Incident #992382
Derry, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Aug 1973
Account
About 11.30 p.m. woman and son heard something scratching at the back of their trailer, and a sound like a crying baby, then their lights began to go on and off. They opened the back door and standing in front of it was a large apelike creature with long arms. The woman screamed and the creature ran between the trailers. The power box on the trailer had been ripped open and a wire polled aside.
When
- Observation Date
- AUG 24 1973
- Month
- Aug
- Year
- 1973
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 10 to midnight
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Westmoreland Cty
- Nearest Town
- Derry
- Latitude
- 4020
- Longitude
- 7918
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- First Seen
- beside
- Terrain Object
- occupied building
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Source
- Source
- Stan Gordon, MUFON UFFO Symposium 1974, quoting a woman and her son.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- large
- Posture
- erect
- Arms
- long
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- fled
- Aggressive To
- mobile home
- Object Handled
- manmade object
- Sound
- other
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- at home
- Closest horizontal distance
- close
- Action on sighting
- shouted