The Night the Goblins Came to Kelly-Hopkinsville

A Kentucky farm family spent hours shooting at small glowing beings in 1955. Bullets barely worked. The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter still doesn’t sit right, no matter how many times you read it.

A Kentucky farm family spent hours shooting at small glowing beings in 1955. Bullets barely worked. The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter still doesn’t sit right, no matter how many times you read it.

Imagine you’re a kid in small-town West Virginia back in 1952. You’re out playing as the sun dips low, when suddenly a fiery object streaks across the sky and crashes on a nearby hill. What do you do? You grab…