of the Braxton Democrat claimed to have discovered 'skid marks' in the field and an 'odd, gummy deposit' which were subsequently attributed by UFO enthusiast groups as evidence of a 'saucer' landing. According to Barker's account, the next day, A. They searched the site of the reported monster but 'saw, heard and smelled nothing'.

The local sheriff and a deputy had been investigating reports of a crashed aircraft in the area.

The group said they had smelled a 'pungent mist' and some later said they were nauseated. September 14, 1952, news clip from the Charleston Daily Mail According to the story, when the figure made a hissing sound and 'glided toward the group', Lemon screamed and dropped his flashlight, causing the group to run away. May described the figure as having 'small, claw-like hands', clothing-like folds, and 'a head that resembled the ace of spades'. In an article for Fate Magazine based on his tape-recorded interviews, UFO writer Gray Barker described the figure as approximately 10 feet (3 m) tall, with a round blood-red face, a large pointed 'hood-like shape' around the face, eye-like shapes which emitted greenish-orange light, and a dark black or green body. Lemon said he aimed a flashlight in that direction and momentarily saw a tall 'man-like figure with a round, red face surrounded by a pointed, hood-like shape'.ĭescriptions varied. The group reached the top of a hill, where Nunley said they saw a pulsing red light. May, accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley and Ronnie Shaver, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, went to the Fisher farm in an effort to locate whatever it was that the boys had said they had seen. The boys went to the home of Kathleen May, where they told their story. Class=notpageimage| Location of Flatwoods, West VirginiaĪt 7:15 p.m., on September 12, 1952, two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer, said that they saw a bright object cross the sky and land on the property of local farmer G.

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