The encounter with low “creatures” rumored to be aliens in Kelly-Hopkinsville has disenchanted the people of western Kentucky for a long time.
Around 11 pm on August 21, 1955, 8 people appeared at the Hopkinsville, Kentucky police station in a state of panic, according to Allthatsinteresting.
Witnesses recount the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, also known as the Hopkinsville Goblin Case.
“We need help. We had to fight them for nearly 4 hours,” one person said breathlessly.
Who did they fight? Those are small silver creatures. To some, the encounter with these creatures at Kelly-Hopkinsville is believed to be conclusive evidence of an alien encounter. However, some others believe this is an overreaction to an owl attack.
Local newspapers sketched the image of “aliens” as described by witnesses.
Regardless of the truth, conspiracy theories surrounding this event persist to this day. And this event is also the origin of a local festival in Kelly, Kentucky called “Little Green Men” Day every August.
So, what exactly happened that summer night in Kentucky in 1955?
The event began when a man and his wife named Billy Ray Taylor of Pennsylvania visited a friend, Elmer “Lucky” Sutton, at Sutton’s farm in the small town of Kelly on August 21, 1955.
They held a party attended by many other people. While the party was going on, Taylor went to the well to get water. Then an object streaking across the sky caught his attention.
Taylor later described the silver object as “really bright, emitting a plume of all the colors of the rainbow”.
Terrified, Billy ran into the house and told others, including his wife and the Sutton family, that he had just seen a UFO.
Taylor also recalled that he did not hear an explosion, only a hissing sound when the object landed somewhere behind the farm. But no one took Taylor’s account seriously until the dogs started barking. Someone, or something, is approaching the house.
The disenchanted group then described to police what they saw in vivid and terrifying terms. The “attackers” have “oversized” round heads, long arms with claws that almost touch the ground. They glow in the dark, their eyes “emit a yellow light” and their bodies sparkle as if they were made of silver.
The group had to try their best to “fight” with the “attackers” to get to the police station to ask for help. Both Sutton and Taylor had guns. When one of the creatures pressed his face against the window, they started shooting. The strange creatures then retreated, disappearing behind the bushes.
Four city police officers, including police chief Russell Greenwell, drove to the Sutton farm to see what had happened, whether aliens had appeared or not. The group of people who came to the police station to report the incident seemed really scared, with someone measuring their heart rate up to 140 beats per minute.
However, police did not find any clear evidence of the “little silver men” the group described.
Neighbors also said they did not see anything unusual in the area and said it appeared the Kelly-Hopkinsville alien encounter story was the result of a hangover caused by people drinking too much. lots of alcohol. However, at that time, the police said that no one in the witness group was drunk.
Another theory is that that night the people at Sutton Farm mistook the owls for aliens in the dark because owls have long wings, glowing eyes and round heads.
More than 50 years after the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, the truth about what happened is hazier than ever. But that doesn’t stop many people from believing that aliens really appeared on that hot August night.
