Incident #1001292
Banff, Bow Val, Alberta
Jul 1971
Account
Dick Lauder and a companion driving on the edge of the mountains East of Banff saw at the bottom of a canyon half a mile away a moose-sized bipedal animal that walked on two legs along a stream bed. When it was gone they looked for tracks, but found none in the rocky soil.
When
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Alberta
- County
- Bow Val
- Nearest Town
- Banff
- Direction from Town
- East Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 30
- Population of Town
- 4300
- Elevation/Altitude
- 40
- Latitude
- 510---
- Longitude
- 1150---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- ravine
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Exact Terrain
- valley bottom
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Substratum
- broken rock
- Cover
- none
- General
- none
- Undergrowth
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- Jon Beckjord quoting Dick Lauder
- Source Type
- colleague
- Source Date
- FJUN 30 1976
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- JUL 1976
- Incident type
- 1
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Interviewer
- Jon Beckjord
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- half mile
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 2