On August 21, 1955, adults and children drove from a farmhouse near Kelly, Kentucky, to the Hopkinsville police station. They reported small figures outside the house and said members of the household had fired shots.

Police, deputies, state troopers, and military police went back with them. Their search produced no identified creature, landing mark, tracks, or recovered object. But a damaged window screen remained.

This episode follows that overnight call through the newspaper story that made it famous, the later Air Force correspondence that complicated claims of an official investigation, and the Hollywood development history behind Steven Spielberg’s unmade Night Skies.

The Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter has a documented police response and a lasting cultural legacy. What it does not have is surviving evidence that identifies the figures—or establishes that the case directly inspired Gremlins.

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YES OR NO: What do you think best explains the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter: an unidentified natural event, a misunderstanding that escalated, or something else?????????