Case · UFO Afrinews No 7, January 1993
Kelly-Hopkinsville creatures (cited for comparison)
1955 ยท Kelly, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind retells the American Kelly-Hopkinsville case of 21/22 August 1955 to illustrate that monsters often accompany UAP reports. A family and friends gathered in a house near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, watched creatures about a metre tall with enormous glowing yellow eyes, bald heads, elephant-like ears, long claw-like hands and silver-sheened bodies roaming outside and climbing on the roof. The family fired at them without apparent effect. Police were called and the family endured months and years of ridicule but never retracted, though no real evidence was ever produced. Hind notes that such reports feed Big Foot, Sasquatch and Yeti stories and that, lacking proof, they still come from reliable people whom it is hard to call liars.
What Hind made of it
No physical proof, but Hind says reports come from reliable, truthful people and it is hard to accuse everyone of lying.
Cross references
- Jack van der Merwe ant incident
- Big Foot, Sasquatch, Yeti