United States · 11 October 1973
Shaupeter Shipyard pier, 1973
ReportedThe single most probative artifact in American entity-encounter history is a police tape made without the witnesses' knowledge: the deputies left the room expecting a hoax to unravel and instead recorded two terrified men whose private conversation matched their sworn statements.
- Where
- Shaupeter Shipyard pier, Pascagoula River, Mississippi
- When
- 11 October 1973
- Who reported it
- 2 civilians
- Entities described
- 3 figures
- Described as
- Only trait attributable to the law-enforcement record is three creatures with pincers. Wrinkled greyish skin, absent eyes, conical projections, mitten hands and fused lower body are press-interview material, not documented.
- Handled as
- ARCHIVE-ONLY
- Evidence class
- GOV-2
What the record resolves
A shape, a height, a number of figures. Nothing that resolves a body.
The law-enforcement record supports one trait: three creatures with pincers. The rest is press-interview material.
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNKNOWN - no digitised sheriff's file, Keesler AFB record or Coast Guard log online
Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.
What is not settled
There is no verifiable public copy of the tape or the sheriff's report; what circulates is transcript-of-a-transcript. Blue Book had been closed since 1969 so no federal investigation exists. ACTION: records request to the Jackson County Sheriff's Department and to Keesler AFB for the 11-12 Oct 1973 medical screening.