Incident #991269
Oakland, Burt Cty, Nebraska
Aug 1974
Account
Connie Johnson, Cheryl Rupert and their younger brothers, out walking, saw a huge, shaggy, gorilla-like andimal moving towrds them about 75 feet away. It was making a screeching noise. One of the boys threw a firecracker at it, and it "rose on its hind legs and fled back into a corn field."
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Nebraska
- County
- Burt Cty
- Nearest Town
- Oakland
- Latitude
- 4150
- Longitude
- 9628
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 4
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- U.F.0. Report, summer, 1975' Jerome Clark article quoting Connie Johnson, Sheryl Rupert and their two younger brothers.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Appearance
- unkempt
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- made a noiseýfled
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Sound
- scream
- Reaction
- approachedýfled from
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Action on sighting
- harassed