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An opinion piece from the Kentucky New Era. There's gold in them thar aliens!
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Straight & Simple
Making festival an annual event idea worth considering
by CECIL HERNDON
Wonder how many of the 2,000-plus people who attended the various festivities associated with the recent Little Green Men Festival here are true believers in UFOs and visits to Earth aliens from outer space.
The four-day festival, of course, was built around the 50th anniversary of the "Kelly Incident," when a Christian County family reported that a spacecraft landed near its home in the Kelly community and about a dozen space aliens besieged the family for several hours.
Perhaps it doesn't really matter how many attendees believe, how many disbelievers and how many keep an open mind about the UFO phenomenon. The festival went over quite well for a first-time event, and the Chamber of Commerce might do well to make it an annual event.
Even those who scoff at the bizarre tale of a Kelly farm family 50 years ago are open to any suggested reason to party and socialize. For some other festival attendees though, there is a serious side to the story. The Kelly story is either true, or it isn't.
And even if the story is untrue, that doesn't necessarily mean that the people involved conspired to tell a bald-faced lie and never admitted as much.
It isn't uncommon for people to think they see something that isn't there, or to believe what they see actually is something else.
The latter possibility is cited in a variety of theories to explain the incident. According to one theory, the aliens actually were monkeys that escaped a circus wagon. Another theory, advanced by French researcher Renaud Leclet, holds that the reported alien creatures may well have been native eagle owls.
The problem is, though, that two of the alleged adult witnesses -- "Lucky" Sutton and a friend from Pennsylvania -- were workers for a traveling carnival and likely familiar with monkeys. And one might suspect that country people would be familiar with owls.
Truth is, no one still alive knows for sure what happened that night long ago. Surviving children of the alleged witnesses say they saw no aliens, but believe their elders' account of the events.
In any case, it's a marvelous story that remains alive and well after 50 years. And making the Little Green Men Festival an annual event may be an idea worth considering. Now that the seed has been planted, careful nurturing eventually may produce a rich harvest of tourism dollars.
As they say, it could be the start of something big!
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