◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Hickson Family Roadside Sighting
In May 1974, driving home from a Mother's Day visit, Charles Hickson and his family reported a light that circled the car, hovered ahead of them and then settled among the pines beside the road. Hickson tried to get out. This is the record of what the family described, not a verdict on what was in the field.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Hickson Family Roadside Sighting is a reported UAP case in Wooded area off main highway returning from father's farm, USA, May 1974 (Mother's Day).
- On a night drive home on Mother's Day 1974, Charles Hickson says, a voice reached him without sound and told him it was not the time as he tried to walk towards a field where rolling lights moved around something much larger.
- Charles Hickson's family reported a light that circled their car on the drive home from a Mother's Day visit in May 1974 and hovered some five hundred yards ahead over the road.
- In the Hickson family's account the light came down among tall pines beside the road, and Charles Hickson's wife, described as hysterical, held him back when he tried to get out of the car.
- The Hickson family's tellings split on whether the light first came down into the road itself or hovered over the road ahead before landing among the pines.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 4 distinct sources and 5 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L3 · MULTI-SOURCE — multiple independent sources attest to it.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
May 1974 (Mother's Day)
LOCATION
Wooded area off main highway returning from father's farm · USA
COORDS
32.97°N 89.73°W
INDEPENDENCE
L3 · MULTI-SOURCE
SOURCES
4 distinct
CLAIMANTS
5
STATUS
Multi-source testimony
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
