Calvin Parker

Calvin Parker (1954–2023) was a man from Mississippi who, on 11 October 1973 at age 19, reported together with Charles Hickson that he had been abducted by entities while fishing on the Pascagoula River. Unlike Hickson, Parker avoided publicity for decades before publishing new details in 2018 with the book Pascagoula: The Closest Encounter; he maintained the truthfulness of his account until his death.

• Born 1954 in Mississippi, died 2023
• 19 years old at the time of the incident on the Pascagoula River
• Joint witness with Charles Hickson on 11 October 1973
• Description: paralysed and floated aboard a craft
• Long-standing silence towards the public after the event
• 2018 publication of the book Pascagoula: The Closest Encounter with new details
• Maintained the truthfulness of his account until his death

For the UAP timeline, Parker is the second witness of the Pascagoula case — and thereby a load-bearing pillar of one of the rare abduction cases with immediate police reporting and two independent witness accounts. His late book provides the most important addition to the Hickson biography and closes a decades-long gap in the file record.