San Juan County, New Mexico

Near Crystal, New Mexico

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San Juan County New Mexico (Class A) BFRO

May 2009

A friend was visiting from out of town and so we decided to take advantage of the clear skies and mild temperatures and go for a road trip. We had just been down near Window Rock, AZ and were heading back to Farmington, NM. The easiest way to do so is going over Narbona Pass. The speed limit on this road is 65 and I was travelling at 65 when coming around a corner just south of the picnic area (there is only one area that is located east just off the highway). As I came around the corner I noticed something moving rapidly in a diagonal direction up the side of the hill just where the forest meets the meadows lining either side of the highway. It would be the east side of the road. I slowed down and said to my friend "Did you see that?!" he had seen it as well. I hit the brake to get another look but knew that by the time I backed up it would have been long gone. What we saw was larger than a black bear or elk. Blackish-Brown hair that could be seen hanging from all over its body. It ...

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C Thomas 473 days ago

I know exactly where that is, I used to go cross country skiing up there , being a beginner, we didn’t go far off the highway. Once we were up that dirt road near the picnic area, it was snowed in and no one had travelled it but we saw some huge tracks and it looked like it had rolled in the snow . We thought it was a bear and left. It would have been really early for a bear and we didn’t know bear footprints. They were not crisp and clear but we didn’t linger.around 2002.


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San Juan County New Mexico (Class B) BFRO

Zoologist hears wood knocking

I was hunting in the Chuska Mountains (unit [withheld] of the Navajo Nation). I heard wood knocks, just two clear knocks towards the north of my tent. The previous night i had heard foot steps com...

October 2005

San Juan County New Mexico (Class B) BFRO

Possible visitation at a camp, 10 miles northeast of Whiskey Lake

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August 2005

San Juan County New Mexico (Class A) BFRO

Mother and daughter see creature from the road

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October 2003

San Juan County New Mexico (Class A) BFRO

Early evening sighting in meadow near Narbona Pass in the Chuska Mountains

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June 2002

Putnam County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Man remembers his daytime sighting as a youth living south of Hennepin

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November 1986

Fairbanks County Alaska (Class A) BFRO

Witness observers 6 foot, shaggy, dark brown creature off Richardson Hwy

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September 1964

Pierce County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Lake Tapps

With friend Scott Piveral, at about 7:30 AM on way to school, saw two white creatures that smelled like skunks, just standing at edge of woods on a hill, they then meanered back into woods. The creatu...

October 1975

Peoria County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of daytime encounter near Farmdale Park

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January 1957

Forest County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by young fisherman at dusk on Wabikon Lake

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July 1983

Vernon Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Five year old boy approached by a large, bi-pedal animal covered in dark hair

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January 1979

Summit County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls early evening sighting near Brandywine Ski Resort

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September 2005

Colfax County New Mexico (Class A) BFRO

Motorist has nighttime sighting below Raton Pass

I was driving at night on I-25 on raton pass. This happened last night. It was late and then I noticed something on the side of the road. I thought it was a bear or something. Then it took of and ran ...

January 2005