Other Flying · 1980s
XX-1980ID case-f3a309a188Added to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- the 1980sto the decade
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator's brother reports seeing a black, red-eyed winged creature with a cow's tail wheezing at him while crossing a field and forest in the 1980s.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other Flying reports with no place (233) - When
- the 1980s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-f3a309a188
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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.
- Has anyone ever seen a crawler in outside the US? (especially in Europe.)
Reddit · 2025-03-12
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.