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<Or you can assume blobby is biggy, your choice.> Thanks. Now that we have your permission, we'll believe what we want.

A short column in Scientific American, by Darren Naish. He's unconvinced, and finds the evidence lacking. "I do not think that the data we have at the moment – this includes tracks, hairs, vocalisations, photos, and the innumerable eyewitness accounts – provides support for the contention that Bigfoot is real, and have come to the conclusion that it is a sociocultural phenomenon: that people are seeing all manner of different things, combining it with ideas, memes and preconceptions they hold in their minds, and interpreting them as encounters with a monstrous, human-like biped." http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/if-bigfoot-were-real/ I don't wish to offend with an article from a doubtful author, but do feel this will stimulate some worthy discussion!

It's an interesting piece of film. Watching the stabilized version, I don't think it's a guy on an ATV or motorcycle. Definitely not a guy riding a mountain bike. Going through all the details - this being a Nat Geo professional production with IMAX filming crew, helicopters, a direct interview with the co-director - it seems very hard to think there was someone from Nat Geo running or doing something out in that field that wouldn't have been known to most, if not all of the people working the production that day. I do not know for sure what to think about what we are seeing. I think it is some kind of bipedal creature (that could mean human obviously) running then crouching. I am pretty sure there is something being thrown over the right shoulder at the end before the creature crouches down. Wish we had more footage, but we don't. Another enigma that likely won't ever be answered beyond what we know at this point.

Regarding questions about the helicopters and whether the crew onboard would have seen the bigfoot. I think the entire film crew was likely using the helicopters for transport to get on location to film the migration of the caribou. Once they had cameramen on the ground, they may not have been using the helicopters to steer the herd at the time the dark figure was filmed, they only had to get ahead of the caribou and set up their shots. It wouldn't make sense to have the helicopters in the air the whole time because their isn't likely that many places they could refuel them.

(Quote) Common if it was a bigfoot it would have already decapitated a few animals and they would have avoided that depression of death where the monster was laying in wait. Oh and why didn't the chopper crews notice the bigfoot? I'll tell you why. Whatever the chopper crews saw was supposed to be there such as the ground based personnel. I'm not certain that isn't what we see in the film. The scenario fits as well as a crew member directing the herd. There is a portion of the herd that appears to have went through the small gully where the figure appears, and that would fit the hypothesis that the figure was grabbing up a small animal.

Dang!!!! Nobody can say ole Airdale don't trail, hunt and retrieve. Good work. I asked Mr. Cox about the negative and the possibility of looking at it. He wasn't too interested in that and said it would take a long time to find it, even if he still had it. He did a LOT of photography as a young reporter.

Sorry but this secret squirrel stuff has gotten a tad bit tired. Stand and deliver or say nothing. OK, you don't think there is a bigfoot in this video. Thanks for playing.

Crow . What does the Manhattan project and the Germans have to do with the title of this thread other than you are doing your usual trolling and arguing about everything, even the off topic stuff?.