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THE KELLY-KOPKINSVILLE CASE, 1955:

This is the information and documentation I have collected about a farm family who believed they were attacked by alien beings during the whole night of August 21-22, 1955.

TABLE OF CONTENT:

	The account of the Kelly-Hopkinsville 1955 case.
	Short timeline og the events.
	Project Blue Book and this case.
	Investigators reports and quotes.
	The drawings of the creatures.
	The article of the "Kentucky New Era" newspaper, 08.22.1955.
	Article by Annie McFie.
	An historical review by Karal Ayn Barnett.
	Anonymous document found on the web.
	Article of the "Kentucky New Era" newspaper, December 30, 2002.
	References.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

Bud Ledwidth of Radio WHOP has the artistic capabilities to execute these drawings according to witness investigation the next day after the event's night:
Description by a woman.	Description by Billy Ray Taylor.	Description by another of the men.

Illustration made for the cryptozoology researcher Loren Coleman's 1983 book "Mysterious America" (http://www.lorencoleman.com).	Description by another witness.
	Localization of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

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