The article has the "horned owl" explanation for the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter. I've read that before, and there are numerous things wrong with it.
- Lights. However you twist it, the incident started with witnessing some lights. Horned owls can do many things, but they can't glow. Period. [Note: The author here is referring to a Cracked article. Dunning's article blames bio-luminescent fungi as the cause of those glowing lights. But if that were the case, shouldn't the family have encountered similar lights before the incident?]
- Humanoid shape and weird motion. Yes, the head is somewhat similar, but apart from that, the drawing shows a humanoid body. No wings or bird-like legs. Also, about the motion, we have this description:
"The floating creatures' legs seemed to be atrophied and nearly useless, and they appeared to propel themselves with a curious hip-swaying motion, steering with their arms."
This means that the witnesses could observe the creatures' arms well enough to make such statement about them - and they are still not talking about wings. Also, if you live on a farm, you recognize the motion patterns of known animals (including owls or other kinds of birds). These people were familiar with the mundane creatures around them, and from the description this movement is pretty clear: no known animal moves like this.
- Behavior. The skeptical explanation says that horned owls can get agressive protecting their nests. That only makes sense if they only recently moved their nest there, since in any other case, the family would have been familiar with the fact, that there is one (or there are many) such owl nests in the area - thus they could've easily identify the creatures as owls. But what about later? If there really was a newly established horned owl nest in the area near the house, there should've been many other nights where the owls behaved similarly, which would have calmed down the members of the family, who were terrified even years later, when it came to recount the events of the night of the incident.
