In August 1955, a quiet farmhouse in Kelly, Kentucky became the center of one of the strangest UFO encounters in history: the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins case. Eleven witnesses claimed their home was surrounded all night by small, glowing, goblin-like beings that floated above the ground and seemed immune to shotgun blasts.
In this episode, Dan Zetterström talks with Geraldine Sutton-Stith, daughter of lead witness Elmer “Lucky” Sutton, about what really happened that night. Geraldine walks us through the full Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter: the UFO seen dropping into a nearby gully, the ‘little men’ at the windows, the gunfire, the glowing substance found on the ground, the military and police response, and the missing files that followed.
Geraldine also shares the long-term impact on her family – harassment, stigma, jobs lost, and a lifetime of being dismissed as a hoax – and why she’s dedicated herself to preserving the true story in her books, talks, and GoblinCon events in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Along the way, she and Dan explore possible explanations: extraterrestrials, interdimensional beings, crash retrievals near Fort Campbell, and how this classic UFO case still shapes the modern conversation about alien encounters and government secrecy.
If you’ve heard of the ‘Hopkinsville Goblins’ as a quirky urban legend, this conversation reveals the much darker, more human story behind one of the most important UFO cases of all time.
Remember to be curious – the universe is bigger than we know!
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Chapters:
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:07 – Geraldine’s background
00:02:50 – The Goblin incident
00:07:58 – “little three and a half foot beings…floating”
00:10:57 – Bullets had no effect
00:16:40 – Police find glowing substance
00:18:50 – Invasion of the people
00:21:19 – Military, Troopers, and other witnesses of UFOs nearby
00:23:49 – ‘You can’t ‘em in the light!’
00:25:22 – Nuclear connection at Fort Campbell
00:27:30 – Harassment & stigma
00:30:00 – ‘What if they come back!?’
00:32:57 – Would your dad be happy that people take it seriously?
00:36:00 – Project Blue Book analysis
00:39:20 – Missing files
00:41:50 – Crash retrieval
00:46:38 – President Nixon / Bodies from Kelly
00:51:08 – If they came back would they tell anyone?
00:52:26 – When did you find out about the Goblins?
00:55:00 – Patch of grass where nothing grew
00:56:20 – Personal experiences / impact
00:59:10 – Spirit experiences on the Trail of tears
01:07:55 – Animals sense things
01:08:52 – Three taps & tones / Hellier
01:11:11 – Geraldine’s thoughts on the Phenomenon
01:17:30 – Why wouldn’t the US Government disclose about alien life?
01:19:58 – Religion and extraterrestrials
01:23:35 – Would an official apology make a difference?
01:24:36 – Consciousness / intelligence around us
01:29:31 – What does it mean to be human?
01:32:40 – GoblinCon 2026 plans
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Music:
Thunderbird
Culver Drive
Hayden Calnin
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