Incident #1000772
Yakima, Yakima Cty, Washington
Sep 1966
Account
Ken Pettijohn saw what he thought was a huge man covered with silvery white hair standing in the middle of the road in the rain. He slammed on the brakes and stalled his car three feet from it. It held an arm over its eyes as if to shield them from the light. When he stopped it looked at him through the windshield, then walked to the back of the car, turned and walked back, bent and looked in the driver's window. He got the motor going and and fled. Roger Patterson found poor but deep 17-inch tracks in hard dirt beside the road.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 19 1966
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1966
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- minute
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Yakima Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yakima
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 9
- Population of Town
- 50000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 10
- Latitude
- 4640--
- Longitude
- 12038--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- orchard
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- easy
- Slope Faced
- North
- Substratum
- fine material
- Cover
- moderate
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree type
- deciduous
- Unnatural Conditions
- planted
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
- Species
- fruit trees
Weather and light
- Heat
- normal
- Rainfall
- normal
- Clarity
- overcast
- Humidity
- thunderstorm
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 7
Source
- Source
- Ken Pettijohn intv. by John Green. Also earlier ta
- Source Type
- computer survey
- Source Date
- JUL O7 1970
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 7
- Jwg file date
- 1967
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected red
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- No hair on
- near eyes, near mouth, on palms
- Hair Length
- long
- Hair curl
- shaggy
- Hair Colour
- off-white
- Hair Shorter On
- face
- Hair Longer on
- arms
- Teeth
- long canines
- Beard Y/N
- No
- Ears
- covered by head hair
- Neck Length
- short
- Shoulders
- wide
- Shoulder Shape
- sloped
- Expression
- none
- Forehead Shape
- sloped back
- Brow Ridge
- small
- Nose
- no snout
- Nose Shape
- large flat nose
- Mouth Open?
- open
- Lips
- thin
- Mouth Size
- large
- Torso Front
- wide
- Torso Side
- wide
- Legs
- medium
- Leg Width
- medium
- Arms
- medium
- Arm Bulk
- bulky
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observer, approached
- Walking Stride
- long
- Walking Speed
- slow
- Arms Action
- hanging, shading eyes
- Arms Used
- in locomotion
- Human Contact
- look in window
- Reaction
- watched, approached
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Used arm to shield eyes from headlights. Bent down to look in car window.
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Average Depth
- 1.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Observer Weight
- 120
- Estimated Age
- 3
- Age Unit
- days
- Number of Tracks
- 4
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- poor
- Pattern of walk
- toe out
- Feet in Line?
- spread apart
- Direction of Travel
- Northwest
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- marsh
- Tracks Went to
- road
- Remarks
- tracks toed out in climbing embankment.
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JUL 07 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 5 feet
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- approached, stayed still, fled
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20
- Tape or Video
- Audio recording