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Originally posted by Earthscum
I know I've seen something ancient with the winged shoes (probably Greek? Can't remember which god it was representing), but the one I'm thinking of had the 'ears' that reminded me of Flash's headgear.
source:wiki
Hermes
Hermes Fastening his Sandal, Roman marble copy of a Lysippan bronze (Louvre Museum)
Messenger of the gods, god of flight,
God of boundaries, shepherds, cowherds, thievery, travellers, invention, general commerce and literature
Abode Mount Olympus
Symbol Caduceus, winged sandals, tortoise, rooster
Parents Zeus and Maia
Children Pan, Hermaphroditus, Eros, Tyche, Abderus, Autolycus
Hermes (Greek, Ἑρμῆς, IPA: /ˈhɝmiːz/) is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology. An Olympian god, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of thieves and road travelers, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of general commerce, and of the cunning of thieves and liars.[1] His symbols include the tortoise, the rooster, the winged sandals, and the caduceus. The analogous Roman deity is Mercury.
Originally posted by Lightworth
There are certain subtle details that make some UFO or close encounter cases more believable than others. This case has all the subtlety of a turd in the punchbowl...
Originally posted by Lightworth
The anti-redneck political angle is admittedly speculation.
Originally posted by Lightworth
There are certain subtle details that make some UFO or close encounter cases more believable than others. This case has all the subtlety of a turd in the punchbowl...
Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to post by OzWeatherman
The sheriff who investigated the case smelled alcohol on the persons who reported it. The sheriff did not believe their claims and found no evidence. That aspect is always left out of this case, and it does make me wonder if the incident actually happened.
Originally posted by Lightworth
reply to post by Earthscum
Need to be clear that I originally referred to rednecks critically ONLY if it was a hoax conspiracy in this instance. I'm not referring to rural or uneducated people in general.
Why did they immediately start firing? I know this might sound silly but if the creature had it's arms up then doesn't that indicate surrender? It's hard to say what any of us would do in such a situation but i would hope if a creature approaches with it's arms held high that our first action would not be to shoot at it.
Originally posted by converge
Also might explain why they weren't armed by the shots, if they were robots of some sort.
Originally posted by Lightworth
With actual cases of close encounters with the EXTREMELY bizarre, like in the case of Betty and Barney Hill, it's a longer process of truth determination. There are follow-ups with mental health professionals and formal diagnoses made and treatments (effective or not) prescribed. Good Christ, several people had an (alleged) encounter of THE most horrific imaginable or unimaginable kind, and NO ONE had to see a shrink at any time after that?! Give me a break!!
SOURCE
"I could always tell when my dad was pulling my leg or not. He wasn't pulling a fast one," Sutton said.
"It was a serious thing to him. It happened to him. He said it happened to him. He said it wasn't funny. It was an experience he said he would never forget. It was fresh in his mind until the day he died. It was fresh in his mind like it happened yesterday. He never cracked a smile when he told the story because it happened to him and there wasn't nothing funny about it. He got pale and you could see it in his eyes. He was scared to death," he said.
Originally posted by Lightworth
I'm secure enough to not have to defend myself with blind believers. I'm done with this thread. Goodbye.
Project Blue Book has not investigated the case officially. However, the case has been recorded in the Project's files under the case number 10073, here is the official card:
The reason that Blue Book has not officially investigated the case is given by Captain Ed Ruppelt in his book, "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of the United States Air Force Project Blue Book" Chapter 1:
Next to the "Insufficient Data" file was a file marked "C.P." This meant crackpot. Into this file went all reports from people who had talked with flying saucer crews, who had inspected flying saucers that had landed in the United States, who had ridden in flying saucers, or who were members of flying saucer crews. By Project Blue Book standards, these were not "good" UFO reports either."
This is why, although the file of case does exists, with the conclusion "Unknown" - "Not identified", it does not appear in the official list of the nearly 700 "unexplained" cases. It does not count, beacause any report where some "beings" or "creature" of non-terrestrial appearance was mentioned was dismissed.
According to Kevin D. Randles, the file of the Kelly-Hopkinsville case is rather thick, mentions that the file has been created for information only and is not an official information, and in several press articles of that time, USAF has denied any interest or action in this case.
New documentary to revisit Kelly Green Men legend
By MICHELE CARLTON
An independent production company in Glendale, Calif., plans a trip to Hopkinsville this month to research the 1955 invasion of "little green men" in the community of Kelly for a documentary.
Barcon Productions will be filming eyewitness accounts for a film entitled "Monsters of the UFO" to be released next summer.
"We interview witnesses and what they saw and then base our film on their accounts," said documentary producer Lisa McIntosh in a telephone interview from Glendale Thursday afternoon. "We'll try to recreate exactly what they saw."
The local legend took root when residents of the small town reported the landing of a spaceship near the home of Cecil "Lucky" Sutton home on the Old Madisonville Road at the edge of Kelly on Aug. 21, 1955. Sutton and other family members said 12 little men landed in a spaceship and then battled them at the house for hours.
McIntosh said "Monsters of the UFO" may air on cable television next summer. The SciFi and Discovery channels are possible markets for the documentary, she said.