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Here is a Photo of a Bigfoot which was taken a couple of mountains away from our Research Area. It Looks Huge. The photographer said it was around 8' Tall, and He left the area immediately. A Very Good Photo, but is it convincing? It Looks like a Squatch to me, But, I am a have to See it for myself to believe it Guy....

I make an effort to drive "quietly" the last mile or so, and shut my truck door very slowly with as quiet of a click as I can. All my suspected encounters have been daytime with me alone on a usually deserted trail. My upcoming trip I'm planning on parking in another area farther away and approaching the "hot zone" cross-country thru the woods, a direction from which people never come. Slow and quiet, always being concealed from the view ahead until I've had a chance to look a little. There are lots of things that make me strongly lean towards "exists", but it's the actual seeing that will convince me. I'm not trying to record or video, no gear, sometimes I think that helps. miker

I’m a believer (99.9%err), but to get that last 0.1% (knower).. I’d have to see one with my own two eyes...

Here is a Link regarding the Squatch Photo. http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=55583

Maybe some of us are just waiting for someone else to do the hard work and get lucky by bagging one of these beasts and beating the .gov to national media sources that can't be ignored or undone?

Here are 4 reports from a scope. http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_report.asp?id=57754 http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?ID=22802&PrinterFriendly=True http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_report.asp?id=4779 http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_report.asp?id=24399

Thanks for sharing the photo Not bad. Nothing can really be learned from it ,but it is kind of you to share

Triton - I don't know for sure but will be going back there in the next few weeks and will find out and let you know. I will also record in a more open setting and post that video as well. Thanks for your thoughtful help as well. I appreciate it. Explorer - The battery that it comes with is supposed to last approximately 8 hours. I haven't fully drained mine yet and I I turn it off when not using it. I believe there is a power standby/sleep mode that awakens the unit quickly and will confirm that. The good thing about there battery system is you can pop out thexisting one and replace it very quickly with a second battery. I bought a second one for times I would have an extended backpacking adventure. You can also buy a 16-20 battery that fits into the Helions as well. They're a little awkward to use because their larger size cause them to stick out from the camera making access to the buttons a little more difficult. A few thoughts to consider when getting one: 1) if money is no object, consider getting a Helion XP28F. It has the 640x480 microbolometer resolution AND you can separately buy the XP50F or XP38F lens and detach the XP28F and put on a the larger lens which will provide optical magnification. That option is not available on the XQ line such as the one I bought. 2) It is important to know distance you expect your target to be. I've always known mine would be within 100 yards so getting the XQ50F model that extends the range of detection from 800 meters to 1800 meters was a waste. 3) Field of vision is important. The larger the lens the narrower the FOV. That means you need to be moving the monocular more to scan a desired area. I opted for the XQ28F because it has a wider FOV so I could see more peripherally. 4) Native magnification. This was a difficult one for me to understand at first and helps to understand whether you want to spend extra money for a 640x480vs 384x288. Let's compare the XQ28F to the XP28F. The XQ28F native (base) magnification is 2.3 while the XP28F is 1.4. If you were looking at an object 100 yards away, it would appear smaller with the XP than the XQ because the optical magnification is smaller. So let's say, for whatever reason, you want the size you see the be the same size as the XQ. In order to do that, you would optically magnify the image from 1.4 to 2.3. That would serve to degrade the XP 640x480 image by 1.4/2.3. That would result in the image quality of the 640 to be no better than the 384 once the image size was the same. That's why many people will opt to spend their extra money getting the XQ50F rather than getting the XP28F. The native magnification and 640 vs 384 can be seen visually here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5srQd6IuCio At any distance point, look at the image at the top (XP 640) vs the bottom (XQ 384). The image with the 640 is clearer, no question about it but if it were too small and you needed to magnify it, the image would degrade and have the same clarity as the 384 image below at that size. Also, compare the XP50 on the top right to the XQ38 on the bottom left. The XP50 is ~$1,100 more than the XQ38 but will provide a clearer image at nearly the same size. In the end, I was convinced that I wanted to identify something that was 8' tall from something that was a deer and I thought the XQ28F would provide a clear enough image for that to occur. Time will tell. Hope this helps and I will post up videos as I take them and get those questions answered as well.

This is an example of the “more of the same” evidence failing miserably. DWA used to argue that if you could put enough reports, track casts and audio, video recordings on the desk of science? At some point they would just crack under the pressure and proclaim Sasquatch real. Of course that has never happened because from day one science has told us what they need.....physical evidence. A tooth, a finger bone, a chunk of flesh, a body. A tangible piece of the creature..... Im not telling researchers to ignore foot tracks. Hopefully they are leading you to gathering physical evidence. But they themselves are NOT evidence science cares about. So dont pack dental resin around in the woods with you! Pack scat and hair DNA kits.... Dont pack a fancy video camera with you! Pack a high powered rifle.... Yes it seems odd that a person who seems to be in a area that is a hotbed of activity just gives up..... but if they are unwilling to take the next step? Whats left? Or the whole thing was just a sham to begin with....

Folks, I don't know about you but this SSR effort is just hands-down a monumental achievement. The concept and subsequent execution of such a task has not been only about classifying the source data- it has also been about working out the bugs in the program and system along the way to which GIGANTOR (and the name SHOULD BE in all caps ) can take the credit as he patiently took in all of the notifications of glitches in the SSR and worked through them in order to have the data perform as desired. BobbyO, who worked diligently in every spare moment he could muster, and RedBone who has been nothing short of a juggernaut who has been unstoppable on getting report after report pigeon holed into the dataset. We owe these people a immense tip of the hat and I personally thank them for what they have done though my thanks falls way short of what they deserve, Thank you guys for staying with your goals when I fell behind, and for doing it all so incredibly well.