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I recently explored BFRO report data and found this trend (chart below) in Class A (good evidence) and Class B (questionable evidence) reports interesting, particularly the primacy of Class B reports after around 2005. I'm curious about the forums' thoughts regarding factors driving this pattern. Was it: - change in the types of witnesses reporting encounters (probably due to greater access to Bigfoot information via the web) - change in BFRO investigators -- i.e., more critical investigators reviewing reports - change in BFRO protocols for classifying reports -- i.e., more stringent criteria for Class A - something else? Any other observations worth more attention? The decline in Class A & B reports after 2005 to levels last recorded in the 80s is intriguing, too. I would have thought the running of Finding Bigfoot (2011-2018) and then Expedition Bigfoot (2019- ) would correlate with more frequent reports rather than fewer. NOTES: Data pulled from Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mexwell/bigfoot-sightings/data Report data available through February 2023, hence the low rates that year.