Incident #1001269
Jackson, Teton Cty, Wyoming
Jul 1972
Account
Vincent Lee wrote a detailed account of a 20-year-old girl riding along the West bank of the Snake River just below its confluence with the Hoback River and seeing across the river a dark, upright figure emerge from the timber low on the North side of an East-West ridge onto the open sage and grass on the South slope. (North and East slopes are typically heavily timbered, South and West are drier and open.) It appeared covered with hair, and walked like a human, arm swinging, diagonally upwards for several hundred yards across the open slope in too short a time for a human. (A second hand story "about 1972" of a woman wrangling horses 20 miles South of Jackson seeing something bigger than a person walk across a field could be a distortion of this same story, in which case the witness' name may be Julie Hagen, from Jackson.)
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1972
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Wyoming
- County
- Teton Cty
- Nearest Town
- Jackson
- Direction from Town
- South
- Distance from Town
- 14
- Population of Town
- 4500
- Elevation/Altitude
- 60
- Latitude
- 4318--
- Longitude
- 11046--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- trees
- Super Human Action
- Walked too fast for human
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- hillside
- Slope
- steep
- Slope Faced
- West
- Nearby Water
- river
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- forest litter
- Cover
- heavy
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Letter to John Green from Vincent R. Lee, telling
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- JUL 1976
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- JUL 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- walking
- Direction
- East
- Later Movement
- went up slope
- Speed
- fast
- Walking Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Reaction
- ignored
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Sex
- Female
- Interviewer
- Vincent R. Lee, Box 51, Wilson, Wyoming
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- horseback
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Farthest horizontal distance
- half mile
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20