JULY 24, 1955, EDISON, GEORGIA, USA, ALBERTA DONNELL AND TOBY DONNELL:
Brief summary of the event and follow-up:
After a previous sighting 4 days ago by someone else at the same ranch, on 24 July 1955, in the afternoon, at the Three Springs Ranch, near Edison, Georgia, Mrs. Alberta Donnell and son Toby saw a "hairy little gray man", about 3.5 feet tall walking in the fields, or, in another version, a 4 feet tall "mole colored shaggy being."
Fresh tracks were found, two days later, as well as "partly eaten citron melons."
The story was included in ufology catalogues and books, or called "a strange creature of space and time", and also called "a Bigfoot" in Bigfoot sightings catalogues.
Basic information table:
Case number:
URECAT-000590
Date of event:
July 24, 1955
Earliest report of event:
1977?
Delay of report:
Days, decades?
Witness reported via:
Ranch owner letter to ufologists?
First alleged record by:
Fortean book John Keel.
First certain record by:
"Bigfoot" book.
First alleged record type:
Fortean book.
First certain record type:
"Bigfoot" book.
This file created on:
March 28, 2008
This file last updated on:
March 28, 2008
Country of event:
USA
State/Department:
Georgia
Type of location:
Fields.
Lighting conditions:
Day.
UFO observed:
No
UFO arrival observed:
No
UFO departure observed:
No
UFO/Entity Relation:
None
Witnesses numbers:
1 or 2
Witnesses ages:
Not erported. Young adult or adult or aged, and child or young or adult.
The authors list a "Bigfoot sighting" on 24 July 1955 at the Three Springs Ranch, near Edison, Georgia, witnessed by Mrs. Alberta Donnell and son Toby. It is about a "hairy little gray man" about 3.5 feet tall walking in the fields, with tracks found.
The authors indicate that the best report, including a letter from the ranch-owner, is given in Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, (Center for UFO Studies, 1978) pp.161-5.
Other sources are Keel, "Strange Creatures from Time and Space", page 161-165, and Green, "Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us" page 215.
Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Edison, Georgia, on July 24, 1955, in the afternoon, Mrs. Alberta Donnell saw a shaggy being about 4 ft tall, "mole colored," approach her house from the pasture. The next day her daughter saw it walking in another part of the same field. 2 days later, fresh tracks and partly eaten citron melons were found.
Albert Rosales indicates that the source is Ted Bloecher and Humcat 1955-11.
This website indicates in a listing that on July 20, 1955, at the Three Springs ranch near Edison, Georgia, USA, Alberta donnell and her son Toby saw a "hairy little gray man" about 3.5 feet tall walking in the fields; tracks also found. MArtha Donnel is mentionned as seeing the same thing the next day.
The source is indicated as being the data from "Chronological List of Bigfoot Sightings (1818-1980)" in "The Bigfoot Casebook", by Janet and Colin Bord, 1982, New York: Granada Publishing.
* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.
[---] ? "Strange Creatures from Time and Space", book by John Keel, Neville Spearman publishers, U-K., page 104, 1975.
[---] ? "Close Encounters at Kelly and others of 1955", book by Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher, the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), USA, pp 161-165, 1978.
[jb1] * "The Bigfoot Casebook", book by Janet and Colin Bord, Granada publishers, USA, 1982.
[---] ? "Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us", book by John Willison Green, Hancock House publishers, page 215, USA, 1981.
[bf1] * "Chronological List of Bigfoot Sightings 1951 - 1960,", listing by the website Bigfoot, Fact of Fantasy?, USA, circa 2007, at home.clara.net/rfthomas/cb/1951.html
[ar1] * "1955 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, à www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1955.shtml
[bf1] * "Chronological List of Bigfoot Sightings 1951 - 1960,", listing by the website Bigfoot, Fact of Fantasy?, USA, circa 2007, at home.clara.net/rfthomas/cb/1951.html
