Incident #992837
Allegheny Cty, Pennsylvania
1971
Account
Randy Fink and girlfriend sitting in tall grass on pipeline right of way heard a loud bird-like sound repeated for 20 minutes from a stationary location. Stood up and saw 20 yards away a 7 to 9-foot anthropoid standing in the woods. It was proportioned like a human, not fat or thin, and was covered with 2 to 3-inch grey/white hair. It ran, swinging its arms, breaking branches. They also ran.
When
- Year
- 1971
- Season
- summer
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- brief
Where
- State / province
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Allegheny Cty
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- rural
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 2
- Witness(es) Sex
- Both sexes
Setting
- Terrain
- woods
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Scott McNabb: Randy Fink CIA questionnaire.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 8 ft
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Length
- short
- Hair Colour
- off-white
- Movement
- staying still
- Later Movement
- fled
- Arms Action
- swinging
- Arms Used
- for spreading foliage
- Sound
- other
- Reaction
- fled from
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 75 feet
- Action on sighting
- fled