Class A First-hand BFRO #24500

Young man and his mother experience daylight sighting of a monkey-like creature, possibly a juvenile sasquatch, through a window of their home near the Oquirrh Mountains

BFRO YEAR: 2004 or 05 4:00 pm Tooele County, Tooele County, Utah 2 witnesses

Account

The witness and his mother were looking out the kitchen window at home. They watched a small black short-haired monkey-like animal jog across the empty field behind the house toward the mountains to the east. After about a minute the animal went down into a ditch and out of sight.

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What was reported

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Sightings

Described appearance

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Height src
Maybe four feet
Hair colour src
black
Hair length src
short fur
Gait src
jogging
Posture src
sort of crouched over
Other features src
monkey looking thing

Facts & provenance

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Time of day
4:00 pm
Stated BFRO report #24500 · BFRO report, “Time And Conditions” section
Place
Tooele County, Tooele County, Utah
Stated BFRO report #24500 · BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town
Map point
40.5394, -112.3078 (± 15 km)
Geocoded BFRO report #24500 · gazetteer:place · read with 50% confidence
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Tooele city (GEOID 4976680), matched from nearest town 'Tooele County'
Account type
First-hand
Derived BFRO report #24500 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witnesses
2
Derived BFRO report #24500 · BFRO report, “Other Witnesses” section
Figures reported
1
Derived BFRO report #24500 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witness was
looking out the kitchen window
Stated BFRO report #24500 · BFRO report, “Other Witnesses” section
Witness's word for it
some monkey looking thing
Stated BFRO report #24500 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Source classification
Class A
Stated BFRO report #24500 · BFRO classification label

Evidence & investigation

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Investigated by
Chad Hamblin (BFRO)
Follow-up

An investigator interviewed the witness's father and the witness by phone and asked the witness to submit an online report.

BFRO report, “Follow-Up” section

Source timeline

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  1. Published 2008-08-17 Retrieved 2026-09-24 Version 1 Hash 45bdeb8953db
    BFRO - Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

The report refers to

  • “report 23917”
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