Little Green Men: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
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Description
Sixty-seven years ago, a family living on the outskirts of Hopkinsville, KY made headlines after claiming they'd been visited by "little grey men" after spotting an otherworldly aircraft floating over...
show moreThe incident, also called the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter, referring to the nearby unincorporated community of Kelly, was well documented in the media and pop culture: director Steven Spielberg cited it as part of the inspiration behind such films as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
SOURCES
The Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO and Alien Shootout; by George Dudding, Liz Lamac
Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955; Center for UFO Studies, 1978; by Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher
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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