Possible sighting at the base of Mount Timpanogos (west side of the mountain) witnessed in Utah County, Utah

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My parents live at the base of Mount Timpanogos in Utah county. Right in front of Timpanogos sits another mountain called Baldy. We call it baldy because there are no pines or aspens on the front side of it. All the pines sit on the north side of the mountain, but everywhere else is very dense brush and very tall. The only way to walk through it is on a game trail and even then you still get all scraped up. This incident happened in my backyard on a winter night around 10 - 10:30 in around 1998 when I was about 14 years old. At this time there were not too many houses around and we have about 5 acres in the backyard up against the mountain. Behind the five acres was nothing until you hit the city of Pleasant Grove. Now, there are new houses all the way back. In the winters there are always deer, elk, and cougars back there. We've even had bighorn sheep come down that far too. My family and I were in the basement playing ping-pong. We have a walk out basement sliding door that go...