Incident #1000721
Olympia, Thurston Cty, Washington
Oct 1965
Account
Clare Sherrod said that Russell Geis and Dennis Lensgrave late at night saw in the headlights at the top of Nisqually Hill a 7 ft., white, humanlike creature. Geis shot at it with a .22 from 25 feet. Later huge footprints were found, and trees 2" thick snapped off 6 ft. in the air.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1965
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Thurston Cty
- Nearest Town
- Olympia
- Direction from Town
- East
- Population of Town
- 27000
- Latitude
- 470---
- Longitude
- 1224---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Slope
- ridge crest
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Sunday Olympian, Olympia, Wash. Oct 24 1965, Clare
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- 1965
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- shot
- No of witnesses
- 2