The Sonoma Footage
Date: Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 (CST )
Topic: Animals & Cryptozoology
 This amateur footage is blurry, shakey, and frustratingly short, but it's recent and it's better than the Manitoba footage. It was obtained by a hiker on November 14, 2005, in a mountainous portion of Sonoma County in Northern California.
Various people in the BFRO have seen sasquatches in the field and know what they look like. We've seen plenty of hoaxed footage over the years as well. With that said, we are confident the Sonoma footage is not fake (i.e. not animation or a man in a costume).
This figure is most likely a real sasquatch -- a survivor of the gigantopithecus line of apes. The stooping, ducking figure in the footage may stand 7-8 feet tall, and may weight 1,000 pounds or more. Each arm may weigh well over 100 pounds. Witnesses in different parts of the country have described unusually pronounced arm swing. Some unreleased footage shows it as well.
The
hiker/cameraman, Mark Nelson (from Ventura County), was hiking up a
traill off Skaggs Springs Road in the
mountains of northern Sonoma County when he noticed this figure on the
road moving away from him. He had his camcorder in his bag. He pulled
it out and ran toward where the figure stepped off the road.
Mark was looking around
trying to figure out where it went when he saw it down below him on the
hill. The figure moves to the left at first, then squats down trying to
hide in the grass. It gets up and moves to the right, toward thicker
brush and trees. Mark tries to zoom in but looses focus just before the
figure is out of view.
An important lesson in this
clip, and the Manitoba clip : Don't try to zoom in if you've got
something like this in frame. Instead concentrate on aiming the camera
and holding it steady if you've already got it in focus. It's easy to
lose sight of a moving object when you zoom in, and you will lose
focus, at least briefly.
The entire clip will be
posted eventually. The clip available at present cuts off right as Mark
zooms in and looses focus. There's only a few seconds more, but you
don't see the figure any longer. The camera swings down to the ground
right after the last frame in the present clip.
We've asked Mark Nelson to
provide the full sequence. It will be posted when received, but we
expect it won't show much more than what you see in the current clip.
Article Source
Download the video by clicking here (Apple QuickTime required).
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