Items NOT Consistent With Other Primary Accounts
This article mentions only two weapons being used - "a shotgun and a pistol."
This article only mentions there being only 10 residents at the time of the incident. The listing of people who allegedly saw the little men given here omits June Taylor (Billy Ray's wife). Omitting June and taking the list of witnesses to represent all people present would explain the reference to only 10 people being present.
This article is phrased so as to indicate all the residents saw the UFO arrive.
The UFO's landing wasn't as Taylor described it:
"The residents told officers they saw a flash coming out of the sky. The glowing missile swooped down on a field near the Sutton farm."
The sheriff's deputy widely cited as Batts is named here as Bates.
This article states Police Chief Greenwell's opinion as something less sympathetic and more blunt than other accounts describe:
Hopkinsville Police Chief Russell Greenwell said he doesn't believe that there was "anything there" at the Sutton farm last night. He said there were no tracks - no evidence of anyone prowling around. He attributed the hysteria to overactive imagination.
Ms. Lankford is cited as having said she, "... saw it at 7:30, 10:30 p.m. and at 3:30 a.m." This conflicts with all the other primary accounts, none of which indicate she personally witnessed a visitor until circa 2200 - 2230 on the 21st. This also conflicts with her signed statement, in which she only claims to have seen a visitor at 2230 and 0330. She is cited multiple times by multiple authors as having specifically stated she only saw a visitor twice during the incident.
Ms. Lankford is quoted as saying she, " ... saw a figure like that of a little old man or monkey walking around her house." There is no other account in which Ms. Lankford describes having seen a particularly human or animal figure, and there's no other account in which she explicitly claimed to have seen the visitor in motion. In her signed statement she attributes the description of a "... little man that looked like a monkey" to the other residents.
Alene Sutton is cited as saying she, " ... saw the first little man right after dusk ..." This is the only account that names Alene as a witness as early as the first sighting in the back yard.
This article cites Alene as saying the 3 minor children were hers and J. C.'s. That's not true; the 3 kids were Ms. Lankford's by her second husband.
Alene is cited as saying the visitor she saw, " ... looked like it was made of aluminum foil. It had two big eyes, pretty far apart." The aluminum foil bit is unique to Alene and this account. The bit about the eyes would seem to indicate she was already describing the visitors' eyes this way as early as the morning following the incident.
Alene is cited as saying it was O. P. Baker who'd grabbed Taylor and pulled him back inside the house when the clawy hand reached for his head. This is the only account that attributes any action to Baker during the entire night. Furthermore, it conflicts with other accounts that claim Alene pulled Taylor back inside, Taylor simply pushed on outside, or Lucky Sutton pushed past Taylor into the back yard.
This article claims Alene was at the back door when Taylor went out the front door and a visitor grabbed for his head. This conflicts with other accounts that claim Alene called out a warning after seeing the clawy hand reach for Taylor's head and / or she was the one who pulled Taylor back inside. More to the point ... The front door is not visible from the back door in the bedroom (the only one of the three back doors claimed to have been involved that night).
This article claims Alene (at the back door) said the figure that grabbed at Taylor " ... seemed to fly or jump right over the house, land in the back yard and then vanish." She doesn't mention Lucky's shotgun blast at the visitor on the roof overhang over the front door. All other primary accounts claim it was Lucky's shot that blew(?) the visitor over the peak of the roof. Alene couldn't have seen the visitor fly over the house from inside the house. However ...
This is the only account that offers any direct testimony about what may have happened to the visitor on the roof that Lucky fired upon - claiming it landed in the back yard and vanished. Other accounts question whether the visitor who came around the corner of the house following Lucky's and Taylor's shots into the tree was the same one who'd been blown over the roof. If Alene's account is accurate, the one coming around the corner wasn't the same visitor.
Alene is cited as saying, "Mrs. Lankford saw one of the little men looking through a window at her, ... and Mrs. Lankford "fainted out cold." " All other accounts claim the Lankford swooning event occurred at either the front or back door, with a visitor peering through the screen door. The only two incidents involving a visitor peering through a window were the living room / bedroom sightings / shootings at the window beside the fireplace. Neither of these sightings / shootings involved Ms. Lankford swooning.
This article says:
Elmer Sutton said they first saw the little man about 45 minutes after he and Taylor first saw the object land.
This conflicts with the earlier statement that all the residents had seen the UFO swoop by overhead and then land.
Lucky's description of the visitor's appearance:
... like the bones of a skeleton, with shiny metal over them. When they ran ... "their legs looked like fluorescent lights flashing."
... is unique to this account of the incident. No other account describes the visitors' form as being skeleton-like. No other account describes the flashing phenomenon of a visitor's legs when it was running. The only other reference to visitors' flashing or flaring visibly was claimed to occur when they shouted or made a noise.
This account specifies Lucky was using the 12 gauge shotgun and J. C. was using the .22 pistol. This is the only account that claims J. C. was definitely using the .22 pistol and never mentions him using anything else. This conflicts with other primary accounts' claims that it was J. C. who fired the first / earlier shot at the living room window, and he was using the 20 gauge shotgun at the time.
This is the only account in which Lucky specifies how many shotgun shells he'd fired - 17 in all.
This account cites the pistol as the only .22 caliber weapon used. AFAIK this is the only account that explicitly identifies how many and which .22 caliber weapons were allegedly fired.
There's absolutely no mention of the .22 rifle that was supposedly in the house.
There's absolutely no mention of Taylor being armed and / or firing any shots.
Lucky described his shots hitting the little men as bouncing off as if they'd been fired onto concrete, and he described J. C.'s shots hitting a little man as glancing off the visitor's body. This is the only account that describes such glancing shots as if they were viewed rather than heard. There's no mention of a ricochet sound, and there's no mention of a hit causing a metallic sound like hitting a bucket.
This article claims Lucky and J. C. posted themselves at two windows throughout the entire incident. Most other primary accounts claim Lucky and Taylor were posted at the front and back doors, but moved around one or more times. Most other accounts never mention J. C. taking up any persistent position.
This account claims the residents fled to town and the police station around midnight. This conflicts with most of the primary accounts, which indicate they fled circa 2245 - 2300. For example, some reports claim the residents arrived at the Hopkinsville police station around 2300 and returned to the house by 2330 or midnight. The
Kentucky New Era report on the 22nd states the residents arrived at the Hopkinsville police station at or around 2300.
Similarly, this account claims the residents returned to the house along with Hopkinsville police (etc.) circa 0100 on the 22nd. This is 1 - 1.5 hours later than the on-scene arrival time claimed in other primary accounts.
This account claims the initial investigators wrapped up their searches and left the house circa 0230 - 0300. Again, these times are up to an hour later than the times cited in other primary accounts.
Alene is cited as claiming the UFO Taylor saw was red. This is the only account that says it was red. The claim implies Taylor was the sole or primary witness to the UFO overflight and landing, and this conflicts with the article's earlier claim that all the residents witnessed the UFO's arrival.