They claimed they’d hit an alien on a US highway, and people got excited

By their own admission, the three US roommates had been out “honky tonking” that night.
It was a little after 11pm on July 8, 1953, when Edward Watters, 28, Thomas Wilson, 20, and Arnold “Buddy” Payne, 19, found themselves travelling down a lonely stretch of Highway 78 in Georgia.
Wilson and Payne shouted for Watters to stop. He slammed the brakes, but it was too late. They’d hit something.
The trio later described the scene before them: two humanlike creatures only a few feet tall raced away. T…

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