Incident #1000579
Oroville, Butte Cty, California
Sep 1975
Account
Mark Kerr told deputies he was driving on Cherokee Road near Thompson Flat Road when his headlights illuminated a creature standing on the dirt embankment on the left side of the road. It was 6 to 7 feet tall, brown, and resembled a gorilla, with long arms and Neanderthal features. He went off the road and hit a tree.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 03 1975
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Butte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Oroville
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 8000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 3
- Latitude
- 3932--
- Longitude
- 12132--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- high bank
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- road
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Chico, Cal., Enterprise Record, Sep 3 1975 quoting
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1975
- Source reliability
- 3
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1975
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 6 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20