Incident #1000394
Hesperia, San Bernadino Cty, California
Sep 1965
Account
Jim Gorrell and his wife were sitting at their campfire in a dry creek bed at the mouth of Deep Creek, radio playing, cooking hot dogs, when an 8 foot, erect creature with yellow-green reflecting eyes approached within a few feet of the fire. It followed them as they walked to their truck.
When
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1965
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- quarter hour
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- San Bernadino Cty
- Nearest Town
- Hesperia
- Direction from Town
- South Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 8
- Population of Town
- 3000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 3421--
- Longitude
- 11715--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- camp
- Near or/at
- fire
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- mixed size
- Undergrowth
- sparse
- Species
- cottonwood
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Relative Temperature
- warm
- Clarity
- clear
- Lighting
- firelight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Jim Gorrell intv. by Ken Coon
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- 1970
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Eyes
- large
- spacing
- wide set
- Human like Y/N
- No
- Reflection
- reflected green
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Shoulders
- wide
- Shoulder Shape
- square
- Torso Front
- wide
- Torso Shape
- widest at top
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- approached fire, watched observer, approached
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Human Contact
- followed
- Reaction
- approached
- Attracted By
- fire, meat, human sounds
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Interviewer
- Ken Coon
- Interview date
- 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- picnicking, at fire
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- departed slowly
- No of witnesses
- 2