Incident #1001143
Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana
Dec 1975
Account
Two girls reported to the sheriff's office that they had seen a dark, hair-covered creature 7 to 7.5 feet tall in open pasture near the Sun River. The face was "awful looking", not human. It was twice as wide as a man. They fired a .22 rifle in the air and it lay down on the ground and moaned, making a breast stroke motion with its arms, then stood up and walked towards the girls, who were standing by their trailer house. They ran away, but one looked back and saw three or four more similar creatures come from an area of brush along the river and join the first creature. Deputies investigated and found nothing. Ground was frozen. Girls both passed polygraph tests.
When
- Observation Date
- DEC 26 1975
- Month
- Dec
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Cascade Cty
- Nearest Town
- Great Falls
- Direction from Town
- West
- Distance from Town
- 10
- Population of Town
- 57000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 35
- Latitude
- 4731--
- Longitude
- 11130--
What was seen
- Individuals
- more than two, sex unknown (large)
- Total Individuals
- 4
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Near or/at
- occupied building
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- level
- Nearby Water
- river
- Substratum
- fine material
- Ground condition
- frozen
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Heat
- cold
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Great Falls, Montana, Tribune quoting Capt. Kieth
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- FEB 11 1976
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- MAR 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Shoulders
- wide
- Torso Front
- wide
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- got down, gestured, got up
- Arms Action
- gesturing
- Sound
- other
- Reaction
- approached
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Horses in nearby barn were pawing the ground and rearing on hind legs. When shot fired over its head creature lay on the ground, moaned and made breast stroke motions with its hands.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Additional Movement
- approached
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Child
- Interviewer
- Cascade Cty Sheriff's Capt. Kieth Wolverton
- Interview date
- DEC 26 1975
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home, outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- shot, fled
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 10 to 15