Incident #1001000
Grants Pass, Josephine Cty, Oregon
1968
Account
Jerry Katt was one of a group of smoke jummpers packing out from a fire when they came across a string of huge footprints on a sandbar on Indigo Creek. Tracks were half again as long as his boots, with five distinct toes.
When
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Josephine Cty
- Nearest Town
- Grants Pass
- Direction from Town
- West Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 30
- Population of Town
- 15000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 30
- Latitude
- 4230--
- Longitude
- 1235---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- sandbar
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- fine material
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- hot
- Rainfall
- dry
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Bulletion, Bob Betts quoting Jerry Katt
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- MAY 30 1970
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUN 1970
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Track Condition
- good
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Material Tracks Made in
- sand
- Relation to Water
- near water
Witness
- Interviewer
- Bob Betts
- Interview date
- 1970
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hiking
- Track witnesses
- several