Pascagoula, Mississippi: Fishermen and Coast Guard see glowing underwater object

At 9:30 p.m. on 6 November 1973, Rayme Ryan, his twin brother Raymond, their two sons and four friends were fishing in the Pascagoula River delta area, Mississippi, when Rayme spotted an underwater glowing object and struck it with an oar. The apparently metallic object dimmed when disturbed but regained its brightness later and eventually disappeared. Some 30 to 40 minutes later, while retrieving a fishing net about half a mile southwest, the group saw the object again near a buoy and called the Coast Guard, which dispatched a launch with BM2 Lawrence A. Nation and BM3 Charles Crews. The Coast Guard men also saw the object for 10 to 15 minutes before it disappeared for good; they described it as "yellowish amber with a red tint" and "almost too bright to look at" when not dimmed. A 3-inch light source shone from the object, which appeared to be 12 feet long by 10 feet wide at the surface and moved at 4 to 7 mph. The case was reported in the Pascagoula Register on 14 November 1973 and is listed in Jan Aldrich's NavCat catalogue of UFO/USO reports by seagoing services. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.