Incident #1001520
Old Station, Lassen Cty, California
late 1980's
Account
Smokejumper and two others camping overnight at extinguished small fire, he heard rustling in brush, shined headlamp and saw two yellow eyes about 50 feet away and 8 feet off the ground, dark shape below. Threw a stick, it turned and ran downhill, upright, arms swinging. After about 50 yards it stopped, raised its hand and pushed a tree branch aside and looked back him, then turned, ran off and disappeared.
When
- Year
- late 1980's
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Lassen Cty
- Nearest Town
- Old Station
- Direction from Town
- Southeast
- Distance from Town
- 16
- Population of Town
- 100
- Elevation/Altitude
- 70
- Latitude
- 4030--
- Longitude
- 12115--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- camp
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- forest
- Cover
- some trees
- Tree size
- mostly small
- General
- some small
Weather and light
- Rainfall
- dry
- Lighting
- flashlight
- Visibility Index
- 5
Source
- Source
- Bobbie Short posting from unidentified smoke jumpe
- Source Type
- internet
- Source Date
- SEP 21 1999
- Source reliability
- 5
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- SEP 1999
- Incident type
- 1
Creature description
- Reflection
- reflected yellow
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- dark
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- fled, went down slope, stopped still
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Arms Used
- for spreading foliage
- Object Handled
- tree
- Reaction
- approached, watched, fled from
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Additional Movement
- turned, watched observer, fled
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- work outdoors, camping
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- lying down
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 feet
- Farthest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- studied
- No of witnesses
- 1