Incident #991925
Middlebrook, Augusta Cty, Virginia
Mar 1978
Account
Spokesman said seven employees repairing damage after ice storm were moving through a pasture on a rough-terrain vehicle when they saw in the headlights a creature that ran upright like a man, but "there was no way a man could have run that fast." They told Robert Huffman that it glided over downed trees without a stumble and turned towards them about 75 yards away at the edge of the woods, when it "appeared to hold a red light close to its chest."
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 29 1978
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1978
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- before 10 p.m.
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Virginia
- County
- Augusta Cty
- Nearest Town
- Middlebrook
- Latitude
- 3804
- Longitude
- 7911
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- pasture
- Near or/at
- trees
- Super Human Action
- "Glided over downed trees without a stumble"
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 7
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Setting
- Terrain
- farms and woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- headlights
Source
- Source
- Richmond, VA, Times-Dispatch, Apr. 5, 1978, quoting Virginia Electric and Power Co. spokesman quoting seven unnamed workmen.
Creature description
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- running
- Later Movement
- entered woods
- Speed
- very fast
- Movement re observer
- across observer front
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- in truck
- Closest horizontal distance
- 100 yards