Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: THE KELLY SPACE CREATURES
It was a hot night on 21 August 1955. Shortly after 23.00, Cecil ‘Lucky’ Sutton and members of his family and other witnesses rushed in two cars to the police station at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he told Police Chief Russell Greenwell that they had just escaped from an invasion by at least one creature which had landed in a spaceship at the Sutton home near Kelly, seven miles away. Tor God’s sake, chief, get us some help,’ pleaded Sutton, ‘we’ve been fighting ’em for four hours.’
According to the family, a visitor to the Sutton farm, Billy Ray Taylor, had been getting water from the well in the back yard earlier that evening when he noticed a coloured light streak across the sky and descend into the trees along a ravine about a quarter of a mile away. Shortly afterwards, Sutton’s mother, Glennie Lankford, saw a creature with very long arms and talon hands raised in the air approaching the back of the house. Sutton and Taylor armed themselves with a .22 rifle and a 20-gauge shotgun and fired a shot at one of the creatures, which flipped backwards then seemed to rise up and ‘float’ into the underbrush.
The siege continued throughout the night, as the ‘luminous’ creatures repeatedly approached the house (with arms raised) and were driven back by gunfire, a total of about 50 rounds expended. When one creature was shot at extremely close range, the pellets sounded as if they had hit a metal bucket. At one stage, Taylor was tapped on the head by the talon of one of the creatures which was perched on the roof of the house.
The creatures appeared to be made of a silvery metal, and were described as three and a half feet tall, with oversized heads and large, floppy, pointed ears.
Their eyes were large, glowing yellow, and set halfway between the front and side of the head. They had wide, thin mouths (which never opened). Their legs were spindly and inflexible; in fact, the creatures seemed to propel themselves more with their arms.
Within minutes of Sutton’s plea for help, local police, state police, a deputy sheriff, newspaper staff, an Army reservist from nearby Fort Campbell, and others arrived on the scene. There was little physical evidence at the site, beyond empty shotgun cartridges, a hole in the screen through which one of the shots had been fired, and a strange luminous patch on the ground near the fence from which one of the creatures fell after it was shot. After the police and all the others had left the house, not long after 02.00, there were further sporadic sightings of the weird creatures until about 04.45.
In all, seven adults and three children — all of whom were found credible by the police and most of the other investigators — witnessed these incredible events. The case is listed as ‘Unidentified’ in the Air Force’s Project Blue Book files.
In a chapter about unidentified flying objects in a text of the United States Air Force Academy’s Department of Physics, Introductory Space Science, author Major Donald Carpenter points out some of the dangers faced by aliens contacting or trying to establish contact with human beings: Let me point out that in very ancient times, possible extraterrestrials may have been treated as Gods, but in the last two thousand years the evidence is that any possible aliens have been ripped apart by mobs, shot and shot at, physically assaulted (in South America there is a well-documented case), and in general treated with fear and aggression. In Ireland about 1000 AID, supposed airships were treated as ‘demon-ships’. In Lyons, France, ‘admitted’ space travellers were killed. More recently, on 24 July 1957, Russian anti- aircraft batteries on the [Kirile] Islands opened fire on UFOs. Although all Soviet anti-aircraft batteries on the Islands were in action, no hits were made.
The UFOs were luminous and moved very fast. We too have fired on UFOs . Major Carpenter confirms that a US Air Force F-86 fighter also tried to shoot down a flying saucer.
The Kelly incident, in particular, he wrote, supported the contention that ‘humans are dangerous’. ‘At no time in the story did the supposed aliens shoot back,’ he remarked, ‘although one is left with the impression that the described creatures were having fun scaring humans . . .’