Other Aquatic · 布尔津县 بۋىرشىن اۋدانى, 新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی · 1985
Why it's on Wait… what now?: Reddish shapes on a lake forming geometric patterns is an unusual, structured behavior.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 24, 1985to the day
- Where
- 布尔津县 بۋىرشىن اۋدانى, 新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونیto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing several large reddish shapes on the surface of Lake Hanas that formed geometric patterns.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- 布尔津县 بۋىرشىن اۋدانى, 阿勒泰地区, 新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی, 836699, 中国
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 24, 1985
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-00a0563da4
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 3, Autumn 1986 (p. n7)
ISC Newsletter · 1986
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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