Yeah that's another aspect, they definitely screen which reports they follow up on and ultimately publish, and they definitely were getting way more reports than they had the manpower to deal with once Finding Bigfoot got off the ground. I remember watching an interview with Moneymaker before the show aired where he said behind the 3,500 published reports there were 27,000 raw submissions.... imagine how those numbers have changed in 10 years.
If any one thinks the government is anywhere near aware of these creatures then they need to sit down and think long and hard about why we do not have a Sasquatch publicly on a slab. And if the government does not want public discovery by anyone trying to bring such a creature in then one has to also think long and hard about what lengths a government would go to in order to make sure it does not happen........and HOW the government would go about it. I have said on several occasions that unless an individual or group becomes a 'digital ghost' (as in completely OFF the digital grid) then any chance of securing a voucher specimen, or even a piece of one, and getting it to science anywhere will be virtually impossible.
(P.S. I cover this in my tiny 88 page book along with many other things including a chapter on 'To Shoot Or Not To Shoot')