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Hello Friends, The attached photo made me laugh in a way; the U.S. Forestry Service tends to downplay (if not straight-out DENY) the existence of Bigfoot/Sasquatch, yet here they are in 1930 casting a footprint. It's hard to have physical proof of something that doesn't really exist! I guess we can never know the circumstances behind this photo, but it's definitely speculative, especially concerning the topic of U.S. government knowledge/involvement in the subject. What are your thoughts...?

As always, the BFF got first dibs on that Lite report and we'll get first dibs on the big one when it's finished too some time in the new year..;)

For those of you with streaming services, like Prime, I would highly recommend a documentary called "Science Friction". It sure does a great job of showing what many of us already knew about how networks, big money, and people behind the scenes push an agenda on the shows we watch that deal with paranormal subjects. "Ancient Aliens", "Paranormal Witness", etc etc are featured. I was surprised "Finding Bigfoot" and other Squatch related shows weren't featured. But, Cliff and Bobo have discussed the producers wanting to manipulate things on their podcast enough. I tell you, even though I'm sure most here are hip to the games played, I was shocked how blatant it can get with no real recourse for those scientists and professionals who have their lengthy explanations cut to a 10 second sound bite. Great show to watch to hear from those involved what happens.

Amazing scientist researcher who from the start captured my attention. Well=spoken, well-regarded, a stalwart in the field, @joebeelart plus he writes a great book and is a nice guy. Hope the back is doing better now Joe..

Thanks for the example. First, this conspiracy theory charges that government lied about the successful moon landing to the point of creating the illusion on tv, not that they're simply hiding a natural fact not of their creation. That goes back to the difference between a cover up and discouraging discovery. Secondly, yes, I believe we landed on the moon. But it didn't really matter beyond the boost to patriotism, which died anyway with the guy who made it all happen: JFK. The #1 reason of the Space Race was to catch up and surpass Soviet rocket technology after Sputnik, which caught U.S. intelligence by surprise, because we couldn't afford them having an advantage in the delivery of ICBMs. We didn't need to walk on the moon to do that. Moreover, that silly controversy is a joke within government. It highlights, yet again, how the public is clueless, why they should remain that way, and how easy it is to keep them that way. Had government demanded to spend billions on ICBMs technological development in order to vaporize the Soviets and Chinese, it would have had a more difficult time passing Congress. Slick talk it as a benefit to mankind, and it passes with ease. A modern version of that is allowing the public (from their own imaginations) to believe that those "tic tacs" are coming from extraterrestrials instead of our own defense industries.

Smithsonian. No, you may not. “Need to know”……

If the photo is authentic? It certainly blows the skeptics timeline out of the water by a good 20-30 years. (Jerry Crew beginnings) Where is that cast? Can I see it? My grand parents tax dollars paid for it….. It’s probably at the basement of the Smithsonian and never sees the light of day.

You seem to be a general anti conspiracy theorist. You equate one conspiracy with another and defend the government at every turn. If that is the world you live in? So be it….. I say as an American taxpayer there should be no secrecy and no black budgets. If I want to walk into the Smithsonian and look at bones from A dig, B dig or C dig? That should be my RIGHT! We have created a bloated monstrosity of the likes the world has never seen. 34 trillion dollars and counting…. It’s disgusting.

Assume for a minute the government creates complete transparency at least on the subject of Bigfoot. Just exactly what would anyone expect it to show? What we would expect it to show tells us where we are coming from: My bet- and I realize this is not everyone's-is this would turn out to be a nothing burger. There would be some mostly old files of some minor study or focus on the subject of Bigfoot where the conclusion would be undetermined. The official position would be more or less what it is today. They aren't sure and until science verifies a body, it just something that people report from time to time. I doubt it would be much different than an interview on one of those Bigfoot shows by Dr. Eric Began and other establishment scientists. Beyond that, they don't care. My bet is they had minor interest in the 1960's but the more time has gone on they don't care. This is especially true in light of the lack of the next Patterson-level film in over 50 years. Unless something really changed why would they care beyond what they had in the past? What would be so big to make them curious about it again if they ever were? I know Missing persons was a proposed reason. Yet people go missing all the time. This happens in areas thought to be Bigfoot country and areas not thought to be. Because people go missing as a normal, rare event, there are probably multiple normal reasons why this happens having nothing to do with Bigfoot. We don't' need it to be bigfoot as the cause. I am not for 100% government transparency as the public doesn't need to know everything about everything. I am 100% for 100% transparency regarding bigfoot. If there ever was there will be no surprises. The only ones who will be shocked are those who need to government to be the boogie man in this area of bigfoot. I am not saying parts of our government from time to time have done some really bad things. They do and we always need reasonable government oversight. As far as Government and bigfoot, i don't see it (<----- Ah HA maybe I am a government agent hired by the government to throw out other opinions about bigfoot on social media and the like. The hired me to give them cover) It would be great if they did but modern federal government operates with debt. Balanced or not, Bigfoot is not an issue on this. To the extent it is, it would be someone cutting the budget and saying, "Homeless vets before Bigfoot" and cut the crumbs of bigfoot research in the act of balancing the budget. Black budgets which are designed to fund things to keep us safe are just fine with the American people for the most part. I don't know how much is able to be off the books but if it is, it's more likely to be some new weapons system than a budget of a bigfoot wing of the army delta force. Those who are government conspiracy types seem to see it in everything. "JFK jr and Elvis faked their own deaths" , "we really have a cure for cancer", and so on. Even if any of this is true, bigfoot doesn't make the list of their concerns.

Amazing work. Thanks for sharing the report and the insight, @BobbyO.