{"id":256,"date":"2023-10-19T04:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T04:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/?post_type=knowledgebase&#038;p=256"},"modified":"2024-02-10T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T06:42:18","slug":"hopkinsville-goblins-case","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/cryptids\/hopkinsville-goblins-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopkinsville Goblins Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4.webp 1024w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-100x100.webp 100w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-350x350.webp 350w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-24x24.webp 24w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-48x48.webp 48w, https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d2986212-6616-42ff-a8ee-79557a5ffdf4-96x96.webp 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Description Section]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hopkinsville Goblin case unfolded on the night of August 21, 1955, when a rural family in Kelly, a small community near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, reported a terrifying encounter with small, humanoid creatures. The family described these beings as about 3 feet tall, with oversized heads and large, round, glowing eyes. Their bodies were said to be thin, with limbs that seemed almost delicate, and their movements were described as floating rather than walking. The creatures were silver in color, adding to their otherworldly appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Incident Details Section]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The encounter began late in the evening and lasted until the early hours of the next morning. Family members, including adults and children, reported seeing the creatures peering into their home and even attempting to enter, which led to a prolonged confrontation. The family responded with gunfire, asserting that the creatures seemed unharmed and continued their curious and bold approaches to the house. The event prompted a police investigation, but no evidence of the creatures was found, leaving the incident shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Analysis Section]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Behavior:<\/strong> The creatures&#8217; behavior was marked by curiosity rather than hostility, as they did not attempt to harm the family.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Resilience:<\/strong> Reports indicated that the creatures were unaffected by gunfire, suggesting either a protective shield or an ethereal nature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Flight:<\/strong> Witnesses described the creatures as being able to float above the ground and quickly disappear, hinting at advanced or unknown abilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Everyday Heroes\u2019 Notes]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hopkinsville Goblin case stands as a hallmark in extraterrestrial encounter lore, emphasizing the need for open-mindedness in investigations of the unexplained. Our approach should consider all possible explanations, from extraterrestrial to psychological and sociological factors. The case also underscores the importance of thorough documentation and the preservation of witness testimonies in understanding such encounters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Cultural Impact Section]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident has had a lasting impact on popular culture, inspiring movies, books, and television shows. It also contributed to the broader conversation on life beyond Earth and how humanity might react to an encounter with extraterrestrial beings. The Hopkinsville encounter remains a topic of fascination and speculation, illustrating the enduring appeal of the unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Kelly\u2013Hopkinsville encounter<\/strong> (also known as the <strong>Hopkinsville Goblins Case<\/strong> or <strong>Kelly Green Men Case<\/strong>) was a claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Close_encounter\">close encounter<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_alleged_extraterrestrial_beings\">extraterrestrial beings<\/a> in 1955 near the communities of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly,_Kentucky\">Kelly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky\">Hopkinsville<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_County,_Kentucky\">Christian County, Kentucky<\/a>, United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ufology\">UFOlogists<\/a> regard it as one of the most significant and well-documented cases in the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UFO\">UFO<\/a> incidents, while <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_skeptic\">skeptics<\/a> say the reports were due to &#8220;the effects of excitement&#8221; and misidentification of natural phenomena such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meteor\">meteors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Owl\">owls<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Air_Force\">United States Air Force<\/a> classified the alleged incident as a hoax in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Blue_Book\">Project Blue Book<\/a> files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychologist\">Psychologists<\/a> have used the alleged incident as an academic example of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pseudoscience\">pseudoscience<\/a> to help students distinguish truth from fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Claims<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:USA_Kentucky_location_map.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/84\/USA_Kentucky_location_map.svg\/200px-USA_Kentucky_location_map.svg.png\" alt=\"Kelly\u2013Hopkinsville encounter is located in Kentucky\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d7\/Blue_pog.svg\/6px-Blue_pog.svg.png\" alt=\"Kelly\u2013Hopkinsville encounter\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Location of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky\">Hopkinsville<\/a> in the state of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky\">Kentucky<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the evening of August 21, 1955, five adults and seven children arrived at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky\">Hopkinsville<\/a> police station claiming that small alien creatures from a spaceship were attacking their farmhouse, and that they had been holding them off with gunfire &#8220;for nearly four hours&#8221;. Two of the adults, Elmer Sutton and Billy Ray Taylor, claimed they had been shooting at a few short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Kentucky_New_Era\">The <em>Kentucky New Era<\/em><\/a>, the first paper to report the incident, amplified the number to &#8220;12 to 15,&#8221; and that number continues to be reported.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Nickell_2006-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concerned about a possible gun battle between local citizens, four city police officers, five state troopers, three deputy sheriffs, and four military police officers from the nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army\">United States Army<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Campbell\">Fort Campbell<\/a> drove to the Sutton <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farmhouse\">farmhouse<\/a> located near the town of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly,_Kentucky\">Kelly<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_County,_Kentucky\">Christian County<\/a>. Their search yielded nothing apart from evidence of gunfire and holes in window and door screens made by firearms.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Nickell_2006-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Dunning-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of the farmhouse included Glennie Lankford, her children, Lonnie, Charlton, and Mary, two sons from a previous marriage, Elmer &#8220;Lucky&#8221; Sutton, John Charley &#8220;J.C.&#8221; Sutton, their respective wives Vera and Alene, Alene&#8217;s brother O.P. Baker, and Billy Ray Taylor and his wife June. Both the Taylors, &#8220;Lucky&#8221;, and Vera Sutton were reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carny\">itinerant carnival workers<\/a> who were visiting the farmhouse. The next day, neighbors told two officers that the families had &#8220;packed up and left&#8221; after claiming &#8220;the creatures had returned about 3:30 in the morning&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Nickell_2006-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Dunning-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Press coverage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The family&#8217;s claims received widespread coverage in local and national press. Early articles did not refer to &#8220;little green men&#8221;; the color was later added to some newspaper stories. Estimates of the size of the alleged creatures varied from 2 to 4 feet (61 to 122&nbsp;cm), and details such as &#8220;large pointed ears, clawlike hands, eyes that glowed yellow and spindly legs&#8221; later appeared in various media.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Nickell_2006-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-neweralittlemen-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hopkinsville_goblin.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a3\/Hopkinsville_goblin.png\/164px-Hopkinsville_goblin.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bubo_virginianus_-Canada-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/eb\/Bubo_virginianus_-Canada-6.jpg\/220px-Bubo_virginianus_-Canada-6.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Left: a popular image of a &#8220;Hopkinsville Goblin&#8221;. Right: a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_horned_owl\">great horned owl<\/a>, a hypothesized explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychologists Rodney Schmaltz and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Lilienfeld\">Scott Lilienfeld<\/a> cite the alleged incident as an example of pseudoscience and an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sagan_standard\">extraordinary claim<\/a>&#8221; to help students develop <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_thinking\">critical thinking<\/a> skills. Although contemporary newspaper stories alleged that &#8220;all officials appeared to agree that there was no drinking involved&#8221;,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup> Schmaltz and Lilienfeld suggest that intoxication may have played a part in the sighting.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-SchmalzLilienfeld-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry\">Committee for Skeptical Inquiry<\/a> member and skeptic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Nickell\">Joe Nickell<\/a> notes that the family could have misidentified &#8220;eagle owls&#8221; or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_horned_owl\">great horned owls<\/a>, which are nocturnal, fly silently, have yellow eyes, and aggressively defend their nests. According to Nickell, meteor sightings also occurred at the time that could explain Billy Ray Taylor&#8217;s claim that he saw &#8220;a bright light streak across the sky and disappear beyond a tree line some distance from the house&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Nickell_2006-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Dunning_(author)\">Brian Dunning<\/a> noted that the height of the owls would be comparable to at least the lower end of the reported range of around 2 feet (24&nbsp;in; 61&nbsp;cm):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There are simply too many similarities between the creatures reported by the families and an aggressive pair of the local Great Horned Owls, which do stand about two-thirds of a meter tall.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Dunning-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UFOlogists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>French UFOlogist Renaud Leclet argued in a publication that the best explanation of the case is that the residents had simply seen <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_horned_owl\">great horned owls<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Leclet_2008-7\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UFOlogist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerome_Clark\">Jerome Clark<\/a> writes that the supposed creatures &#8220;floated&#8221; through the trees and the sound of bullets striking them &#8220;resembled bullets striking a metal bucket&#8221;. Clark describes &#8220;an odd luminous patch along a fence where one of the beings had been shot, and, in the woods beyond, a green light whose source could not be determined&#8221;;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-clark-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup> however, this description was consistent with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foxfire\">foxfire<\/a>, a bioluminescent fungus on decaying wood.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Dunning-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark also wrote that investigations by &#8220;police, Air Force officers from nearby Fort Campbell, and civilian ufologists found no evidence of a hoax&#8221;; however, Brian Dunning reported: &#8220;The claim that Air Force investigators showed up the next day at Mrs. Lankford&#8217;s house has been published a number of times by later authors, but I could find no corroborating evidence of this.&#8221; Dunning also observed: &#8220;The four military police who accompanied the police officers on the night of the event were from an Army base, not an Air Force base.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Dunning-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-clark-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some UFOlogists compared the alleged creatures to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gremlin\">gremlins<\/a>, which have since often been referred to as the &#8220;Hopkinsville <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goblins\">Goblins<\/a>&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Popular_culture\">popular culture<\/a>. UFOlogist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allan_Hendry\">Allan Hendry<\/a> wrote: &#8220;This case is distinguished by its duration and also by the number of witnesses involved.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-hendry-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Blue_Book\">Project Blue Book<\/a> listed the case as a hoax with no further comment.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-Dunning-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In popular culture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is at the origin of the popularization of the words &#8220;little green men&#8221;. Prior to this sighting, flying saucer occupants were called &#8220;little men&#8221;; &#8220;little green men&#8221; were limited to the science-fiction culture, in particular the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mack_Reynolds\">Mack Reynolds<\/a> story <em>The Case of the Little Green Men<\/em> (1951) and in Fredric Brown&#8217;s <em>Martians Go Home<\/em> (1955). The day following the alleged sighting, however, local reporters started to call the creatures &#8220;little green men&#8221;, and the words were soon reproduced in many newspapers, quoted on the radio, and translated into other languages.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1970s, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Spielberg\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> used the event as the basis for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Night_Skies\">Night Skies<\/a><\/em>, an unproduced science fiction <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horror_film\">horror film<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1986 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comedy-horror\">comedy-horror<\/a> film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critters_(film)\">Critters<\/a><\/em> is loosely based on the event.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-12\">[12]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pok%C3%A9mon\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sableye\">Sableye<\/a>, introduced in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pok%C3%A9mon_Ruby_and_Sapphire\"><em>Pok\u00e9mon Ruby<\/em> &amp; <em>Sapphire<\/em><\/a>, is based on the goblins described in the event. In the games, they are animated with a swaying or &#8220;wading&#8221; motion, based on the creatures&#8217; reported gait.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pathfinder_Roleplaying_Game\">Pathfinder Roleplaying Game<\/a><\/em>, the &#8220;hobkins&#8221;, a type of gremlin from the <em>Bestiary 5<\/em> book, is based upon the goblins described in the event.<sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was the basis for the Annoyance Theater&#8217;s musical &#8220;It Came From Kentucky&#8221; in Chicago.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-15\">[15]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A February 2020 episode of the American television series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Blue_Book_(TV_series)\">Project Blue Book<\/a><\/em> focused on the event.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kelly community celebrates the event annually with the Little Green Men Days Festival.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter#cite_note-18\">[18]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Description Section] The Hopkinsville Goblin case unfolded on the night of August 21, 1955, when a rural family in Kelly, a small community near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, reported a terrifying encounter with small, humanoid creatures. The family described these beings as about 3 feet tall, with oversized heads and large, round, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/cryptids\/hopkinsville-goblins-case\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hopkinsville Goblins Case&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[22],"class_list":["post-256","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-cryptids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/256\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydayheroes.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}