Incident #1001254
Carlsbad, Eddy Cty, New Mexico
Feb 1975
Account
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Austin were camping near Sitting Bull Falls in the Guadalupe Mountains when their dogs started acting strange at night. She heard footsteps and woke her husband, who later told her he saw an animal he at first took for a bear waving its arms at the dogs. It was not a man but had a face like a man and was about 7 feet tall. It eventually left.
When
- Month
- Feb
- Year
- 1975
- Season
- winter
- Time of Day
- night
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- New Mexico
- County
- Eddy Cty
- Nearest Town
- Carlsbad
- Direction from Town
- West Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 30
- Population of Town
- 35000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 50
- Latitude
- 3209--
- Longitude
- 10438--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Near or/at
- camp
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Exact Terrain
- campsite
Weather and light
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Carlsbad, New Mexico, Current Argus. quoting Mrs.
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- MAY 3 1978
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 1978
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Face Appeared
- humanlike
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Arms Action
- gesturing
- Reaction
- ignored, avoided
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Other Unusual Y/N
- Yes
- Describe Unsual
- Dogs growled at it, didn't bark. It waved its arms at the dogs.
- Anmals Present Y/N
- Yes
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Mrs. Austin told Jim O'Hearn, Carlsbad Current Argus reporter, what her husband had told her.
- Interview date
- MAY 1978
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping
- Action on sighting
- stayed still, studied
- No of witnesses
- 1