My mother told me that when she was little, my great grandmother said she saw something like this. She came in, white as a sheet, saying that while outside, she saw a four-foot tall bird looking at her from the top of an massive, old oak tree that just took off with a massive beat of its wings. She came in the second she saw it. You'll notice I moved from cryptology to theology. If this offends anybody, just tell me and I'll pull it down.