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Based on eyewitness accounts of a bizarre creature that landed on a hillside in Flatwoods on Sept. 12, 1952, a replica was created to depict the so-called Braxton County Monster. Author Frank Feschino says the incident was further proof of an aerial battle waged off the Atlantic Coast by U.S. jetfighters and alien aircraft, as explored in his second book, “Shoot Them Down.”