Incident #991984
Lombard, Cecil Cty, Maryland
Aug 1953
Account
Ray Potter and H.S. Osborne saw a 6-foot creature covered with brownish hair with a pink ring around its face, looking at them over a fence on Osborne's farm.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 19 1953
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1953
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- early afternoon
Where
- State / province
- Maryland
- County
- Cecil Cty
- Nearest Town
- Lombard
- Latitude
- 3943
- Longitude
- 7557
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- farm field
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Cecil, MD, Whig, Aug. 27, 1953, quoting H.S. Osborne and Ray Potter
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 6 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- brown
- Face Appeared
- monkeylike
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- watched observer
- Human Contact
- watch
- Reaction
- approached
- Second Colour
- other
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- farming
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet