Flap: Sydney, New South Wales, Nov 2012 – Feb 2013
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Bigfoot (2), Other Humanoid (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 14 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Nov 2012 Witness reports seeing a fast-moving, brown, hairless upright creature running through scrub and up a steep ravine while walking with their son.
Bigfoot · Sydney, New South Wales - Feb 15, 2013 Witness reports a large, greyish-white humanoid with dark features glided across the road in front of their car and vanished near a cliff wall.
Bigfoot · Mooney Mooney Creek, New South Wales - Feb 18, 2013 Witness reports an uneasy feeling of being watched and a strong pungent odour while walking near house-sized boulders with four others.
Other Humanoid · Apple Tree Bay, New South Wales
Sources: yowie (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.