DATE:   April 1980

TIME:    Dusk

LOCATION:    Green Valley, California,   Los Angeles County

TERRAIN:       Mountains

OBSERVED:      A very large (over 7 feet) dark, hairy ape-like being standing on
two legs.  It was observed to turn and walk into a wooded area where the
sound of breaking branches was heard. Very big footprints were discovered
the next day at the location.

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESS(ES):   (Please see below)

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:    Very big, very hairy, dark and absolutely unafraid of my
friend and I.
 

OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA:   There were two occurences. My friend and I were
both camping in the woods for a week just prior to leaving for the United States Army.
On one night, we were in our tent getting ready for sleep when we heard the very
loud sound of "someone" walking around us in the trees. we heard big
branches breaking and brush crunching sounds. We jumped out of the tent and were both armed with guns.  We were afraid that the person out there was going to harm
us so we yelled out, "you better leave, we have guns!"   The "person" just kept
walking as if going from tree to tree circling us and watching us...very
close.

So, we gave a few more warnings and then opened fire into the sky. My
friend had a shotgun and I had an M-1 carbine....both very, very loud at
night.  Whoever, or whatever was out there was not afraid at all.  To our
surprise, it just kept moving around out there in the dark.  We knew that if
it was an animal, it would have ran away from the gunfire so we got pretty
scared and ran away ourselves.  We were so scared that we walked about 2
miles to the main road and spent the night in a drain ditch. When the sun came up
and we went back to our camp there was nothing missing from our site.

We decided to move camp that day toward the main road so we could have
more open space around the tent. The next night is when we saw it. We were
both walking along a dirt road with our weapons, talking when there it was.
Standing directly in front of us no more than 20 feet away was what I knew
was a bigfoot looking right at us!

It looked exactly like the ones in the photos and just stood there almost looking bored. It showed absolutely no sign of fear. Xxxxx and I started to walk backward real slow saying, "Are you seeing what I am seeing"? Suddenly, the Big Foot just turned toward the
trees very slow and just walked into the forest.

We stopped and were very excited as we tried to decide what to do. I said,
"We can't shoot it!  What should we do"?  As we discussed our options, we could hear the sound of the Big Foot crashing through the trees and brush and later realized that the
sound was the same one that we had heard moving around our tent the night
prior!

The next day, my brother in law came to check on us and we told him the
story.  He did not believe us and that was frustrating.  We all went to where
the Big Foot walked into the trees and there were giant foot prints. My
Brother-in-law laughed and accused Xxxxx and I of making them as a hoax.
When we followed the prints, they crossed a stream and at one point the Big Foot
had stepped directly onto a red ant hill.  I asked my brother-in-law how we
had faked that. We never did see the Big Foot again.

Thats the true story.