Class A
First-hand
BFRO #3169
Man sees creature crossing road near Petaluma
Fall 1991
around 11 pm
Petaluma, Sonoma County, California
3 witnesses
Account
The witness was traveling by car at night with a companion when a large bipedal figure appeared in the middle of the road. The figure reportedly paused to look at the witness's car and an oncoming car, then ran across the road. It cleared a five-foot barbed-wire fence without using its arms and ran uphill out of sight.
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What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Height src
- approximately 7.5 feet tall
- Build src
- 400-500 pounds
- Arms src
- did not use arms to jump fence
- Legs src
- on two legs
- Gait src
- full run with bolt of speed
- Posture src
- leaned forward while running
- Other features src
- had hair or fur; crotch higher than on-coming car
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
Fall 1991
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| Time of day |
around 11 pm
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| Place |
Petaluma, Sonoma County, California
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| Map point |
38.26, -122.58 (± 1000 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 3169 (4 decimals, no boundary)
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
3
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
driving toward the coast at night
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| Witness's word for it |
this thing huge in stature
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Source timeline
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BFRO report #3169 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference