The Kelly-Hopkinsville incident
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Most of you surely know this story. My buddy, Kevin Randle,
has two extensive reports about the tale at his site – kevinrandle.blogspot.com
– where you’ll get an encapsulation about it, with Kevin’s usual scrupulous
details that no one else has taken the time to ferret out.
I find the event interesting, not because it represents an ET invasion of odd, little creatures thought to have landed near the witnesses farmhouse, but because it represents an example of mass – in this case, group – delirium, subacute delirium, actually, a delusional moment imposed upon the witnesses, in toto, because of their familial interactions and relationships.
No one ever subjected the participants to a psychiatric observation or even thought to do so. (Rarely, if at all, has anyone in Ufology looked at psychological manifestations as a possible explanation for witness accounts, with and without, encounters)
The dynamics within this iconic account are rabidly psychological or a real event as described/reported by the participants, the reality open to question for a number of obvious reasons.
There has never been an account with such described activity – gun shots hitting the entities, with no result and the total absence of any evidence for the supposed appearance of such a small army of intruders, harassing or attacking the witnesses of their arrival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter
A bevy of owls and/or alcohol (beer) have been suggested as the cause of the scenario but discounted as Kevin reports. But alcohol could have been a trigger, for the psychotic-like atmosphere and ultimate activity.
Doesn’t it seem that a wave of delusional hysteria is more likely to explain the episode than the idea that attacking owls or little green creatures from space caused the ruckus?
I find the event interesting, not because it represents an ET invasion of odd, little creatures thought to have landed near the witnesses farmhouse, but because it represents an example of mass – in this case, group – delirium, subacute delirium, actually, a delusional moment imposed upon the witnesses, in toto, because of their familial interactions and relationships.
No one ever subjected the participants to a psychiatric observation or even thought to do so. (Rarely, if at all, has anyone in Ufology looked at psychological manifestations as a possible explanation for witness accounts, with and without, encounters)
The dynamics within this iconic account are rabidly psychological or a real event as described/reported by the participants, the reality open to question for a number of obvious reasons.
There has never been an account with such described activity – gun shots hitting the entities, with no result and the total absence of any evidence for the supposed appearance of such a small army of intruders, harassing or attacking the witnesses of their arrival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter
A bevy of owls and/or alcohol (beer) have been suggested as the cause of the scenario but discounted as Kevin reports. But alcohol could have been a trigger, for the psychotic-like atmosphere and ultimate activity.
Doesn’t it seem that a wave of delusional hysteria is more likely to explain the episode than the idea that attacking owls or little green creatures from space caused the ruckus?
(I wasn't able to find any encounters where the creature(s) had similar appearances, but my memory seems to recall a sighting during the 1954 French wave in which the entity was somewhat like these.)
Let me know your thinking.
RR
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Thursday, August 19, 2021
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