Tuolumne County, California

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Tuolumne County California (Class A) BFRO

July 1978

I'm writing this with some hesitation as I'm still not sure what, if anything, I saw but, having read varying reports of similar occurences in the area I'm about to describe, I thought you might be interested. I hesitate because for many years now I've attributed what I saw to an often-active imagination and "trick" of light. Let me explain. When I was approx. 11 or 12 years old (1978 or '79)I was walking through the woods with my younger brother and friend behind the California Dept of Fish and Game patrol cabin across from the Boulder Flats camp ground, Hwy 108 in Tuolumne County about 50 miles or so east of Sonora. My father is a retired DFG patrol captain and we'd vacation there several times a year. All we were doing was walking through the woods several hundred yards from the cabin when we saw what looked like a conical-shaped head, brown in color with deep set eyes peering at us from behind a tree approx.100-120 feet away slightly uphill from where we were standing. That's a...

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Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

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Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

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Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

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Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

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