Seventy years ago, the Kentucky State Police responded to what’s now considered one of the strangest complaints in agency history. 👽 From glowing figures on a quiet Kentucky farm to national headlines, military investigations, and lasting pop-culture impact, this story has it all. Trooper Corey King (Post 16, Henderson) takes us back to 1955, reading from history as he recounts the legendary Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter and its lasting impact over the years. We’re sharing this today as the fina

August 21, 1955. The Sutton family farm in rural Kelly, Kentucky became the site of one of America's most documented close encounters. For nearly four hours after midnight, the family and their friend Billy Ray Taylor fired shotguns at small metallic creatures with large eyes and claw-like hands that appeared at windows and climbed on the roof. They described beings roughly three feet tall that seemed unaffected by direct shotgun blasts. When police arrived, they found a terrified family, dozens