This is the original case. Also if you check it out, you'll see the drawing on the monster, depicted as half owl, half man. In the recent history Bethesda's abysmally received Fallout76 also features this particular paranormal creature.
About 7:15 p.m. on September 12, 1952, at Flatwoods, a little village in the hills of West Virginia, some youngsters were playing football on the school playground. Suddenly they saw a fiery UFO streak across the sky and, apparently, land on a hilltop of the nearby Bailey Fisher farm. The youths ran to the home of Mrs. Kathleen May, who provided a flashlight and accompanied them up the hill. In addition to Mrs. May, a local beautician, the group included her two sons, Eddie 13, and Freddie 14, Neil Nunley 14, Gene Lemon 17, and Tommy Hyer and Ronnie Shaver, both 10, along with Lemon’s dog.
There are myriad, often contradictory versions of what happened next, but UFO writer Gray Barker was soon on the scene and wrote an account for Fate magazine based on tape-recorded interviews. He found that the least emotional account was provided by Neil Nunley, one of two youths who were in the lead as the group hastened to the crest of the hill. Some distance ahead was a pulsing red light. Then, suddenly, Gene Lemon saw a pair of shining, animal-like eyes, and aimed the flashlight in their direction.
The light revealed a towering "man-like" figure with a round, red "face" surrounded by a "pointed, hood-like shape." The body was dark and seemingly colorless, but some would later say it was green, and Mrs. May reported drape-like folds. The monster was observed only momentarily, as suddenly it emitted a hissing sound and glided toward the group. Lemon responded by screaming and dropping his flashlight, whereupon everyone fled.
The group had noticed a pungent mist at the scene and afterward some were nauseated. A few locals, then later the sheriff and a deputy (who came from investigating a reported airplane crash), searched the site but "saw, heard and smelled nothing." The following day A. Lee Stewart, Jr., from the Braxton Democrat discovered "skid marks" in the roadside field, along with an "odd, gummy deposit" -- traces attributed to the landed "saucer" (Barker 1953). The Flatwoods UFO Monster - CSI
I find it super intriguing that the plane was leaving behind a contrail of smoke and super heated particles. Almost as if it had come in at wrong angle and lost whatever shield it'd left during the atmospheric entry. You could see that there was no real weather phenomenon during that night, and therefore the crash could not be depicted to be caused by for example a lightening strike.
Not even if it was a sprite. Although we don't know that for sure.
First time you see the 'monster,' you almost can assume that it's a visitor wearing some sort of suit. Some files has been claiming that the suit that the greys are wearing over their bodies is biotechnical. Their eyes are covered with lenses that are said to have lead US to develop the Nightvision technology back in the fifties, issuing it out at sixties to the soldiers going into the Vietnam War.
It is however incredible that one can survive a burning entry, crash land, start a forest fire and walk out from the vehicle on your own. We humans would be confused and certainly shocked, but we don't know for sure if the Flatwoods Monster was anything like that. Surely they must have the "Fight or Flight" reaction that Cpt Quinn was mention.
I kind of loved that the Flatwood citizens had an adverse reaction and they were ready to put up a fight with the bloody alien. Surely West Virginia is a hill billy area, but the people living there aren't backwards. Not always.
Most of the time they are just misfortune.
I was surprised by Captain reaction to the crash scene. He could see that it had been a major incident by just standing by the burned woods. But unlike with the meteor impact the vessel had carved it's path through the woods.
Probably the super heated air ignited the woods. Thing is those trees are full of water, and they are not easy to ignite. You'll have dry them for weeks, but something superheated could ignite their surfaces, although not burn through the whole trunk.
Dr Hynek did find elevated radiation as he scanned the area, but unlike real scientist he didn't bark out the readings. What is not clear is that was the army there before they arrived or did they come out from the woods for Hynek to witness the covered object.
He explained to the family that it might be a meteor, but in that turn he should have also explained that they found a melted crystallised object buried in the ground. And that it could have been a part of anything. If there was a passanger, it could have got out from the shell, before it completely infused itself in the ground. But also that melted bit could had been part of the broken apart vessel, and what the military had covered under the tarpaulins could had been the pieces.
In the last episode we saw what small plane crash landing looks like. In the news we have seen numerous times how the planes come apart in the impact, and that the crash field is usually a very long, elongated circle.
The second witness to the case had been submitted to the psychiatric unit, and like many close encounter witnesses, she claimed that the creature showed her the future. In other words she is talking about telepathic projection, instead of a history download. Maybe the visitor was panicking and therefore projecting something unreal, like for example "the end of all things."
She also claimed that MiB's were scared. Scared of what? The exposure or the manhunt?
General Harding surely wasn't impressed by Cpt Quinn's inability to handle the situation. If he would had been a real military man, he would had found a solution to calm the situation, before the National Guard comes into the play.
So, why not use those army men to cordon off the area, conduct a proper search and a possible rescue?
Dr Hynek did made a brilliant experiment by luring the horned owl into the scene. But, thing about the owls is that they've also been reported in the UFO sites and they've something to do with the alien agenda. What we don't understand and what is controversial to the case is that the own was making sounds, and the witnesses reported the contact being silent.
Did the MiB acquire the traveller and transported it to safety before the army and its investigators arrived? Unlike the one seen in the crash scene, the man near the store looks like human and his face wasn't covered.
General Harding certainly was pleased after the Owl reveal, and he claimed that "it's always not for nothing. Not any more." Maybe the MiB works for him. Maybe they are aliens. Whatever they are, they know. It surprised me however that they killed the second witness.
Final surprise was that they transported the vessel probably to Wright Patterson Base, at the infamous Hangar 18, where the BlueBook office is situated. It didn't look it had made it all the way across the country to the Area 51/S4, as there was woods around the airbase
Could the melted meteor been an ejected power core?