Incident #1001332
Butte Meadows, Butte Cty, California
Aug 1980
Account
Roy S. captain of Cal. Dept. of Forestry fire station was driving three sleeping firefighters back to camp aat Butte Meadows when he saw a large, dark shape walking in the willows by Butte Creek 200 yards downstream from the bridge of Butte Meadows. He thought it was a person at first, but it did not walk like one, it had a very fluid walk with an exaggerated arm swing. Before he could wake the only other man in the cab of the truck it was out of sight. They checked the area, but it was all gravel.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1980
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Butte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Butte Meadows
- Direction from Town
- Southwest
- Distance from Town
- 0.2
- Population of Town
- 200
- Elevation/Altitude
- 45
- Latitude
- 40044-
- Longitude
- 121325
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- bushes
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- ground too hard
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- beach
- Slope
- valley bottom
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- close
- Substratum
- gravel
- Ground condition
- dry
- General undergrowth
- moderate
Weather and light
- Heat
- hot
- Rainfall
- dry
- Lighting
- daylight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- BFRO database, from Roy S. CIA
- Source Type
- internet
- Source Date
- SEP 10 1997
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- FEB 1999
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- entered woods
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Moving Y/N
- Yes
- Position
- seated
- Making Noise Y/N
- Yes
- Closest horizontal distance
- quarter mile
- Action on sighting
- kept going
- No of witnesses
- 1