Flap: Bend, Oregon, Jan 1998
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Bigfoot (3).
In the 10 years either side we have 10 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Jan 10, 1998 [name] reports finding 8-10 large tracks in the snow near Bend, Oregon, which he attributes to Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Bend, Oregon - Jan 11, 1998 Witness reports that [name] found large tracks in the snow near his home south of Bend.
Bigfoot · Bend, Oregon - Jan 13, 1998 Witness reports that [name] found tracks with a huge big toe in the snow near a forest cabin.
Bigfoot · Sunriver, Oregon
Sources: oregonbigfoot (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.