Five adults and seven children arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small alien creatures from a spaceship were attacking their farmhouse, and that they had been holding them off with gunfire “for nearly four hours”. Two of the adults claimed they had been shooting at a few short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.
On the evening of August 21, 1955, five adults and seven children arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small alien creatures from a spaceship were attacking their farmhouse, and that they had…