From what I was told by my Dad Freddie May, and My Grandma Kathleen May the original Witnesses along with my uncle Eddie May. One September 12, 1952, my dad, Uncle Eddie and some neighborhood kids were playing at Flatwoods Elementary school which was probably about 300 – 400 yards from their house as the crow flies.
It was getting late. I think it was about 7:30 in the evening and they saw this big fireball go over them and crash on a nearby hill. As you know a group of young boys like this the first thing they’re going to do is take off running to see what it is.
On the way up they stopped and got my Grandma Kathleen May and Gene Lemon who was one of the neighbors and a National Guardsman, as well as a few others before heading up.
After thromping through the field they come up on this figure. It was hissing and there was a foul odor, whatever it was it was glowing. They said whatever it was had some type of cowl on it’s head spade shaped, it didn’t have arms, my dad said the body of it was more like metal tubs coming down instead of a cape or a dress like most people show in art or media, and was about 12ft tall. They said it was more like it was made out of metal than fabric of any kind. It did seem to have some kind of eyes or peepholes that were glowing and it was hovering.
I’m not sure what happened. They had a dog with them and I don’t know if it was them or it that got spooked but they all took off running. Once they got off the hill they contacted the authorities right away.
The authorities went back up the hill to check along with a small crowd but whatever the thing was, it was gone. It did leave some type residue at the scene. No one saw anything leave or go back over head, back in the 1950’s we didn’t have the technology for something like this to land, then take off again. There was no crash site, disturbed trees, nothing. No one knows what happened to it.
They took everyone in and into separate rooms, then took their stories. Everyone’s story came out the same. When asked to draw it, they all came up with a similar thing. Unfortunately when the state police got there though they started ridiculing the kids and telling them they were crazy. The media came out and said it was a barn owl, but if you know what a barn owl looks like or you’ve seen one up close it’s nothing close to this.
Over the years my family stuck with their story, they didn’t share it out much due to the ridicule but when they talked about it their story never changed.
