Before Hollywood made the gray alien famous, one alleged encounter helped define what people thought aliens looked like.

The trip had all the makings of a boring car ride—until the couple saw mysterious lights approaching from the sky.

But do alien abductions? Extraterrestrials kidnapping humans, taking them to their space ships, performing experiments on them, cutting them open, raping them, forcing women to bear hybrid babies?

In 1973, two Mississippi shipyard workers went fishing—and ended up paralyzed aboard a spacecraft. Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson’s terrifying story includes alien monsters, mind control, and a ...