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https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/ How many have had sightings at times of darkness, no moon and minimal ambient light, what does the SSR, BFRO and other databases show? Many dark sky places in Oregon, Washington and Maine for example. I know there has been discussion about equal sightings during daylight and night-time hours but this has not been my experience. Can people who have histories of sightings weigh in on their direct experience with low light or darkness sightings? Sort of like what @BugMaster did here with land cover

Hello Jennifer. Sasquatch in Washington State have an interest in learning about you. Start slow, small steps. Bookmark http://www.bigfootencounters.com/ The site is not active since Bobbi Short passed but a family member keeps it online. The classics and the rest of the site are a good read. This forum has the 'SSR', Standardized Sighting Reports for you to peruse. If you are a camper and going out into forested areas, small groups, 1 to 2 people at a campsite is good. Large groups don't work very well. Review new camping requirements. 'Know before you go'. Black bear populations are under reported by fish & wildlife so you have to be 'bear safe'. Takes time, Sasquatch will spy on you to study your demeaner.

for clarification: Smeja's shooting occurred October 8, 2010. He covered the juvenile he had shot with brush and departed. He returned in the Spring 2011 with snow still on the ground and after searching found a bit of hide with hair. That later became Ketchum Sample #26. Also for amplification of Hiflier's and Hunster's discussion regarding DNA (YES - it is evidence without regard to one's opinions regarding Ketchum), Dr. Hart posted this in another thread on this site, and I think it apropos to repost it. Dr. Hart @hvhart replied in his Library thread about the rarity: The random occurrence of three rare mutations (7852A, 9083C, and 13209T) in all of these samples is a statistically improbable coincidence." Your questions are answered in Chapter 16 of my book, which I attach here for use of Forum Members ONLY. Please do not forward to anybody else. In summary, no genome of 20,000 human mtDNA sequences had two or three of these mutations. Very few had even one. Percentages of each primate group which have these mutations are found in Figure 27 of Chapter 16. These range from less than 1% for humans to 100% in some groups. 16. Unusual Extra mtDNA Mutations “Shouldn’t we not throw the baby out with the bathwater?…Is there anything we can salvage from the Ketchum study?” Anonymous Facebook Post In Chapter 12 we reviewed the mtDNA results and the number of extra mutations from each haplogroup. Comparisons between the specific extra mutations reveal some improbable coincidences. Table 22 shows these. Sample 26 has been shown to be a black bear from its nuclear DNA sequence taken from the original Ketchum paper, but the mtDNA results were much closer to human, though far outside the normal range of number of extra mutations. Although the Ketchum et al. conclusion was that sasquatch is a hybrid of an unknown primate male and a modern human female, human mtDNA in this sample has been attributed to contamination (Chapter 13). ES-2 was discovered unlabeled below and to the right of other entries in the Ketchum et al. Supplementary Data 2 and is not listed in their sample Table 1. Sample 24 failed to produce human Amal X and Y STRs and had a very low 63% of 2.5 M human SNPs. Samples 29 and 138 are not included in any nDNA analyses in the Ketchum paper. Sample 28 appears in Ketchum et al. Table 5, where it shows human STRs in all but one locus (D3S1358) of sixteen total microsatellite loci. It also matched nine of ten human SNP sites, with a heteroplasmic mutation at the tenth (478RHC) on the MC1R gene (Ketchum et al. Table 6). However, this sample failed to sequence at Amel X and at AmelY exons 1, 3, and 8, while showing human sequences at exons 2 and 4/5 (Ketchum et al. Table 4). Overall, Sample 28 is the most human-like of those samples which were put through all of these nDNA tests.

Hi guys! ChatGPT sent me here today. I have an interest in learning more about Bigfoot as I live in Washington State. I would like to learn about sightings in my state, and also about events surrounding Bigfoot.

Right. Chain of custody of evidence was broken since the samples went uncollected for a period of weeks. Even Smeja indicated a disconnect, recognition of wishful thinking regarding the nature of the collected sample relative to what he shot. And so far as testing his boots, they'd been off and on in salt water for a long period before they were ever tested for the potential blood stains.

To be clear, in Hart's book he said that there is really no direct correlation between Smeja's claimed shooting and sample 26 since the time between Smejas'a shooting and actually collecting the sample was apparently a couple of weeks. Also, IIRC, Nawac said that by the time they goot their blood sample off the rock after their shooting that it was too degraded to show anything. And remember, too, that red blood cells only have mtDNA because red blood cells do not contain a nucleus.

I recently came across this interview, the guy talks about observations on thermal imagers similar to your ideas. That topic starts at 26:30. Bigfoot the Secret - YouTube