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An anticipated preliminary report from the federal government was recently released on UFOs encountered by military personnel dating back to 2004, and its contents, or lack thereof, has some Mississippians upset.
While the report doesn't deny some may be extraterrestrial lifeforms traveling to Earth, it doesn't offer that as a possible explanation, either.
"I don't believe they're being straight up," Calvin Parker of Moss Point said. "The Department of Defense could come a little cleaner about what they've got. I just really believe there's more out there than what they're saying."
Parker was a part of one of history's most famous UFO cases. He, along with now-deceased Charles Hickson, claimed they were abducted by aliens the night of Oct. 11, 1973, while fishing from a bank of the Pascagoula River. The two said they were levitated by aliens into a football-shaped craft, examined and then released.