The
Flatwoods Monster, also known as the
Braxton County Monster or the
Phantom of Flatwoods, is an alleged unidentified
extraterrestrial or
cryptid reported to have been sighted in the town of
Flatwoods in
Braxton County,
West Virginia,
United States, on September 12, 1952. Stories of the creature are an example of a purported close encounter of the third kind.