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The AJPA has told me via email that they do not have an embargo policy on papers. Since we are led to believe that Ketchum's group is being prevented from talking about their paper before its publication, it's unlikely the AJPA will be the journal. On the other hand, if AJPA is the journal where Ketchum's paper will be published, the paper can appear as an online publication at any time, without respect to a dead tree print.(this last bit appears on the AJPA website)

They were misidentified Sasquatch and aliens.

Au contraire, mon frère. I have asserted that one is "naive" only if they presume that a human institution (such as science) can be expected to be exempt from the constraints of all prior observations of other human institutions. And no human endeavor is exempt from transpersonal passions and devotions, even though we may look at ourselves in the mirror and reassure ourselves with the platitude "I am objective; it is all those other dolts that are not." To quote one of your fellow scientists: Concerning the Archetypes, With Special Reference to the Anima Concept The giant squid prior to 1857 meets my definition of a cryptid most assuredly -- reported, undescribed, controversial, scoffed at by large segments of the scientific establishment. Yet it was described, only because it had the misfortune to live within a medium that, with the agitation of weather and tide, literally churns the detritus out of its depths and onto the shore for any fool to observe. It's not very different from panning for gold, only it requires no human effort beyond the idleness of a beachcomber. If only the ground swirled and heaved with the power of Poseiden, who knows what skeletons might be cast out of the infernal depths and onto our doorstep! Yet, the inherent difficulties of the search should be evident to any reasonable contemplation, for BF is alleged to live in an area where even something as large and messy as a fiery airplane crash might vanish without a trace, never to be seen again.