“ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN”

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28489, 20 January 1958, Page 9

“ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN”

Report Of Soviet Scientist

(Rec. 8 p.m.) MOSCOW, January 18. A Soviet scientist who reported earlier this week that fre had seen an “abominable snowman” today said he hoped an expedition would be sent to the spot to investigate. The scientist, Mr Aleksander Pronin, said on Wedensday that he had twice seen a yeti, or “abominable snowman,” last August, in the Valley of a Million Goats in the Pamir Mountains, bordering Afghanistan.

Interviewed by the government newspaper “Izvestia,” Mr Pronin today said the hairy, man-like creature he saw placed its feet wide apart when moving. Its arms were longer than those of normal human being. There were plenty, of edible berries in the area where he had seen the “snowmen” and a living being could exist there, he said.

Mr -Prpnin said in his interview today that he could not be certain the creature he saw was an “abominable snowman” and not some other living creature. But it was a hairy man-like creature. Last Wednesday, he said the animal he saw was a stocky figure covered- in reddish-grey hair which swayed about on two feet with a stooping gait.”