Incident #1000308
Dallas, Polk Cty, Oregon
Jun 1969
Account
Mrs. Doris Newton heard her dog barking and went outside, where she saw two huge black creatures walking in her field 150 yards away. She watched them walk about 100 feet over the crest of a hill. Next morning with her father, Ben Chapman, found the long grass in the field crushed in parallel lines by things with feet about 15 inches long and with a 51 inch stride. Tracks were not good enough to be acceptable on their own, but are included because the enabled a second witness to corroborate her story. With both the tracks and the physical descriptions there are no differences to justify more than one entry. creatures
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 26 1969
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- minute
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Polk Cty
- Nearest Town
- Dallas
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 5
- Population of Town
- 5000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 7
- Latitude
- 4458--
- Longitude
- 12323--
What was seen
- Individuals
- two large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 2
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Related incident id
- 1000311
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- North
- Substratum
- grass
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- cool
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- clear
- Humidity
- low
- Lighting
- twilight
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Mrs. Doris Newton intv. by John McCrimmon
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- MAY 1970
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 7
- Jwg file date
- AUG 1969
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Shoulders
- wide
- Shoulder Shape
- square
- Movement
- walking
- Direction
- West
- Later Movement
- walked away, went up slope, disappeared
- Walking Stride
- long
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Reaction
- did not see
- Describe Unsual
- Dog was barking.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 2
- Footprint Length
- 15.0
- Greates Width
- 5.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 51
- Estimated Age
- 12
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- 56
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- poor
- Obsticles Offering Choice
- around
- Direction of Travel
- West
- Material Tracks Made in
- sod
- Remarks
- Only one entry for two individuals, as both the same. They walked;side by side a few feet apart, but when they came to two fences in;both cases they angled to a place where the fence was down and went;through single file.
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Interviewer
- John McCrimmon
- Interview date
- MAY 14 1969
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Most vertical distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- stayed still
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- 2