Incident #1000418
Lancaster, Los Angeles Cty, California
Mar 1973
Account
First of several sighting reports in the Antelope Valley in the spring of 1973. Three marines told deputies at Lancaster that while driving west on Avenue J a quarter mile East of 110th St. E., a huge hairy thing the shape of a man loomed in front of their car, then turned and ran off into the alfalfa fields. Height estimate 8 feet. All dark colour. Deputies found fields too hard-packed for prints.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 14 1973
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Los Angeles Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lancaster
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 40000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 24
- Latitude
- 34412-
- Longitude
- 117570-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- pasture
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- ground too hard
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- desert, plain
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Lancaster, Cal., Ledger-Gazette, March 24, 1973 qo
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1973
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1973
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- fled
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- avoided
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- deputies
- Interview date
- MAR 14 1973
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 3