Incident #1001164
Great Falls, Cascade Cty, Montana
May 1977
Account
Mike Smith and two others saw a brown, hair-covered, biped walking on the sidehill of a timbered are on Carpenter Creek, in the Monarch-Neihart area, between 4.30 and 5 p.m. Estimated 75 yards from it, but it was moving away fast, and did not get a good look at it.
When
- Observation Date
- MAY 07 1977
- Month
- May
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- late afternoon
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Cascade Cty
- Nearest Town
- Great Falls
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 40
- Population of Town
- 57000
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- hillside
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Slope
- steep
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Keith Wolverton quoting Mike Smith
- Source Type
- police report
- Source Date
- MAY 09 1977
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 1977
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Movement
- walking
- Speed
- fast
- Walking Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Reaction
- avoided
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Capt. Keith Wolverton
- Interview date
- MAY 09 1977
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 3