Nighttime sighting by Air Force personnel near Seney National Wildlife Refuge witnessed in Schoolcraft County, Michigan

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When I was stationed in the U.P.of Michigan's K.I Sawyer air force base,I travelled sometimes to see my family in the Detroit area.This was 1977-1978.A friend and I were driving on M-28,east of Munising.They may call it the Seney Stretch area.This was after an afternoon shift,so leaving the Marquette area at midnight or so would put us in the sighting area at around 1:30 am.This was winter time and quite cold.as we were driving,we both were looking down the road straight ahead.A mile or so up the road was a slight knoll or small hill and we could see the glow of headlamps from the other side highlighting the top of the knoll.Between us and the headlamp glow,we observed what we first thought was a bear crossing the road.It was at least 1/2 a mile up the road,but the headlamp glow from the other side of the hill outlined this thing quite clearly.It walked sort of hunched over until it reached the center of the road and then it stood upright and we could make out broad,manlike shoulders a...