By 1952, flying saucers had become a familiar topic to the American public. However, the case of the "flatwoods monster" was among the first widely-publicized UFO sightings to also involve an "alien" being, and it preceded a rise in anomalous entity encounters around the world.

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Sources:

Frank Feschino, Jr. The Braxton County Monster: the Cover-up of the “Flatwoods Monster” Revealed. Revised Ed. USA: Lulu Enterprises, 2013.

Joe Nickell, “The Flatwoods UFO Monster,” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6, November/ December 2000.

Donald E Keyhoe. Flying Saucers from Outer Space. New York: Henry Holt, 1953.

Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors: A Biologist Looks at UFO’s. New York: Cowles, 1967, 37-52.

See two of the original newspaper sources here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195213/http://sites.eoi.com/folder5715/index.cfm?id=187109&fuseaction=browse&pageid=27