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Martian or MiragesevenARTIST'S CONCEPTION ol the Braxton County monster Is held by two of the persons who saw it on the night of Sept 12, 1952. Mrs. Kathleen May and National Guardsman Eugene Lemon (above) said the seven spotted the creature in a clump of trees (see picture on opposite page) when they climbed a hill near their homes to investigate aflying saucer crash.MAP SHOWS the paths of a flight of intelligently controlled aerial machines which New York Scientist Ivan Sanderson claims crossed Braxton County on the night the monster was sighted. The first object (arrow no. I) landed on lames Knoll near Frametown; number two crashed Into a hillside near Sugar Creek; the third passed over Sutton Airport; the fourth landed at Flatwoods, where the monster was seen; and the fifth passed over near Heaters.‘Braxton Monster’ Shocked a W or Id,And at Least One Expert Says It Came From BeyondBy James Haught(Staff Writer tor The Gazette)“The ‘Braxton County Monster’ was a spaceship.“In fact, it was one of five spaceships which flew in formation across Central West Virginia.”This is the opinion of a man who probably has made a more thorough study of the famous “flatwoods Green Man” than any other living person— Ivan Sanderson, New York naturalist and science writer.IN A VOLUMINOUS report prepared after weeks of research, Sanderson advanced the following statements to back up his theory;1. Not one, but five meteorlike objects streaked across Braxton County on the evening of Sept. 12, 1952 — the same evening upon which the “monster” was sighted. The objects were in a neat formation, traveling in the same direction five miles apart. Two of them were seen executing turns which would have been impossible had they been part of a “meteor shower.”2. The “monster,” a ten-foot-tall green man'' sighted at the spot where one of the flying objects came to earth, was of a description not unlike some type of space craft. Marks, oil spots and scraps of metal later found on the ground also support this assumption. The object either took off again or distine-grated due to hostile earth cham-icals.3. If this isn't the answer, then what did the people see at Flatwoods and what became of it?The Braxton County monster story has become one of the wierdest mysteries of modern times and was rated by press services as the 11 lb largest national news story of 1952.XfXyy.y-y-rWiViWiW.,v.v.v/.v.v/.v../.v.;.v.......“in; in.........ft :'■£-xlt;'A ■-.£ :o;........V.Vi' *.....• .v.^/i'X'X^vKX'AVAVA'M iv/X’ *•5 **y ■-y -• v.v.'. v.' .*.• .'.v.v.'‘AW.y.VAy/Mvw.y.^xAWA;, ft X*X;/Xvi’VX;lv!%vXy!;X;;iWft ' ft # ft ftft- ft ■ :■ ftft/.w/., yy.’/..V. YvWw-T-K'ft-Cwjmmsz0mm0m®ALTHOUGH DOZENS of conflicting reports have been circulate!* concerning the event,. Hie basic story seems to be as follows:About 7 p. m. on that September day, four boys playing on a football field at the small community of Flatwoods saw a large silvery object pass overhead.The youngsters, Neil Nunley, 14, Ronald Shaver and Eddie and Freddy May, said the object traveled at a slow speed to the crest of a hill, paused abruptly in midair and dropped out of sight. A bright orange light then flared up behind the hill, they said, and continued to “pulsate, flaring up and dying away.The youths ran toward the hill until they reached the home of the May boys’ mother, Mrs. Kathleen May, who shouted to them and asked what was going on.“A flying saucer just landed on the hill, they replied excitedly, and it’s laying up there burn-ing” , ...With that, Mrs. May and a visiting neighbor, 17-year-old National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, grabbed flashlights to pierce the gathering twilight and joined the case. The group also was joined somewhere along the way by a tiny neighbor boy, Tommy Hver,who was barely able to keep upwith the others.FATHER AND SON who taw the meteorite at Flatwoods were 80-year-$Sd Warn* Gregory cud ton Duward. 14. Sitting on the front porch of thtlr homo, the two taw a streak of light past through the sky, still think It Wat onkf a meteorite. The father It Janitor at Flatwoods Grade School.METALLIC FRAGMENT the size of the tip of a pencil was found at the spot where the monster was seen by National Guard Copt, Dale Leavitt of Lower Fork (above). Also found were skid marks. oil spots and pieces of black, plastic-like material.UPON REACHING the top ofthe hill, seven persons saw a “bright, pulsating light” in a field about 100 yards away. They /^S^J noticed that the air was “mistyand was filled with a strong metallic odor which burned their nostrils and eyes. *Walking toward the light, the group followed a path around the hill for more than 200 feet when suddenly they saw two lights “as big as flashlights and about a foot apart” gleaming at them Irom a clump of trees to their left
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Oct 31, 1954
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