UFO Hunters are idiots!

[darkwing_duck1]

I still don't buy the Bigfoot thing, though, as the area the creature is usually associated with has been crawling with hunters and outdoor freaks for the last 50 or so years with very little substantive evidence to support the idea of a large creature with a viable population existing therein. But I'm open-minded enough to state I could be wrong on this point.

Something to consider:

In most wilderness areas (including those you would catagorize as "swarming with people"), human activity is centered around a relatively small proportion of the total area, usually the "improved" parts.

Take Yellowstone, for example. 99% of the human activity in the park is centered around the "sites", the campgrounds, and the other improved areas. The vast majority of the park sees a handful of people in any given year, if that many. There are parts of it that are so remote and inaccessable that the Rangers may well be the ONLY people who ever go there.

The same is true for vast parts of the PNW/Canada/Alaska habitat. The terrain and vegitation are such that it is nearly impossible for a human being to access it, and so they don't.

A good point-and the primary reason I'm willing to keep an open mind.

Many people have a mistaken impression that it is simple and easy to go out and see wildlife. We've been brought up on Discovery Channel, National Geographic Specials, and Marty Stauffer videos to think you just have to walk into the woods and PRESTO...there they are!

If you ever stop and learn about all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into one of those, you'll understand that to produce a 30min documentary can require weeks (months in some cases) of field work to track the subject, let it get used to your presence in it's domain, and then HOPEFULLY get good footage.

In fact many "outdoors" shows stack the deck by filming in fenced and protected game parks and such where the animals are in a relatively confined area. Even then they sometimes have to artificially lure in the subject (something M Stauffer got in BIG trouble for doing).

 

[LitmusDragon]

The lowland Gorilla was thought to be a myth until 1902. Most of our modern exploration devices and techniques were already widely in use then.

A sasquath, if such a creature exists, is by all accounts more solitary an animal and more ambulatory. People describe it as being quite swift and almost always running away when people get near it.

I don't think it's impossible there might be a few such creatures in the woods of the pacific northwest or Canada.

 

[Zachary Smith]

Interesting article here on examinations done on hand-prints purported to have been left by Bigfoot. Curiously enough, there are identifiable traits that can be seen which demonstrate that these cannot possibly be just REALLY BIG human hands. Nor do they match the characteristics of apes. If they are fakes, someone was quite knowledgeable and careful about taking the time and trouble to combine characteristics of human and ape features (including leaving enough proper clues to indicate a thumb with LIMITED opposability--differing from complete opposability in humans and a LACK of opposability in apes) before planting the "hoax". VERY clever hoaxers indeed, if Bigfoot is NOT real.

http://www.texasbigfoot.org/index.php/about-bigfoot/articles/70-handprint-evidence

See, it is evidence like THIS which, to me, makes it seem far more likely that Bigfoot is real than the idea some genius is crafting these detailed hoaxes which are anatomically and microscopically consistent with what a REAL creature would demonstrate.

 

[QuasarVM]

Not all UFO hunters are idiots but all idiots ARE UFO hunters.

I wouldn't go that far...go over to the JREF forum...LOTS of idiots that won't touch the subject with a 10m anal probe...

Hahahaha!!! Ok, what is JREF?