Incident #1000984
Albany, Linn Cty, Oregon
1959
Account
Unnamed truck driver was driving over a field mear Dever-Conser (only Dever is on map) when what appeared to be a huge shaggy white gorilla came running alongside the cab and peered in the window at him. As the truck neared a mint distillery the creature turned and disappeared in nearby woods.
When
- Year
- 1959
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Linn Cty
- Nearest Town
- Albany
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 6
- Population of Town
- 22000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 4442--
- Longitude
- 12304--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- occupied machine
- Super Human Action
- Ran alongside truck peering in cab, not clocked
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- grass
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 9
Source
- Source
- Benton County Herald
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- AUG 1960
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- 1961
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- very large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- long
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Hair Colour
- white
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- turned, fled, entered woods
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Reaction
- watched, fled from
- Attracted By
- machine activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Ran beside truck looking in at driver.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1