Incident #1000558
Willows, Glenn Cty, California
Sep 1971
Account
C.H. Chambers told deputies that while driving his pickup truck he hit a 10-foot anthropoid animal walking on two feet. No location given. When he went back it was gone. Jim McClarin investigated and doubts the story. Hit by car.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 07 1971
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Glenn Cty
- Nearest Town
- Willows
- Population of Town
- 4000
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- road
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Sept 8 1971
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1971
- Source reliability
- 2
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1971
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 10 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature hit by pickup truck. Not there when driver went back moments later.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- under 5 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going, came back
- No of witnesses
- 2