Thunderbird · Warm Springs, Oregon · 1941
OR-1941ID case-089f273f2aAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- Oct 1941to the month
- Where
- Warm Springs, Oregonto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Oregon Indians were amazed by a motorized Thunderbird (an autogyro) flown by government workers to spray insecticide on crickets.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Warm Springs, Jefferson County, Oregon, 97761, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1941
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-089f273f2a
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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.
- Image 92 of Detroit evening times (Detroit, Mich), October 26, 1941, (FINAL)
Newspaper · 1941-10-26
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.