Incident #1001005
Coquille, Coos Cty, Oregon
Feb 1969
Account
Harvey Koski was driving a bulldozer clearing snow from a powerline right-of-way when he noticed deer tracks "floundering" in two feet of snow, and then saw apparently following them a trail of bipedal, deep, large footprints with a stride double a human stride. The prints crossed the open area and entered woods on a ridge above the Cherry Creek canyon, very rugged country.
When
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Coos Cty
- Nearest Town
- Coquille
- Direction from Town
- East
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 4500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 10
- Latitude
- 4313--
- Longitude
- 12356--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- trees
- Super Human Action
- Huge strides in deep snow
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- clearing
- Snow Condition
- deep new
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Snow
- unusually deep
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Jack Woodruff quoting Harvey Koski
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- FEB 1969
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- FEB 1969
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- big
- Average Depth
- deep
- Stride in Inches Average
- long
- Estimated Age
- 8
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Direction of Travel
- North
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft deep snow
- Other Tracks
- deer
- Tracks Came From
- trees
- Tracks Went to
- trees
- Trackmaker attracted by
- wild animal prey
- Remarks
- Observer assumed creature was trailing deer
Witness
- Interviewer
- Jack Woodruff
- Interview date
- FEB 1969
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- machine work
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Track witnesses
- 1