“He was scarier than Frankenstein,” Ms. Kathleen May described the alien she and seven other residents of Flatwood, West Virginia, saw on September 12, 1952
Ms. May drew attention to the flying saucer thanks to a group of excited children, including her sons, Eddie (13) and Fred (12). These boys, along with Gene Lemon, Neil Nunley, Ronnie Shaver and Tommy Hayer, were walking on the set when they noticed "a bowl of exhaust like a fireball." According to the guys, the flying saucer landed on the top of the hill, behind May's house.
"I told them that it was all a game of their imagination," Ms. May told reporters, "but the children continued to insist that they saw the flying saucer landing behind the house."
Gene Lemon, a 17-year-old Eskimo, tracked down a flashlight and announced that he was going to investigate. At the request of the children, Ms. May agreed to go with them, and a small recon group went out on a night raid.
“We saw a reddish glow on the hill,” Ms. May recalled. "I was wrong about childish imagination and was glad Jin was leading the way."
About half an hour later, when the scouts along the narrow path i, overgrown with bushes, reached the top of the hill, there was a prolonged cry of horror from Gene Lemon. The fearless group of UFO hunters fled in panic after seeing what Jin shone with his flashlight.
When Lemon aimed a bright beam at the glowing green dots, he thought they were the eyes of some animal. But the flashlight illuminated an enormous humanoid figure with a blood-red face and greenish eyes that blinked from under a pointed hood. Behind the monster was a "fireball the size of a large house", which at regular intervals either dimmed or lit up.
Later, when Ms. May described this monster, she said that it had "creepy paws"; however, some of the children did not even notice the monster's hands. Most witnesses said the creature was dressed in something dark, while 14-year-old Neil Nunley specified that the color was dark green. The growth of the monster, according to various estimates, ranged from two to three meters. But the whole group unanimously characterized the alien as follows: "There was a disgusting smell around, which he seemed to emit." Ms. May told reporters that the stench "smelled like sulfur," but she had never seen anything like it before.
Lee Steward Jr. of Braxton Democrat, West Virginia, arrived at the scene minutes earlier than Sheriff Robert Carr. Despite the fact that almost all the guys were too scared to speak coherently, and some of them received first aid - they treated bruises and scrapes received during a disorderly escape from the hill - the correspondent persuaded Lemon to accompany him to the place where they met scary creature.
The steward saw no sign of the giant space traveler or the red glowing ball, but he smelled a strange odor that made him "disgusted and annoyed." Later, the correspondent wrote that he once served in the Air Force and was very well acquainted with various stenchs, but had never encountered such a bad smell.
Subsequently, all members of the reconnaissance group said that the monster was approaching them, but since they were just between the alien and a large spherical object, which apparently served as a spaceship for him, he could be directed towards the ship.
Neil Nunley said the alien "… didn't actually walk - it just moved, moved evenly and didn't jump."
On the evening of August 21, 1955, the aliens appear to have landed in Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Local residents saw the object land, from which two to five aliens emerged. The Air Force Command, local authorities, the police and the county press conducted an extensive, well-documented investigation into the incident. The adults who were involved in this case were quite restrained and laconic: they obviously did not want to turn all this into a show for their own popularity. Some of them even fled the city when curious onlookers came, and all the while avoiding contact with Air Force officials and other researchers regarding their ordeal.
It all happened on a Sunday evening, when the merry company gathered at Gater McGeh's farm, rented at the time by the Sutton family. A teenager Bill Ray Sutton went outside to drink well water. He was enjoying the cool, refreshing water from a chipped cup when he suddenly saw a large, bright object that was landing just a block from the farmhouse.
Billy Ray immediately ran home and told about the strange arrival, but his family somehow did not pay much attention to it. Only when the inhabitants of the farm saw that "small people, a little over one meter tall, with long arms and large round heads", approached the house, they became interested in this event.
The Air Force archives contain drawings made by eyewitnesses at the request of the officials who were conducting the investigation. The Sutton family described the aliens' eyes as glowing with yellow fire, and the eyeballs were extremely large and seemed very sensitive to light. Apparently, it was the light in the windows of the farmhouse, and not the bullets of hunting rifles, of which there were more than enough, that kept these creatures from entering the house.
“It was noticeable that the bullets just bounced off their armor,” one of the witnesses said.
Despite the fact that the farmers were hit by the aliens several times, the latter seemed to immediately get up and go into the shadows, away from the light.
A certain Mr. Taylor told investigators: “I knocked one of them off a barrel with my 12 gauge. I heard a bullet hit this living creature and bounced off it with a ricochet. The little man smoothly sank to the ground and rolled like a ball. I used up four packs of cartridges on this little guy!"
At one of them, Sutton fired point-blank with his shotgun. The alien just tumbled and rolled into the darkness.
In the same way as in the case of the monster from Flatland, West Virginia, witnesses stated that the aliens did not appear to be walking, but "floated" towards them.
The farmers fought these invulnerable creatures for nearly four hours, then got into their cars in panic and rushed to Hopkinsville, to the police station, for reinforcements. The Greenwell police chief, seeing in what a deranged state the children were and how frightened the adults were, realized that they were clearly at war with someone on the farm. After all, everyone knew that the Suttons were a "teetotal family."
More than a dozen state, county and city police officers, led by Greenwell, went to the scene to investigate and, if necessary, even organize an armed fight against these little "supermen". On the way to the farm, police officers noticed "a strange rain of meteorites coming in the direction of the Sutton farmhouse." One of the police later said that these space stones, falling to the ground, made a "whistling sound."
The detectives did not find any traces of a spaceship or small people, but they found "a few specific signs and evidence" that somehow did not really fit into the situation of the Suttons. And although it remained unclear who invaded the Suttons that Sunday August evening, judging by the bullet holes in the walls, the "guests" of the farmers were real enough to shoot at them.
Blade Man It
was a beautiful summer day in July 1968. Jennings Frederick, armed with a bow and arrow, hunted marmots, but the sun was already setting, and he never put anything in his bag. As he walked home, he pondered, and suddenly he heard what he later described as "some kind of muttering in a thin voice, very similar to the sound of a record that is played at an accelerated pace."
According to writer Gray Barker, the journalist who interviewed Frederick, that voice said, “You don’t have to be afraid of me. I want to chat with you. I came as a friend. We know everything about you. I come in peace. I need medical attention. I need your assistance!
But who could have sent such a message? And did Frederick hear him with his own ears or did he receive it through telepathy?
Suddenly, from nowhere, a creature appeared with a semi-human face, long ears and yellow slanted eyes. His hands were as thick as a finger, and his palms had three fingers - thin as needles - and each finger ended in a sucker. The shape and color of the body resembled the stem of a plant - the same thin and green.
At first, Frederick thought that his fingers were entangled in a thorny bush, but soon realized that a humanoid grabbed his hand and sucked blood. Suddenly, the creature's eyes changed color - turned red - and began to spin like reels on a spinning rod. Frederic immediately ceased to feel pain and froze under the hypnotic effect of these eyes.
"Necessary medical attention" in the form of a blood transfusion lasted about a minute, after which the creature released him and ran up the mountainside, taking steps seven meters wide.
It was then that Frederick felt pain. On the way home, he heard a humming sound and thought that it must be the blade-man now taking off on his flying saucer or on the spacecraft in which he flew here.
Frederick returned home and decided to tell the family that he scratched himself on a thorny bush so as not to become a laughing stock. No one heard of this story until a few months later, Frederick met his friend Barker.
UFOs were nothing new to Frederick and his family. His mother encountered one such object when Frederick was still in school. After seeing her husband to work and the children to school, the mother washed the dishes after breakfast. Then she looked out the kitchen window and saw that a child was playing in a clearing not far from the mountainside. She was worried that the boy might inadvertently touch the electrified livestock fence, so she decided to go out and warn him.
When the woman went out into the street, she saw that it was not a child, but some kind of small black or dark green creature. It stuffed its bag with mud and grass. Not far from the creature was a flying saucer, from which a ladder descended to the ground. The little alien was connected to his aircraft with a cable or something like that.
The flying saucer reached three meters in diameter and one and a half meters in height, had a white-silver color and a row of windows at the base of the dome. It seemed to rotate clockwise, while making a humming sound.
The little alien outwardly looked more like an animal than a person: he was completely naked, had pointed ears and a tail. The woman could not see his face in any way.
Mrs. Frederic ran into the house, went to bed and covered her head with a blanket, hoping that whoever it was should disappear. A few minutes later, she looked out the window and saw how a wondrous creature enters its spaceship and takes off. The hum intensified as the saucer rose into the air - "light as a feather."
Mrs. Frederic did not tell anyone about what happened to her - until her son returned from school. He - a UFO fanatic - knew exactly what to look for and immediately went to where the flying saucer was landing.
There he noticed a depression in the ground - a trace from the support of a spacecraft - and, based on the density of the soil and the description of the device, he calculated its weight, which was about a ton. He also found footprints in the shape of a paw, from which he determined that the creature weighed about 20 kilograms. Frederick took samples of the villi from this depression and, along with the plaster trades of the tracks, sent them to the Air Force specialists. Such evidence convinced Jennings that his mother had indeed seen both this creature and this plate.
According to Gray Barker, Air Force specialists offered "a stupid explanation that it was a balloon, and never returned the evidence presented to them."
Jennings' direct contact with the aliens did not end with the Blade Man, although he never met an alien while working for the Air Force. After being fired, he returned to his parents and one day, somewhere between 01:00 and 04:00, he was awakened by a flash of red light.
Frederick instinctively drew his.38 service revolver from under his pillow and began to study the surroundings. At first, he thought that the source of the light might have been the gas that had leaked into the living room. Suddenly, a hand grabbed him and a needle stuck into his left shoulder.
Opposite were three men in black turtlenecks and some kind of dark wide trousers; their faces were covered with masks.
One of them said:
- The dogs in the yard pounced on us, and all of them had to be poisoned!
- What about this? asked another.
“He’s almost asleep already - he’ll soon lose consciousness,” came the answer. - Do not worry about the needle: the pain in the arm will go away in a day, at most in two.
At the moment when what looked like a tin can approached Frederick, the three put on gas masks; and the last thing he remembered was how one of the aliens put the "can" in his pocket.
According to Frederick, these creatures pulled something over his face and started asking questions about UFOs - in particular, what, in his opinion, the saucers really are. They also asked him what time it was and what he thought about the future. At that moment, Frederic apparently fainted, since he did not remember anything else - and no one in the house said a word about any strange night events. Frederick decided that the gas in the "cans" "turned off everyone who was at home."
Gray Barker was driving home through the hills of West Virginia and thinking about his conversation with Frederick, he came to the conclusion that his friend was possessed - no, not madness, not Christian devils, but the solution to the mystery of UFOs.
At about 19:00 on January 9, 1976, Jean Dolekki was driving his pickup truck down a country road near Saint-Jean, France, and suddenly saw a shiny ball in the dark evening sky. It was Friday evening, and Dolekki was in a hurry home after a tiring week. At first, he did not pay much attention to the ball - but only at first.
Suddenly, the flying object began to descend, and it seemed that he was heading towards Jean, who slowed down and began to examine the ball more closely, while trying to protect his eyes, as one Baltic sailor had taught him in his time.
“It was like a big ball,” he later told researchers. - It sparkled as if it was wrapped in silver foil. I have no doubt that he was going to crash into my truck or fall into the middle of the road."
The driver pressed the brake pedal sharply, and the car was pulled to the right side of the road. The radiance of the strange object fascinated and attracted him. Jean turned off the engine, but, getting out of the car, decided not to turn off the headlights so that he could see better.
The shiny ball landed in a field about a kilometer from the road. Jean estimated that the spacecraft had a diameter of approximately 12-15 meters, with the upper part of its hull being slightly smaller than the lower one.
“I don’t think this car was directly on the ground,” he later commented, “because there was some strange light coming from its bottom that did not scatter around.”
Dolekki admitted that at that moment he was frightened and stepped back a little. However, he did not get behind the wheel of the pickup: obviously, his interest was stronger than fear.
Then he saw a hatch open in the upper part of the spacecraft (its height, according to Jean, was about two meters) and from there appeared three human figures dressed in silvery suits.
“But they weren't people! I can assure you, Dolekki insisted. - They were robots - huge robots! The same height as this hatch."
When they descended from the UFO, their movements were stiff and sharp, and their gait was angular.
“Then I saw that they had small legs, and instead of hands - some kind of telescopic sticks, which resembled fishing rods. Their heads were square."
The robots moved away from their aircraft and stopped nearby. They moved like mechanical toys - in jerks and leaps - and while walking they waved their hands, more precisely, sticks up and down.
“I stood rooted to the spot - barely breathing! I only had the strength to think that the headlights of my pickup truck, which I left on, would surely get their attention. But they didn't even notice me,”Dolekki said.
About ten minutes passed, and the robots returned to their apparatus again. The hatch closed behind them and the side lights came on, except for those on the very top of the spherical roof. Then the balloon took off with fantastic speed.
“I went back to my pickup. As soon as I got behind the wheel, I crossed myself immediately. I was shaking to such an extent that I could not start the engine. But I only wanted one thing - to get home as soon as possible,”Dolekki admitted.
When Jean finally arrived home, he saw that his wife and daughter were having dinner without him. By his behavior, they understood that something had happened to him. Dolekki told them the story and, although they didn’t believe him, called the local police to report the unusual incident.
The investigator, who served as a foreman in the police, was less skeptical than the Dolekki family. He took UFOs seriously: in 1974, two of his men saw a mysterious object in the sky over the city of Saint-Naza-en-Royan.
The investigator had long known Dolekki and knew perfectly well that Jean did not suffer from hallucinations and was a completely honest person.
Further investigation of this incident revealed that the aliens had landed near the farm of Alphonse Karras. That evening, January 9, the Karras family watched television. On the screen, some numbers and letters constantly appeared, and sometimes the image disappeared completely. It should be noted that Dolekki saw the aliens just at the same time that noise went on Karras's TV screen. But another family of farmers who lived near the scene did not notice anything unusual at the same time.
The investigation into the Dolekki case appears to be drawing to a close, but there have been so many similar reports from this region of France that local authorities have declared that they cannot be fully registered.
The incident with ten-year-old Jean-Claude Silvente - a resident of the suburb of Domaine - happened a few days earlier, on the evening of January 5 and 6. The boy talked about a giant in a silver-colored jumpsuit emerging from a bizarre flying machine. The boy was very scared: the giant approached him twice, but each time he ran away as fast as he could.
Jean-Claude was not the only one who saw this aircraft. On January 6, he appeared for the second time and landed at the same place, occupying an area about one and a half meters long. And this time, the arrival of the aliens was watched by Jean-Claude's mother, 17-year-old sister Elaine and her friend, 21-year-old Marcel Solvini.
The apparatus was shaped like a ball and looked like a "big red spotlight"; he descended from the sky directly on the heads of the family. Landing witnesses fled away, hoping they would never see this flying object and its extraterrestrial passengers again.