An INS dispatch published widely in 1954 read:
Garson, Ontario, July 7 (INS). A young Canadian miner is insisting he saw a flying saucer and its crew of three; “all thirteen feet tall with ears like spurs and three sets of arms.”
“Ennio La Sarza, twenty-five, told his story yesterday to Royal Canadian Airforce authorities. The RCAF started an investigation but refused comment.
La Sarza claimed he saw a “huge disk” descend from the sky north of the nickel mining center of Garson last Friday; the day on which the planet Mars was nearest to the Earth’s orbit.
La Sarza said he asked the creatures, from a distance, who they were and they “fixed me with a hypnotic stare until I fainted. When I came to they and the ship had vanished.”
The description of these aliens sounds remarkably like the ‘Barsoomian’s mentioned in the popular Edgar Rice Burroughs’ series, John Carter of Mars, minus the tusks and green skin.
On October 19th, 1954, witness Bruno Senesi claimed that he saw two shining, smoking objects descend from the sky and land in a field in the small town of Livorno, Italy and decided to investigate. A decision which would cause him much regret. On reaching the landing area Senesi was set upon by “...small, red creatures” which chased him for quite a distance before he was finally able to get away. He was admitted to a local hospital where he broke out in sweats of terror. The incident reportedly scared the witness so badly that he would hide beneath his bed and scream for hours.
On September 11th, 1965 in the Brazilian town of Guarulhos, a witness named Antonio Pau Ferra allegedly saw two unidentified craft land and two 70cm tall entities emerge. They were humanoid, Ferro later claimed, but had “ugly” skin. The witness watched as the things examined a nearby tomato patch, then reentered their craft, which immediately sped off into the unknown.
Kelly’s Little Green Men
On August 21, 1955, something extraordinary happened in Western Kentucky. It was an event which was destined to become one of the most highly investigated, thoroughly documented and well refuted cases in UFO history. Long before such encounters came to be called ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ there was the incident at Kelly, Kentucky, hardly more than a ‘wide spot’ in the side of the road in Christian County, seven miles North of Hopkinsville.
The encounter took place in a small, isolated farmhouse owned by the Sutton family. Eleven people were in the home at the time; eight adults and three children, which included members of the Sutton-Lankford family, and friend, Billy Ray Taylor and his wife.
Around seven p.m., while the rest of the adults were socializing around the kitchen table and playing cards, Billy Ray excused himself to go fetch a drink from the backyard well. Like many farmhouses of the time, the Sutton home had no indoor plumbing. Taylor was gone only briefly when he ran back inside, slamming the front door behind him excitedly.
When asked what in the Sam hell was the matter, he told everyone that as he was standing at the well, he had seen a ‘flying saucer’ with flames “all the colors of the rainbow’ shooting out the tail end of it as it passed overhead, stopped dead in the air and then dropped straight down into a gully on the neighboring property about 100 yards out behind the house.
No one took him seriously, of course. These were simple country folk and things of that nature simply didn’t happen in rural Kentucky. Moreover, they were poor folk as well and, although they did have electricity in the house, no one owned a television, radio or telephone. Elmer ‘Lucky’ Sutton, the no nonsense head of the household, thought Billy Ray was joking or, at most, had seen a falling star. After all, a meteor shower was supposed to be in progress that night. He knew that the boy hadn’t been drinking, as alcohol was strictly forbidden in, or even near, the Sutton home. Glennie Lankford, Lucky’s 50-year-old mother, would nail their hides to a barn door if she even heard the rumor that any of them had been drinking.
They continued on there at the table for about another hour. Then, around eight p.m., the family dog started “raisin’ hell” outside. Lucky got up and looked out the window and saw, much to his astonishment, a glowing, round ‘globe’ moving towards the house. This was, apparently, the source of the dog’s extreme agitation.
They did what any Kentuckians would do; they grabbed their guns and headed outside, arriving just in time to see the dog dash, tail tucked between its legs, under the house in an attempt to shield itself from a small ‘creature’ that was standing in the yard holding its extremely thin arms above its head, almost as if in gesture of surrender. Even so, the two later claimed, it was still the strangest, most terrifying sight they had ever seen.
It was about three and a half foot tall, they said. With large, yellow glowing eyes and huge, pointed, ‘crinkly’ ears. It had ‘glow-in-the-dark’ skin that looked like silver or shining metal as it stood there beneath the glow of the outside light less than twenty feet away. They noted that it possessed a ‘straight slit’ of a mouth which ran from ear to ear, but no nose and no hair either. When it got a little closer, they were horrified to see that its hands ended in cruel looking claw-like talons.
There was but one option, really; they opened fire. A hail of .22 caliber and twelve-gauge bullets slammed into the ‘little man’ from close range. Strangely, the thing merely flipped over backwards and ran off, apparently unhurt, into the darkened woods. Completely daunted by such an unexpected reaction to their show of lethal force, the two men hurried back inside to try and calm the women and children, who were already upset before the gunfire had even started.
Their efforts were disrupted when the creature, or another one just like it, returned and was seen peering in one of the side windows. The men fired at once right through the window and, in a shower of glass, the little creature was seen again to flip over backwards and run away into the darkness. By now the women and children were crying and screamingly hysterically and the unexpected nightmare was spinning out of control.
Lucky and Taylor decided to go back outside to see if they could locate the body of one of the things they had shot. No one wanted to be left alone of course, so Taylor, followed closely by Lucky and the rest of the Sutton family, slowly made his way through the house and stepped cautiously out onto the back porch. They could see nothing and all was quiet so they inched forward, guns at the ready.
Taylor was about to step off the porch and into the backyard when, from behind him, Lucky and the rest saw a claw-like hand reach down from the tin roof overhead and grab a handful of the man’s hair. He was then pulled back into the house by hysterical family members while Lucky continued down into the yard, turned, and opened fire on the little ‘monster’ that was perched on the roof. The blast struck it squarely but, according to Sutton, the thing didn’t fall normally to the ground, but seemed to ‘float’ down almost casually. To his horror, Lucky noticed another such creature sitting on the limb of a nearby tree.
Inside, Glennie was tucking the children under the bed and Taylor, having composed himself somewhat, raced back outside to help Lucky shoot at the creature in the tree. When hit, this one too ‘floated’ safely to the ground and ran away, only to be replaced by a third entity which ran out from the corner of the house and into the line of fire.
In all the family claimed to have been attacked six separate times during a three-hour period of time. They could hear the things’ claws scraping on the roof while others repeatedly peeped in the windows and, all the while, the western Kentucky night echoed with the sound of gun shots and the screams of children. By eleven p.m. the earthlings had decided to abandon the farm and, leaving all their worldly belongings behind to the creatures, they dashed outside and into the two vehicles parked in the driveway and sped down Highway 41 towards Hopkinsville and the nearest police station where they told their incredible story. Police chief Russell Greenwell later described the witnesses as being;
“genuinely terrified,” telling one investigator; “Something scared those people. Something beyond reason; nothing ordinary.”<
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Soon more than a dozen city, county and state police were combing
the area but the diminutive invaders were, apparently gone. However, many spent shells were found littering the ground and interior of the Sutton home, which afforded mute testimony that they had, indeed, fired off numerous rounds at ‘something.’
At one point, chief Greenwell and a group of other men, while conducting a search of the grounds, reportedly saw a patch of ‘luminous’ grass near the house which faded as the group approached. He also admitted that every man at the scene felt strangely uneasy there. The idea that someone could have perpetrated a hoax against the well-armed family was immediately ruled out; for obvious reasons.
At length, the investigators began to leave the scene and by three a.m. the Suttons were once again all alone at the now quieted farmhouse. Somewhat settled-down now, they made ready for bed. But sleep was not to be had that night for, as soon as the lights were out, Ms. Lankford noticed a glow outside her window and saw the talons of one of the creatures reaching up from below. Again Lucky was forced to fire on the things which were seen, off and on, until just before dawn the following morning.
As the sun rose, the invasion of Kelly was over. But the invasion of reporters and investigators had just begun. Many looked for signs of alcohol but could find none. Local media and big town reporters all came for the story. Most of them wrote sensationalistic pieces and one even claimed that the family was attacked by ‘little green men,’ a phrase which would soon become the standard derogatory ‘catch-all’ label for the entire ‘extraterrestrial’ phenomenon.
Many dismissed the event as the intoxicated hallucinations of backward, uneducated ‘hillbillies.’ Fed up with the resulting ridicule and slander, the farm was completely abandoned within 48 hours.
Even after the passage of more than 50 years, the testimony of this simple, unsophisticated family has never been contradicted. Investigators left Kelly with the conviction that all the witnesses were sincere in what they believed they saw. Many explanations have been put forth in attempts to explain just what it was that frightened the family so badly that night, from escaped monkeys, to cats, to owls, but the witnesses have never retracted or altered the descriptions of the creatures and stand by their earlier statements. One of the most bizarre and baffling in the history of UFO encounters, the Kelly case remains ‘unsolved.’
On Christmas Eve, 1960, in Durango, Colorado more than a dozen witnesses allegedly observed a huge, glowing UFO descend from the sky and disappear into the trees on a nearby peak. One of the witnesses, Wade Folsom, claimed that the next day the family dog had dashed into the house in a state of terror and died at their feet. Members of the family then went up the mountainside to where the strange object had disappeared and found many limbs broken off the trees along with dozens of footprints unlike they had ever seen before.
There was, evidently, two creatures of vastly different sizes that made the prints. The larger print was human; but fifteen inches long. The smaller prints were human-like and under five inches long. The tracks led to a deserted cabin, circled around it, then returned to the touchdown site. A neighbor of Folsom’s claimed that his own dog had disappeared on the night of the sighting, never to return.
Are giants and diminutives somehow related and, if not, what are they doing in each other’s company aboard flying saucers? And why would they want dogs? Many UFO and Bigfoot accounts, including my own family’s, note the sudden disappearance or strange mutilation of dogs. What are they doing with all these callously confiscated canines?
It was a terrifying night for truck driver Eugenio Douglas. While driving near the town of Monte Maix, Argentina on the evening of October 18th, 1963 his vehicle had been engulfed by a brilliant white light, causing him to crash into a ditch. The light, Douglas later said, came from a twenty-five-foot, disc-shaped object that was parked in the middle of the highway.
Douglas jumped from the truck as three “shiny metal robots” fifteen to twenty feet tall got out of the landed saucer and approached him. Douglas then brandished a revolver that he carried with him to ward off hijackers, and fired four shots at the entities. He then turned and ran toward town, completely abandoning his truck. The saucer made several passes at him as he ran, Douglas claimed. And each time it passed he could feel a “wave of terrible, suffocating heat.” A police examiner later found that the man had suffered several unusual burns, the likes of which he’d never seen before.
Three women were reportedly frightened by several ten-foot-tall beings with glowing red eyes in a suburb of Mexico City in the fall of 1965. The women claimed that the creatures wore shiny gray garments and boots, and had no discernible noses or mouths. The women ran straight to the local police.
Also from that year, five luminous, transparent objects allegedly landed outside of the village of Torrent in the Province of Corrientes, Argentina. Several creatures then emerged from the craft and set about attacking the villagers. They were described as being between five and a half to seven feet tall, with only one eye in the middle of their foreheads.
According to one man, Rodrigo de Riana, the cyclopean terrors entered the farmhouse of one man and tried to grab him. He and his friends fought back, noting that the entities seemed fragile and weak, and the creatures withdrew.
They returned a day or so later, however, and again reportedly tried to capture another earthling specimen. This time villagers turned out with rifles and shotguns and blasted away at the beings. The bullets from their guns caused no visible harm to the creatures and, once again, they left empty-handed.
On July 31st, 1966, a glowing aerial object landed on a deserted beach in Presque Isle Park, Eerie, Pennsylvania, in full view of five witnesses who were inside a car stuck in the sand. The object then projected strange beams of light into a nearby woods and, as if in response; a tall, dark, figure then shambled from the trees and up to the car, terrifying the witnesses and leaving a scratch mark on the vehicle’s roof.
On Wednesday, August 3rd another inhumanoid was seen directly across from Presque Park on West Third Street. Mrs. Julie Helwig was awakened that morning by the sound of barking dogs at 5:30 a.m. She got up and looked out the window and saw a humanoid being standing across from The United Oil Storage Tanks. It was about five feet, six inches tall, slender with very big shoulders and clothed in a yellow jacket and trousers with no pockets, belts or other features.
The most notable aspect of the thing, however, was its outlandishly-shaped head. It was huge and moon-shaped, Mrs. Helwig later reported to police. When viewed from the side it seemed to be flat. The head was covered in straggly, muddy-brown hair, and it walked with stiff, jerky mechanical motions with its arms close to its sides. The arms and legs didn’t bend at all.
“He moved like a mechanical wind-up toy,” Mrs. Helwig said. The creature walked away, completely ignoring the dogs snapping at its heels. Helwig felt very alone after the incident because no one had taken her sighting seriously. She was not alone, however. Another local woman claimed to encounter that same, or similar, creature in the area later that week. She had been driving down Third Street late at night, she told investigator John Keel, when she saw the thing standing by the roadside. She stopped her car, she claimed, and the creature had approached it and pounded on the hood before melting back into the darkness.
According to the Evening Telegraph (December 3, 1968), a UFO investigator named Brian Leathley-Andrew was forced to give up all his UFO activities and research after experiencing a series of disturbing events in the autumn of that year. One evening in October, as he was returning home, he encountered an inhumanoid.
Brian Stated; “I was by myself. Suddenly I noticed a man standing by the next-door garage. Nobody had been there before. His face was glowing orange and as I watched, the face changed to that of an old man before my eyes. You could not describe the first face in normal terms. It had eyes, nose and mouth in the proper places but not of the shape that we associate with the human figure.”<
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Soon after the sighting he began experiencing trouble with his telephone. “Every time I tried to speak to someone on this subject the phone went dead.” He had also suffered threatening phone calls and frequent local power failures. “Since I have given it up,” he said, “I do not have any trouble.”
In late January 1972, in Bell’s Ferry, CA. four bewildered teenage boys, on their way to Battle Creek for a late-night fishing trip, experienced something very peculiar. As they neared their destination they were startled to see a brightly-colored aerial object swoop down over their car. They pulled off the road and parked near the Battle Creek Bridge, having no idea that things were about to get really weird. Once outside the vehicle, they heard a noise coming from the brush. Sixteen-year-old, John Yeries described what happened next.
“We heard a blood-curdling scream. I threw a light over on the brush and there was this weird thing.” The ‘thing’ was later described as being around seven feet tall, hunched over, dark brown or green in color with a large tear-drop-shaped ear and ‘lumps’ all over its body ‘like pouches in a flight suit.’ When the light hit it the beast turned and fled. So did the boys. “I was wondering what it was,” Darrell Rich, 16, said later. “And at the same time, I was turning to get out of there.”
On reaching the car they found, much to their collective horror, that it wouldn’t start. Petrified but undaunted in their desire to flee the premises and give up their trip, the group was able to push the car down the road until the engine turned over, thus making their escape. But the incident wasn’t over yet. They all felt as if they were being watched or followed (perhaps both) as they sped from the Battle Creek area and soon afterwards Ritch saw what looked like tiny explosions on the road, like firecrackers going off; only without the sound. One other youth saw this as well, but all four of the vehicles occupants soon had their attentions turned to something far more unbelievable.
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