HOPKINSVILLE, KY (CHRISTIAN COUNTY NOW) – Visit Hopkinsville welcomed a documentary film crew that is exploring the mystery around the 1955 Kelly Little Green Men incident. Over the past few decades, this extraterrestrial event has inspired multiple documentaries, several investigations by ufologists, and extensive interviews with families and locals.
The encounter is considered one of the most well documented and detailed alien sightings ever recorded and even influenced the production of the 1982 movie “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial”. The small town of Kelly, tucked in northern Christian County, got its claim to fame after five adults and seven children reported seeing small alien creatures attacked the Sutton farm on August 21, 1955.
On March 19, a production team with Small Town Monsters arrived in Hopkinsville to interview Geraldine Sutton-Stith, who’s dad and other relatives were at the farm during the invasion. For the documentary, Stith retold her family’s account of that famous eerie night.
The family is reported to have held off the green men with gunfire for nearly four hours before reporting the incident to Hopkinsville Police. They claimed to see 12 to 15 short, dark figures popping up in windows and doorways.
Eyewitness Bill Thomas was also invited to share his side of his story for the documentary as an eyewitness. According to Visit Hopkinsville, that night he heard gunshots from the Sutton Farm, with the bullets hitting his home. Thomas witnessed the aftermath of the invasion firsthand after visiting the farm the next day.
More about Small Town Monsters
Small Town Monsters is an independent production company that explores small town folklore and cryptids through documentary filmmaking. Their latest venture will be released in March titled The Kinderhook Creature which is about the legend of a hulking beast lurking in the shadows of a New York town. Other films feature the legend of Big Foot, Dogman, the Chupacabra, Skinwalkers and more.
“Huge thanks to Small Town Monsters for keeping this story alive and kicking, and a massive thank you to Geraldine and Mr. Thomas for sharing their hearts with us,” said a statement from Visit Hopkinsville.
Interviews took place in the Hopkinsville Visitors Center by the Trail of Tears Commemorative Park. Inside the building, there is a designated area that dedicated to this bit of local supernatural history. Visit Hopkinsville is also responsible to the recent resurgence in the city’s alien lore, which includes the annual Alien Invasion Day and GoblinCon Paranormal Expo.
No information about a release date for this documentary has been shared at this time.
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