A listener writes “I’m a helicopter pilot and I work for a utility company the inspects high tension power lines and does maintenance on those lines. We are oftentimes in very remote areas. I generally have another guy in the aircraft with me as we fly different sections of lines each day.
This happened in the summer of 2017. We were inspecting lines in Northern Utah two summers ago when I saw what I think may have been two or more creatures. It was about 0800 in the morning as we were flying along this valley headed to the section of lines we had for the day. As we neared a clearing the guy flying with me yelled to turn around. I asked why and he explained that he saw two large creatures walking through this clearing. I made a hard right 180 back to the clearing and brought it to a hover just outside the clearing.
I thought maybe he saw elk or maybe a bear and half figured the rotorwash and noise from the aircraft would scare off anything but as we both scanned the area he yelled and pointed, right on the edge of the clearing we both saw two large figures standing upright. Standing about 20 yards on their right were three much smaller ones, all looking up at us as if they were curious. We were at least a good 60 miles into the wilderness and I can’t see a human being that far out as there were no trails lending to that area. I hovered for probably another 3 or 4 minutes when the smaller of the two large ones walked over to the smaller ones and they walked into the trees while the bigger one followed behind them. We continued our day and didn’t really talk about until dinner that night.”