Incident #1000398
Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California
Apr 1973
The written account of this incident is withheld because a witness asked for confidentiality.
When
- Observation Date
- APR 14 1973
- Month
- Apr
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- late morning
- Duration
- 6 to 15 seconds
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Los Angeles Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lancaster
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 11
- Population of Town
- 40000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 33412-
- Longitude
- 11815-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- road
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- desert
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- dry
- Cover
- sparse
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- sparse
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- cold
- Relative Temperature
- cool
- Rainfall
- wet
- Wind
- calm
- Clarity
- overcast
- Humidity
- moderate
- Lighting
- cloudy bright
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Lancaster man intv. by Ken Coon
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- 1973
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1973
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- slightly stooped
- Hair Colour
- black
- Neck Length
- no neck
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Head Profile
- rounded top
- Nose
- no snout
- Torso Front
- wide
- Torso Side
- wide
- Legs
- medium
- Leg Width
- heavy
- Arms
- medium
- Arm Bulk
- bulky
- Movement
- running
- Direction
- South
- Later Movement
- turned right, watched observer, crossed view field
- Speed
- medium
- Running Stride
- medium
- Running Speed
- medium
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Reaction
- watched
- Describe Unsual
- Footprints were poor and just in general area, may not have had anything to do with sighting.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Additional Movement
- ran, disappeared
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- moderate
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Ken Coon
- 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
- Action on sighting
- approached, kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20