Kelly–Hopkinsville

Kelly–Hopkinsville

On the night of 21 August 1955 two cars full of people from a farmhouse near Kelly drove to the police station in Hopkinsville and said that little men from a space ship had attacked the house: “We’ve been fighting them for nearly four hours”. They had fired at them with “a shotgun for Sutton and a .22 caliber target pistol for Taylor”. More than a dozen officers went out and found “no tracks of ‘little men’” and no mark of a landing, only a hole in a window screen where the occupants said they had fired. The papers in the US releases are in a Project Blue Book file: a copy of the local paper of 22 August, a statement written that day, a United Press dispatch, and the Air Force’s inquiries of 1956–57. No official investigation is on record; in 1957 the Air Force’s intelligence center wrote that “no credence can be given this almost fantastic report”.

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