Labette County, Kansas

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Labette County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

February 1978

Chetopa, Kansas Chief of police measures footprints. (239K) 1978, Labette, 2-?. Chief of police in Chetopa finds 2 and a half miles of tracks that measured 17 inches in length, 5 5/8 in width. More than 5000 people came and seen these tracks, and channel 7 news in Pittsburg reported in on there 6:00 news. After awhile the chief supposedly found what was making the tracks, which was a 6'6" kid named Chuck Bentley, which had made some wooden footprints and had stapled them to his boots. NOTE: After researching this further I found that the facts of this kid being related to this footprints was probable not true. I feel that the chief of police was just trying to get everyone settled down, and to stop the amount of people that were coming into town..........The Chetopan, February 23, 1978

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McPherson County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

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Bourbon County Kansas (Class B) BFRO

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Bourbon County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

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Coffey County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

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Stanislaus County California (Class A) BFRO

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Hancock County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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Jackson County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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Jackson County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

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Fayette County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Two cousins spot large creature as it dashes across path

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July 1997

Labette County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

Chief of police in Chetopa finds two and a half miles of tracks that measured 17 inches in length, 5 5/8 in width. Thousands of curious people came out to look at the tracks. The incident was reported on the local TV news

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Yakima County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Evening sighting by motorist near Glenwood

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Miller County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Sighting in wheat field near Fouke

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