Incident #1000410
Borrego Springs, San Diego Cty, California
Jul 1968
Account
Magazine story says Harold Lancaster, prospecting in Borrego Sink, East of Borrego Springs, one morning saw a man walking in the desert. Using binoculars he saw that it was not a man, but a giant apeman. As it got closer he fired his pistol in the air, it jumped three feet when the sound reached it, turned and looked at him, then ran off.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- San Diego Cty
- Nearest Town
- Borrego Springs
- Direction from Town
- East
- Elevation/Altitude
- 6
- Latitude
- 331---
- Longitude
- 1161---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- desert
- Slope
- level
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Saga, June, 1969, quoting Harold Lancaster
- Source Type
- magazine
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- approached, jumped
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Reaction
- fled from
- Additional Movement
- watched observer, fled
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- binoculars
- Observer Was
- prospecting
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Action on sighting
- studied, shot
- No of witnesses
- 1