Incident #1000264
Copalis Beach, Grays Harbor Cty, Washington
Jan 1973
Account
Don Waugh was driving on State 101 just east of Aloha in the late afternoon when he saw what he thought was a man approaching on the road, then it turned, jumped the ditch and went into the trees. He said it did not jump as a man would, just seemed to flow over the large ditch.
When
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- late afternoon
- Duration
- half minute
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Grays Harbor Cty
- Nearest Town
- Copalis Beach
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 0.5
- Latitude
- 47113-
- Longitude
- 12407--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- going along
- Terrain Object
- road
- Super Human Action
- "Flowed" over wide ditch.
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000251, 1000263, 1000265, 1000266
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not looked for
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Snow Condition
- shallow new
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- medium
- Tree condition
- mostly new
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- cold
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- overcast
- Lighting
- deep shadow
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Don Waugh (card says intv. by John Green, but no r
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JAN 73
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JAN 73
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Height
- 5-6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Movement
- walking
- Direction
- West
- Later Movement
- turned, jumped, entered woods
- Speed
- medium
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Reaction
- avoided
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JAN 27, 1973
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Farthest horizontal distance
- half mile
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Most vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- approached, kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1