In September of 1952, in Flatwoods, West Virginia, something fell from the skies.

What it was and what it did to the people of the town

would solidify its place in the animals of UFO history.

However, there's always more to the story, as you'll soon hear.

This is the Flatwoods monster re-examined. examined. This is somewhere in the skies with Ryan's bread. Oh, September 12th, 1952, Flatwoods, Braxton County in West Virginia.

It was around 7.15 PM when several children were playing football on the grounds of a local school when they suddenly noticed something

bright and flashing streak across the sky. The object appeared to land a short distance away

on the land of a local farm owner. The children, after coming to their

senses, rushed to the home of the two boys, brothers 14-year-old Eddie May and 13-year-old Fred May. They would excitedly tell the boy's

mother, Kathleen, of what they had seen and along with a small group of children,

10-year-old Tommy Hire and Ronnie Shaver, 14-year-old Tommy Hire, and Ronnie Shaver, 14-year-old Neil Nunley, and 17-year-old Gene Lemon.

She would accompany the boys to the spot where they claim the strange object had crashed to the ground.

Gene's dog also tagged along with the group. The initial accounts and what makes up

the backbone of this incident

would appear in an article in Fate magazine

with Gray Barker arriving at the location

shortly after the encounter it played out,

and piecing the article together after speaking to those involved

and collecting recorded interviews.

This is where the reports vary somewhat. In the book, Monsters of West Virginia, mysterious creatures in the mountain

state, it is claimed that the witnesses could most definitely see a craft of some kind either landed or sticking out of the ground.

It also claims that a machine-like whining noise filled the air, and the dog also began to react strangely.

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