Kentucky summer of 1978. 1 bigfoot creatures involved

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Encounter date: AUG 07 1978
Year: 1978
Season: summer
Time of day: evening (light)
Duration: n/a
Story Originator: n/a
Reported by: Owensboro, KY, Messenger & Inquirer, Aug. 10, 1978, quoting Larry Nelson, 2864 Fairview Dr., Owensboro, and friends. Also UFO Report, May, 1979, Keith Lawrence article.
Terrain: farms and woods
Lighting: daylight
State: Kentucky
Nearest Town: Owensboro
County: Daviess County
Coordinates: Lat 3745 Lon 8705
Distance to Town: n/a
Number of Creatures: 1
Creature Types: one large, sex unknown
Photographed: NO
Tracks: found later
Tracks Cast: NO
Tracks Photographed: NO
Creature fired at: n/a
Superhuman Action: n/a
Trees Undergrowth: Species n/a, Variety: n/a, Tree Cover: n/a, Tree Condition: n/a, Tree Type: n/a, Tree Abborations: n/a, Undergrowth: n/a, Undergrowth Type: n/a
Slope: n/a, Slope Was Facing: n/a
Nearby water: n/a
Distance to water: n/a
Substratum: n/a
Snow condition: n/a
Weather condition: n/a, Heat: n/a, Wetness: n/a, Snow: n/a, Temp: n/a, Wind: n/a, Clarity: n/a, Humidity: n/a
JG Incident type: n/a
JG File Date: n/a
JG Source date: n/a
JG Source type: n/a
JG Source reliability rank: n/a
JG Source incident rank: n/a
JG Visibility Index: n/a
Related incident id: n/a
This entry represents two early evening sighting by Larry Nelson, the second one the same day his brother shot at the creature, plus the finding of tracks, not stated whether before or after the sightings. It was the tracks that were in the woods, no location for the sightings except a general reference to 'prowling around along the woods line..