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But...did your incident take place in an urban environment with ambient street lights, lit windows, headlights, etc., or did it take place on a road out in the middle of nowhere with extensive tree growth all around with no moon, only starlight, and precious little of that to illuminate the area? I'll bet you know. Therein lies the problem. It is essentially a difference between did something happen in a room with all the lights on, no lights on, or a small bulb over in the corner for light. I'm sorry, but I don't think that is a detail that would go unnoticed at even a subconscious level no matter how traumatic the incident was. It was repeatedly claimed that the encounter happened by the light of a full moon on a tree shrouded road in the middle of nowhere. For arguments sake, I'll even allow it was a half moon. That is a far different lighting environment than having the same location, only with no moon and where the moon had already set hours earlier. At no point was the statement made that they couldn't remember or were so traumatized by the incident that details were possibly left out. In fact, quite the opposite was the case. Only after the wheels started coming off the wagon did all of the excuse making crank up. Any reasonable person(s) would, and have, recognized this tale for what it is.

I agree that the BFRO class system is inadequate, that's why we developed a scoring scheme for the SSR.

If any of them have the physical anatomy and sentience for complex speech, I won't be shooting it unless threatened, because if it speaks, it's human and no study will change that. I really doubt you would be able to stay with the specimen throughout it's study, and I'd imagine a great deal of pressure on anyone in charge of it. That's probably a big obstacle by itself, but if the study would result in a proclamation that there are giant lawless wildmen roaming our forests, well I can see where it goes wrong. Those in charge of it's release might decide it's better for us and them to keep the status quo. They normally don't mess with us much, but we would want to mess with them more than we do now. You should understand that I play devils advocate sometimes and it is to try and mirror the public's eye looking at this potential discovery for the first time as a reality.