Moon Phase And Bigfoot Activity

[Guest]

All of our expenditions that we go on the Mogollon Rim Az, we stay clear of the full moon phases. Nothing moves at all. Its kinda of strange and errie nothing moving. Very quite except a coyote now and then. Most of the activity occurs when its complete darkness. We do complete black outs now around camp and the area we travel through at night, then we seem to draw the activity.

[Guest TexasTracker]

CMB... where would that be ? what part of the country friend?

CG

[BobbyO]

468 BFRO Reports says :

Total New Moon 62 - 13%

Total Waxing Crescent 67 - 14%

Total First Quarter 40 - 9%

Total Waxing Gibbous 62 - 13%

Total Full Moon 53 - 11%

Total Waning Gibbous 44 - 9%

Total Last Quarter 69 - 15%

Total Waning Crescent 71 - 15%

Edited September 26, 2012 by BobbyO

[CMBigfoot]

Texas Tracker that would be the Molalla River and Abiqua Creek areas of Western Oregon.

[gigantor]

Here are the stats BobbyO posted in chart form, I'm going to add it to the SSR database, it looks better.

Edited September 26, 2012 by gigantor

[Guest Boolywooger]

So last quarter thru waxing crescent looks like the time to be out. This matches my own experience. I've always gotten better audio results during the dark of the moon.

[bipedalist]

Agreed. My active evenings out center around the crescent period and it tends not to let you down. Whether it is a significant difference really doesn't matter if it works for you.

[Guest BFSleuth]

Thank you to BobbyO and Gigantor for showing the data available so far from the BFF database. My read of the statistics would indicate no statistical difference in moon phase for sightings.

[gigantor]

I agree, but those stats aren't localized, and they are for all classified reports.

I wonder what they look like for a specific "hot spot" and for class A reports only.

[BobbyO]

Yep and bear in mind the numbers so far only equate to around 10% of just the BFRO Sighting, so still lots of time for change where these numbers are concerned and also like G says, they can be then localised which may show differences.

[Guest MrMudder]

But where does cloud coverage come into play at? For example, a full moon with an overcast, versus a new moon or first/last quarter moon with clear skies. There really isn't a large ratio of crystal clear skies in most areas. I've been primitive camping since Thursday along the river valley under a big moon (tonight is a full moon) but it's still been fairly dark at night due to some overcast, although it hasn't been much. Also, towns' and cities' lights come into play also depending on location.

[Guest]

I played around with the graph a bit, showing a slight indirect proportionality of sightings and moonlight.

 

Edited August 16, 2013 by OregonMan

[MIB]

Question - in that data, can you break it out by reports while the moon was visible vs reports while the moon was below the horizon?

 

MIB

[bipedalist]

Noticing slightly more activity new moon vs. full and rising activity surrounding both waxing/waning with less moon.  Moon rise-set is available at:

 

With a date, this site gives you moon rise/set: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php

[Sasfooty]

They seem to be more cautious when there is moonlight. I've noticed enough activity & noise on the night of the new moon & quarters to think they pay attention to the moon phases.