Incident #1001036
Cottage Grove, Lane Cty, Oregon
Jun 1972
Account
Brad Chambers was hunting Chittum Bark with Eugene Brown, when he heard a crashing noise in the brush and saw the above the low foliage the back of an oval-shaped head covered with dark hair, 8 or 9 feet up. Brown was a short distance away and did not see anything, but heard the noise. Ron Olson attended, but found nothing.
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 12 1972
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Lane Cty
- Nearest Town
- Cottage Grove
- Direction from Town
- South Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 7000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 8
- Latitude
- 4345--
- Longitude
- 12301--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Cover
- spotty
- Tree size
- mostly small
- Tree type
- deciduous
- General
- some small
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- General undergrowth
- heavy
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 3
Source
- Source
- Cottage Grove, Oregon, Sentinel, Jim Bradbury quot
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- JUL 13 1972
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1988
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- running
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Child
- Interviewer
- Jim Bradbury, Cottage Grove Sentinel
- Interview date
- JUL 12 1972
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- fled
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 10 to 15