Incident #991486
Jefferson, Union Cty, South Dakota
Sep 1974
Account
Driving on hwy. 77, 3.5 miles north of Jefferson, Jim Douglas, 24, saw a sandy-coloured, hairy creature moving through an alfalfa field "apparently struggling with a red furry object it was dragging." He stopped, backed up and stood on the running board of his pickup looking across the roof at the creature, which dropped the object and stood on its hind legs staring at him, arms dangling. After watchig it a couple of minutes he left it standing there.
When
- Observation Date
- SEP 06 1974
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1974
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- early morning
- Duration
- 2 minutes
Where
- State / province
- South Dakota
- County
- Union Cty
- Nearest Town
- Jefferson
- Latitude
- 4236
- Longitude
- 9633
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- farm field
- Near or/at
- road
- Tracks
- not found
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- U.F.O. sighting reort form Mutual UFO network, Dr. Lawrence Lacey interviewing Jim Douglas, 2212 Riverside, Sioux City, Iowa, 51109. Phone 233-3102
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 9 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- light brown
- Hair Longer on
- neck
- Neck Length
- short
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- got upýput something downýstopped still
- Movement re observer
- away from observer
- Aggressive To
- animal
- Arms Action
- hanging
- Arms Used
- hanging onto something
- Object Handled
- animal
- Reaction
- watched
- Position when first seen
- bent over
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Action on sighting
- stoppedýstudied