Episode Description

In August 1955, a family near Kelly, Kentucky, just outside Hopkinsville, claimed that strange small figures had surrounded their farmhouse after a bright object crossed the night sky. What followed became one of the most famous close-encounter stories in American folklore: hours of gunfire, terrified witnesses, police officers searching the property, and a legend that would later be remembered as the Hopkinsville Goblins case. Skeptics point to meteors, owls, stress, and panic; believers point to the number of witnesses, the duration of the event, and the sheer strangeness of the details. Either way, the case remains one of the most enduring American UFO stories of the 1950s.

Keywords

Hopkinsville Goblins, Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, Kelly Green Men, Kentucky UFO, 1955 UFO case, little green men, Project Blue Book, Christian County Kentucky, Sutton farmhouse, alien encounter, UFO folklore, American cryptids, great horned owl theory, Joe Nickell, Hopkinsville Kentucky

Sources and Further Reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2006/11/siege-of-little-green-men-the-1955-kelly-kentucky-incident/

https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2006/11/22164554/p12.pdf

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/331

https://www.wkms.org/arts-culture/2016-08-19/a-hopkinsville-alien-tale-has-inspired-a-yearly-festival-a-musical-and-pokemon

https://www.wbko.com/2025/08/21/70-years-later-revisiting-kelly-hopkinsville-encounter/

https://www.wbko.com/2024/08/14/hopkinsville-residents-prepare-alien-invasion-day/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/21/tales-from-the-path-of-totality-62-years-ago-today-they-say-little-green-men-invaded-this-kentucky-farm-town/

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