Other Flying · Clifton, Arizona · 1888
AZ-1888ID case-a2d5c39c2aFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- May 27, 1888to the day
- Where
- Clifton, Arizonafallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A panic was caused among inhabitants by the approach of a creature that knocked a weathercock from a church steeple.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Clifton, Greenlee County, Arizona, 85540, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- May 27, 1888
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-a2d5c39c2a
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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 1 of The Clifton clarion (Clifton, Graham County, A.T., Ariz.), June 13, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-06-13
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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