THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT

2013: Grey Entity Sighting, Laguna Niguel

Pulling into her Laguna Niguel driveway around 10:00 p.m. in 2013, Denise and a friend caught something in their headlights for two or three seconds as it fled through the side gate: a tall, grey, hairless creature with a leathery hide, running hunched over on limbs long enough that it looked equally capable of moving on two legs or four. It seemed as startled by the light as they were by it, freezing just long enough for both of them to get a good look before vanishing into the yard. Neither of them recognized the way it moved.

Date: 2013 (exact date undocumented)

Sighting Time: Approximately 10:00 p.m.

Day/Night: Night

Location: A residential driveway and side yard, Laguna Niguel, California

Urban or Rural: Urban residential

No. of Entity(s): 1

Entity Type: Grey (per witness characterization); this entry also notes a closely matching conventional candidate (see Researcher’s Notes)

Entity Description: Grey, hairless, leathery-skinned, taller than a human but running hunched over; humanoid-proportioned but elongated arms and legs long enough to suggest the creature was capable of running on all fours as easily as two legs; no distinguishable facial features noted at this distance and duration; locomotion described by witnesses as unlike anything they had seen before

Hynek Classification: CE-I — Close Encounter of the First Kind, per this site’s legacy field data, retained here for consistency though not a precise categorical fit for a craft-free entity encounter (see Editor’s Note)

Duration: 2 to 3 seconds of direct visual contact

No. of Object(s): 0; no craft was seen at any point, this was a direct entity encounter only

Distance to Object(s): Approximately 15 to 20 feet, caught directly in the vehicle’s headlights near the side gate

Number of Witnesses: 2 (Denise and a friend, both in the same vehicle)

Special Features/Characteristics: Creature appeared startled and briefly froze when caught in the headlights before fleeing through the side gate into the yard; abnormal, hunched locomotion capable of shifting between apparent bipedal and quadrupedal movement; no hair, leathery-appearing skin

Case Status: Insufficient Data — a very brief (2–3 second) sighting by two witnesses sharing a single vantage point, no photograph, and a description that closely matches a well-documented conventional source of similar “hairless creature” reports (see Researcher’s Notes)

Source: Reported to Think AboutIt by Denise

Summary/Description: While pulling into the driveway of her Laguna Niguel, California home around 10:00 p.m. in 2013, Denise and a friend caught a tall, grey, hairless, leathery-skinned creature in their headlights near the side gate. It ran hunched over, with limbs long enough to suggest it could move on either two or four legs, and appeared briefly startled by the light before fleeing into the yard. The direct visual contact lasted only two to three seconds.

Full Report

My friend and I were pulling into my driveway. My headlights shine directly on a creature who ran through my side gate through the yard, but seemed surprised and caught in the light for a couple of seconds. This creature was grey, appeared taller than a human, but ran hunched over, arms and legs were long enough that it looked like it was capable of running on all fours, though it had humanoid though elongated arms and legs. No hair, looked leathery. No distinguishable facial features noted. The way it moved was not anything we had seen before.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Laguna Niguel, 2013 — A Description That Closely Matches a Well-Known Misidentification Source

The described features closely match a severely mange-afflicted canid. Coyotes, foxes, and dogs suffering from advanced sarcoptic mange lose most or all of their fur, develop grey, wrinkled, leathery-looking skin, and often adopt an abnormal, hunched gait due to the disease’s effects on the animal’s mobility and condition. This is a well-documented and extensively photographed source of “hairless creature” and “chupacabra”-type sightings across the American Southwest and California specifically, and several well-publicized “chupacabra carcasses” recovered over the years have been confirmed on examination to be mangy coyotes. The grey, hairless, leathery skin; the hunched posture; the apparent ease of movement suggesting both two- and four-legged capability (a mangy coyote can rear up briefly or move in an ungainly, asymmetric way that looks unfamiliar); and the animal’s brief freeze in headlights before fleeing are all consistent with this explanation.
The very short duration limits what can be established either way. A two-to-three-second glimpse, however vivid, caught primarily in the beam of a car’s headlights, is a genuinely difficult basis for confidently ruling out a known animal, especially one in a diseased condition that can look strikingly unfamiliar even to people who have seen healthy specimens of the same species before.
Two witnesses sharing one vantage point is a real but limited form of corroboration. Both occupants of the vehicle saw the same brief event from the same angle and lighting conditions at the same moment, which supports that something was genuinely there and moving unusually, but does not provide the kind of independent, separately-positioned corroboration that would meaningfully strengthen an unusual identification.
No craft accompanies this account, placing it outside standard UFO-linked classification. As an entity-only encounter, this case does not fit cleanly within the Hynek scale, which assumes a UFO context for its close-encounter categories. It is documented here on its own terms, as a creature sighting, rather than forced into a UFO classification framework that does not naturally accommodate it.
Possible connection to another archive entry, flagged not asserted. The witness name “Denise” also appears on a separate 1985 missing-time account elsewhere in this archive. No information confirms or denies whether these are the same person, and this entry treats the two submissions as independent unless further information indicates otherwise.

Two people driving home one night in 2013 caught something grey, hairless, and hunched in their headlights for the length of a held breath, and it moved in a way neither of them could place. The description fits a severely mange-afflicted coyote about as well as it fits anything stranger, and a two-second glimpse from a car isn’t enough to settle it either way. It remains, honestly, unresolved.