Ep 80: The Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter Part 2

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Kelly Community entrance sign.

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Sign at community park.

Copy of South-facing view of homesite. Treeline in background is gully.

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Tree in center of picture is said to be the site of the well Billy Ray Taylor was drawing water from when he first saw the object in the woods.

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Northeast view of Kelly Homesite

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East facing view of Kelly Homesite

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East facing view of gully behind homesite.

Mrs. Glennie Lankford and Mary Lankford

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."

– Stephen Hawking

 

Approximate location of the Sutton family farmhouse on Old Madisonville Road, in the unincorporated area of Kelly, about 8 miles north of Hopkinsville, KY

BACKGROUND:

In Part Two of our series on the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter, we analyze the elements of the Sutton and Taylor families' story.  Is the tale that ended up in the media what actually happened or were certain descriptions exaggerated to make the story more sensational in order to sell newspapers?  Perhaps some details were misreported due to anxiety, faulty memories and the phenomenon of the "Telephone Game?"  Or was it all a hoax and for what gain?  What we find is that the story in its original and accurate telling is so bizarre, any further embellishment would be pointless and believe it or not, that's the story the families stuck to, which only serves to add more mystery to an already mysterious world.  

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Reference Links:

• The Historical Blindness Podcast by Nathaniel Lloyd

• Sableye Pokémon – based on the Kelly-Hopkinsville "Goblins"

• The Pukwudgie

• The Wendigo

• The Leprechaun

• "Sam" from Trick 'r Treat

• Dan Piraro's "Creature from the Black Lagoon" comic panel

• WHOP Radio in Hopkinsville, KY

• The "Chinese Whispers" game, or as it's known in the US, "The Telephone Game"

• Police urge people to report crop circle damage in Wiltshire, UK

• The Hatfield–McCoy feud

• Natives not being able to see Captain Cook/Columbus/Magellan's ships

• Discussion on Snopes about natives not being able to see western sailing ships

• The Fermi Paradox

• Crop Circles: The Art of the Hoax on Smithsonian.com

• "Mr. Derp" on South Park

• Kelly Hopkinsville Geographic Information Systems PDF Map 1 by ARC Member Cody Rice

• Kelly Hopkinsville Geographic Information Systems PDF Map 2 by ARC Member Cody Rice

• Kelly Hopkinsville Geographic Information Systems PDF Map 3 by ARC Member Cody Rice

• Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955 by Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher (PDF)

• Original report from the Kentucky New Era newspaper, Monday, August 22, 1955

• Another UFO report from Garrard Co. Kentucky, October 9, 1955, from the Albuquerque Journal

• Kelly Little Green Men Days Festival, August 18–21, 2017, Kelly-Hopkinsville, KY

• All about the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse on NASA's website

• NASA's event bulletin board about the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse

• Where, when and how to see the Total Solar Eclipse on Space.com

• Could Kelly's "Little Green Men" return with the coming Total Solar Eclipse?

• The Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident article by Joe Nickell on the CSI website

• Acoustic Shadow and the American Civil War

• The UFO Close Encounter classification system

• The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter on Wikipedia

Related Books:

Alien Legacy

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The Kelly Green Men

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The Kelly Green Men: Alien Legacy Revisited

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Encountering Aliens: Eyewitness Accounts (Eyewitness to the Unexplained)

By Chris Kincade

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Credits:

Episode 80: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident, Part 2.  Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2017 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.