Winged Being / Military Personnel Reported in Lexington, IL

[Quix]

http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/

Interesting narrative.

Evidently more than one witness in that area.

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 I got up and decided to use the bathroom, after I did a quick check outside from our windows. While in there I heard what could be liked to an animal-like screech like the Rous from the 'Princess Bride' film and a really deep bass “whoo whoo”. I thought it was odd. So I looked out our bathroom window and saw a large shadow pass under a streetlight about 30 feet from our place. It did it a couple times before a creature, like witness from Wilmington, IL described, landed. It made no sound when it flared its wings when it landed in a tree not more than ten feet from our place. A local creek is about 60 – 70 feet away from our place and about the same distance from the tree this being was perched in. It walked with a kind of hop. The feet had a splayed three clawed foot, with digits like a sloth. I did not get a good look at the torso or how its arms and grasping digits looked, but the way it landed it looked like it had paws, but I'm not sure. I never got a good look at the head.
 
 I observed it for a few minutes before it made that unnerving screech-hoot sound about 4 times before it just glided out of the tree towards the creek, in a south-southwest direction of the Mackinaw River. The coyotes started up again with their noise but it sounded like they were following it.

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[kalee]

Sounds like Mothman.

[Quix]

Sounds like Mothman.

Certainly are at least some similarities, imho.

Thanks.

[Restored]

He saw the foot in detail but nothing else?

It was more unnerving than the times a Bigfoot made visits to my family's property when I was young, or the night when something literally destroyed two of our mares.

What a mere coincidence!

[240B]

http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/

Interesting narrative.

Evidently more than one witness in that area.

I grew up with Mothmen. They were everywhere! Only we called them owls.

[Quix]

I grew up with Mothmen. They were everywhere! Only we called them owls.

6 foot or so tall Owls with 6 foot wingspans must be quite a site!

[Quix]

He saw the foot in detail but nothing else?

What a mere coincidence!

Uhhhhh .... like the "coincidence" of poltergeist goings on seeming to occur to a lot of families where UFO's abduct family members?

[240B]

6 foot or so tall Owls with 6 foot wingspans must be quite a site!

That is known as false perspective.

Late at night, frightened to death, it would be very easy for a person to lose rational perspective of what they are seeing. You would not believe how many fishermen have told me about 'the one that got away'.  It was a largemouth bass, 4 feet long! It must have weighed 200 pounds!

Any Cop will tell you that what people think they saw in recollection is most likely just a general, non-specific sketch of what they actually saw. Show me a video of it, and I will believe it.

[Quix]

That is known as false perspective.

Late at night, frightened to death, it would be very easy for a person to lose rational perspective of what they are seeing. You would not believe how many fishermen have told me about 'the one that got away'.  It was a largemouth bass, 4 feet long! It must have weighed 200 pounds!

Any Cop will tell you that what people think they saw in recollection is most likely just a general, non-specific sketch of what they actually saw. Show me a video of it, and I will believe it.

True enough.

Yet, life is complex enough ... that some of us are convinced that we do not have it all figured out.

And, some of us have lived long enough to know that ... sometimes ... reality can be greatly stranger than fiction.