Show Us the Bigfoot Blimp
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 24th, 2015
An article with questions and concerns regarding the Falcon Project:
In 2014 Dr. Meldrum announced funding: “William has met with a benefactor who has committed a quarter million dollars worth of airships (3) and much supporting equipment to the effort.”
The project has now recruited a number of men to leave their homes to act as volunteer labor for six months. The identities have been published on the project website.
Apparently the State Journal did not find the idea of a catamaran blimp (and the other claims) to be sufficiently odd to prompt any sort of fact checking. Surely the idea of a catamaran blimp (has anyone ever seen one?) should have been enough to raise a red flag. In any event, a simple search showed the RATS’s web site is dead. A further search yielded the information that RATS is supposedly located in the small town of Lac le Biche, Alberta, had only two employees,( apparently Stephen Barclay is the boss)and showed a phone number which is not in service. Phone calls to the Chamber of Commerce and various businesses there found no evidence that this company is operating nor could I locate Barclay. Some old blog posts by Barkley led to two firms who had previously done business with RATS; neither had a working number for them.
In our opinion, this is hardly the presence one would expect from the firm that is supposedly building a radical aeronautical design for delivery this summer.
The State Journal article mentions William Barnes as the instigator of the project.
The project website gives some info on Mr. Barnes
and additional undocumented claims about the purported blimp technology. Mr. Barnes’ “resume” gives no educational or formal employment data. He has apparently been seeking gold for a number of years. Seriously.
The claim is made at their Facebook page that the project received FAA approval for Mr. Barnes or someone to fly this unproven craft, supposedly at 4000 feet. Mr. Barnes has stated that his affiliation with Idaho State (thus becoming “not for profit” or a governmental operation?) enabled him to obtain this blanket permission to fly an unmanned craft wherever Mr. Barnes wishes. We aren’t experts, but, frankly, don’t believe this, and let’s just say we aren’t alone in this opinion. We suggest somebody better check on this aspect as well.
Read the rest of the article here.
See also:
Search for Bigfoot with The Falcon Project
Falcon Project hopes to find Bigfoot with unmanned airship
Monster X Radio Archive: William Allen Barnes: The Falcon Project Prepares to Take Flight
The Falcon Project Is Looking For 10 People
Falcon Project Update
New Life Breathed Into Falcon Project?
Aurora MK II To Track Bigfoot
Meldrum’s Appeal for Falcon Project Donations
Falcon Project Ground Response Team
Falcon Project Kickstarter Campaign
$1,000,000 Reward for “Irrefutable Evidence” of Bigfoot
America’s Book Of Secrets: The Mystery of Bigfoot
Falcon Project Conference
Dr. John Bindernagel Kicks Off Falcon Project Conference
Bill Munns at Falcon Project Symposium
How The Falcon Project Began
What are the Legal Issues of a Bigfoot Capture Contest?
Bigfoot North Radio Archive: William Barnes
When Roger Met Patty
Sasquatch For Sale: Death, DNA and Duplicity
#FalconProject #JeffMeldrum #WilliamBarnes
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
If it’s over 55 pounds, the FAA will have to certify the craft and approve its flight plans. The plan to fly high, also means that the pixels per square foot of camera resolution will be a crappy number. It might be good for locating targets, but probably not for identifying them. The catamaran design is not great for stability and is also inefficient in terms of lift per square foot of envelope material. I assume that the actual craft would be more conventional in design and that the drawings were an artistic embellishment. Dr. Meldrum’s endorsement has also puzzled me, since he has, at times, expressed doubts on the value of more photographic evidence, which is all this could ever hope to provide.
All of that said, I do hope that they have simply switched aircraft suppliers and are proceeding with something. The value of the efforts may be something completely unintended, such as elk herd monitoring, for example. If the efforts are indeed bogus and Dr. Meldrum still has his good name on it, then I am saddened. Please say it isn’t so!
I fail to fathom what more blobsquatches, whether of infrared or Eyewitness News ilk, could possibly add to the discussion. An aerial, mobile version of the GameCam; how did those work out?
The creatures of which we are speaking are far too clever for this sort of thing. If we can find a way to approach them (or, more likely, vice-versa) openly and honestly, without guile or sub rosa motivations, then and only then do we stand a chance.
We need them FAR more than they need us, and that equation is not likely to change. Maybe we could find a way to tell them that?