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Bigfoot And UFOs: The Connection – Interview With Stan Gordon
Thursday, May 3, 2012 23:16
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This will be my second time interviewing Stan Gordon, the first being at The Church Of Mabus radio show that can be found here for your listening pleasure. Though Stan touches on the UFO Sasquatch connection, he also even more so touches on Sasquatch itself. He is a researcher which I prefer over a hunter any day. I find him to be one of the most genuine people in the field that I have ever met and had the pleasure of speaking with. I also feel that he offers great insight and open mindedness to the UFO Sasquatch connection. I feel this is important because there are many in the field who are not courageous enough to do so. When the parallel is so strongly there with eye witness accounts and people also who are lately claiming contact with the Sasquatch. I will be bringing more interviews revolving around these communications in the future. Now I present to you my interview with Stan Gordon.
1. In all your years of research what has made you draw a possible connection to Sasquatch and UFOs?
Stan Gordon: In order to give a proper response to this question, I will have to give your readers some background information. I began my research into UFOs, Bigfoot & and other incidents in 1965. In 1970, I founded the first of three volunteer research groups here in Pennsylvania which would investigate multitudes of such reports over many years. Since 1993, I have continued to document these yearly occurrences as an independent researcher.
From my earliest days of research in regards to the Bigfoot phenomena, and as I began to investigate some local Bigfoot encounters, I felt that the evidence was pointing to the possibility that these observations were likely of some yet unknown zoological specimen. Then in 1973, a major series of unusual events began to unfold here in the Keystone State. It was during that period of time that cases occurred which suggested that the Bigfoot phenomena was much more unusual and complicated than I could have ever imagined. My first research unit, the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group (WCUFOSG) which was established in 1970, was by that time very active and had taken on a level of respectability across the state. UFO and Bigfoot reports were frequently being referred to the WCUFOSG to investigate from law enforcement agencies and the news media.
Among my volunteer research group were scientists, engineers, technicians, retired military specialists, etc., who could provide an open, minded investigation into the cases reported. It became apparent that many reports of UFOs, Bigfoot, and other phenomena could in many cases be explained as misidentifications of natural or manmade objects. There were on occasion hoax cases as well. There were however, strange encounters being reported yearly that were not so easily dismissed.
Starting on January 1, 1973, and continuing all year long, reports of strange lights and mysterious aerial objects were being commonly reported across the state. As 1973 continued to be very active with UFO incidents, the events that began to unfold that summer became much more interesting and very unusual. A major outbreak of encounters with Bigfoot creatures was being reported from widespread areas across southwest Pennsylvania as well as other areas. This series of creature encounters went on for months into 1974. As described in detail in my book, "Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook",there were days when multiple Bigfoot encounters were reported from widely separated locations.
In many cases there were daylight observations where the creatures were observed at close range. In other instances, there was more than one creature observed together. As the sightings continued, some of the details of the encounters became much stranger. Among the oddities reported were cases where both a UFO and a Bigfoot were observed at the same time and place. In one case, a UFO was observed on or near the ground and two Bigfoot creatures were observed in the same field. After the object departed and the creatures went into the woods, a state trooper who came to the scene to investigate observed a glowing area on the ground where the object had rested a short time before.
These reports were coming in from the general public from various statewide locations. These cases were investigated soon after they occurred, and as unusual as the incidents might have been, they could not be dismissed. It soon became apparent to myself and other investigators that there were other aspects to the Bigfoot phenomena that could not be ignored.
2. In many of your Bigfoot cases have any of the witnesses ever been harmed or have they seemed to react in a nature that was hostile evidence wise? I know there have been some cases of claw marks and things to that nature.
Stan Gordon: Reports of hostility to humans that encountered these creatures has been generally non-existent in the hundreds of Bigfoot cases I have investigated in Pennsylvania. There is no doubt that they are curious of human behavior and on occasion, have approached quite closely to people engaged in various activities. I have come across a few cases over the years where they have chased individuals but could have easily caught up with these people if that was their goal. I have heard a few unconfirmed stories which are rare of some cases of aggression towards humans, and these incidents sometimes reportedly involved white colored hairy creatures, which are not that often reported.
