Possible whoops heard in logging area outside the Monongahela National Forest
Account
The witness, a wildlife biology student surveying songbird nests in a clear-cut, heard a very loud repetitive whooping from a ridge about 100 yards above for 3 to 4 minutes. The witness scanned with binoculars but saw nothing, then hiked to the ridgetop about 10 minutes later and found it unusually quiet with game trails. The witness later concluded the sound matched an archival whoop recording and was not a known bird.
What was reported
Every kind of observation in the account. Select one to find other encounters with it.
Sounds
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
12 July 2003
|
|---|---|
| Time of day |
afternoon, between 1 and 2 pm
|
| Place |
Mabie, Randolph County, West Virginia
Stated
BFRO report #18793
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
|
| Map point |
38.88, -79.96 (± 3 km)
BFRO map layer point for report 18793 with published boundary
|
| Account type |
First-hand
|
| Witnesses |
1
|
| Witness was |
searching for bird nests for songbird study
|
| Source classification |
Class B
|
Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
An investigator emailed the witness a link to compare the heard whoops with a 1974 whoops-and-knocks clip.
Source timeline
Every record this entry is built from, earliest known first. Records are versioned and never edited in place.
-
BFRO report #18793 Primary
-
BFRO map layer Reference
The report refers to
- “an expedition was done in almost the same spot where I had worked, just further north”Not in the Anomadex yet