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abundance. into the darkness. Billy Ray's announcement of the strange arrival was met with a pronounced lack of response. The family's interest was considerably heightened, however, when, according to several reports, they saw "little men, less than four feet tall with long arms and a large, round head" approaching the farmhouse. Preserved in Air Force files are drawings that the witnesses made for the investigators. The Suttons testified that the creature's eyes had a yellow glow. The orbs were extremely large and seemed very sensitive to light. It was the outside lights of the farmhouse that seemed to prevent the creature from advancing into the home rather than the bullets from the farmers' rifles, which were fired in great "Bullets just seemed to bounce off their nickel-plated armor," said one of the witnesses. Although the farmers made several direct hits on the aliens, they seemed to "pop right up again and disappear into the darkness, away from the light." A man named Taylor told investigators: "| knocked one of them off a barrel with my .22. | heard the bullet hit the critter and ricochet off. The little man floated to the ground and rolled up like a ball. | used up four boxes of shells on the little men." Sutton blasted one of them point-blank with his shotgun, the alien simply somersaulted and rolled off As with the monster at Flatlands, West Virginia, the witnesses claimed that the aliens did not walk but "seemed to float" toward them. The farmers battled the seemingly invulnerable creatures for nearly four hours before they drove in panic to the Hopkins ville police station for reinforcements. Chief Greenwell was convinced by the hysteria of the three children and the obvious fright of the eight adults that they had definitely been battling something out on that farm. And everyone knew that the Suttons "weren't a drinking family."