Incident #1001040
Myrtle Point, Coos Cty, Oregon
Sep 1972
Account
Dewey Strong was driving West on the Lee Valley Road just off Hwy. 42 between Coquille and Myrtle Point, at 4.30 a.m., when his headlights swung across a 7-foot ape standing in the ditch on the North side of the road. It was covered with black hair, had a huge apelike head, and had a triangular white spot on its chest and throat. He kept going briefly, then went back, but it was gone.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 30 1972
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Coos Cty
- Nearest Town
- Myrtle Point
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 3000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 1
- Latitude
- 430629
- Longitude
- 1240910
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- ditch
- Near or/at
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not looked for
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Exact Terrain
- road
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Jack Woodruff intv. with Dewey Strong
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- OCT 1972
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- OCT 1972
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- black
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Movement
- staying still
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Had a white patch on its throat and chest
- Different Colour on
- chest
- Second Colour
- white
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Jack Woodruff
- Interview date
- OCT 01 1972
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 41 to 50