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 reports and 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.
And as always:
Be curious. The universe is bigger than we know.
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