It’s officially spooky season, and we’re kicking things off with one of the strangest UFO encounters in American history.

On the night of August 21, 1955, a group of people near Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky, claimed that their farmhouse was surrounded by small, strange figures. The beings were described as silver or gray, with large heads, long arms, pointed ears, and glowing eyes. According to the witnesses, the creatures approached the windows, appeared on the roof, and repeatedly returned even after the family fired at them.

The frightened group eventually went to the Hopkinsville police station and asked officers to come back with them. Police found evidence that weapons had been fired, but no physical evidence of the alleged creatures.

Were the witnesses attacked by extraterrestrial visitors? Did they mistake animals, s ...