Incident #1000197
Kimberley, East Kootenay Dis, British Columbia
Sep 1976
Account
Mickey McLelland, a Kimberley fireman, was one of several witnesses who saw a creature in a field at Wycliffe Prairie near the Kimberley Trap and Ski Club. He said it was seven feet tall, black, with a tan-coloured chest, long-armed. He and another man got out of their car and chased it when it was about 125 yards away. Unable to catch up, they returned to their car and followed it on the highway, catching up when they were going 50 miles an hour. It then veered off into the forest. Two other cars were parked at the roadside, six or eight witnesses in all. They watched for what seemed to be three or four minutres before the creature started to run very fast. (Story in Kimberley paper quotes McLelland as saying creature was black with tan chest. Other papers call it tan coloured.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 03 1976
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- evening (light)
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- British Columbia
- County
- East Kootenay Dis
- Nearest Town
- Kimberley
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 9
- Population of Town
- 7000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 4936--
- Longitude
- 11552--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Super Human Action
- Clocked with car at 50 mph
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000198, 1000199
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley, plain
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- grass
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Nelson Daily News, Sept. 9, 1976, quoting Mickey M
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- SEP 76
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- SEP 76
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- light brown
- Arms
- long
- Later Movement
- ran, travelled parallel
- Running Speed
- fast
- Reaction
- avoided, fled from
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Animal ran so fast men drove 50 mph to catch up. Note that McLelland is reported in the Kimberley paper to have described the creature as black with a tan chest, but Nelson and Vancouver papers only mention tan colour.
- Additional Movement
- turned, entered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still, studied, chased
- No of witnesses
- several