Incident #992381
Herminie, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Aug 1973
Account
Man checking why his dog was barking saw 30 feet away in his garden an apelike figure 7 feet tall standing motionless. He went to get a gun but when he came back it was gone. A large branch had been broken off a tree, and he found a fresh footprint 18 inches long and 7.5 inches wide.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 24 1973
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- dusk
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Westmoreland Cty
- Nearest Town
- Herminie
- Latitude
- 4016
- Longitude
- 7943
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- yard
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Male
Source
- Source
- Stan Gordon, MUFON UFO Symposium, and in "Bigfoot", quoting unnamed man.
Creature description
- Height
- 7 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Movement
- staying still
- Aggressive To
- branch
- Object Handled
- tree
- Odour
- strong
- Evidence Left
- broken treeýfootprints
- Position when first seen
- erect
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 18.0
- Greates Width
- 7.5
- Number of Tracks
- 1
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Closest horizontal distance
- 25 feet
- Action on sighting
- departed slowly