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The article bot caught this story from a number of news outlets. https://www.syracuse.com/statefair/2025/08/searching-for-bigfoot-at-the-2025-nys-fair.html It caught my eye when perusing the list of vendors, considering entering our car club next year to raise interest in classic cars of the little British variety. Charles "Snake" Stuart has an exhibit at the state fair featuring a preserved "Bigfoot corpse" behind plexiglass. Includes a paid appearance by William Shatner on an old TV. Charles certainly sounds like my kind of weirdo and I hope to meet him and his clearly fake body of a Bigfoot. (Sorry, Charles.) I haven't visited yet. But I'll certainly report back if I do. The fair runs through to Labor Day, Monday the first of September in Syracuse, NY. If you do attend, grab some local delicacies, salt potatos, speedies, garbage plates, chicken riggies, etc.

Because they're anal and, by nature, insecure. If there is something going on in their area of authority, they want to (1) know what is going on, and (2) control it. That's just who and what they are. All true. Sasquatches really aren't much trouble for anybody, on post or not. You get the occasional person getting freaked out, but that's about it. They're the perfect creature to ignore. You're correct. I bolded the civilian part because it's important. I know you're an Army guy (career?). I was a Public Works (DEH, DFE. etc) guy, exterior. The Natural Resources Officer is a civilian guy (at least on Ft. Richardson). The civilians are the continuity, and the Command bring the agenda. I suspect that when the first report of a Sasquatch on Ft. Lewis that got to the Post Commander (not the Commanding General), "a re-write" was immediately ordered because he WAS NOT going to be "the guy" to bring this up to the major command........and this is just how it has gone forward. "People in government" know" but "government" (as a total organization) doesn't.......because they don't want to. (That said, yes, the Commanding General most likely got briefed behind closed doors by the Post Commander...........because that's how those guys roll..........)

But why would we (the Army) care? If reports are made by family members who were in in areas approved for recreational use, has there been any harm or threat of harm? If not, no military interest. Even if it were a known animal (bear), the Base Commander would only care if the animal was a threat to the community (foraging in populated areas or areas approved for recreational use) or a threat to military operations (destroying vehicles, outbuildings, interfering with training, etc.). Any number of known animals (deer, bunny rabbits, bear, elk if in that area) are probably killed by being in the wrong impact area during aerial gunnery (Lewis is a joint base w/the Air Force base next door now, + the helicopter brigade), artillery practice, tank gunnery, and crew served weapons (mortars, heavy machine guns, etc.) ranges. As to rifle ranges, the concern would likely start and stop with the question of whether people, whether military or civilian, were downrange. If a 'Squatch ambled across the M-16 range, they'd likely hold fire just because no one wants to take the chance that some clown is running around out there in a rented gorilla suit. When one gets to even a medium level of responsibility/authority in the military, one develops a good CYA gene. So if one were reviewing or approving a Report of Investigation concerning the destruction of a B-hut (plywood hut used to house Soldiers out in remote training areas) by blunt force, even if very large footprints were present in the mud, it would be written up as an apparent "act of nature" or vandalism by persons or persons unknown. No need to go out on a limb and opine on the possibility that a local 'Squatch didn't like the new temporary camp blocking access to a fishing point or something similar. All of that being said, it doesn't negate your statement that the Army (most likely the long-term civilian support staff) "knows" that it was a Bigfoot and not a bear, but that report is never get past the relevant commander's desk and is immediately going back for a re-write.

First hello. I may be one of those people you mentioned. In my case, there just is not any evidence of BF in my area (north central NC) to report in the last 3-4 years. Also, I have stopped studying them as I have believe after 5-6 encounters and reading 2K plus reports I have it pretty much figured it out and honestly I do not care about the fight. Yes, BF is still out there, please leave him alone and for FFS stop running around at midnight making calls to try and lure him/her in. It does not work.

Hmmm. It always come back to Theodore Roosevelt. Now I'll be binge listening to the Bauman incident tonight.....Again