Incident #1001074
Albany, Benton Cty, Oregon
Mar 1978
Account
Byron Forty, 14, and Terry (Perry?) Hayes, 13, out shooting with .22's, found 17-inch by 5.5-inch tracks in a two-acre plowed field by one of the Freeway Lakes. Tracks were very flat (poor photo looks too flat) with 5 toes, and were an inch or two deep. Ken Forty, Byron's father, made two casts. An experienced hunter, he considered the tracks genuine. State Trooper Dan Duncan thought they were made with a carved wooden foot.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 11 1978
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Benton Cty
- Nearest Town
- Albany
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 2
- Population of Town
- 26000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 2
- Latitude
- 443---
- Longitude
- 1230---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Shot Hit
- No
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- wet
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Salem, Oregon, Statesman, quoting Ken Forty. Also
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- MAR 13 1978
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- APR 1978
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 5.5
- Average Depth
- 1.50
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- good
- Number of Toes
- 5
- Size of Toes
- big toe far largest
- Longest Toe
- first
- Footprint Cast Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt, mud
- Relation to Water
- in then out
- Foot Shape
- narrow
- Remarks
- Tracks apparently went through creek.
Witness 1
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- Cheryl Wheeler, Salem Oregon-Statesman
- Interview date
- MAR 1978
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Track witnesses
- several
Witness 2
- Interviewer
- Peggy McMullen, Selem Oregon Statesman
- Interview date
- MAR 1978
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- playing outside
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Track witnesses
- several
- Age
- 11 to 16