Day: August 21, 2017

UBR Classic UBR- UFO Report 41: This Day in 1955 The Kelly–Hopkinsville EncounterUBR Classic UBR- UFO Report 41: This Day in 1955 The Kelly–Hopkinsville Encounter

August 21, 2017| tempestuniverse| 0 Comment | 11:00 am

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

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