Charles Hickson (42) and Calvin Parker (19), shipyard workers fishing on the Pascagoula River, told the Jackson County sheriff that three wrinkled, clawed beings floated them into a craft and examined them. Its strongest feature: Sheriff Fred Diamond left them alone in a room with a hidden recorder, and they stayed terrified and consistent, with no hint of a hoax. Weak points: no other witnesses to the craft (some later claims were unconfirmed), contested polygraphs, and Parker's later embellished accounts.