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3D model Narrated

Stories8

The Pokhara Fallen Object (Batulechaur), 1968

March 25, 1968 · Batulechaur, about 5 miles (8 km) NE of Pokhara, Kaski district

UAP · Disc / saucer · 21 sources

41Partially documented

Peter Byrne's First Yeti Footprint

1948 · Near the Zemu Glacier, northern Sikkim (disputed; other accounts place the find in Nepal)

Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources

26Thinly documented

Cooke's Jungli Admi footprints below the Singalila Ridge

June 1944 · Track just below the Singalila Ridge, near the Nepal border (Darjeeling / West Sikkim)

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources · 4 photos

34Partially documented

Sławomir Rawicz's Two Yetis in the Himalayas (The Long Walk)

c. 1942 · Himalayas, near the end of the crossing into north Sikkim (route inferred near the Kongra La)

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources

19Thinly documented

John Hunt's Zemu Gap Yeti Tracks, Sikkim

November 18, 1937 · Zemu Gap, between Kangchenjunga and the Simvu massif, Sikkim

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

30Partially documented

N. A. Tombazi's Yeti Sighting near the Zemu Glacier, Sikkim Himalaya (1925)

1925 · Southern glaciers of Kangchenjunga, below the Zemu Gap (reported as near the Zemu Glacier), Sikkim

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

30Partially documented

Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim

1889 · Northeast Sikkim, India

Cryptid · Creature · 30 sources

32Partially documented

B. H. Hodgson's shooters and the "wild man" of the Kachár

c. 1832 · The Kachár (Tibetan frontier zone), Nepal

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

20Thinly documented

Names7

abominable snowman Term · 8 stories
A name born on the slopes of Everest.
Porshnev Person · 6 stories
Boris Porshnev wrote from the Soviet hominology tradition.
Darjeeling Place · 5 stories
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
Howard-Bury Person · 3 stories
1921.
N. A. Tombazi Person · 3 stories
A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg.
Odette Tchernine Person · 3 stories
A writer on the yeti.
Royal Geographical Society Organisation · 3 stories
A learned society of explorers and surveyors, its name runs quietly through some of the archive's strangest expedition stories.

Documents5

CIA-UAP-016, Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan Official release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1968· 6 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 2 …CONTROLLED DISSEM NO FOREIGN DISSEM TITLE SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS IN LADAKH, NEPAL, SIKKIM AAND BHUTAN -C- AUTHOR NONE…
- p. 3 …law NO FOREIGN DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan during the period 19 February - 25 March 1968…
(Sanitized) SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS IN LADAKH, NEPAL, SIKKIM AND BHUTAN FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 6 pages

He is convinced UFO's are intelligently controlled from Outer Space-Donald E. Keyoe, director of the National…
Current Intelligence Weekly Summary FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1962-11-09· 34 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 14 …In Sikkim, opposite the Chumbi Valley, and in northwestern Uttar Pradesh, they have been strengthened because of reported Chinese buildups…
1995-10-01a- CIA Conference Report: THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER IN THE 1990S GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES 01-Oct-95 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 205 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 150 …Indian Politics.New ladesh, Pakistan.Sri Lanka. Nepal. Bhoutan. Sikkim. Delhi: Orient Longman, Ltd., 1970. Includes nine case Quebec: Les…
(Estimated Pub Date) the Challenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990S: Geographic Perspectives- October 1995 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1995-10-01· 205 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 150 …du subcontinent: Bang- ladesh, Pakistan. Sri Lanka. Nepal. Bhoutan. Sikkim. Quebec: Les Presses de l‘Universite Laval, 1976. Includes scores…

Videos2

Monstrum: The Crazed Hunt for the Himalayan Yeti

From Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim

Lt Col Laurence Waddell: The first European to record a Yeti and inspired a Nazi expedition to Tibet

From Laurence Waddell's 'hairy wild men' footprints in northeast Sikkim