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April 28, 2009 6:00 AM

Stan Gordon’s new book, Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO and Bigfoot Casebook, will certainly be interesting. It covers some stories out of Pennsylvania, particularly in 1973-74, where bigfoot and UFOs seemed to be connected. You have probably already read a bit about the Uniontown case from that era, but Roger Marsh, who is helping Stan write his book, has a couple of the other stories in a new article at the Examiner. (Here’s part 1 of that series for completeness’ sake.)

I see a possible direct connection between bigfoot and UFOs in the Uniontown case, but in other cases the evidence is interesting but circumstantial. Take for instance this highly suggestive coincidence:

A typical conundrum from 1973 was this. Gordon gets a call from a witness that they observed two Bigfoot creatures parading through their backyard – seen from windows late at night. He moves to the site and questions all of the family members, and walks away thinking that they are a strong group of reliable witnesses. Back a this UFO Center, he gets another call.

Another family – in close proximity to the previous witness – is reporting a hovering UFO at close range. He completes an investigation and then compares notes. The two families do not know each other, yet they live within a very short distance from each other. One family accesses their home from one road, and the second family – on the other side of the sloping hill – accesses their home from a different road.

The date and time match up. These two families had very different paranorma lexperiences – at literally the same day and time. One was dealing with the Bigfoot creature and one was dealing with the UFO phenonema.

Makes you stop and say, hmmm.. Bigfoot-type creatures are sometimes seen in areas near where UFOs were spotted. (Which of course reminds me of Henry Franzoni’s fascinating tale of spotting a very strange UFO in the same area he’d had a bigfoot encounter.)

But I have noticed that there are some very odd characteristics in some of these cases. For one thing, there are often three-toed footprints associated with the sightings. And for another, the descriptions of the bigfoot creature are sometimes non-standard. Take for instance this description of a creature, which is rather unlike the typical bigfoot description (bolding is mine):

The bipedal hairy humanoid was walking fast across the road and it continued through the field and was apparently heading up the hill behind the house. The boys described the creature as walking upright like a man, with pointy ears and lon garms that did not swing as it walked. The beast was very tall and the bo ysestimated that it stood between 8 and 9 feet tall. The torso was relatively thin and the body was black and furry. The witnesses estimated that the creature weighed between 200-300 pounds.

The pointy ears and the stiff arms are not standard bigfoot characteristics by any means. Neither is the weight for a creature that tall, but the witnesses could well have estimated wrong as far as that goes. (The three toed prints are always disturbing, I confess. I know a researcher who found a strange three toed print in Pennsylvania a couple of years ago, but the land owner would not let him cast it. The finding left him unnerved and wondering.)

My attempts to find bigfoot/UFO connections have returned spotty results at best. There isn’t much to be found on the internet. I did find an old post from 2006 on a site called UFO Resource Center, but I can only find it cached on Google now. It seems to be defunct as a site. However, I saved this rather sensationalized tale from the tex tthere, written by a fellow named CJ Montgomery:

I have long known of the connection between Bigfoot and UFO activity. One of the first cases I had read concerned two eyewitnesses that watched a UFO crash into the side of a mountain. A creature that fit the description of Bigfoot was seen exiting the craft, and headed down the hillside towards the reporter. The monster grabbed the male eyewitness and quickly killed him. The behemoth left him a corpse. The hapless wife watched as it fled, swiftly into the night. That’s not going to get us anywhere..

So there’s Uniontown, then a couple of sightings where bigfoot is seen and then a UFO is seen. But most of the time, they seem to be completely separate.

Of course that just reminds me of the old punch line, “yes, but have you ever seen them together..”

Now I’ll bring this up — as you probably know, last night on Sasquatch Watch Radio we had Dave in KY on as our guest. He has a riveting tale to tell, but there is nothing paranormal or otherworldly about it. The only odd thing about the encounter is the fact that the creature’s head seemed so low on the chest, but as some have pointed out, that could well have been because it was stooping forward. If that creature had the ability to blip out of our time-space and into another parallel universe, it sure missed a great chance to avoid being seen, and seemed rather inclined to stick around, even after Dave fired a couple of rounds from his snub-nose .357 into the ground.

To be sure, some weird things were happening to Dave, but as he has told us, he’s got a friend at the Zoo, so he’s been near the big cats and he is in a great position to tell us whether he thinks bigfoot is capable of infrasound (as the big cats are) and it was his opinion that he was experiencing infrasound. So the weird stuff is pretty well explainable through that hypothesis. At no point, Dave told us last night, did he ever feel like he was getting telepathic communication from the creature. There was communication, mind you, but it was of the ordinary sort — a disgruntled creature let his disgruntlement be known by grousing, which sounds like grousing in any language.

Now Dave’s experience doesn’t prove that bigfoot doesn’t have strange abilities. But it strikes me as odd that most of the really strange stories about bigfoot come from Pennsylvania in the 1970s. Maybe something different was happening there?

ON ANOTHER MATTER ENTIRELY: I just wanted to point you toward an interesting post by Michael Prescott, concerning a new book that posits that the universe is created by the living beings that perceive it. Yeah, I’ll pro’ly buy it.

 

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