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I admit I, Wolfjewel, am an armchair Bigfooter. One good thing an armchair philosopher can do, imho, is keep encouraging folks to 👍listen with care to all sides 👍avoid labels 👍state your opinion or experience without fear of putdowns. When people use labels that pit “us against them,” that’s the surest way to guarantee both sides will learn nothing from each other. As a BFF member since 2016, I’ve read plenty of mud-slinging posts in the past. Happily, the public part of the Forum recently got cleaned up (yay!) and violators of the decency code banned. (You can get around that in the Premium section which I’ve just joined, lol.) In 2020 I’d like to invite all new members who wish to share a sighting or experience, to post as soon as possible. Since newbies can’t start a topic but only reply, I’ll ask frequently for their input to my query. Hopefully moderators will judge their sharings worthy. I’m so psyched to hear new voices!

I seem to remember him saying that he didn't intend to shoot one. One thing he also said is that he doesn't think they're animals, that their intelligence level makes him believe they're some sort of relic hominid. In the research area I've been in over the last 10 years or so we've had numerous experiences with these creatures and we've seen nothing which would lead us to believe these are nothing but animals.

Rather than get into the math. Like has been mentioned the best way to determine the focal point is a flashlight or laser pointer. You could actually use a singe bulb overhead light in a darkened room. You want a point source that you can move across the dish from rim to rim. Have something like a dowel sticking strait out of the dish and just mark where the light hits the stick. Light perpendicular to the rim of the dish should strike the same place on the dowel as you move across the dish side to side. Some umbrellas may be near parabolic and since they are so large some minor deviation from true parabolic may not make much difference. The only problem is that the sound will vibrate the umbrella, rob some energy and not all will be reflected to the dish. I would bet a squirrel baffle is not parabolic. Another source a dish would be an old satellite antenna. Dish or Direct would work but be sort of heavy since they are made of steel. I bet if you look around your neighborhood there may be several no longer used on roofs. Wax one, lay up a couple of layers of fiberglass cloth using the dish as a female mold, let it cure, then pry it loose to have a fairly large and light weight fiberglass dish. It does not need to be metal to reflect sound.

Love the ZR2...the wife drives a Range Rover Sport. We have a 1996 Jeep Cherokee (4.0) for her to drive when her POS Landie is doing what Landies do best...

The whole situation was never believable at any point. I remember watching the video that showed a supposed handprint on a car and it was clear that it was drawn on. It didn't look like an actual print whatsoever. Let's also not forget the photos of stuffed animal eyes. The guy was such an annoying goof with the stuff he would post. The amount of people who seemed to have no doubt in anything he posted was ridiculous too. It's good to see he doesn't just get to walk away from his own nonsense.