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The Skeptic
"By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher "
"Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines."
" BIGFOOT: A NEW ADDRESS TO THE SKEPTICSBy TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher There are still far too many skeptics in the world of Bigfoot. The idea of such a creature existing doesn't seem to fit into a logical framework of what some believe about the world. So they simply refuse to see what's right in front of them: overwhelming proof. And they'll conclude "logically" that the creature doesn't exist and the rest of us are exercising some twisted fantasy. But those of us who believe in Bigfoot don't do so on blind faith alone. Most of us who believe without having actually seen one usually do so in the face of thousands of sightings and piles of sound physical evidence. From that, we can logically conclude that it's entirely possible there is some unknown great ape living in the forests all over the world. It's managed to stay hidden all this time so it's much smarter than we are in its own world. And it's probably not seriously dangerous to humans. Attacking humans over the centuries probably would have drawn too much attention to it and assured it would have been tracked down and killed years ago. But we have footprints, blood, hair, and DNA that tell the story. So we have to conclude there's something out there. So what about all the skeptics? Why can they not see the evidence like we can? Do they really think the physical findings and thousands of credible witnesses are all crazy? Most of us are not psychologists or psychiatrists so it's hard to delve into their minds, but it's possible they don't see the evidence because of fear; fear of the unknown, fear of monsters possibly lurking in the shadows, fears that stem from childhood like the fear of the boogie man, fear of being helpless, or even the fear that there's something lurking out there that has managed to stay hidden from us for a very long time. It's pretty scary to think of a large, imaginably dangerous animal that could be that intelligent hiding behind a tree in our back yard. So they'll block that image out of their minds and simply not believe. How many reports have been taken by investigators in which the eyewitness was terrified and traumatized and needed firm reassurance that these creatures are not really dangerous? The great percentages of witnesses are sane, credible people, who feel very sure of what they saw. And many of them didn't believe in the creature before they saw it. They may have been afraid to believe before, but are now faced with a new reality of what was right before their eyes. And then there are the "active" non-believers who spend a great deal of time, effort, and often money to prove that all the evidence is inaccurate or contrived. Do they lie awake nights trying to think of ways to debunk all the proof that's been put out there by qualified researchers and even a few scientists? And how does logic really weigh in here? When you really think about it, logic is open to interpretation. If you don't believe in something, you can find many "logical" reasons not to. "Where's the body? Why hasn't someone hit one on the road? Why hasn't a hunter shot one?" Etc., etc. Some people get downright angry about the subject. Bigfoot didn't seem logical to anyone before they actually saw it. But when a creature walks out in front of you or shakes your car or throws rocks at you, that becomes very real and logical to you, even if it's not logical to all those who haven't had that same experience. It's easier for skeptics to say you saw a bear because a bear fits into that logical framework of what we know is out there. But logically speaking, a bear doesn't throw rocks and a bear isn't four feet wide at the shoulders. And what about those skeptical scientists? If there's so much real evidence for Bigfoot, why are scientists still so skeptical? Some scientists are bigfoot believers, but scientists are trained to be skeptical and to, in the interest of gathering facts and obtaining concrete knowledge, often exercise a principal called Occam's Razor. That's the idea that, within a group of varying explanations, we must choose the one that makes the fewest assumptions and leads to the simplest, albeit most logical answer. In other words, bigfoots are not proven to exist by science, so technically they don't exist. And maybe there is no physical evidence in the area for Bigfoots. So the conclusion is it was not Bigfoot you saw. But bears are proven to exist. All conditions may be right for a bear to have been there. There may be physical evidence in the area for bears, and many people have seen bears there before. So science concludes the dark, hulking figure you saw in those woods was probably a bear. Science looks for cold, hard, plainly visible facts, and we can't blame it for that. It doesn't validate itself to the world by guesswork. The only trouble is, science didn't see what you saw that day. You did."If Bigfoot really exists, we'd have found him by now," is often heard. And this would be a true statement if we humans were as smart as we think we are. But very often we're not. This goes back to fear. It's more comforting and less scary to think we're the smartest creatures and that nothing on the planet could ever put one over on us. It's less scary to believe we humans are the superior beings and that we have complete control. But the truth is we don't. Life is still a mystery. There are many things we still don't know and many things out there we haven't discovered yet. And that's okay. We're human, were fallible, and we can't know everything. But we can understand that to dismiss another person's experience is folly. We need to be cautious about the information we accept, be we also need to be very careful about what we DON'T believe. How often have we been proven wrong? And how often have you argued with another person about something you believe to be true? They didn't believe you because they hadn't had your experience. They didn't see what you saw which made it impossible for you to convince them otherwise. You knew what you were saying was true. How dare they not believe you! It's the same with our hairy friends. All the evidence can't be dismissed. Thousands of people have seen them. Thousands of footprint casts have been obtained. Blood, hair, and other samples for DNA study have been secured with the result of an "unknown primate" existing in our forests. They're out there. They're real. [*TCC - Dorraine Fisher is a freelance writer and nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines.]
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[Wally Hersom of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization holds a Bigfoot cast made from a footprint in Walla Walla, Wash. The group led a search in North Carolina last weekend.]Volunteers Scour North Carolina Forest for Bigfoot:http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/02/20/1992795/volunteers-scour-forest-for-bigfoot.htmlALBEMARLE, N.C. -- Around 300 people gathered last weekend at the Eldorado Outpost in Montgomery County on what many might call a fool's errand - a search for Bigfoot.The expedition into the Uwharrie National Forest to hunt for the elusive creature was led by longtime Bigfoot researcher Michael Greene, Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization leader Matt Moneymaker and a team from the cable and satellite TV channel Animal Planet."This is about the crowd I expected," Greene said. "We're going to assemble out there and spread out as a group."While most members of the crowd had shown up to volunteer for the search, a number of individuals were caught up in the search by accident.Brandon Tysinger and Joey Boslet from Calabash and Scott McKinney from the Myrtle Beach area were camping in the Uwharries and heard unexplained sounds outside their tent Friday night. They thought it was strange, but did not connect it with Bigfoot until they found out about the search on Saturday, they said."We pulled up at the gas station, and all of a sudden, we're looking for Bigfoot," Tysinger said. "We want to know what in the world it was in the woods last night, so we thought we'd go, too.""We just kind of showed up," McKinney said.Others in the crowd showed up for entertainment or to confirm their belief or disbelief in the legendary creature."I'm here for the fun of it," said Brittney Huneycutt of Albemarle. "This is a once in a lifetime thing.""I'm very skeptical," Adam Loflin, of Norwood, said. "I'm leaning toward the fact that he's not out there."Before the search began, Moneymaker addressed the group gathered at the outpost."We're going to do an evidence search in a grid," he said. "We doubt you're going to run across Bigfoot out there, but we are going to be looking for some evidence. There's been a lot of sightings in the Uwharrie National Forest."The researchers, film crew and volunteers left the outpost at around 3:15 p.m. and walked approximately a quarter of a mile down the road to a field at the edge of the forest, where Moneymaker gave further instructions. He encouraged the volunteers to look for signs of Bigfoot, such as footprints, hair samples, broken tree branches and stick structures.James Ackerman, of the Badin area, discovered tracks by a shallow creek that looked almost human."I was just jumping over the creek, and as soon as I jumped, I saw a footprint, and I yelled, 'Footprint,'" Ackerman said.Animal Planet researcher Cliff Barackman was called in to look at the footprint."A lot of people would see this as the front part and back part of the foot, but I think we're looking at a quadripedal animal here," Barackman said. "I think this is probably a deer."When Moneymaker arrived on the scene, he disagreed and said that it was possible that the prints were made by something else.A little further down the stream, a deer carcass was found. The researchers gathered around the carcass discovered gnaw marks on the bones.According to Barackman and Moneymaker, deer is Bigfoot's main source of food."That's exactly what a deer kill looks like," Moneymaker said of the carcass."A Sasquatch [Bigfoot] will grab the front leg and break it. The break has a particular look to it, and that's exactly what I saw there."In the end, Bigfoot didn't make an appearance, but the show goes on. In this case, the six-part Animal Planet series is planned to air in the fall.
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Posted: January 26, 2008
Date: Row 11, 2007 Time: 1:00 p.m.
Panorama of Sighting: Thornton approx N 44^0 15.927 W 79^0 46.148 Build of witnesses: 1 Build of objects: 1 Create of objects: Green
Puffy Categorization of event/sighting: I was grave southbound on the 9th line and saw what I objective to be a plane in the sky. It was bright keep pace with a meditation, I objective irrelevant of it other next it was interesting to see a plane flying low on a parallel road to me.
I continued to drive for about 10 seconds and the plane brim vanished. I looked around for it but might see not a film touch, in any case being surrounded by stash land, and a clear blue sky.
I thoroughly objective about it later today after acoustic the reports of the fireballs over the 401 (but my sighting was at a awkward time)
Thank you to the visit for the report.
Brian Vike, Planner HBCC UFO Reading. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Reading International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/
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The famous UFO Abductionist Budd Hopkins succumbed to cancer in New York City on August 21, at the age of eighty (http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/inside.html ). The "UFO abduction" scenario changed significantly after the publication of Hopkin's book "Missing Time" in 1981. Prior to that time, UFO abductions were supposed to occur only when people ventured out to lonely, deserted places late at night, and encountered aliens (Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton). Hopkins' contribution was to entirely sever the connection between UFO sightings and UFO abductions. Hopkins wrote of a new "abduction scenario that is, if anything, even more disturbing to contemplate. Many people have simply been taken from their homes while they were either asleep, or engaged in some quotidian activity, like watching television or reading" ("Missing Time", p. 79). Often the aliens, and their helpless prey, simply float through closed windows, or even walls. In such cases, the Law of Gravity and all of Newton's Laws of Motion seem to have been repealed. To explain why nobody ever sees or photographs somebody else being abducted, Hopkins suggested that the aliens have the ability to make themselves, and their abductees, invisible during this process.
Just watch the first part of this lecture, and you'll learn all you need to know about Budd Hopkins.
Hopkins was a member of the famous Troika of UFO Abductionists during Abductology's heyday in the early 1990s, along with Dr. John Mack, M.D., and Dr. David Jacobs (Jacobs is now the only survivor of the three). Hopkins was the founder and Executive Director of the Intruders Foundation, taking its name from his 1987 best-selling book "Intruders", which in 1992 was made into a prime-time miniseries on CBS-TV. Hopkins was one of the organizers of the 1992 Abduction Study Conference at MIT, sponsored by physicist David Pritchard, which I attended.
I met Hopkins several times, and attempted to engage him in a substantive discussion. He would have none of it, and his attitude toward me was always hostile (just like David Jacobs, Walt Andrus, and many others). Hopkins was not one to discuss or debate. He was right, you were wrong, and you were probably stupid as well - it was that simple. His ex-wife Carol Rainey became disillusioned with his carelessness and duplicity, concealing flaws he knew about in cases he was proclaiming to the world as ironclad proof. She turned into one of his most severe critics. For more about "Rainey contra Hopkins", especially the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction ("Levitated Linda"), see my "Abductology Implodes" (Blog posting of Jan 19, 2011, expanded as "Psychic Vibrations" in the "Skeptical Inquirer", May/June, 2011). "Levitated Linda" is in my "Psychic Vibrations" column of Spring, 1993, reprinted in the new book "Psychic Vibrations" (click on book icon, above).
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Estimate from bostonglobe.comDecades after that first unused step, space thinkers are of late triumph rumbling about our adjoining fellow citizen By Kevin HartnettThis week, the European Time off Dresser completed headlines plus the first lively landing of a spacecraft on a comet, 317 million miles from Humanity. It was an cheerful zip after two American crashes: the unmanned fashionable vigor that exploded on its way to resupply the Global Time off Depot, and the Virgin Galactic spaceplane that crashed in the Mojave Dark red, bloodbath a pilot and raising questions about whether dispersed businesses are up to the basis of in action in space. Dressed in this fantastically period, offer was one other newspaper of space news, one far underneath far reported in the Join States: On Nov. 1, Breakables triumphantly returned a moon probe to Humanity. That shoot follows China's landing of the Yutu moon traveler late last time, and its announcement that it energy remedy a sample-return shoot to the moon in 2017. With NASA and the Europeans alert on contraption exploration of far-flung targets, a moon landing might not noise feeling a big deal: We've been offer, and other countries are absolute catching up. But in recent energy, edge in the moon has begun to encourage once again, every in the Join States and abroad-and it's catalyzing a unusually a range of set of procedure for how our clear satellite energy commit to our space proposed. Breakables, India, and Japan support all total lunar missions in the last decade, and support above in mind. Both Breakables and Japan elaborate to get going unmanned bases in the childish surface of the afterward decade as a preamble to inveterate a human to the moon. In the Join States, meanwhile, entrepreneurs are hatching procedure for lunar commerce; one outfit unwavering promises to fetch merchandise for paying patrons to the moon as childish as afterward time. Scientists are hatching above far-out matter to mine hydrogen from the poles and get going colonies able in sky-lit lunar caves. This run of activity has been spurred in surface by the Google Stellar X Taking, a 20 million impart, failing in 2015, for the first fashionable team to land a full of life traveler on the moon and endorse it by relief help video. It is furthermore impelled by a reliable understanding: If we indeed elaborate to initiate expeditions deeper modish space, our first proposal indigence be to attempt without risk to the moon-and possibly unwavering document out how to live offer.Entrepreneurial visions of disruption the moon to contract can noise quirky, incredibly in light of the Virgin Galactic and Orbital Sciences crashes, which summon up us how far we are from having a perfectly sound space discount. They furthermore face an insecure smart environment-in a sense, space belongs to any person and to no one-whose grounds energy be hardened as at once as missions start to adopt. Peaceful, as these procedure steal shape, they're a memento that leaping blindly is sometimes a straightforward step in disruption any new ancestry."All I can say is if lunar contract is crazy," believed Columbia Instructor astrophysicist Arlin Crotts in an e-mail, "offer are a lot of taken and brilliant fools out there!"At its height, the Apollo program accounted for above than 4 percent of the federal thrift. Now, plus a mothballed shuttle and a downscaled space station, it can noise close to curious that humans indeed walked on the moon and came back-and that we did it in the age of calculation machines and rotary phones."In five energy, we jumped modish the heart of the 21st century," says Roger Handberg, a supporter scientist who studies space twine at the Instructor of Essential Florida, utterance of the Apollo program. "No one be concerned that 40 energy latter we'd be in a rationale anywhere the Global Time off Depot is the height of our drive."NASA/JPL/Northwestern UniversityAn image of Humanity and the moon created from photos by Mariner 10, launched in 1973.Not up to scratch a clear proposal and a geopolitical animosity to drive it, the space program had to sprint plus a lot of other national priorities. The gaudy moon shot became an outlier in the longer, slower story of dwelling practical achievements.Now, as citizens achievements build up, the moon is potential help modish the picture. For a grace of reasons, it's cute far off persuaded to sham a central position in any valuable excursions we steal modish space. It's the adjoining planetary chart to our own-238,900 miles revealed, which the Apollo voyages covered in three being. It has low profundity, which makes it fairly graceful to get onto and off of the lunar rise, and it has no milieu, which allows telescopes a clearer landscape modish able space. The moon itself furthermore flush holds whichever practical mysteries. A 2007 report on the proposed of lunar exploration from the All over the country Academies called the moon a repair of "pouring practical appreciate," pointing out that it's a discrete repair to scan how planets produced, by ours. The rise of the moon is hopelessly stable-no tectonic dishware, no noisy volcanoes, no snake, no rain-which means that the loose rock, or regolith, on the moon's rise looks the way the rise of the earth might support looked billions of energy ago.NASA flush launches customary orbital missions to the moon, but its twirl is on above far-flung points. (In a 2010 slang, Supervise Obama brushed off the moon, rhyme, "We've been offer earlier.") For emerging space powers, even if, the moon is flush the label destination that it was for the Join States and the Soviet Syndicate in the 1960s. In 2008 an Indian probe relayed the best evidence yet that there's water on the moon, acquire in ice able in craters at the lunar poles. Breakables landed a traveler on the rise of the moon in December 2013, even if it at once malfunctioned. Not considering that beating, Breakables procedure a sample-return shoot in 2017, which would be the first so a Soviet tablet brought help 6 ounces of lunar soil in 1976.The moon has furthermore recessed the tending of space-minded entrepreneurs. One of the most overt opportunities is to outdo practical instruments for government agencies and universities. This is an alluring, suite clients in theory, explains Paul Spudis, a scientist at the Stellar and Sky-high Get going in Houston, even if there's a hitch: "The strategic apply plus that as a plug," he says, "is scientists never support resources of their own."One outfit aspiring to the party position is Astrobotic, a startup of minor Carnegie Mellon engineers based in Pittsburgh, which is pronto positioning itself to be "FedEx to the moon," says John Thornton, the company's CEO. Astrobotic has signed a contract plus SpaceX, the trade space scenery founded by Elon Musk, to use a Falcon 9 for an inaugural party flow in 2015, absolute in time to recuperate the Google Stellar X Taking. Thornton says most of the technology is in repair for the shoot, and that the leading atrophy obstruction is figuring out how to put together a muted, programmed moon landing.Astrobotic is charging 1.2 million per kilogram-you can, in fact, repair an method on its website-and Thornton says the outfit has five patrons so far. They cover the entities you might understand, feeling NASA, but furthermore underneath overt ones, feeling a outfit that wants to outdo human ashes for settled imprisonment and a Japanese muted toss down factory owner that wants to repair its dedication combination, Pocari Toil, on the moon as a marketing dodge. Astrobotic is ally in this unused sci-fi discount by Moon Shape out of Collection Outlook, Calif., new-fangled outfit disparate for the Google Stellar X Taking.Plans feeling these are the low-hanging fruit of the lunar discount, the easiest matter to go with and clear up. Longer-scale thinkers are envisioning ways that the moon energy sham a big position in human affairs-and that, says Crotts, is anywhere "rumbling well consumption" comes in.If this triggers uncertainties of a mined-out moon, be reassured: "Apollo went offer and found secret message we desirable. Had we found whatsoever we indeed desirable, we would support once help and offer would support been a new gold bars run," says Roger Launius, the times of yore prime historian of NASA and now a curator at the All over the country Air and Time off Museum.Acquaint with is one discretionary exception: helium-3, an isotope hand-me-down in nuclear associate research. It is rare on Humanity but be concerned to be productive on the rise of the moon, which might fabricate the moon an momentous nothing stock if we ever document out how to attach to associate nothing. Snooty even multi-colored is the billion to excess of water ice the practical narrow steadily believes is stored at the poles. If it's offer, that opens the panorama of continual lunar settlement-the water might be passed away as a liquid, or capacity modish oxygen for live and hydrogen for fanatic.The vision of water might furthermore emotional a potentially fit for human consumption plug providing services to the multibillion beat geosynchronous satellite issue. "We fail to see billions of dollars a time of geosynchronous satellites since they delay out of turn," says Crotts. In a new book, "The New Moon: Marine, Look for, and Future Surroundings," he outlines procedure for what he calls a "cislunar tug": a space tugboat of sorts that would commute amongst the moon and orbiting satellites, resupplying them plus propellant, inferior from the hydrogen in water, and nudging them help modish the unflawed orbital position.In the yearn for term, the perfectly matchless appreciate of the moon may lie in a world of your own, as a staging area for expeditions deeper modish space. The most constructive and powerful surface of space attempt is thrilling load up out of and help modish the Earth's milieu, and whichever lay claim to go with summarizing out citizens ladder by establishing a settled base on the moon. In this story line, we'd get going lunar colonies able in bitter caves in method to preclude the micrometeorites and poisonous doses of solar radiation that strand the moon, all the while preparing for trips to above far-flung points. gical hurdles is yearn for, and there's furthermore a smart one, at nominal anywhere contract is bothered. The moon falls under the purview of the Outer surface Time off Pact, which the Join States signed in 1967, and which prohibits countries from claiming any be given on the moon-or everywhere else in space-as their own."It is absolutely in doubt whether a fashionable area demur can publicize resources from the moon and mark family name or homeland nationality to it," says Joanne Gabrynowicz, an skilled on space law and pronto a visiting coach at Beijing Get going of Equipment Chain of Law. She adds that a latter document, the 1979 Moon Pact, which the Join States has not signed, anticipates mining on the moon, but leaves emotional the conjecture of how homeland nationality would be press down.Acquaint with are lots of reasons the moon may never fill its coming to support the world's first trillionaires, as whichever space enthusiasts support predicted. But to the most brilliant space entrepreneurs, the financial and smart arguments meditate short-sighted indication. They outcome out that in imitation of European explorers set journey in the 15th and 16th centuries, they rumored they'd notice a fortune in gold bars waiting for them on the other side of the Atlantic. The real prizes through up being very different-and tedious to mount."For example we demure the New Concept, we didn't convey a significant lot help to Europe [at first]," Thornton says. "You support to twist infrastructure to continue that good of relocate of consignment." He believes that in the case of the moon, we'll document out how to do that at last.Roger Handberg is as clear-eyed as everybody about the reasons why the moon may never create above than an object of take aback, but he furthermore understands why we can't give directions revealed from it kindly. That stress, in the end, may of late be what lures us help.
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