Kelly, Kentucky: Site of 1955 Alien Attack
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Kelley Station Park
- Address:
- 7490 Old Madisonville Rd, Kelly, KY
- Directions:
- From downtown Hopkinsville drive north about 7.5 miles on Virginia St./US-41. Turn right onto Kelly Church Rd, cross the train tracks, then turn left onto Old Madisonville Rd. The attack site is a half-mile up the road on the right, but it's unmarked on private property. No trespassing.
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A dozen little green men besieged a farmhouse in Kelly in August 1955. Bullets could not stop them. Currently unmarked, but perhaps it will be, some day.
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Hopkinsville (the county seat) hosts the celebrations now. Festivities are held at the Hopkinsville-Christian County Convention and Visitors Bureau every August 21.
[CB, 06/20/2025]The UFO is gone. It's been replaced by a plaque of the Ten Commandments. Bummer!
[Mattie Duval, 10/20/2023]This year's festival has been expanded to four days, due to the cosmic coincidence that the massive solar eclipse on August 21st will also be the 62nd anniversary of the alleged attack. Being just a few miles as the crow flies from the greatest totality, this is probably the most "out of this world" place in the Hopkinsville/Christian County area to see the eclipse for free. They have also added an outdoor film viewing on Friday night of "ET: The Extra Terrestrial," which was loosely inspired by the events of 1955.
[Curtis Cansler, 07/18/2017]The one-time Little Green Men Festival that was held in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 2005 is now an annual festival held in the nearby town of Kelly [where the actual attack by Little Green Men happened in 1955]. Despite the smaller venue, the new festival has a 38-foot-wide "real" UFO, a full day of live music, an alien costume contest, writers on the subject signing books, and many vendors selling otherwordly goods. The 2012 festival has been expanded to two days, and includes an outdoor nighttime showing of a film about the 1955 encounter with the weird creatures.
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Space aliens attacked the hamlet of Kelly outside Hopkinsville in 1955. Kelly hosted a "Little Green Men Festival" for several years to mark the close encounter's anniversary. Hopkinsville has given it a better title: "Alien Invasion Day."