Incident #1000728
Yakima, Yakima Cty, Washington
Oct 1966
Account
Carl Timberbrook and family were driving on Summit View Road when they saw a 10 to 12-foot grey creature striding erect along the canal above the road about 400 yards away. People in the car behind saw it too and all stopped at the Summit View Store and discussed it.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1966
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Yakima Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yakima
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 6
- Population of Town
- 50000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 15
- Latitude
- 46354-
- Longitude
- 12037--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes and child
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- South
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Cover
- spotty
- Unnatural Conditions
- cleared
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Roger Patterson personal from Carl Timberbrook
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- 1966
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- could not tell
- Height
- 11 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- grey
- Movement
- walking
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Interviewer
- Roger Patterson
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Action on sighting
- stayed still, studied
- No of witnesses
- several