Incident #991763
Owensboro, Daviess Cty, Kentucky
Aug 1978
Account
Joe Ford says friends of Larry Nelson cornered the creature in mid August beside a pond in a field behind the house and one of them shot it with a pistol from 10 feet away. It fled into the woods, again leaving no blood.
When
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- summer
Where
- State / province
- Kentucky
- County
- Daviess Cty
- Nearest Town
- Owensboro
- Latitude
- 3745
- Longitude
- 8705
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- field
- Near or/at
- water
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Shot Hit
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- several
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
- Nearby Water
- pond
Source
- Source
- UFO Report, May, 1979, Keith Lawrence article quoting Joe Ford quoting friends of Larry Nelson, Owensboro, KY.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 9 ft
- Build
- heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown black
- Shoulders
- wide
- Later Movement
- ranýentered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Action on sighting
- harassedýshot