Incident #1001145
Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana
Feb 1976
Account
Leonard Hegele and his wife, driving on Interstate 15 between Ulm and Great Falls, saw three large, erect hairy creatures a quarter mile away in a field. He got out of his car with a .357 magnum revolver and chased one of them, but when he got within 7 or 8 hundred feet it turned to face him and he ran back to his vehicle. It did not make any threatening gesture. Description 9 feet tall, 4 feet wide, long arms, dark. (At the same time, Hegele said he saw a grey, oval-shaped object hovering in the air, only a few feet up, about half a mile from the highway.)
When
- Observation Date
- FEB 22 1976
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1976
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- late morning
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Cascade Cty
- Nearest Town
- Great Falls
- Direction from Town
- Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 4
- Population of Town
- 57000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 33
- Latitude
- 4727--
- Longitude
- 11122--
What was seen
- Individuals
- more than two, sex unknown (large)
- Total Individuals
- 3
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1001144
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- farm field
- Slope
- level
- Substratum
- cultivated land
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Wind
- windy
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 6
Source
- Source
- Capt. Kieth Wolverton quoting Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
- Source Type
- police report
- Source Date
- FEB 22 1976
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- MAR
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 9 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Shoulders
- wide
- Torso Front
- wide
- Movement
- walking
- Direction
- Northeast
- Later Movement
- turned around, watched observer
- Speed
- fast
- Walking Stride
- long
- Walking Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Reaction
- watched
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- There was a grey oval object hovering close to the ground about a quarter mile behind the three creatures.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- BC
- Interviewer
- Capt. Keith Wolverton
- Interview date
- FEB 22 1976
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- upright
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Farthest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- chased, came back
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 21 to 30