Other Flying · Mawnan, England · 1976
UNI-1976ID case-6dd4eeff4aAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- 1976to the year
- Where
- Mawnan, Englandto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Two young girls reported sighting a feathered humanoid figure with glowing eyes and expansive wings near an old church in Cornwall.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Mawnan, Mawnan Smith, Kernow / Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1976
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-6dd4eeff4a
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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.
- Owlman: Soaring Through Shadows of Mystery and Fear - Oddity Hive
Reddit · 2023-09-16
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.