How Far Away Can You Be To See Eye Glow? Need Help

[Sasfooty]

Oh, well thanks for clearing things up. Here I thought they were all Nubians.

 

Naw. Their ears are too short for Nubians.

 

Besides, Nubians come in hes & shes, too.

[hiflier]

Hello Sasfooty,

 

Naw. Their ears are too short for Nubians.

 

Besides, Nubians come in hes & shes, too.

Ah well, what can I say. Good points. So, gender? You came in mudslingin' so you must have some thoughts on why Hammer102492 said "she". Probably not. but one never knows about such things; especially with you Sasfooty.

[Sasfooty]

I thought you liked mudslingin'.

 

Maybe she thought there was a fifty-fifty chance. Does everything have to be about males?

[hiflier]

Hello Sasfooty,

 

I thought you liked mudslingin'.

 

Maybe she thought there was a fifty-fifty chance. Does everything have to be about males?

I can deal with the mudslingin'. Like it? Nah. Hammer102492 didn't say 50/50 now did she. She said "she". My question was asking how she knew. "Does everything have to be about males?" A non sequitur. Pick your fights somewhere else.

Edited February 17, 2014 by hiflier

[Sasfooty]

I don't like to fight. It's nonproductive.

 

Maybe she doesn't want to explain to you how she knew. It might be a secret.

[Hammer102492]

Hi again.  Just set up the computer et al.  So I can respond without typing one letter at a time on my phone, (frustrating), especially for a long winded person like me!  ha ha

 

I am just tired of calling BF "it".  And after thinking about this for several days, I think that I saw BF eye whatever looking at me.  What else could it be when there has been so much other stuff BF going on here?  I decided to call it a "she" because it seemed better than calling it "IT."  You know when you call a boat or a storm a she?  If it is a BF, I'm taking my chances that it is a she.  Didn't mean to start trouble here!  Sorry about that.

 

Haven't some people speculated that female SSQ have yellow eyes and males have red?  I know that can't be proven, but for the sake of discussion about what I saw, could it be female by the color of the eyes?

 

Hilifer - thanks for the compliment about our place.  Yeah, we love it, but I almost started hating it when everything changed when BF showed up around here.  I'm cool with it now, but I was almost ready to sell the place and get the heck out of here this fall. 

 

Regarding the engineer, he hasn't seen, heard or experienced anything around here regarding BF, except for me being "ate up with it" now since last May.  His brother had an experience when we were at our campsite, but he had gone inside 20 minutes earlier.  He just thinks about things from a scientific perspective, so I guess that keeps me grounded.  He was the one that wanted me to ask you all how far one could be away from "eye shine" or whatever it was, but then you all answered that to his satisfaction.  Thanks again!  He spends a lot of time outside, especially in the good weather, but it's always during the day.  I'm the one who hangs outside at night. 

 

So really, what the heck was on the hill shining back at me?  I didn't have a flash light.  The nearly full moon was my only light. 

 

Is what I saw eye shine or eye glow?
 

Thank you all for your help!  This has been great. 

 

So many experienced and wise people here. 

Yes, why I am calling it a she, may be for my own reasons too, which are best left unsaid for now. 

[hiflier]

Hello Hammer102942,

LOL, You didn't start one wit of trouble so don't even think it. And thanks for addressing the "she" thing. Maybe it was me that started the trouble? You explanation is one that I liked and understood perfectly; probably the best reason anyone could have TBH. Thanks. Full Moon. Eyeglow? Eyeshine? I'm with you- tough call. The distance will be something for you to think about and look further into.

Edited February 18, 2014 by hiflier

[Hammer102492]

Thanks Hilifer! 

 

And thanks to you too Sassfooty! 

 

Some wicked weather just moved in now.  It's an ice / sleet / snow mix with high winds.  I had the fan turned around backwards to vent my cigarette smoke out, (we get free gas), and the wind stopped it moving on high and started spinning the other direction.  I moved it to the other window.  I can hear ice pellets hitting the window. 

[BC witness]

Given your detailed description of the colour, size, and duration of the exposure/blink, and your lovely photo of the locale, I think "she" is your resident mouse eater, a nice big owl, who was perched in one of the trees up on that rise. A cool experience, for sure, but probably not bigfoot, alas.

 

My most memorable owl encounter was many years ago, driving a narrow, hilly, dirt farm road during a blizzard right at dusk. Crawling slowly along in 4 wheel drive, hardly able to see 30 feet in the headlights, a huge shape floated from right to left across my windshield, and landed on a fencepost right beside me, not 4' away. As I rolled past,  a BIG white owl swivelled its head to follow my progress, and gave me that big, slow, yellow blink that you so nicely described. I was amazed, and felt it was a very special thing to see.

Edited February 18, 2014 by BC witness

[GuyInIndiana]

I am just tired of calling BF "it". 

 

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Is what I saw eye shine or eye glow?

 

 

I've read thru this entire thread, but what still confuses me is 'how did you determine you actually SAW a Bigfoot do this?'

 

Why is that your first assumption?

[Hammer102492]

Wow, BC Witness, I didn't think about an owl.  Do owls make a flash and send out a steady light for a few seconds?  Hell, if the owl do that, I will be very happy with that explanation.  Flash owls!  Do they do that?  It was like a pop that caught my eye and then it hung out for a few seconds and went away.  If that was an owl, wow, that would be a good explanation.  I heard an owl later that night when I went out again.  It was in that same direction.  The only thing that would make me think that it wasn't an owl is that I didn't have a flashlight or anything shining on it.  Do they just have eye glow? 

 

GuyinIndiana - your question is valid.  The engineer in our house has been known to say, "You think everything is Bigfoot." 

But here is why I think that after 5 days of thinking about it and talking about it.

1)  We are on private property in the country and it would be a very bold move for someone to be on our side of the hill when the nearest person in that direction is about two miles away, farmland inbetween. 

2) But there have been snowmobile tracks recently sited in the area.  However, if it was a snowmobile, they would have been down the steepest part of the hill landing in trees. 

3)  If it were raccoon hunters, I would have heard their hound dogs

4) There was no traffic on the road

5) I wasn't shining a light on the hill

6) Light from the house was lower than the hill

7)  It wasn't a helicopter or a small plane, I used to work at a private airport

  It was down our side of the hill.

9)  Our nearest neighbors are at least 1/3 of a mile down the road in the other direction

10)  There was nothing to reflect the light such as a pole or wire or satellite dish, just trees and brush

11)  It's a flap here for BF activity, some of which has been documented very close to our house by researchers

12)  Not to mention all of my personal experiences these past months

>>Thinking "every possible way" "you're a dream to me" song playing now by the Cranberries<<

13)  Too many coincidences with me hanging out being free, dancing or singing or enjoying the outdoors where we live, being mindful that the BF have been here, wondering if they still are, sort of asking for it to show up, but then blowing it off not caring, listening to tunes instead of surrounding, just enjoying the scenery, happy that it was over 20 degrees.  Appreciating our place here, living the dream, thinking of nothing but how great it is, and POW!  What the h was that?  I didn't ask for it, but I guess I did maybe.

14)  Thinking about it for 5 days, asking for information to help verify

 

All I can say is that stuff keeps happening here.  Every time I get complacent and think that it was whatever, and maybe it's gone, something else happens. 

 

I swear I'm not going nuts.  Thank God I have the engineer to keep my grounded.  Sure, every time I wake him up when something happens, or I come inside when he's in the kitchen and tell him what happened, it sounds fantastical.  But when it keeps happening, that's what I end up thinking it is when I can't find another explanation. 

 

Sometimes I think that I spend too much time trying to find other explanations.  I'm kind of over that now.  The dang things are here.  That part I know and there are others in this area that are serious and have documented it with resesarchers a year before I saw one and even knew that it was here.  I just thought that sure, it may be real, but maybe in the great northwest, but Ohio?  Then come to find out after I saw it, that other serious people saw it a mile from where I did?  Then to hear it with my brother in law!  Thank God I was not the only one that heard that.  It's such a great moment when you find out that you're not the only one.  Then our friend sees it in our backyard watching us when we are camping out?  Then I have autumn comes and rocks or whatever hits the house, in what I feel is a reaction to me.  Then, and continuing tree knocks that are not deer? 

 

Maybe it's the distant neighbors.  Or maybe its an owl. 

 

Hey, I'll be the first to come back to you all and tell you if I have a conversation with the neighbors and find out if they were out Memorial Day weekend making SSQ calls at 0130 in the 35 degree weather.  What we heard, did not sound human.  The first one sounded exactly like my bro in law who is good at calling them.  So we were intrigued, but then he called it again and what we heard back literally blew me out of my camp chair.  I have lived here for 14 years and spent a lot of time outside.  I know my night sounds.  What we heard literally had me on the ground laughing because it was the greatest moment to be verified by someone that was straight up and still doesn't talk about it much to this day, unless I prod him.  Then to spend the summer wondering about it.  And have the fall experiences get deep thick and black.  Then to make peace with it and occasionally I'll hear a knock that I know isn't deer.  I mention it, but Thursday night, that was a major deal.

 

I had no trouble seeing that 400' away.  The distance may be in question.  It could be 500' or less than 400.  I posted the picture, so you see that's where I was.  I was at that same place tonight.  I stood there and thought about what happened, and I am more sure today that with all the BF stuff going on around here, that, more chances than not, that's my best explanation. 

 

Seriously, unless owl give off a bright light, almost flashed to get my attention, I think it's a BF.  They are here, it's already documented.  I was in the right frame of mind, free and light connecting with nature, not wasted or whatever.  That's just how it happens.  I'm not looking for it, and something happens. 

 

This, to me, just feels like the same.  It was my second reaction.  My first was WTH was that?  After I went down the initial list in my mind, and laughed at my conclusion.  WOW!  I think that I just saw eye something.  Unless owls can do that, because I  heard one in that same place later that night.  Or it was a BF because they KEEP SHOWING UP HERE!  Or maybe it's all in my imagination.  But the best part is that, I'm not the only one!  And I didn't find out that until after I saw it. 

 

So that's part of the reason I think it was a SSQ. 

P.S.  I used to live in Indiana for 4 years in college.  Love the Hoosier state! 

Edited February 18, 2014 by Hammer102492

[Hammer102492]

If you were me, you would want to know what was lighting up your hill.  We don't take well to poachers here and while that could be the case, it's very easy to know who is around here.  In these parts, as they say, you don't go sneaking up on someone's property.  You could get shot accidentally.  We're in a valley and it's easy to hear who is out and about. 

 

So what the heck was on our hill? 

 

Throw the questions at me.  Please convince me that it may be something else. 

 

I can't come up with any other explanation.

 

So, that's why I am trying to get good descriptions of eye light whatever.  I'm listening to the owl possibility.  Do they blaze from their eyeballs with no light shining on them?  It wasn't a little reflection.

 

It was bright.  It kind of glowed, almost like candle light but it wasn't fire.  It wasn't like a flashlight beam.  But it was straight on from where I was looking. 

 

Makes me think of an old Navy ship that is sending code by light.  But it didn't seem mechanical.  It seemed more organic as someone else described. 

 

I can't just blow it off.  I want to know what was on the hill making that light.  If there's a logical explanation, I'm OK with that.  I just can't come up with one right now and I feel like after 5 days, I'm tired of trying.

 

So I think that it was bigfoot.  "She" likes me.  For months now, something has continued to get my attention.  I think it likes me. 

 

Call me crazy, but that's what I think. 

[Hammer102492]

Song playing now..."Secret garden" by Bruce Springsteen

[BC witness]

Owls don't produce light from their eyes, but they do reflect it very well, so it almost looks like a beam of light. You did say in your descriptiion of the night in question that the moon was shining, and that would be enough light for the reflection to happen, if the moonlight was from behind you, towards the eyes of the owl. Their eyes are very large, and very reflective, and your description of the blink, long "shine", then blink off, fits well to being an owl. That doesn't mean that you don't have large primate neighbours, just that the "light" you saw wasn't one of them :-)

[Hammer102492]

Yes, that could make sense. I just think I love you BC Witness.  I was looking north, the owl, was looking south.  The moon was to the east.  It was nearly full Thursday night.  Maybe the owl was reflecting the moon.

 

I have to think about this in terms of how it could happen. 

 

But if owl reflect moon light and can blaze a good one, (not like deer shine), then yes, it could be an owl!

 

That would be a good thing to learn in the field. 

 

Wait until I tell the engineer that, as requested, I ask the BFF people about eye shine or whatever, and you come up with a logical explanation!

 

Mission accomplished.  Seriously, I feel better thinking that it was owl shine from the moon.

 

I just came in from outside and it's FIERCE out there now!  Major wind gusts.  Winter head on.  It was cool though.  The garage blocked the wind and it wasn't bad until I almost got to the house, (our garage is far from the house), and a good 35+ gust kicked up.  Nature is amazing. 

 

So it could be an owl. 

 

>>the flash of the neon light that split the light.  and touched the sound of silence<<  Simon and Garfunkle