Wood County, West Virginia, 2013 — A seven-foot Bigfoot faded to invisibility in July. Four months later, a silent 30-foot orb rose from the same area, turned blindingly bright, and departed with a pressure wave.
THINK ABOUTIT UFO|ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT
2013: Big Foot Spotted in West Virginia
In the summer of 2013, a self-identified trained military aircraft observer in Wood County, West Virginia watched a seven-foot bipedal creature with matted black fur and a gorilla-like face do something no conventional animal can do: it faded into invisibility while he watched, disappearing in a visual pattern he compared to the alien in the film Predator. Four months later, standing in his own front yard — within sight of the treeline where the creature had been — he watched a silent white sphere approximately 20–30 feet in diameter rise slowly from the same area, pass directly overhead, turn orange, become blindingly bright, and vanish, leaving a physical pressure wave the witness and his wife both felt. The friend who had originally taken him to the Bigfoot site confirmed that the creatures had all disappeared simultaneously around the same time as the orb sighting.
Date: July 2013 (entity) and October 2013 (orb) — two separate events
Sighting Time: Approximately 1:00 p.m. (entity encounter); after dinner / evening (orb sighting)
Day/Night: Day (entity); night (orb)
Location: Wood County, West Virginia — semi-remote hardwood forest undergoing selective logging, adjacent to the Little Kanawha River Valley. The witness’s home is within visual range of the sighting area.
Urban or Rural: Rural (forest / semi-remote)
No. of Entity(‘s): 1 (July encounter)
Entity Type: Bigfoot / sasquatch-type cryptid
Entity Description: Over seven feet tall. Long, matted black hair or fur covering the body. Bipedal. Face described as similar to a gorilla. The entity faded into invisibility while being observed — the witness described the visual effect as identical to the cloaking mechanism depicted in the 1987 film Predator.
Hynek Classification: Entity encounter: Outside Hynek taxonomy (no associated craft observed during entity sighting). Orb sighting: NL (Nocturnal Light) — luminous spherical object observed at night. The existing CE-III classification on the original page is technically incorrect as no simultaneous entity-craft association was observed. See classification note above.
Duration: Entity encounter: approximately 4 minutes. Orb sighting: several minutes (enough time to call wife outside, observe transit overhead, and watch departure).
No. of Object(s): 1 (October orb sighting)
Description of the Object(s): Large white sphere, estimated 20–30 feet in diameter. Rose slowly and silently from the forested area where the Bigfoot had been observed four months earlier. Ascended to an estimated 2,000–3,000 feet, moved east, passed directly overhead, then accelerated. Transitioned from white to orange, became extremely bright (illuminating surroundings to daylight levels), and disappeared. A physical pressure wave was felt by both the witness and his wife after the object vanished. The witness, stating he is a trained military aircraft observer, specified that the object was not a conventional fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft.
Shape of Object(s): Spherical (orb)
Size of Object(s): 20–30 feet in diameter
Color of Object(s): White, transitioning to bright orange before disappearance
Distance to Object(s): Passed directly overhead at 2,000–3,000 feet altitude
Height & Speed: Rose slowly from tree level; ascended to 2,000–3,000 feet; accelerated during departure; extreme luminosity just before disappearance
Number of Witnesses: 2 for entity encounter (witness and friend); 2 for orb sighting (witness and wife)
Special Features/Characteristics: Entity displayed apparent cloaking/invisibility capability — faded from visibility in a gradual optical transition rather than moving behind cover. Orb rose silently from the same geographic area as the entity sighting four months earlier. Orb produced extreme luminosity (daylight-level ground illumination) and a physical pressure wave upon departure. Witness’s friend confirmed that all Bigfoot activity in the area ceased simultaneously around the time of the orb departure. Witness claims trained military observer background.
Case Status: Insufficient Data (self-submitted, no independent investigation, no corroborating evidence beyond wife’s observation of the orb)
Source: Email submission to Think About It (reporter identified as “Bruce”)
Summary/Description: A self-identified military observer in Wood County, WV watched a seven-foot Bigfoot creature fade to invisibility in July 2013. Four months later, a 20–30-foot white orb rose silently from the same forested area, passed overhead, turned orange with extreme brightness, and vanished with a physical pressure wave. The witness infers the entity was interdimensional and the orb was a departure vehicle. Two separate events linked by geography and the witness’s inference. Self-submitted via email, no independent investigation.
Related Cases: 2014: Close Encounter in West Virginia (⚠️ duplicate page — same events, same witness) | West Virginia Bigfoot-UAP correlation reports (general category)
Detailed Report
The witness, identified only as “Bruce” in his email submission to Think About It, describes himself as a trained military observer of aircraft — a background he invokes to establish his competence in distinguishing conventional aircraft from the object he later observed. He lives in Wood County, West Virginia, near the Little Kanawha River Valley, in an area adjacent to semi-remote hardwood forests undergoing selective logging — hilly terrain with limited human traffic.
In July 2013, a friend invited Bruce to accompany him into the forest to attempt to observe a Bigfoot creature the friend had reportedly been seeing in the area. The friend’s claim was specific and localized — creatures had been active in a defined area of the forest near the logging operations. Bruce went. What he observed matched the classic Bigfoot description with precision: a bipedal creature over seven feet tall, covered in long matted black hair or fur, with a face similar to a gorilla’s. It was, in Bruce’s words, “the epitome of a bigfoot.”
What happened next moved the encounter out of standard cryptid territory. As Bruce watched, the creature did not walk away, run, or duck behind cover. It faded. The visual effect was a gradual transition from full visibility to invisibility — not a sudden disappearance but a progressive optical dissolution that Bruce compared to the cloaking effect of the alien in the 1987 film Predator. The creature became translucent, then transparent, then gone. Bruce was left standing in a forest looking at the spot where a seven-foot bipedal creature had just ceased to exist visually.
Four months later, in October 2013, Bruce was performing a mundane domestic task — taking out the garbage after dinner. From his front yard, he could see the treetops of the forested area where the Bigfoot had been observed. A large white sphere rose slowly and silently from that area. It was moving slowly enough that Bruce had time to call his wife outside to watch. The sphere ascended to an estimated 2,000–3,000 feet, moved east, and passed directly over their position. As it did, it began to accelerate. The white color shifted to orange. The object became extremely bright — bright enough to illuminate the surrounding landscape to the intensity of a July afternoon. Then it vanished. Immediately after its disappearance, Bruce and his wife felt a physical pressure wave — not a sound, but a concussive atmospheric displacement.
Approximately one week later, Bruce visited the friend who had originally taken him to the Bigfoot site and asked about recent sightings. The friend said the creatures had all disappeared simultaneously — he had not seen one in over a week. He had not seen any unusual aerial craft in the area. Bruce connected the timing: the Bigfoot activity stopped around the same time the orb departed from the same location. His conclusion was that the creatures were interdimensional beings and the orb was their departure vehicle returning to whatever dimension they had come from.
Researcher’s Notes
The Cloaking Bigfoot — Wood County 2013 and the Cryptid-UAP Intersection
- Classification and Categorical Tension: This case does not fit cleanly into either the Hynek UFO classification system or the standard cryptozoological framework. A Bigfoot sighting belongs to cryptid research. An orb sighting belongs to UAP research. This report claims both — in the same location, by the same witness, separated by four months — with an inferred causal connection (the orb as the entity’s departure vehicle). The Hynek system requires contemporaneous association of entity and craft for CE-III classification; that standard is not met here. The cryptid framework does not accommodate cloaking capabilities or interdimensional departure vehicles. The case sits in the space between the two fields, which is analytically uncomfortable but increasingly common in high-strangeness research where Bigfoot, UAP, and anomalous phenomena overlap geographically and temporally.
- The Cloaking Claim: The most extraordinary claim in the report is the Bigfoot’s visible transition to invisibility — not moving behind cover, not running away, but fading optically while being observed. This is an unfalsifiable claim absent photographic or video evidence, neither of which exists. The “Predator” comparison provides a vivid cultural reference but also raises the question of whether the film’s imagery influenced the witness’s perception or memory. Cloaking or invisibility reports in cryptid literature are not unique to this case — they appear sporadically in sasquatch and high-strangeness accounts — but they remain firmly in the category of extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence. No such evidence exists here.
- The Orb Observation: The October orb sighting is analytically stronger than the Bigfoot encounter because it has a second witness (Bruce’s wife) and because the physical characteristics described — silent ascent, white-to-orange color transition, extreme terminal luminosity, and a physical pressure wave upon departure — are specific, measurable claims that align with a category of UAP reports involving luminous spheres with energy-discharge departure signatures. The witness’s claim of military aircraft observer training, if true, adds credibility to his assertion that the object was not a conventional aircraft. The pressure wave is a particularly interesting detail — it implies a physical atmospheric effect that would be consistent with a rapid energy release or spatial displacement.
- Source and Evidentiary Limitations: The entire case rests on a single email submission from an anonymous witness using a first name only. There is no independent investigation, no corroborating evidence beyond the wife’s observation of the orb, no physical trace evidence, and no photographic or video documentation. The friend’s reported confirmation that the Bigfoot activity ceased simultaneously is secondhand testimony conveyed through Bruce. The witness’s military background is self-claimed and unverified. The case is included in the archive because the combination of cryptid and UAP phenomena in the same location is analytically noteworthy, but the evidentiary base cannot support confident conclusions about any aspect of the report.
The Wood County case is a high-strangeness report in the truest sense of the term — it violates the boundaries of both UAP research and cryptozoology simultaneously, and it does so on the basis of a single witness’s self-submitted email. The cloaking Bigfoot and the departing orb are linked only by geography and Bruce’s inference. The inference may be correct. It may also be a narrative imposed on two unrelated anomalous experiences that happened to occur in the same area months apart. Without corroborating evidence — a trail camera image, a second independent Bigfoot observer, radar data on the orb, or at minimum a named witness willing to undergo formal investigation — the case occupies the space between fascinating and unverifiable. It is included because the archive’s purpose is to document what witnesses report, not to curate only what can be proven. But the record requires honesty about the distance between documentation and demonstration.
