Incident #1000790
Anacortes, Skagit Cty, Washington
Sep 1969
Account
Anonymous witness was driving South from Anacortes, just North of Deception Pass, when he rounded a curve and saw a black fighre, about 5.5 feet tall, in the middle of the road, crossing it diagonally from West to East. He swerved to miss it, and as he passed it looked at him over its shoulder. It had a flat, pink face, and no ears he could see. He thought of a baboon. A search of the area next day turned up no tracks, but up a trail to the West there were rocks moved, a rotten log pulled apart and a wasp nest dug out of the ground. Grass mashed in a shape 13' by 5" could have been a footprint.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 13 1969
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Skagit Cty
- Nearest Town
- Anacortes
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 6
- Population of Town
- 8000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 1
- Latitude
- 48242-
- Longitude
- 1223840
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- crossing
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- ocean, inlet
- Substratum
- grass
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Hamilton Sandvig quoting his daughter's fiance in
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- 1969
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 5-6 ft
- Build
- medium
- No hair on
- on face
- Hair Colour
- black
- Face Colour
- light
- Ears
- covered by head hair
- Nose
- no snout
- Movement
- walking
- Direction
- East
- Later Movement
- watched observer, crossed road, entered woods
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Evidence in the vicinity of something turning over rocks, pulling rotten log apart, digging out wasp's nest.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Hamilton Sandvig
- Interview date
- SEP 13 1969
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- approached, kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1