Night time rabbit hunters spotlight 7' tall biped leaping over 4' sagebrush as it escapes from view
Account
Late at night in spring 1963, six family members stopped during a rabbit hunting trip in sagebrush country and used a spotlight to look for animals. The spotlight revealed a large, tall, hair-covered upright figure running away, leaping over brush without pausing before disappearing into a gully. The group did not pursue it or search for footprints and ended the hunt, concluding it matched no familiar animal.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Height src
- quite tall
- Build src
- large
- Arms src
- like a human, slightly longer
- Legs src
- like a human
- Gait src
- ran like a man
- Posture src
- upright as a man would be
- Other features src
- hair covered
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
June 1963
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| Time of day |
well after darkness
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| Place |
Grandview, Owyhee County, Idaho
Stated
BFRO report #5720
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
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| Map point |
42.79, -116.25 (± 8 km)
BFRO map layer point for report 5720 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
6
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
rabbit hunting after dark
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| Witness's word for it |
large upright "thing"
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
- Investigated by
- Roland Wolfe (BFRO)
An investigator later located and separately interviewed two of the other witnesses about the decades-old event.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #5720 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference