Incident #991084
Sioux City, Woodbury Cty, Iowa
Aug 1974
Account
Informant wakened by dog barking, heard back porch rail rattle, looked out and saw creature resembling a two-legged gorilla. He called police who put tracking dog on footprints in the grass. Dog followed "all around Riverside", but were stopped at chain link fence around school.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 29 1974
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
- Duration
- 6 to 15 seconds
Where
- State / province
- Iowa
- County
- Woodbury Cty
- Nearest Town
- Sioux City
- Latitude
- 4230
- Longitude
- 9624
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- urban
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied building
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Mutual UFO Network interview by Lawrence Lacey with Donald O. Sopici, Sioux City, IA.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Action on sighting
- studied