Confidentiality will be maintained unless specific permission to use the witness' name accompanies the submission. Exact sighting locations have not been provided to protect witness' privacy, and to foster a greater research potential. Great care is taken to accurately report all data obtained about a given event. It is up to the readers to judge for themselves whether or not the evidence presented, along with other data already in the public domain, provides proof of the existence of a scientifically unaccepted primate. Reported behavior and trace evidence, associated with Bigfoot sightings, and represented in the following reports, are intended to give the reader a window into the Bigfoot phenomenon.
Scientific methodology dictates repeatable and verifiable results.
Most, if not all, scientific testing requires a control for comparison to any results or evidence obtained. This negates observational data to most scientists, a system contrary to most people's everyday way of judging the world. The physical evidence, such as plaster casts, hair, recorded vocalizations, broken vegetation, photographs, and other evidence, can only be tested by comparison to a known animal. Since no Bigfoot is on hand with which to compare hair, or foot length, or to scream, the best scientific verdict possible is that the evidence is not classifiable into any known category. This is how it will remain until a specimen, live or dead, is taken.