Incident #1001522
Happy Camp, Del Norte Cty, California
Sep 1991
Account
Informant, an Air Force pilot taking training at Castle A.F.B., Merced, CA, on a backpacking weekend with another pilot, camped on a feeder stream of the Klamath River in Klamath National Forest. About 2 to 3 a.m. the friend heard something moving around on the exposed rock above their camp. Eventually it moved down into the meadow by the stream, then crossed stream and meadow, angling away from them, and into the tree line. They could see only a form walking on two legs, but next morning they found poor prints in the soft earth on the stream, estimated 19" long. It had watched them about 15 minutes.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 01 1991
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1991
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- California
- County
- Del Norte Cty
- Nearest Town
- Happy Camp
- Population of Town
- 1000
- Latitude
- 413---
- Longitude
- 1233---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- open
- Near or/at
- water
- Shot Hit
- No
- Tracks
- found later
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
- Report type
- 1st person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- meadow
- Nearby Water
- creek
- Distance to Water
- contact
- Cover
- some trees
- General
- none
- General undergrowth
- none
Weather and light
- Lighting
- no obvious light
- Visibility Index
- 4
Source
- Source
- BFRO from posting to Western Bigfoot Society repor
- Source Type
- internet
- Source Date
- MAR 19 1997
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 6
- Jwg file date
- MAR 1997
- Incident type
- 3
Creature description
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- crossed view field, walked away, entered woods
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- watched
- Attracted By
- human activity
- Evidence Left
- footprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 19.0
- Estimated Age
- 4
- Age Unit
- hours
- Number of Tracks
- few
- Track Condition
- poor
- Material Tracks Made in
- dirt
- Relation to Water
- in then out
- Tracks Came From
- hillside
- Tracks Went to
- trees
- Trackmaker attracted by
- human activity
Witness
- Sex
- Male
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- camping
- Moving Y/N
- No
- Position
- lying down
- Making Noise Y/N
- No
- Closest horizontal distance
- 200 yards
- Least vertical distance
- nil
- Action on sighting
- stayed still, studied
- No of witnesses
- 2
- Track witnesses
- 2