Historical Witness

Preble County boy #2

Ohio1977
Location archiveOhio
Profile overview

At a glance

Encounter period1977
RegionOhio
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo
Co-witness / corroborationYes – first boy
Primary sourceBFRO county archive
Exact locators0
Media / transcript records0
Encounter & observations

The encounter

Context

Teen rural resident; outdoor experience: Moderate.

1977 · Ohio

1977 reported encounter

~9 ft hairy creature; strong odor

What the witness reported

  • ~9 ft hairy creature
  • strong odor

Original source ↗

Sources & changes

Source chronology

1977

Reported encounter period

Ohio. ~9 ft hairy creature; strong odor

Later BFRO archive

May 1977 sighting

Source supporting this witness profile: BFRO county archive

Open source/record ↗
Research assessment

Research assessment

Corroboration & evidence

Reported co-witness / corroboration

Yes – first boy. This is not coded as independent testimony unless the co-witness's own source is recovered.

Evidence mentioned in source matrix

BFRO Class A; investigator follow-up. Evidence authenticity and testimony are evaluated separately.

Documentary strengths

  • Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
  • Recoverable source URL is preserved.
  • The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.

Limitations / controls

  • No exact source locator has yet been entered for this profile.
  • Current profile is primarily dependent on one entered source layer.
  • Reported co-witness information is not automatically independent corroboration.

What would improve the record

  • Recover an exact timestamp/page/paragraph locator.
  • Search for earlier or independent firsthand source layers.
  • Recover the co-witness's own statement where possible.
  • A dedicated case record may be added if the event details can be resolved from public sources.
Source-linked testimony

Witness dossier

Only explicitly recorded relationships appear here. Links and recordings document attributed material; they do not independently corroborate an encounter.

Documentation at a glance

Linked media records
1
Named media providers
1
Associated case records
0

These are documented catalog links, not a confidence score or a count of independent corroborating accounts.

Associated cases

No public case relationship is explicitly established in the current canonical graph.

Testimony and related media

Source-backed account summaries

No source-verified narrative summaries are currently available for the linked media. Witness claims will not be reconstructed from titles or search snippets.

Media source audit

Preble County boy #1 · Preble County boy #2 — BFRO report
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗

Documented source chronology

No exact publication dates are established in the currently linked canonical media. The chronology remains unresolved rather than inferred.

Research limits

Chronology, verification and source interpretation remain governed by each canonical record. No additional claim is inferred from the relationship graph.