West Virginia (US), TAN: A recent History Channel programme, a documentary and a video game has revived interest in a site where an apparent UFO-sighting took place at Braxton County in West Virginia back in 1952, says a media report .
Tourists from both the US and abroad are flocking to Braxton County to visit the place and the people who “sighted the UFO”. The local community is reaping benefit from the curiosity of travellers.
The small Braxton County community is embracing its own tale of alien visitation and enjoying success as an offbeat tourist destination.
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Now, there is a museum in nearby Sutton that’s drawing visitors eager to find out about the event that supposedly happened on a Flatwoods hilltop.
A woman and six boys apparently saw what is today known as the Braxton County Monster, Flatwoods Monster or Phantom of Flatwoods. The “monster” sighting coincided with a wave of UFO reports over the Eastern part of the United States in 1952.
As a way to gain mileage out of the event, the Flatwoods Monster Museum opened in October 2017 in Sutton.
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“One common thread that seems to go through the whole story is that it definitely seemed extraterrestrial in nature,”Kanawha Metro quoted Braxton County Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director Andrew Smith as saying.
Out-of-town travellers as well as local people have embraced the Flatwoods Monster Museum. The guest book has been signed by local people, out-of-state visitors and even foreign tourists from Hong Kong, Germany, Ireland and Australia.
