Fort Knox and the Death of Captain Mantell
On 7 January 1948 a large bright object was reported over Kentucky and a flight of fighters was scrambled. Captain Thomas Mantell climbed after it, radioed that he could see something "metallic and of tremendous size", and kept climbing without an oxygen mask. His aircraft came down south of Franklin; Mantell was killed. The military first said Venus. It was later established that the object was a classified high-altitude Skyhook balloon the pilots had no way of knowing about: from the ground such a balloon looks exactly as Mantell described it. It is the first death connected with the pursuit of an unidentified object, and it set the tone of the subject for years.
Pascagoula and the Two Men on the Pier
On the evening of 11 October 1973 Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were fishing from a disused pier on the Pascagoula River. By their account an oval glowing object settled nearby, three figures with claws instead of hands came out of it, lifted them both and carried them inside; some time later they came to on the pier. The men drove themselves to the sheriff's office. There they were left alone in a room with a hidden tape recorder — a trick meant to catch accomplices out. On the tape they talked to each other exactly as they had to the investigators, and Parker prayed. Hickson repeated the account until his death in 2011. Parker said nothing for almost forty years and spoke only in 2018.
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