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| Flatwoods... Looking southerly, the school is photo right, on the street where the street and RR tracks begin to converge! The "landing" is generally in the flatter clearing at the top center of the photo... |
By Frank C. Feschino, Jr. & Foreword by Alfred Lehmberg.
This book is published by "Starborn Illumination Publishing"
*Michael Schratt: UFO Researcher, Author and Military Space Historian writes in 2025: "Frank's ongoing 30-year investigation into this case is the longest one ever conducted, and this book is the most complete book ever written on the subject."
Author/investigator Frank C. Feschino, Jr. spent the last three decades of his life on the sober investigation of the "Flatwoods Monster" incident of September 12, 1952. His work, we admonish, is ever the portrait of a complete sincerity!
Indubitably, his research into this case is unparalleled in the worldwide UFO community! ...And, employing all due diligence and cogent intelligence, he is considered the topmost authority and subject matter expert on this terrifying close encounter incident, by far and away! Truly, "that which others saw from afar, [he] has left far behind [him]."
Feschino had discovered that this case, once thought to be a dismissible and forgettable West Virginia "cryptid" folklore tale, was actually involving a damaged UFO going down on a farm in Flatwoods, West Virginia... uh, ...with its non-human occupant! That, singularly, might just explain its speedy relegation to a forgettable folklore tale... eh?
Shortly thereafter, a group of unsuspecting local residents who'd gone in search of the downed UFO, abruptly encountered its occupant (!) near a wooded area—a metallic, nearly 12-foot-tall, armor-clad being! Fescino worked with and interviewed many of the eyewitnesses! They described it as looking like a "small spaceship resembling a helmeted space suit"! He was also told that this mechanical figure had hovered and emitted a sulfurous gas from its lower torso pipes... which sickened them!
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This terrifying "close encounter" quickly made local newspaper headlines and was broadcast by radio across the region. The first local newspaper accounts about the incident were reported to the Charleston Gazette newspaper by one A. Lee Stewart, Jr., the photojournalist for the Braxton Democrat newspaper... and who we've written about previously. He was the first person of authority, remember, to go to Flatwoods shortly after the incident that night, he was the first one to go to the farm where the encounter occurred, and he was the first person to interview the witnesses!
Subsequently, after Stewart's story broke in the Charleston Gazette that night, he followed up the story with additional information that appeared in their newspapers over the next few days. On Sunday, September 14, 1952, The Gazette's first headline read, "Did It Ride Meteor?—Boys Spot Appalling Creature Near Flatwoods, Link It to Passage of Fiery Object in Skies." In this article? The "Creature" was also said to be a "strange visitor."
On the same day, the Charleston Daily Mail newspaper headline read, "Braxton Co. Residents Faint, Become Ill After Run-In With Weird 10-Foot Monster." This article made a reference to the "Monster" as being "metallic"! One day later on Monday, September 15, 1952, the Charleston Gazette headline read, "Braxton Monster Left Skid Tracks Where it Landed." In this article, the "Braxton Monster" was also referred to as the "Phantom of Flatwoods."
This article also reports that the initial detailed description of the "Phantom of Flatwoods" was first made by the witnesses to Mr. Stewart! It states that the subject "wore a suit of green armor" and that it "looked like a mechanical man." It also reported that it, "...was 10 feet tall, four feet wide," and "...had a blood red face"! Also added? "It sported a black spade-like cowl, which extended a foot or more above its head." Uh... from where, then, would we get a claw-waving space nixie in a sweet-sixteen party skirt?!
Meanwhile, the United Press picked up the Flatwoods story, and it was shotgunned around the world on Monday, September 15, 1952... only... the information contained in the reports had taken on a new perspective... a peculiar negative slant. Behind the scenes, a plan had already been implemented by the United States government to defuse the incident and cover it up. There is data!
Why, they admit it themselves! Consider that comment a foreshadowing!
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| Agents of disinfo? |
The United States Government worked through the West Virginia State Police shortly after the incident and sent them to Flatwoods that weekend. The police "secured" the details about the story, debunked the entire incident, and then planted the disingenuous seed of doubt in the heads of the sponge-like reporters who were covering the story!
The Press now "reported" that the Flatwoods incident was the result of "saucer hysteria"! One headline explicitly reported, "Police Say Braxton Monster Product of 'Mass Hysteria'," while numerous newspapers reported, "Police laughed. They said the so-called monster had grown from seven to 17 feet in 24 hours."
Where did THAT come from?! Furthermore, the UFO that flew over Flatwoods and landed that night was to be blamed on a, now, fulsomely debunked "meteor."
As a result of this cover-up? The "Flatwoods Monster" story had become convoluted and filled with inaccuracies in the press! The witnesses were in turn ridiculed, laughed at, and made fools of. ...Ah, humanity!
Sequentially, on September 19, 1952, the "Monster" was featured on a nationwide TV program, "We The People." Two of the guests who appeared on that program were witnesses Mrs. May and Gene Lemon (a young National Guardman) of Flatwoods. They were interviewed by host Daniel Seymour (above) and retold their frightening encounter to a record "live" TV audience that very night!
Before the show aired, as we've written before, an artist hired by the TV show sat and interviewed Mrs. May and Gene Lemon backstage in the studio! He drew an "illustration" of the figure they "saw." This illustration was to be shown during their live interviews, as has been reported, later that night.
Sadly, during the artist's backstage interviews with the two witnesses, he misinterpreted (?) their descriptions of the figure and drew it incorrectly. The artist portrayed the figure as a garment-wearing being with a large red head and glowing eyes, ludicrously covered with a big black pointed cloth hood! He drew it wearing a tunic-type top across the upper torso area and sporting a long-pleated dress from the waist area down. Risible!
Additionally, this mechanical figure, which actually hovered via a silent propulsion system... was illustrated as floating in mid-air next to a 6-foot-tall man for scale proportions. Moreover, the artist drew the figure as having arms and claws! This depiction turned the "monster's" total appearance into a complete "disingenuousness"! A scary, wholly contrived "monster," a stereotypical 1950s Hollywood-style monster from space! We'd already allowed for risible!
Later on, The "Phantom of Flatwoods," first correctly reported to have "looked like a mechanical man" and "wearing a suit of green armor" had now been turned into a complete "unreasonable" by the errant artist. This inaccurate drawing of the figure was then shown to the nationwide TV audience during May and Lemon's interview! It was now "culturally" thought to be the "true likeness" of the figure they saw. Risibility turns abruptly to societal irresponsibility! Was this deliberate?!
As a result of the massive media coverage that the "Braxton Monster" received from this TV show... it began to scare the American public. Although, even as many American citizens didn't believe the "meteor" and mass "hysteria" explanations, there were still many Americans who were starting to panic! This ugly floating space monster alien with arms and claws caused many Americans to worry because of the massive number of UFO sightings that were occurring across the United States that year!
Is this what the aliens looked like who were plaguing the skies in their saucers over America that year, 1952, the "Summer of the Saucers"?
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| Keyhoe... wholly credible! |
In 1952, sober pioneer UFO researcher and author Major Donald Keyhoe competently researched the "Flatwoods Monster" case and then wrote about it in his 1953 book, "Flying Saucers From Outer Space." Keyhoe stated the following, "The Sutton [Flatwoods Monster] story wasn't so easily downed. Radio and commentators repeated it all over the country. A newspaper syndicate ran a series of articles. Then Mrs. May and the Lemon boy appeared on 'We the People' and retold their frightening experience."
Shortly after, Major Keyhoe phoned the Pentagon and spoke with Air Force publicity man Albert Chop about the Flatwoods case. During that conversation, Mr. Keyhoe stated the following to Mr. Chop...
"This could get out of hand. Why doesn't the Air Force squelch it?"
Chop retorted, "We've already said the object was a meteor..." Full stop! This was a reported quote and an admission of that official cover-up we'd alluded to, ladies and entities lurking. A small but meaningful diversion...
To continue, Keyhoe replied, "A lot of people don't believe it. And the way this has built up is bad." Chop replied, "It'll die out." ...Keyhoe responded, "But people will remember it if something breaks."
Eventually, the panic brought on by the "Flatwoods Monster" incident started to fade from newspaper headlines... and the story slowly died out. Subsequently, Project Blue Book intelligence officials recorded the case and explained the incident away as "astronomical." They "recorded," in sneer quotes, "The West Virginia Monster so-called. Actually, the object was the well-known Washington area meteor of 12 Sep., Landing near Flatwoods." Risible now by an order of magnitude and at toxic levels! Blatant obfuscation!
It concluded that all of the events happening that night only involved a meteor, mass hysteria, and witness misidentification. Risible! We may have mentioned that!
As for the "We The People" TV show; this Television talk show began in 1948 and continued for five seasons through 1952. The "Flatwoods Monster" episode was aired during season 5, episode 19 on September 19, 1952.
Oddly enough? "We The People," a hugely popular National program, only aired but one more episode the following week after the "Flatwoods Monster" episode... and was then cancelled!
Was this a coincidence? ...We're reminded of Colbert and Kimmel!
Although history had heavily documented this terrifying UFO incident, there was a downside to the story as a result of the government's massive cover-up! The truth behind the "Flatwoods Monster" incident was never fully disclosed, and it was eventually written off as some silly West Virginia folklore story.
Heavy sigh...
Still, there remained one individual who has dedicated nearly half of his life to uncovering the truth about the "Flatwoods Monster" case. Frank Feschino's own ongoing 30-year investigation into this affair, the longest-running UFO investigation since it began in 1952, has continued to uncover information about the United States Government's cover-up behavior.
Feschino's new 2025 book, titled "The Flatwoods Monster: From Myth To Reality," is the definitive book on the "Flatwoods Monster" incident and other numerous UFO events and encounters that occurred during that time... ...Undeclared air war with ET? There is DATA.
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