Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter
Around 7 p.m. Billy Ray Taylor said he saw a bright light land in a gully behind the Sutton farmhouse. Over the next hours the family reported small, silvery creatures with large eyes and ears approaching the house, and they fired guns at them repeatedly. At about 11 p.m. they drove to the Hopkinsville police. Officers found bullet holes but nothing else. The family said the creatures came back after the police left.
Explanation
Project Blue Book listed the case as a hoax. Investigators have since suggested great horned owls, which defend their nests aggressively at night and have eyes that shine in torchlight, seen by frightened people after a meteor passed overhead.
What was seen
Shape: Light in the sky; small, glowing "goblins"
Witnesses: 11 members of the Sutton and Lankford households
Duration: About 10 hours