Across the UK and around the world I'm Howard Hughes in London and this is the unexplained.

You know in the decades that I did news nationally and in London on the radio and was a journalist

I never enjoyed the process of bringing people bad news.

It was just not something that I know some journalists do but you know I don't enjoy having

to do that.

I was on a lot of big stories like 9-11 and the death of Diana and they were difficult.

So it is with a heavy heart today that I bring you this news and this may well be the first time

that you're hearing this. Just weeks after we last talked on the television show and on my podcast

about Pasca Gula and what happened to Charlie Hickson and Calvin Parker in 1973, the alien

abduction story that is still resonating down the decades. I'm sorry to have to tell you that

Calvin Parker died last week and the news of this is only just being released by his family

whose wishes of course we have all respected. Now Calvin Parker I first spoke with about six

years ago and I've spoken with many people delivering extremely unusual accounts of what they say

happened to them. What came across to me and I've spoken with thousands of people in my professional

lifetime and personal lifetime is that Calvin Parker always came across as being humble, sincere and

honest in everything he said. I came out of the conversations that we had over the years

always of the opinion that I don't believe that this is in any way fabricated I don't believe

he's misinterpreted what happened to him. I believe that his view of what happened to him is

what happened to him and the questions that we're still asking all these years are now half a

century on is how did that happen? Why did that happen? And how come now more people are coming

forward with their recollections including people who say they too were abducted and were

attended to for one of another expression by aliens. The Calvin Parker story has been brought to

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