Incident #1000575
Vacaville, Solano Cty, California
Sep 1974
Account
Dana Pierscinski was walking on Mix Canyon Road near the top of Mount Vaca when he saw a figure stride out on the road ahead silhouetted against the sky at the top of a rise. It stopped, turned and looked towards him. Appeared to be about 8 feet tall, exceedingly broad shoulders, no clothes. He turned and ran. Reported to deputies at Fairfield, who checked but saw nothing. A week later he found some prints in dried mud nearby. Could not have been made the night of the sighting (presumably dry). Three prints, 10 inches by 5 inches, 5 toes, flat, 44 inches apart, twice stride of average adult.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 30 1974
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Solano Cty
- Nearest Town
- Vacaville
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 3
- Population of Town
- 40000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 25
- Latitude
- 382450
- Longitude
- 122062-
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- ridge crest
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 3
Source
- Source
- Vacaville, Cal., Reporter, Oct 7 1974, quoting Dan
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1974
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1974
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Shoulders
- wide
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- turned, watched observer
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- watched
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 10.0
- Greates Width
- 5.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 54
- Number of Tracks
- 3
- Track Condition
- good
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Material Tracks Made in
- mud
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Nancy Jo Tubbs
- Interview date
- OCT 1974
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Action on sighting
- fled
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20