Here is a listing of the allusions to 'meteors' I've found in the various reports and other documents.
That is epic.
I wonder then, if...any of the following might be associated.
Firstly, a brief recap:
'Evansville Press'
20 August, 1976
"I was in the yard when I saw it", he recalls. "There wasn't any noise; it just went across the field and dropped over there by the woods."
That was between 9 and 10 p.m. Sometime later - the hours are now unclear but it probably was before midnight - the gunfire began.
"Elmer saw it right in the window," Sutton says. Elmer is his brother..."
In Isabel Davis' report, she writes:
"The swiftness of these reappearances could easily have given the impression that there were many of them; but the figures given in the newspapers - 10 or 12 or 15 - are almost certainly exaggerated; the episodes just described seem to be the only time when two were seen simultaneously.
When interviewed, Mrs Lankford in fact insisted that no more than one had ever been seen at a time".
These are the episodes where Isabel Davis claims "two were seen simultaneously".
"Withdrawing slightly into the house, they awaited the arrival of the creature. When it had moved to within 20 feet of the back door, both men fired.
(...)
Lucky and Billy Ray waited a few minutes, then went into the living room, where the women were.
Another creature appeared at the side window; the men fired at it through the screen. Again they apparently hit it, and again it "flipped" and disappeared.
(...)
Taylor, using the .22 rifle, also fired through the screen at this creature.
(...)
The men decided to go outdoors and see whether they had actually hit the creature; as they started out the front door.
(...)
Lucky, close behind Taylor, pushed past him into the yard, turned the 12-gauge shotgun up toward the creature on the overhang, fired and knocked it over the roof.
"There's one up in the tree, too," Billy Ray said - it was on the limb of the maple tree to the right as you leave the house. Both Lucky and Taylor shot at that one, knocking him off the limb; he floated to the ground, they shot at him again, and he too scurried off into the weeds.
Almost at the same moment, around the north west corner of the house, right in front of Lucky, came another one - or the same one that had been knocked over the ridgepole.
Now, as the creature came round the corner of the house, Lucky brought the shotgun down to bear on it and fired at point-blank range. It sounded as if the shots had hit a metal bucket. The thing "flipped over," got up and ran off into the darkness, seemingly unhurt".
As has been evidenced, it was John Sutton who used the .22 pistol, not rifle and we also now have a first-hand testimony he fired that, seemingly using all of his ammunition, subsequent to the window screen shot, whilst in the yard and targeting something he believed to be in a field.
As the 'Evansville Press' reports in their 20 August, 1976 article:
""I saw something in the field and I fired at it with a pistol," he says. "I fired every bullet, nine times".
Sutton says that he was never sure whether he hit whatever he saw and that he's not sure what he saw."
There would also appear to be no published source for the tree shot which Isabel cites, the only related, written reference seemingly being within within the inaugural 22 'Kentucky New Era' article, which has a second-hand account, - not directly from any participants:
"The men decided to go outside and see if the visitor had been hit. Taylor was in front and when he emerged from the front door, a huge hand reached down from the low roof above the door and grabbed him by the hair. He pulled away, and the two men went on out of the house.
One of the strange little men was in a nearby tree, another on top of the house".
Isabel Davis' further assertion that, "Almost at the same moment, around the north west corner of the house, right in front of Lucky, came another...". is ostensibly borne of a remark made to Ledwith by 'Lucky' Sutton, describing how he had shot one creature at close range and, It sounded as though I had been firing at a bucket".
There is no attribution to where and when this supposedly occurred and nothing to indicate there was another 'creature' also witnessed at the same time.
In essence, it doesn't look like there was ever more than one involved in any of the proclaimed incidents.
Indeed, with the exception of Alene Sutton's supporting depictions, it may well be that only 'Lucky' Sutton claims to have witnessed any enigmatic small entities at all.
This excludes Taylor's 'hair-grab' and Mrs Lankford's 10:00 observation which, whatever it might have been, bears no resemblance whatsoever.
Should Taylor's 'hair-grab' be a 'cap-crab'?
He's wearing one in the next day's 'Evansville Press' and seemingly also in the 'New Era' photograph, 'reproducing' that moment.
Alene's similar description to 'Lucky' Sutton's is at one point remarkable.
The 22 August UP newswire reads:
"A few minutes later, "a little green man" approached the house. He was about three feet tall, with eyes like saucers and set six inches apart, with hands like claws and glowing all over," Sutton said".
From the women's sketch, surely based solely on Alene's guidance (Vera Sutton not being a witness and Mrs Lankford not wishing to participate):
'Eyes like saucers, oversize, spaced about six inches apart".
It would appear to have become clearer that 'Lucky' Sutton is the predominant figure in this story.
Perhaps significantly, he seems to be the only person who allegedly witnessed a being which had been shot, by himself, yet it was able to survive and escape.