Daylight sighting by hikers near Lake Fork, off the Conejos River.
Account
From an overlook the witness watched three hikers with a dog on the trail below through binoculars and noticed a large black bipedal figure moving ahead of them through the adjacent meadow. The figure moved much faster than the hikers, away from them, jumped the creek, and disappeared into trees on the far side of the valley after about five minutes. The witness judged it much larger than a man and stated it was not a bear, and believed the hikers never saw it.
What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Hair colour src
- black
- Gait src
- bipedal
- Posture src
- bipedal
- Other features src
- much larger than a man
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
13 July 1997
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| Time of day |
about 1:30 in the afternoon
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| Place |
Platoro, Conejos County, Colorado
Stated
BFRO report #1352
· BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details
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| Map point |
37.32, -106.51 (± 1339 m)
BFRO map layer point for report 1352 with published boundary
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
driving along logging roads looking for elk
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| Witness's word for it |
large, black object
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
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Soon after the sighting the witness drove down the logging road to try to intercept the hikers but found no car at the trail base.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #1352 Primary
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BFRO map layer Reference