- Class 1a
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1a A sasquatch/bigfoot specimen has been collected (alive or dead).
- Class 1b
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1b A report investigation results in a sasquatch observation or the documentation of clear tracks or other forms of physical evidence by an investigator.
- Class 1c
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1c An investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot by a very reliable observer is a distinct possibility, tangible corroborating evidence is documented, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 1d
- Class 1, Corroboration: Reports involving a sighting, and accompanied by another form of support.1d A visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility involving two or more reliable observers, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 2
- Class 2, Competency: Reports involving sightings by professionally trained or highly skilled observers.2 Investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility, the observer is exceptionally trustworthy, professionally trained, and experienced in the outdoors and/or is accustomed to looking for and recording details (e.g., biologist, anthropologist/archaeologist, ranger, trapper/tracker/seasoned hunter, bird watcher, game warden, naturalist, law enforcement), and other explanations can be reasonably excluded.
- Class 3a
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3a Investigator determines that a visual encounter with a sasquatch/bigfoot is a distinct possibility, the observer is credible, and all other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 3b
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3b Unidentifiable vocalizations were reported and there is accompanying tangible evidence to possibly indicate the presence of a sasquatch/bigfoot, the observer is very reliable, and other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
- Class 3c
- Class 3, Credibility: Sightings or possible wood ape evidence reported by credible witnesses.3c No visual encounter occurred, but physical evidence was found to indicate the presence of a sasquatch/bigfoot (tracks, hair, scat, etc.), the observer is very reliable, and other sources can be reasonably ruled out.
Case: 21120101
Class 3aHorse Rider Has Extended Sighting of Large Primate Creature
Report Details
Occurrence date: Summer/2004
Location: Parker County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Poolville
Time / Conditions: Mid morning and noon
# of Witnesses: 1
Location: Parker County, TX
Nearby/Vicinity: Poolville
Time / Conditions: Mid morning and noon
# of Witnesses: 1
Witness Account:
My family and I were riding our horses on the neighbor’s property one summer day. The property is a few hundred acres wooded with oaks, wild plum, mesquite, briers, blackberry thickets and open grassy pastures. We usually saw anything from turkey, deer, wild hogs, coyotes, rabbits, squirrels.
Most of our rides we would hear birds or run into any of the wild animals or the yearling cattle but it was eerie quiet I remember. We didn’t usually talk when riding so we could see the game and enjoy the sounds of nature. We were riding from one tree line to another when I saw movement in the top of the trees down the draw near the lake they had already gone into the tree line before I could say anything and I was a bit shocked and scared at what I saw.
It was far enough away all I could make out was the shape and the red tinted long hair that was hanging from the arms. I thought it was an orangutan. I asked my family later if they saw it or if they had heard anything about someone missing an ape but they joked that I was seeing things and I questioned what I saw to because I couldn’t find anything about anyone in the area having lost and ape. But I still remember vividly the sun-shining behind this this with its arms holding onto a high branch and it squatting on a lower branch shaking them like it was bouncing and pulling on them and the light shining through its hair giving it a red hair glow.
There were other times we rode out there and it was eerie quite and it felt like someone was watching but we never saw anything on those rides.
