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“Flatwoods Monster”

Stories2

The Flatwoods Monster

September 12, 1952 · G. Bailey Fisher farm, Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia

Cryptid · Creature · 51 sources

43Partially documented

Albert K. Bender and the original Men in Black (Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1953)

c. 1953 · 784 Broad Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut

UAP · Being / humanoid · 56 sources

25Thinly documented

Names2

Joe Nickell Person · 24 stories
A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases.
Donald Keyhoe Person · 8 stories
An author, and a believer in UFOs.

Documents2

UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969) Document

Government Attic· 419 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 117 …Description of entity was similar to that of the "Flatwoods monster." Brandt, Ivan. The problem of the Frankensteins. Flying saucer…
- p. 196 …Sept0ml•er 12, 1952, near Flatwoods, W. Va., of a "ten-foot, red-faced monster, which sprayed a foul, sickening…
NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files Document

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive· 2010-12· 445 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 224 …the tiny village of Flatwoods, in this County, was neither a man nor a monster, but some sort of machine…