Incident #1001249
Zuni, McKinley Cty, New Mexico
Jan 1970
Account
Clifford Heronemus, Robert Davis, Carl Martinez and David Chiaramonte driving at 45 miles an hour, had a five foot, seven inch hairy creature running on two legs keeping pace. One of them shot it and it fell down, but got up and ran off. No blood. Couldn't be a person, Heronemus said, they can't move that fast.
When
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1970
- Season
- winter
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- New Mexico
- County
- McKinley Cty
- Nearest Town
- Zuni
- Population of Town
- 6000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 60
- Latitude
- 350---
- Longitude
- 1084---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- Yes
- Effect of Shot
- knockdown, fled
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- road
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Bigfoot Bulletin No. 16, Loren Coleman quoting fro
- Source Type
- newsletter
- Source Date
- APR 30 1970
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1970
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 5-6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- fled
- Speed
- fast
- Running Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- maintaining distance
- Reaction
- ran after, fled from
- Describe Unsual
- Creature just ran alongside until it was shot and knocked down, then ran off.
- Estimated Top Speed (mph)
- 40 mph
- 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
- kept going, shot
- No of witnesses
- 4
- Age
- 16 to 20