Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter

On August 21, 1955 , the Sutton family (eight adults and three children) and Billy Ray Taylor, a family friend, met the family farm. To 19h, Billy comes to fetch water from the well (the farm with no running water system at that time) and saw a shiny metallic object hovering gently above the farm. It finally disappeared behind a valley. Returning quickly in the building, he tells his comments to the audience, which does not seem to believe a word and does not even bother going out to verify its contention.

A few minutes later, the family dog ​​(left outside the farm) starts barking frantically and eventually took refuge in the house, obviously terrified. Wanting to verify, Billy Ray and Lucky Sutton out and inspect the area. Soon, they saw a light behind the bushes surrounding the farm, that light seems to move them. After a few seconds, they distinguish a small humanoid creature, measuring about one meter, has large pointed ears and two eyes emit a strong yellow light, heading towards the farm. Panicked, the men return to the farm stand and after armed with a shotgun and a revolver. Finding the little creature a few meters from the building, they would shoot at close range. The creature simply switch back by emitting a strange metallic sound and runs to hide in the bushes.

Having scanned the area for several minutes, Billy Ray Taylor and Lucky Sutton decided to go back inside the farm. Just entered, they saw another creature observing through a window. They also take him on, through the window. Emerging, to verify that they actually hit, Billy Ray and Lucky find another creature perched on the roof and another one perched on a tree next to the house. Reopening the fire, the two men see creatures "float" to the ground instead of falling. For more than three hours, the strange creatures continue to appear, to collect the discharge of firearms and float under the terrified eyes of the twelve witnesses.

To 23h, the witnesses, completely terrified, decide to leave the farm and fled by car to the police of Hopkinsville. There they are greeted by the sheriff who, faced with the obvious state of panic Sutton, quickly decides to return to the farm with reinforcements. Once the ownership of Sutton, the sheriff finds the reality of the shooting that took place there (many bullet and buckshot throughout the building). At 2:15, after careful consideration of the farm and its surroundings and did not find any little creature, the sheriff and his men left the ownership of Sutton.

But around 3:30, the creatures are reappearing around the farm. Until dawn, witnesses continue to suffer the "onslaught" of small humanoids that seem insensitive to the many shots they will be. They eventually disappear in the morning.

They have never been reported since around the farm in Sutton.

No independent evidence to corroborate the claims will come from the Sutton family and no trace of humanoids will be found. A member of the North East of UFO groups (CNEGU) recently proposed that the Sutton farm was "attacked" by a group of birds of prey at night particularly aggressive, probably to defend their young. We would be well in the presence of confusion involving owls. This explanatory hypothesis can account nicely for the vast majority of the elements of this case, the other details that could be attributed to the unreliability of human testimony. It is preferred by today's skeptics francophones.