Incident #991685
Delray Beach, Palm Beach Cty, Florida
Mar 1977
Account
David Smith and Bob Saurriding a motorcycle down a dark, barely-travelled road west of Delray Beach about 10 p.m. shot past a huge hairy biped that just kept walking down the road. Its hair was slicked down as if wet. About a mile from February sightings in Delray Beach.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 25 1977
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1977
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Palm Beach Cty
- Nearest Town
- Delray Beach
- Latitude
- 2627
- Longitude
- 8008
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Boynton Beach, FL, News Journal, March 31, 1977, quoting David Smith, 14, and Bob Sauer, 15, Delray Beach, FL.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 10 ft
- Build
- thin
- Posture
- erect
- Appearance
- wet
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- motorcycle/ATV
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- kept going