Incident #1000483
Confidence, Tuolomne Cty, California
Feb 1963
Account
Lennart Strand was flying Alden Hoover on a snow survey for Pacific Gas and Electric. In scattered brush in a lava rock area south of the Confidence Road between Confidence and Cherokee Valley Road, from about 700 feet in the air, they saw on the ground a cinnamon brown creature covered with hair that appeared to be 10 to 12 feet tall, "sort of half bear and half gorilla, and had ears on the side of its head." They flew two passes over it. On the third pass it was gone. Both tried to get pictures, but they showed only a blur.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 28 1963
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Tuolomne Cty
- Nearest Town
- Confidence
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 3802--
- Longitude
- 12012--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Shot Hit
- No
- Photo
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- open area
- Substratum
- broken rock
- Cover
- spotty
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Undergrowth
- spotty
- General undergrowth
- scattered
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Fate Magazine, July, 1963. Also Basil Hritsco inte
- Source Type
- magazine
- Source Date
- 1963
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1963
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 11 ft
- Hair Colour
- red brown
- Describe Unsual
- Ears were seen, but not described.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Basil Hritsco
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- flying
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Least vertical distance
- 500 or more
- Action on sighting
- came back
- No of witnesses
- 2