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I've arrived at the conclusion that it isn't just the bigfoot proponents that "have it all figured out".

Boy, I can see how misunderstandings happen here. I was just asking a question and brainstorming in the process. Will Jevning didn't say anything about sats or planes and I didn't claim he did. SWWSP also had an idea how Will got his GPS info. But in any case it's all just speculation. Here's a screen shot of the email out of the report, which I have a copy of and will be glad to post when they figure out how to do so.

Darn right it is and most of us are proud of that fact... "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. On the BFF we accept very little at face value. We may have a tendency to over-analyze claims and be more skeptical than some other forums dedicated to this topic, but we think that is preferable to the alternative."

For me what makes vastly more sense is Bob Garrett is a liar and a fraud. When his on-air stories contradicted the videos he originally put up, which some, maybe many, of us saw ourselves, he pulled the videos down HIMSELF and claimed "the government did it" to cover his lies. Bob's behavior follows textbook patterns in psychological pathology. What does NOT make sense is that you, as an ex cop, a quasi-expert in psychology, can't see this, or see it but choose to look past it. MIB

If the bigfoot community does not vet reports who will? We don't know a lot about BF but we know more than anyone else. Skeptics claim we are all in bed together but most of the biggest hoaxers have been declared that by the BF community themselves. Skeptics of course claim anything promoting BF to be fiction, hallucination, mass hysteria, misidentification, hoax and fabrication so they are hardly objective in any sort of judgment. There is a danger in that any community develops what is considered a norm, or something acceptable to the majority. We see that in the rejection of anything remotely paranormal by many. Guess what, BF is paranormal by definition no matter what its capabilities really are. I am guessing that BFRO considers me unreliable or certainly not reliable enough to investigate my reports. I have even seen proponents here declare that anyone with more than one encounter is making them up. I was not aware that there was a quota but some must think so. So all of those things are evidence of the community establishing norms and judging against those norms. That promotes herd think, stifles creative thinking, and in a way is doing what main stream science has done to the subject.

What I meant by hair trap was not 5 rednecks a chain and a giant cage........ but like nathan deploys, something with wire bristles on a game trail that snags hair samples. And I appreciate your concern but a day hiking or riding my horse in the mountains is never a waste.......