Incident #991761
Yelvington, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
before 1978
Account
Joe Ford had a second hand report of a teenage boy walking home after running out of gas, hearing footsteps behind him, then a creature grabbed at him. When he yelled both took off. There was no moon, so he didn't get a good look.
When
- Year
- before 1978
- Time of Day
- midnight
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Kentucky
- County
- Daviess Cty
- Nearest Town
- Yelvington
- Latitude
- 3752
- Longitude
- 8658
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- on
- Terrain Object
- road
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- hill
Weather and light
- Lighting
- no obvious light
Source
- Source
- UFO Report, May, 1979, quoting Joe Ford, Owensboro, KY, museum director, quoting unnamed youth. Keith Lawrence article.
Creature description
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- approachedýhandled somethingýfled
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Aggressive To
- observer
- Arms Used
- other
- Object Handled
- person
- Human Contact
- touch
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- walking
- Closest horizontal distance
- contact
- Action on sighting
- shoutedýfled