Search Reports
Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO
Man describes childhood incident, a possible approach at Seven Lakes
When I was a young boy, my father would take me backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains every summer. When I was 10 years old, my father decided I was strong enough for a long excursion in the wild...
May 1980
Los Angeles County California (Class A) BFRO
Man describes incident in teen years: Daylight encounter by two young men in the Green Valley area
First, as a matter of background, I want to tell a little about myself. It will help explain the delay in ever having reposted this incident. The sighting occurred about three months prior to my enter...
May 1980
Snohomish County Washington (Class A) BFRO
Thumping noise heard at night, footprints found in morning
On Memorial day weekend, we camped every year at the Buck Creek Campground. This year, while sleeping in the top bunk of a small Prowler trailer, I heard several loud thumps on the ground outside the ...
May 1980
Skagit County Washington (Class A) BFRO
Daylight sighting by motorists near the town of Big Lake
I had taken my kids for a drive on Mother's Day, 1980, in the mountains east of Big Lake, WA. As we came around a bend in the dirt road we saw something at a distance crossing the road to head up the ...
May 1980
Klickitat County Washington (Class B) BFRO
Recalling possible daylight sighting near Trout Lake as Mount St. Helens erupts
I was 9 years old. It was May 18th 1980 between 8am and 9am (Yes, the day Mt. Saint Helens blew its top.). My family was going to get some white landscape rocks from a rock pit west of Trout Lake, WA....
May 1980
Mifflin County Pennsylvania (Class B) BFRO
Hunter has unusual experience while spring turkey hunting
I was out in the spring of the year scouting around for turkeys on the southern side of Jacks Mountain near the small village of Ellen Chapel (close to Lewistown). I heard a type of clucking sound in ...
May 1980
Sonoma County California (Class A) BFRO
A Young Man, While Camping with 20 Others, Comes Face-to-face with Creature
This was at a youth camp. There were 20 kids all about 16 to 18 years in age. There were two dorms, one going out to the east and one going to the south, with a living area and kitchen in the middl...
April 1980
Steuben County New York (Class A) BFRO
Daylight sighting near a railroad bed and the Canisteo River
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April 1980
Skamania County Washington (Class A) BFRO
Department of Natural Resources tree-planting crew views two animals walking upright near Home Valley
In the spring of 1980, I was working for the Department of Natural Resources planting trees on State lands along the Columbia River between the towns of Carson and Home Valley Washington. The whole cr...
April 1980
Fulton County Illinois (Class A) BFRO
Youth has daylight sighting in swampy area near Canton Lake
I was at my grandparents. They lived at Canton Lake. I went down to the bottom of the hill, where they lived to smoke. I heard a loud crushing noise to my right. Keep in mind there is a cornfield in t...
April 1980
Polk County Iowa (Class B) BFRO
Possible approach to homes at night near the Des Moines River outside Saylorville
about 2 or 3 a.m. I was awakened by my st. Bernard puppy who was quite upset. I soon learned why as I could hear my neighbors 2 dogs, a great Dane and a husky by the back of our house crying loudly. I...
March 1980
Kern County California (Class B) BFRO
Possible nighttime road crossing sighting by motorist near Lamont
My girlfriend (later became wife) and I were traveling on a rural road, Panama Road, e/b e/o Cottonwood Road, that connects the outskirts of Bakersfield, CA, to Lamont, CA, a small town 14 miles outsi...
February 1980
Oxford County Maine (Class B) BFRO
Camper hears screams while winter camping near Old Speck Mountain, Maine
On 2 occasions I have heard a scream in the area of Grafton Notch in Maine. Both times near Old Speck mtn. while winter camping. This all would have been disturbing enough but I was liesurely sipping ...
February 1980
Coos County Oregon (Class A) BFRO
Large Bipedal Animal Seen Crossing Rural Road and Climbing Cutbank
My name is John R. This incident occurred in early 1980 near Arago, about 5-7 miles from Lampa Mountain. I had a paper route then and I was delivering newpapers from my truck to the residents of that ...
February 1980
Deschutes County Oregon (Class A) BFRO
Witnesss saw a large, light reddish brown, hairy man standing in the road shielding it's eyes from the headlights of her car
The thing that canvinced me to come forward with this information after all this time is that what I saw was light colored. Any one I told about it at the times made fun of me because they said they w...
January 1980
Hughes County Oklahoma (Class A) BFRO
Woman recalls childhood encounters
We were walking down the road enjoying our summer vacation. When one of us noticed that there was something walking in the pasture North of where we were standing. It was close to 7 feet tall, had lon...
January 1980
Lancaster County Nebraska (Class A) BFRO
Newspaper account of an encounter with an unknown creature near Salt Creek
A man on a motorcycle turned off of 27th street onto Fairfield Street. just in front of the Lincoln Electric Co. He said a bigfoot like creature ran in front of him causing him to fall, the creature p...
January 1980
White County Georgia (Class A) BFRO
Daylight sighting by artifact hunter northwest of Cleveland
I will try to explain what I saw while returning home from a day of walking in a clear cut looking for Indian artifacts. The clear cut was located at the foot of the southeast end of the Horse range ...
January 1980
El Paso County Colorado (Class A) BFRO
Campers report finding large footprints in the snow
Sometime in the late 1970s, a friend and myself were winter camping in the Pike National forest outside of Colorado Springs. I dont recall exactly what month of the year it was, but there was still ab...
January 1980
Jackson County Illinois (Class C) BFRO
The "Big Muddy Monster" flap of Murphysboro
In the early eighties and late seventies many incidents concerning what could only be classified as an unidentified homonid were reported in the area of Southern Ill. In particular, the area of Jackso...
January 1980
Orange County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Bigfoot rips door off of home. Witness has to flee from home
A few years back I lived in plymouth florida.We lived in a wooded area, in front of the house there was an orange grove. Beside us was a swamp, around that was a wooded area. I use to walk through the...
January 1980
Polk County Florida (Class B) BFRO
Noise, like wood being banged against tree. Tracks found
loud noise, like a large stick being banged against fairly large tree trunk approximately 20 to 30 yards off trail I as on. Tracks found in area several weeks later....
January 1980
Hernando County Florida (Class A) BFRO
creature sitting on a wood pile seen watching witness.
Over an 11 year period I found footprints. Fences repeatedly had barbed wire top lines pushed down to the field fenceing below and wrapped with moss and lodged with sticks. If you took them out they w...
January 1980