The following evening Abigail Brabham and Will Taintor reported seeing a ‘thin and hairless, monkey-like creature’ sitting on all fours beside the road. Their description of the creature was the same as that of the others, except in one respect: they insisted that its eyes were green rather than orange, which suggests that the youngsters hadn’t collaborated with each other to concoct the whole story. Indeed they appeared not to know each other. While many similar descriptions have been reported in other parts of the world, there have been no other sightings in Massachusetts. It is a mystery that has never fully been explained, although, predictably, UFO fans claim the creature was some sort of alien and conspiracy theorists believe it to have been a mutant hybrid, the product of human exp

