Incident #1001260
Utah
1979
Account
Hunting elk near Mount McKinnon, in the Monte Cristo Range (not on any available map), sitting at a water hole at twilight, Larry Darley and his wife hear a noise and smelled "something real rank" and saw a big hairy thing at the edge of the water hole, about 50 yards away. Looked at it through telescopic sight, it looked like a blond ape, face mostly hairy but bald spots and sharp teeth. Watched until it looked directly at it, then fled. Could not explain why he did not shoot it, which is what he had intended to do.
When
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
Where
- State / province
- Utah
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Nearby Water
- small lake
- Distance to Water
- close
Weather and light
- Lighting
- twilight
- Visibility Index
- 8
Source
- Source
- Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner, quoting Larry Darl
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- AUG 03 1986
- Source reliability
- 8
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1986
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Hair Colour
- light
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observer
- Water Activity
- beside water
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Both sexes
- Witness Saw with
- scope sight
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied, fled
- No of witnesses
- 2