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…