Incident #1000874
Toppenish Ridge, Washington
Feb 1976
Account
Georgia Ann Riggs ws driving on Hwy 97 on the south slope of Toppenish Ridge when she saw a brown animal, est. height 7 ft., on the road several hundred feet ahead. It went up a steep bank with relative ease, hurdled a four-foot fence and disappeared down the opposite slope. No location recorded, as map shows Toppenish Ridge in Yakima County close to Toppenish, but there is no Southern Slope until the other side of Satus Pass in Klikitat County.
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 21 1976
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Toppenish Ridge
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Near or/at
- high bank
- Super Human Action
- Hurdled 4-foot fence after running easily up steep bank
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- paved road
- Slope Faced
- South
- Substratum
- gravel
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- sparse
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Ken Coon quoting Georgia Ann Riggs
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- FEB 1976
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MARCH 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Later Movement
- crossed road, went up slope
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- ignored
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature hurdled a four-foot fence.
- Additional Movement
- crossed fence, disappeared
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Female
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1