Incident #1001141
Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana
Dec 1974
Account
A man reported the sheriff's office that he had seen a strange creature 7-8 feet tall walking upright towards him and had fired three shots at it with a 30.30 rifle. It kept coming and he got in his car and fled. His wife also saw it. Because the informan was known to be unreliable the report was disregarded and not investigated, but it was the first of a rash of reports in the Great Falls area.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 08 1974
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Cascade Cty
- Nearest Town
- Great Falls
- Direction from Town
- North
- Distance from Town
- 6
- Population of Town
- 57000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 35
- Latitude
- 4735--
- Longitude
- 11116--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- Yes
- Effect of Shot
- none
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
Source
- Source
- Great Falls, Montana, Tribune quoting Capt. Kieth
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- FEB 11, 1976
- Source reliability
- 4
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- MAR 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Reaction
- approached
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Creature showed no effect from 30.30 bullets.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Interviewer
- Cascade County sheriff's office.
- Interview date
- DEC 8 1974
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Action on sighting
- shot
- No of witnesses
- 2