Incident #991214
Floodwood, Saint Louis Cty, Minnesota
Nov 1968
Account
Sitting on a stump, deer hunting, Uno Heikkila saw a creature jump down from a balsam tree and walk into the woods on its hind legs. He "thought it was a kid" at first, then realized it was something he had never seen before. He followed about 200 feet before losing sight of it. Height est. four and a half feet.
When
- Observation Date
- NOV 12 1968
- Month
- Nov
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Minnesota
- County
- Saint Louis Cty
- Nearest Town
- Floodwood
- Latitude
- 4656
- Longitude
- 9254
What was seen
- Individuals
- one small
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- at
- Terrain Object
- tree
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Uno. J. Heikkila, Box 81, Floodwood, Minn. 55736, writing to Roger Patterson.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- presumed
- Height
- 5 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- jumping down
- Later Movement
- walked awayýentered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Closest horizontal distance
- 50 yards
- Action on sighting
- followed