Flap: Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Aug 2020 – Apr 2021
4 reports · 3 separate documents
Other Flying (2), Other Humanoid (1), Bigfoot (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 1 other report within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Aug 2020 Two sisters report seeing a flying entity that looked like a body shrouded in wings in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Other Flying · Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Oct 8, 2020 A woman reports seeing a black humanoid figure with large wings and legs while driving in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Other Flying · Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Jan 2021 Witness reports a canopy jumping three feet and finding two softball-sized rocks placed on top of the grass near their campsite.
Other Humanoid · Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Apr 2021 Witness reports seeing a large, black, hairy humanoid walking up a hill in broad daylight near the Mississippi River.
Bigfoot · Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Sources: singularfortean (2), YouTube (2).
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.