Incident #1001246
Reno, Washoe Cty, Nevada
Jul 1979
Account
Irwin Miller, Bureau of Indian Affairs criminal investigator, and Robert Hannam, Pyramid Lake Reservation game warden, told reporter Rod Foo of reports of a 7-foot apelike animal seen at night, and large footprints in a pasture where a colt was found with its legs and neck broken, and at Marble Bluff and at the mouth of the Truckee River by Pyramid Lake. The footprints were 14 inches by 6 to 7 inches, but not distinct, didn't show toes. A juvenile reported seeing a creature with long arms and a hairy body, about 7 to 8 feet tall, walking in a slumped position.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- night
Where
- State / province
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe Cty
- Nearest Town
- Reno
- Direction from Town
- Northeast
- Distance from Town
- 30
- Population of Town
- 100000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 45
- Latitude
- 395---
- Longitude
- 11719--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found previously
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- valley
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- river, lake
Source
- Source
- Reno, Nevada, Gazette, quoting Irwin Miller quotin
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- JUL 14 1979
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- AUG 1979
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- slightly stooped
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- walking
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 14.0
- Greates Width
- 6.5
- Track Condition
- poor
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Tracks Came From
- pasture
- Trackmaker attracted by
- livestock
- Remarks
- Tracks were found while investigating the death of a colt found with its neck and legs broken.
Witness 1
- Sex
- Child
- Interviewer
- Irwin Miller, Bureau of Indian Affairs criminal investigator
- Interview date
- JUL 1979
- No of witnesses
- 1
Witness 2
- Interviewer
- Rod Foo, Reno Gazette.
- Interview date
- JUL 1979
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- come to see
- Track witnesses
- several