The Little Green Men of Kelly

I've never heard of the Kelly incident (now know as "the little green men of Kelly") before. In the 1950's a family in Kelly Kentucky was visited by bizarre little creatures with huge ears, glowing eyes, and webbed hands and feet.

These little creatures pestered them in their house, looking through the windows and walking on the roof. Of course, the men in the family took out their shot guns (how else do you welcome visitors from another planet?) and tried killing them. Here's a video with the story and reinactment of the events that happened that night.

The Ute Indians and Little Green Men

I'm very interested in what Native American people have to say about UFOS (being a Native myself and being fasinated by the subject of UFOs). I'm always looking for myths and folklore from Native Tribes about little green people and objects flying around in the air before the invention of airplanes. (Image: Star Beings" engraved thousands of years ago in Dry Fork Canyon, Utah)

So I was very pleased to find this information in Francis Densmore's book "Northern Ute Music", which was published in 1922.

"Concerning the source of his power, Pa'gitá said that he treated the sick under the tutelage of a " little green man" and that numerous other medicine men were under the same guidance, there being many of the little green men. He first saw the little green man when he was a boy of about 12 years and has seen him at intervals ever since.

The songs used in his treatment of the sick were received by him about three years previous to giving this information. At that time he was in the mountains and fell asleep. He then heard the little green man singing these songs and learned them in this manner.

Describing the "little green man," Pa'gitá indicated his height as about 2 feet, saying he was green from head to foot and carried a bow and arrows. In disposition he was "good to those he liked," and especially favored medicine men. He could hear those who spoke unkindly of him and "shot his arrow" into them. These "arrows" were removed by the medicine men, who were paid for the treatment.

Pa'gitá said that the little green man "came around only at night." If Pa'gitá wished to talk with the little green man he sat outdoors in the early morning before sunrise. He sat facing the east and smoked. No ceremonial act was connected with this and he had no drum or rattle, neither did he sing. Sometimes it was not even necessary for him to smoke in order to talk with the little green man. If he wished to make a present to the little green man he left it beside the "hole " which was the door of his dwelling. He was not obliged to give him a present after each successful treatment of the sick, but once in a while he gave him a handkerchief or other small gift.

The abodes of the little green men were said to look little chimneys and to be scattered through the mountains or any unsettled country. Those who pass such a dwelling and recognize it always throw a little branch of cedar or some other offering in front of it so the little man will not be angry with them.

Tradition says that one night some white people filled the door of a little green man's house with stones, but in the morning all the stones had been removed. Pa'gitá said: "The little man makes a fire at night, and you can see a little light. In the early morning you can see smoke coming out of his house."

Those who summoned Pa'gitá to treat a sick person brought with them a stick about 18 inches long, painted green and forked at the end. This was his particular token and he made one for the writer. When he reached the abode of the sick person he was directed by the little green man as to what he should do. He always questioned the sick person about what he had been doing, with a view to ascertaining the cause of his distress.... Pa'gitá said that throughout his treatments the little green man stayed outside the tent, and he could see him and hear what he said, every phase of the treatment being according to his direction."

UFOs have been here for thousands of years

What would make me say that? Take a look at some of these bits of information from long ago and decide for yourself.

• Between 1561 and 1566 residents of Nuremberg, Germany and Basel, Switzerland witnessed spectacular displays of spheres, disks and tubes zooming about the sky and engaging in an aerial ballet. (The image is a woodcut, from the Wickiana collection, Zurich.)

• On August 7, 1566 citizens of Baslem (Switzerland) saw black spheres involved in a aerial battle with lasted for several hours. "...at the time when the sun rose, one saw many large black balls which moved at high speed in the air towards the sun, then made half-turns, banging one against the others as if they were fighting a battle out a combat, a great number of them became red and igneous, thereafter they were consumed and died out," wrote Samuel Coccius, the student in "crowned writings and liberal arts" who consigned the strange events in the city's gazette.

• From Egyptian hieroglyphics in a document dating back to 1500 B.C.: "A circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. After some days these things become more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun."

• An archbishop from France in the ninth century recorded the account of three men and a woman who were witnessed being placed down on Earth by an "aerial ship". The people said they have been abducted by "miraculous men" who showed them "unheard of marvels".

• A "bright ball of fire and light in a hurricane in England, Sept. 2, 1786. This phenomenon was visible for forty minutes. That's about 800 times the duration that the orthodox give to meteors and meteorites." –from Book of the Damned



• On April 4, 1561 in Nuremberg (Germany), men and women saw various objects in the sky, including balls "approximately 3 in the length, from time to time, four in a square, much remained insulated, and between these balls, one saw a number of crosses with the color of blood. Then one saw two large pipes, in which small and large pipes, were 3 balls, also four or more. All these elements started to fight one against the other." (Gazette of the town of Nuremberg). The event was said to last for about an hour and later was and dran by artist Hans Glaser in woodcut.

Ancient art and text are filled with stories like these. There are also Native American tribes who have stories of "little green men". I'll talk about a couple of those later. If you want to find out more, just do a search for "ancient ufos" and you'll find tons of stuff. I'll also post my favorite ones here in the future posts.