INdentification techniques
If Sasquatches were real, there would be a fossil record of large apes in North America. The thing is, is that they have never been found in North America. For field biologists, they use camera traps, analyzing genetic data from scat, and following footprints. With this knowledge, if Sasquatch was real, there would be plentiful amounts of data available to us, but there is not. Also with this data, we should be seeing Sasquatch families outside of our homes every day.
If we look back to our Bigfoot hunters, we find that they have no interest in exploring it in the scientific way. (aka: blimps and cameras)
If we look back to our Bigfoot hunters, we find that they have no interest in exploring it in the scientific way. (aka: blimps and cameras)
Analyzing bigfoot
Claims:
in 1967, Roger Patterson shot a video at Bluff Creek sandbar in northern California where he reports that he elegidly saw Bigfoot. Progressive Research, Chris Murphy and NASI researcher, Jeff Glickman, estimated the height of Bigfoot in the Patterson video to be 7'3 1/2'' tall. They also determined that the circumference of the creature should be 83" and weigh 1,957 pounds. They did this by via different methods of estimation from the film. Grover Krantz, author of Big Footprints (1992), claims that no person alive has body dimensions like that in the film and that the gait could not be humanly replicated wearing a Bigfoot costume.
Analysis of the claims:
After the film was over, Bigfoot investigator, Bob Titmus, found that the tracks were 14 1/2" long. Ten days later he wanted to find whee the position of Patterson's video camera was located by replicating the scene. By doing this, he could find where Bigfoot was exactly every second of the video-even the sticks that he walked around. After Titmus' replication, Glickman, showed another method on how to obtain the same height for the film subject by using later photographs from the scene to determine the dimensions of the subject. To minimize error, large objects in the relative area had to be measured in order to make sure the calibration and the subject were positioned correctly. Thus, scale dimensions had to be used to determine the reference plane.
Conclusion:
The film's subject does not show normal striding gait as humans do, but humans are capable of involving deeper flexion of the knees and hips similar to the film subject's walking. Since the video was blurry, it can not be used as any prrof of Bigfoot existence. Also it is hard to obtain reliable data from an image analysis where the environment is not ideal. Uncertainty was found in the camera positioning, which made quatitative analysis near impossible.
in 1967, Roger Patterson shot a video at Bluff Creek sandbar in northern California where he reports that he elegidly saw Bigfoot. Progressive Research, Chris Murphy and NASI researcher, Jeff Glickman, estimated the height of Bigfoot in the Patterson video to be 7'3 1/2'' tall. They also determined that the circumference of the creature should be 83" and weigh 1,957 pounds. They did this by via different methods of estimation from the film. Grover Krantz, author of Big Footprints (1992), claims that no person alive has body dimensions like that in the film and that the gait could not be humanly replicated wearing a Bigfoot costume.
Analysis of the claims:
After the film was over, Bigfoot investigator, Bob Titmus, found that the tracks were 14 1/2" long. Ten days later he wanted to find whee the position of Patterson's video camera was located by replicating the scene. By doing this, he could find where Bigfoot was exactly every second of the video-even the sticks that he walked around. After Titmus' replication, Glickman, showed another method on how to obtain the same height for the film subject by using later photographs from the scene to determine the dimensions of the subject. To minimize error, large objects in the relative area had to be measured in order to make sure the calibration and the subject were positioned correctly. Thus, scale dimensions had to be used to determine the reference plane.
Conclusion:
The film's subject does not show normal striding gait as humans do, but humans are capable of involving deeper flexion of the knees and hips similar to the film subject's walking. Since the video was blurry, it can not be used as any prrof of Bigfoot existence. Also it is hard to obtain reliable data from an image analysis where the environment is not ideal. Uncertainty was found in the camera positioning, which made quatitative analysis near impossible.