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For Cincinnati Enquirer journalist Carol Motsinger and photographer Meg Vogel, whose Sunday front-pager was also carried by Gannett sister publication The Kentucky Enquirer, the ring of fire around the assignment of profiling the U.S. location where the forthcoming Aug. 21 eclipse will be most prevalent is a previous event that took place in Hopkinsville, Ky. on the same date.
In 1955, Aug. 21 fell on a Sunday rather than the Monday forthcoming. As Motsinger details, it was on that night that some folks in a farmhouse on the outskirts of town had an alleged close encounter of the third kind:
The aliens floated, they glowed and they couldn’t be killed, no matter how many times the family in that house hit their two-foot-tall bodies with their bullets.
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