KY STATE MUFON ARCHIVES
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goal of the Ky State MUFON Archives is to establish a centralized depository
for UFO and UFO-related documentation focusing primarily on the State
of KY and its surrounding area. In this endeavour we hope to assist researchers
by consolidating and cross referencing data to better facilitate their
needs. The archives will be structured to promote clarity, credibility
and factuality. The archives also contain documentation on United States
and international UFO events, as well as a small section on paranormal
occurrences in the state of Kentucky. The Archives Staff will process any
donated documents, reports, studies or multimedia with the respect it is
due. In addition to our archives, the Ky State MUFON maintains a collection
of commercially generated books, cassettes and videos dealing with the
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INFORMATION
OBTAINED FROM MIKE PICKARD
MUFON
RESEARCHER, AND TIME LIFE BOOKS
THE
UFO PHENOMENON.
The
event begins at sunset on August 21st and continues until the wee hours
of the 22nd. Billy Ray Taylor is thirsty and heading to the farm's well,
when what he saw sends him racing back to the fram house in a state of
excitement. Mr. Taylor is a visitor at the farm and tells the elven
menbers of the Sutton family what he just saw. Mr. Taylor says he saw a
flying saucer, the exhaust had all the colors of the rainbow, and it crashed
(or landed) in a gully a few hundred yards away from the house. The Suttons
listened with disbelief but all that was about to change, as the family
dog was braking agitatedly at something, then suddenly stopped and hid
under the house. When Tayor and Lucky Sutton went to the door they saw
something that scared them out of their wits. A figure was approaching
the house and it was glowing. It came close enough to make out this description.
"It was 40 inches tall with a disprpportionate head; with large luminous
eyes, and talon tipped arms that nearly dragged the ground. What the men
did next was something anyone protecting his family would have done. They
backed into the house and grabbed a 20 gauge shotgun and a .22 caliber
rifle. When the creature came within 20 feet of the door they opened fire.
They said the creature somersaulted and disappeared. It is not clear if
the somersault was a result of the projectiles hitting the creature,
or if it was an evasive maneuver, but the story does not end here. The
two men stepped outside and spotted another creature on the roof of the
house so Sutton fired again, what happened to the creature is unclear and
another creature was seen in a maple truee and was fired upon but instead
of killing the creature it floated down to the ground and ran away in a
lopsided gait. Suddenly another creature rounded the house and was shot
at point blank range. Lucky said you could hear the pellets striking something
that sounded like metal but the creature was uninjured and retreated. The
men then escaped into the house and tended to the frightened children.
They did not feel safe because the creatures kept peering into the
windows. Finally it was decided to escape from the farm and they all ran
to the cars and they sped off to the police department...in Hopkinsville.
The police accompainied by a photographer and the Suttons went back
to the farm but to their dismay nothing but a glowing patch of ground was
found. This is where one of the creatures hit the ground in the gun battle.
Finally at 2:15AM the authorities left the scene. The Sutton family went
to bed to be awakened by the aliens return. They persisted in looking
in the windows, and the men again opened fire which only accomplished shooting
up the screens in the windows. No alien was ever harmed as far as anybody
could tell. This confrontation kept up according to the Suttons until just
before sunup (5:15AM). The ordeal did not end there because they were swarmed
by reporters from all over the state. Investigators were there and found
nothing but the glowing patch, but concluded the Suttons were sincere about
their story and were not after attention or fame. The family immediately
moved and left the state never to be heard from again. A picture of the
creatures they described can be found on page 68 of the Time Life Book,
"The UFO Phenomenon". This is a case of a close encounter of the third
kind. With the family leaving and in hiding it cannot be determined if
the Suttons were abducted or have had any more encounters. I recomment
a deep search for any menters of the family to complete the file.
Another interesting event possibly tied to this event happened in Knoxville,
Kentucky on the 22nd, with descriptions similar to the Kelly Hopkinsville
event but more information is also needed in this event.