be interested in. The photographs in question were those mentioned in the ‘puncture wounds’ document obtained three years earlier and show marks on Charles’s Hickson’s arm and Calvin Parker’s foot. These photos will be published in our book for the first time ever. This book concentrates on the independent eyewitness testimony, the puncture wounds evidence, the hypnosis sessions of the new witnesses and of Calvin Parker both of which were conducted exclusively for this book and it is left for the reader to draw their own conclusion. The book is fully illustrated with photographs, documents, newspaper cuttings and exclusive artwork by UK artist Jason Gleaves and has a foreword by Calvin Parker. We believe that the evidence provided in this book if it was taken to court could prove something truly extraordinary took place that October night in 1973 in the Pascagoula area. This year, 2023, will be the 50th anniversary of this encounter and we have provided all of the evidence we have. All we ask is for you to take an objective look at this evidence and see if you agree with us or not. Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Pascagoula Alien Abduction [ ] Philip Mantle is a veteran UFO researcher, author and publisher in the UK. Dr Irena Scott is from Ohio, USA and received her PhD in physiology from the University of Missouri. She too is an internationally published author. They can be contacted on email at:  philip.mantle@gmail.com Their book ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt The Pascagoula Alien Abduction’ will be published on September 1.