February 8, 2010
The validity of the so-called “Thermal Video of a Sasquatch,” allegedly filmed in North Carolina, may never be known, for it appears to have been withdrawn by its owner from scientific analysis.
The following statement has been released by a well-known researcher in the South:
The video is only good if the subject in the video can be verified as a flesh and blood Bigfoot/Sasquatch creature, otherwise it’s just another unknown video. The scientific community would laugh if they examined this “thermal footage of a Bigfoot creature” as it’s being claimed by Mr. Greene and the BFRO. I’ve attempted to purchase a copy of the video directly from Mr. Greene [on Friday, February 5, 2010] so I could forensically enhance it to possibly determine what was filmed. He declined and said the film was no longer for sale. Hmmm? I guess that answered my question!
If you’re going to promote something as evidence of a flesh and blood Bigfoot/Sasquatch creature, be prepared to have the evidence examined by your peers and the scientific community.
I’ve been more than willing over the years to apply my knowledge and provide equipment to help examine evidence just like this video.
Thermal imaging technology will play a significant role in the discovery of these creatures, but the thermal camera can be a double-edged sword in the wrong hands. When a thermal camera is used correctly, it’s a magnificent tool for Bigfoot research, but one must be knowledgeable in its operation. This is why FLIR holds weeklong classes on the cameras operation.
If a thermal camera ends up in the hands of an inexperienced operator, it can turn into Merlin’s Magic Wand where everything you see is a Bigfoot creature. I’ve been using/building thermal cameras since 1998 and I’m still learning something new everyday.
William M. Dranginis
Manassas, VA.
Virginia Bigfoot Research Organization.
Update: For those unaware of the work of Bill Dranginis, who works on government contracts, please see his profile here.
Dranginis monitors his motion-detection camera. (Photograph by Darrow Montgomery)
Dranginis demonstrates his Eye Gotcha invention. (Photograph by Darrow Montgomery)
The Eye Gotcha system includes a camera in a log decoy. (Photograph by Darrow Montgomery)
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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