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November 11, 2009 9:43 AM

Recently I was making the point that I had only run across precious few case sinvolving bigfoot and UFOs. That situation has changed somewhat. Where once I had a paucity, I now have an embarrassment of riches.

I got one batch of reports, in the form of four articles from the late ’70s and early 80′s, from The Professor over at The Big Study. He is a veteran UFO researcher with some interest in hairy humanoids, so he has kept them all these years and graciously sent me copies when I asked him if he knew of any sources for such things.

Another chunk of reports, dating from 1956 (the oldest I found with my search techniques, anyway) to the present, came from a website called UFOInfo.com. The site has collected thousands of humanoid sightings from UFO reports, using man ysources. It must represent an enormous output of effort by the sitekeeper there, for which he should be applauded. I copied all of the reports into one document so Icould search it, and it came to nearly 5,000 pages, comprising a million and a half words.

Searching through that database lead me to finally locate the case I mentioned las ttime, but had not been able to find again. Here it is:

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Location. Near Tillamook Oregon
Date: September 27 1989
Time: 1620

A woman was alerted by her granddaughter to something unusual outside. She stepped out and was confronted by an object resembling an inverted toy top hovering just above the ground. It was 20 to 30 feet in diameter and had a flat bottom and a bright yellow-white light shining at both ends. The woman approached to within 30 feet of the craft and a door opened revealing a blond human-like entity of average height with fair skin and blue eyes, wearing a silvery coverall. The woman then noticed at a window next to the door a large hairy, Bigfoot type creature apparently seated and only visible from the chest up. The woman stared at the object and beings for a few minutes, and then the object suddenly vanished from plain sight.

HC addition # 116
Source: Mufon Journal # 264, April 1990
Type: A

So there you have it, bigfoot sitting in a UFO like Chewbacca, with location, date, time, and source.

So, finding this treasure trove all of a sudden has me asking myself some questions .First, why do the UFO guys have so many reports and the bigfoot guys have so few? You probably are already guessing that I think selection bias has something to do with it. I’ve mentioned before that I saw this going on in a large bigfoot organization — cases were simply thrown out if a UFO was mentioned. But I also think there is a natural reason for it. If someone sees a UFO and a bigfoot together, who are they more likely to call? I think the UFO researcher gets that call 9 times out of 10. For one thing, polls indicate that about half of Americans believe UFOs are real, while the percentage that think bigfoot is real is quite a bit lower. But, really, which seems the more important observation there — that an alien technology appears to be operating on our planet, or that there is a big hairy guy running around? I think aliens win that one too.

So what is the oldest report of UFO bigfoot involvement? If you aren’t particular about how reliable they seem to be, that would be a report from 1888. It comes from Brad Steiger’s book Mysteries of Time and Space, first published in 1974. The source is a personal journal sent to Steiger by a descendant of the writer. So far as I know, no one has ever seen this journal itself, only the report of its contents written in Steiger’s book, so there can be no independent attestation. And even if we did seethe report, there’s nothing to say that it wasn’t written by the person who sent it to Steiger. Indeed, the wording quoted seems pretty silly for actual Native Americans in1888, as you will see. It is almost certainly spurious. Anyway, in it the chronicler speaks of meeting with a Native American man who brings him to a cave to see a hairy man, which he called a “crazy bear.” It was said to have come from a flying contraption piloted by “star men,” and that the star men occasionally brought these crazy bears down from above and let them go.

But if that story won’t do, there is another from 1912 that seems more plausible, coming from Coleman and Clark’s Creatures from the Outer Edge, first published in1978. In this one, an Ohio man and his mother are out berry picking when they notice a “strange dark cloud” overhead. Unnerved by this, they decided to leave the area, but as they left they noticed they were followed by what would be in our parlance now, by their description, a bigfoot.

What would be the most recent report? I suppose it would be this one:

123.

Location. New Gloucester, Maine
Date: October 25 2008
Time: 0127am

The main witness along with two other individuals was exploring a 60 acre sand pit when they saw an extremely bright light. They were terrified at first but decided that they would investigate. They continued walking toward the light until it led them to a section of the pit enclosed by thick trees with a small opening in the middle. At this point they saw a large upright being approximately 8 feet tall, covered with hair and with piercing ice blue eyes. Frozen with fear they stood still as possible until the creature noticed them and bolted into the trees. The witnesses then left the area.

HC addendum
Source: NUFORC

In between there are, as I say, dozens of reports. I’m guessing around 100. That’s way more than I would have thought. So it’s not the case that these reports are extremely rare, it’s just that bigfoot researchers don’t get them.

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