Incident #1001419
Bend, Deschutes Cty, Oregon
Jan 1998
Account
Ron Maples was driving a pickup truck on a dirt road that can be reached only through his property when he came on barefoot prints 21 inches long and 7 inches wide, with a 70-inch step length. They went up onto railroad tracks, where there was no snow between the rails and no tracks on the other side. He showed the tracks to his wife, took 14 photos of them, and called Bob Pennington, retired Oregon Fish and Game employee, who took videos. They then found some more tracks half a mile farther south. and took videos. With Pennington, Maples found more tracks a half mile south of the first.
When
- Observation Date
- JAN 10 1998
- Month
- Jan
- Year
- 1998
- Season
- winter
Where
- State / province
- Oregon
- County
- Deschutes Cty
- Nearest Town
- Bend
- Distance from Town
- 1
- Population of Town
- 20000
- Elevation/Altitude
- 34
- Latitude
- 4303--
- Longitude
- 12118--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- plain
- Exact Terrain
- dirt road
- Slope
- level
- Snow Condition
- shallow old
- Cover
- heavy
- Tree size
- mostly small
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Source
- Source
- Ron Maples, Bend, Oregon
- Source Type
- phone call
- Source Date
- JAN 14 1998
- Source reliability
- 10
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- DEC 1998
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 21.0
- Greates Width
- 7.0
- Stride in Inches Average
- 70
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Tracks Went to
- railroad
Witness
- Interviewer
- John Green
- Interview date
- JAN 14 1998
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Track witnesses
- 3
- Age
- 61 to 70
- Tape or Video
- Video recording