Other Flying · Gallipolis, Ohio · 1966
OH-1966ID case-3973a51d1bAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Dec 4, 1966to the day
- Where
- Gallipolis, Ohioto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Pilots report seeing an enormous bird with an extremely long neck flying at about 300 feet and 70 miles per hour without flapping its wings.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Gallipolis, Gallipolis Township, Gallia County, Ohio, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 4, 1966
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-3973a51d1b
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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.
- John Keel’s Classic Investigations Validate the Virtual Experience Model. This article is part of a series based on my chapter in Volume 2 of the 2022 book “A Greater Reality” co-authored and edited by Reinerio Hernandez. His compendium can now be viewed without
Reddit · 2024-07-02
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.