Incident #1001239
Winslow, Navajo Cty, Arizona
1965
Account
Driving North from Winslow, saw a black thing climb over a low fence or guardrail onto the road. Turned back and saw in headlights a glossy-pelted black creature about 3 feet high, looking like an ape but running like a man, with a leaping, loping motion.
When
- Year
- 1965
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- 6 to 15 seconds
Where
- State / province
- Arizona
- County
- Navajo Cty
- Nearest Town
- Winslow
- Direction from Town
- North
- Population of Town
- 8000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 350---
- Longitude
- 1104---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plateau
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Roger Heath writing to John Green
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- MAR 1 1969
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- MAR 1969
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 3-4 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- short
- Appearance
- glossy
- Hair Colour
- black
- Ears
- covered by head hair
- Arms
- long
- Hands Appearance
- pawlike
- Movement
- getting up
- Later Movement
- crossed road, fled
- Running Stride
- long
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- fled from
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Noticed red around eye sockets or brows.
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- came back, studied
- No of witnesses
- 1