If these reports provide a behavioral insight of sasquatches, then it seems an opportunity to be taken advantage of. I just got a thermal and when ready to retire for the night, I plan to have face it toward an direction outside camp I suspect a sasquatch would enter. maybe catch one sneaking around.
To address the group camp thing, I go out alone or with one or two other. On rare occasion, four of us.
Maybe where you do your sasquatch researching you can cowboy camp. Where I go, you'd be evacuated by helicopter from blood loss due to mosquitoes. Some areas of the country it's possible and would be the way I would definitely choose to camp/backpack. For others, it is not even an option until cool months arrive and insects are gone.
You allude to a group setting. How do you define that... more than one?