Incident #1001252
Farmington, San Juan Cty, New Mexico
Jun 1971
Account
Mrs. Cheeseman and a co-worker visiting Navajo homes high in the Chuska Mountains, walked for lunch to an old ruin on a hill above an area of dense brush and while there heard crackling in the bushes and a peculiar call, high pitched but ending in a sort of whistling or choking groan. On the way back cme upon an area where something had made a bed three times the size of a deer bed, under a big fir tree. Next found an area with many footprints 16 inches long and 6 to 7 inches wide with no sign of an arch. The big toe was longest, but all the toes made impressions an inch deep in leaf mould where human prints made no impression at all. Prints were directly in line, with about a 3-foot stride. There were branches broken off higher than their heads.
When
- Observation Date
- JUN 08 1971
- Month
- Jun
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
Where
- State / province
- New Mexico
- County
- San Juan Cty
- Nearest Town
- Farmington
- Direction from Town
- Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 55
- Population of Town
- 30000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 75
- Latitude
- 361---
- Longitude
- 1084---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- ravine
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1001251, 1001250, 1001253
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Slope
- ridge crest
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly large
- Tree condition
- mostly mature
- Tree type
- coniferous
- General
- some
- Undergrowth
- heavy
- Undergrowth size
- high
- Undergrowth type
- hard stemmed
- General undergrowth
- moderate
- Species
- pine
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Mrs. C.A. Cheeseman to John Green
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- SEP 13 1971
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- 1971
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.0
- Greates Width
- 6.5
- Toes
- 1.00
- Observer Print Depth
- 0.00
- Stride in Inches Average
- 36
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Track Condition
- fair
- Arc Y/N
- No
- Feet in Line?
- in line
- Material Tracks Made in
- forest litter
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- SPRING 1972
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- picnicking
- Track witnesses
- 2
- Age
- 51 to 60