Incident #991723
Merritt Island, Brevard Cty, Florida
Sep 1992
Account
Barbara Vega and her boyfriend were driving east across Merritt Island on Hwy 528, and were crossing the bridge over Sykes Creek when they saw a huge hairy apelike creature walking south across the median into their path. They had to speed up to avoid hitting it. The creature maintained a steady fast pace towards undeveloped marshland to the south.
When
- Month
- Sep
- Year
- 1992
- Season
- fall
- Time of Day
- before 3 a.m.
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Florida
- County
- Brevard Cty
- Nearest Town
- Merritt Island
- Latitude
- 2824
- Longitude
- 8041
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- island
- Nearby Water
- creekýocean
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Florida Today, Jan. 31, 1993, quoting Barbara Vega, Titusville, FL, and boyfriend.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- very large
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- walked away
- Speed
- fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Reaction
- ignored
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in car
- Closest horizontal distance
- under 5 feet
- Action on sighting
- kept going