Incident #1000709
Colfax, Whitman Cty, Washington
1963
Account
Jug Dahlbert was driving a tractor near the Palouse River 3 or 4 miles west of Colfax when he saw a manlike creature several hundred yards away at the river standing on a flat rock. It appeared larger than a man, brown, no clothes. He got out of tractor and shouted at it, and it ran off with surprising speed and long strides. River canyon is well-treed.
When
- Year
- 1963
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- dawn
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Whitman Cty
- Nearest Town
- Colfax
- Direction from Town
- Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 3
- Population of Town
- 2700
- Elevation/Altitude
- 18
- Latitude
- 4653--
- Longitude
- 11725--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- rock
- Near or/at
- canyon
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not looked for
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- easy
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- Unnatural
- cleared
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Jug Dahlbert intv by Grover Krantz
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- MAY 1963
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- ran
- Running Stride
- long
- Running Speed
- fast
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Grover Krantz
- Interview date
- MAY 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- farming
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Action on sighting
- came back, shouted
- No of witnesses
- 1