Flap: Tiger Creek, Oregon, Jun 1982
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Bigfoot (3).
In the 10 years either side we have no other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Jun 10, 1982 Art Snow and his volunteer team followed tracks associated with the Freeman sighting for three quarters of a mile and cast one of the footprints.
Bigfoot · Tiger Creek, Oregon - Jun 10, 1982 Paul Freeman, a U.S. Forest Service employee, claims he encountered a hairy biped in the Blue Mountains and observed it for several seconds before it fled.
Bigfoot · Walla Walla County, Washington - Jun 16, 1982 [name] and [name] discovered about 40 new tracks in the Mill Creek Watershed on June 16.
Bigfoot · Mill Creek Watershed, Washington
Sources: ISC Newsletter (3).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.