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Monday, June 28, 2010

BIGFOOT VS UFOS by Ufonalyzer 6/2010

BIGFOOT VS UFOS


Apologies for the stupid and ignorant title. Of course there’s no competition between these two subjects. This writeup was inspired by a couple of things. The first was by going through 9000 capsule summaries of UFO/paranormal encounters by people at Albert Rosales’ website. Among these encounters were 20 to 30 encounters with large hairy beings, about 8 of which were observing a bigfoot type alien coming out of a landed UFO and bigfoot type aliens collaborating with other alien races visiting earth. The second was by watching the documentary, “Southern Fried Bigfoot” on television which was quite well done and kind of persuasive. The Ufonalyzer does not believe in Bigfoot, but hopes that he is wrong, while he does believe in UFOs and is convinced that he is right.

But why the difference? Both leave trace evidence, both have well documented sightings, both are worldwide phenomena, both have videos and photos, both have long histories extending back into time with native lore and legend, both get occasional newspaper coverage by lazy and ignorant journalists, but only one has a stealth coverup with FOIA clues and other strong evidence. Beyond this last point, the difference is simply an issue of magnitude.

Trace Evidence: UFOs leave a variety of trace evidence, be it psychological disorders of abductees, scorch marks, landing gear imprints, occasional fragments from crashes, refusal by vegetation to grow at a landing site and more. Bigfoot’s evidence is almost always a foot plaster cast and a recording of a howling. Both are easily faked.

Worldwide Phenomena: UFOs have a conservative unexplained, good 15,000 sightings per year. Bigfoot, including yetis, has what, about 10? Both, however, are undeniably worldwide phenomena.

Videos and Photos: UFOs have hundreds of videos and photos per year. Most of the UFO videos are of night lights and as such are virtually worthless, but often there is a daylight disc video which really makes you think. UFOs also have the advantage of simultaneous visual AND radar confirmation, and Bigfoot has none. Bigfoot has about zero videos per year, one exception being the famous Patterson footage shot in California on 10/20/1967, and the few yearly photos are always night time blurry things that could easily be someone in a gorilla suit.

Long Histories: In this category, the two subjects appear to be about equally compelling.

Media Coverage: Same as previous. Both suffer disgraceful, ignorant, shallow, sarcastic coverage blended with amateurish attempts at humor.

Government Coverup: The easiest and first thing to determine in ufology is that there exists a government coverup. Of course, Bigfoot does not have that going for it, because government officials really do not care if there is a crypto animal roaming the world (unless the animal has a chance of having extraterrestrial ties.* This writer has always held the belief that if the chupacabra turns out to be real, it is an escaped alien pet.) In the case of UFOs, the government has been “hoist by its own petard”; i.e. its earnest efforts to hush the phenomenon up really goes a long way toward convincing the casual curious person that this is for real, otherwise why the coverup? Take a look at a redacted UFO FOIA document, or read the three different government versions of the Roswell incident for starters. The coverup methods used by the government work for the vegetative public which is in the majority, but they don’t work at all for the casual curious investigator. Unfortunately, the Bigfoot believers do not have the ludicrous government lies going for them, and this actually hurts them insofar as public backing goes for support.

Physical Proof: Both camps believe that to prove to the general public that their belief is real, a dead specimen will have to be obtained. A big issue in the Bigfoot camp is whether to kill one to prove it exists or to use other means. It’s virtually the same in the UFO camp, with a public dead alien, public crashed UFO, or public landing needed to convince the skeptics.

Each of us has a personal threshold at which the total evidence induces one to cross over into “believerhood”. For this writer, more evidence is needed for Bigfoot to “become real” in his mind. You may still believe in either one or both because your personal threshold is different than someone else’s. Regardless, the Ufonalyzer will definitely watch the next Bigfoot special that occurs with rapt attention.

* One of Timothy Good’s books has a photograph of a bird caught in Puerto Rico that actually has fangs like a snake. Alleged government agents confiscated the bird.
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