South / Littleton, CO being encounter — April 27, 1954

Three unnamed men reportedly described a green-faced, ape-like figure about seven miles south of Littleton, Colorado, on a Tuesday morning in spring 1954. The May 1954 APRO Bulletin places the news item under 3 May and says the event occurred the preceding Tuesday, consistent with 27 April. The men claimed that the figure was playing catch with a dead chicken. The bulletin’s short description emphasizes an unpleasant green face and a mouth approximately four inches across. It supplies no names, duration, viewing distance, height or detailed body description. No UFO, arrival, departure or physical trace accompanies the story. The animal detail is part of the reported anecdote, not independently established evidence of how any chicken died. Hatch’s database flags the entry as a hoax, and his circulated list of discredited reports includes it. The reviewed material does not supply a confession or an investigation demonstrating precisely how the story arose, so that judgement remains attributed. The account should not be promoted into a confirmed extraterrestrial encounter. Its reconstruction is explicitly labelled as a catalogue claim carrying a hoax flag, with the men and figure represented cautiously and without graphic animal imagery.