Incident #1000617
Olancha, Tulare Cty, California
Aug 1986
Account
Clay Paulson, Russell Pozovich, Leonard Williams and Kevin Dudley, camped where they were building a bridge over the South Fork of the Kern River at the 8000-foot level near Monache Mountain, heard loud screams and saw in a clearing on a small hill about 700 feet away a human-looking creature later calculated to be at least 8 feet tall. After a warning shot the creature moved over the top of the hill and disappeared.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 04 1986
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1986
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Tulare Cty
- Nearest Town
- Olancha
- Direction from Town
- West Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 79
- Latitude
- 361100
- Longitude
- 1180735
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Nearby Water
- river
- Cover
- sparse
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- pine
- Variety
- grass
Weather and light
- Clarity
- clear
- Lighting
- twilight
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- Sacramento, Cal., Bee, Aug 9 1986. Also Peter Gutt
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1986
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1986
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- made a noise, walked away
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Sound
- scream
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Peter Guttilla
- Interview date
- AUG 1986
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping, work outdoors
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Least vertical distance
- 50 feet
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 4
- Age
- 31 to 40
- Tape or Video
- Video recording