Incident #992452
Latrobe, Westmoreland Cty, Pennsylvania
Jul 1979
Account
On July 4 Mr. and Mrs. L. heard bellows, grunts, screams, growls, snapping twigs and breaking branches from the woods behind their house. Nothing was found the next day, but another search July 10 turned up a footprint near the bank of a creek, where a branch was broken off a tree and there was a hunk of hair caught on another branch, also 3 prints 60 feet from the house, and on July 13 another print across the road.
When
- Observation Date
- JUL 04 1979
- Month
- Jul
- Year
- 1979
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- 3 a.m. to dawn
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Westmoreland Cty
- Nearest Town
- Latrobe
- Latitude
- 4019
- Longitude
- 7924
What was seen
- Population Status
- rural
- Tracks
- found later
- Cast Made Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
- No. of Track Witnesses
- several
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
- Nearby Water
- creek
Source
- Source
- Penn. Center for UFO Research Researcher, Sept., 1979. Diane Enion quoting Mr. and Mrs. L., Latrobe, PA.
Creature description
- Sound
- gruntýscreamýgrowl
- Evidence Left
- footprintsýhair
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 16.2
- Greates Width
- 6.7
- Number of Tracks
- 5