Section F · Experiencers · abductees, contactees and entity witnesses

Kathleen May

Resident of Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia · the adult who led the 'Flatwoods Monster' expedition (1952)

Biography

Her sons came home saying something bright had fallen on a nearby hill, and she climbed the slope with them and four other neighbors to look for it. Near the top the group described an enormous figure with luminous eyes, along with a penetrating smell and subsequent nausea. She was the adult voice who sustained the account before the press, with the social cost that carried in a small town. It is a textbook case of how a legend is built: the best-supported natural explanation —a barn owl on a branch, misread in the dark— proved more instructive than the creature.

Why they're here · 1 pieces

  1. 1952

    Public testimony about the night expedition

    The adult voice of the seven-witness group

Sources

  • Cobertura de prensa de Braxton County (1952) — Contemporaneous record of the group's testimony.

Form they described (1)

peluda-garrasSmall, hairy, clawed

Associated cases (1)

United States.

Flatwoods Monster · Braxton County· 1952

On the night of September 12, 1952, after seeing a bright light fall over a hill, a group of seven people from Flatwoods (West Virginia) —the May brothers, their mother Kathleen, other children and a National Guardsman— climbed to look for it and described a huge figure with glowing eyes, a hiss and a nauseating smell that made them feel ill. The most accepted explanation —a meteor that night, an aircraft beacon and a perched owl, magnified by fear— is prosaic and well argued. A Tier B case, a folklore icon: multiple witnesses, an object almost certainly mundane.

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Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-F).