- 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: 25010101
Class 3aWitness Recounts Childhood Experiences
Report Details
Occurrence date: September/1972
Location: Smith County, TN
Nearby/Vicinity: chestnut mound
Time / Conditions: 13:00 — very clear/warm/sunny/cloudless spring day. early afternoon. several leaves already fallen but trees not bare yet. Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day!
# of Witnesses: 2
Location: Smith County, TN
Nearby/Vicinity: chestnut mound
Time / Conditions: 13:00 — very clear/warm/sunny/cloudless spring day. early afternoon. several leaves already fallen but trees not bare yet. Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day!
# of Witnesses: 2
Witness Account:
My visiting great uncle was working on a water pump at a creekside far back into a heavily wooded valley-I walked up with him. After being there probably 30 mins, I began wandering around the area. I walked further up the hillside for 5-10 mins, but stopped when I started "feeling creeped out"-you could feel someone staring at you but couldn't see anyone. I went back downhill to my great uncle and asked him when he'd be finished. That eerie feeling came back so I looked back toward the area where I'd taken my short walk, but I looked far up the hillside past the tree line to an area that was tall grass with no trees, rocks, crevices, etc. Not far from this area's farthest edge toward where the landscape went back into thick forest, I saw a large crouched dark figure which was facing us & simply watching. One point to make: I lived in this area from the ages of 5-11 and had roamed. played, and slept on these hillsides MANY times. I have seen cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, deer, foxes, raccoons and probably any other forest being you could name from very close to short distances away, so I would know what I was seeing. What I saw was definitely NOT any species that I knew. It would have been huge up close judging from the size I saw at a distance. It was very dark black, very short neck, broad shoulders, and long arms. It must have had very muscular legs because it didn't sift it's weight nor move at all from that crouching position the entire time I watched. I was too far away so I did not notice any smell, noises, vocalizations, etc. I only experienced feeling watched. I asked my grt uncle what that was and pointed towards the creature, and he watched it with me for about another 1-2 mins. I could tell that he felt uneasy by the way he fidgeted with the small tools in his hands and the way he shifted his stance a couple of times-he was normally a stoic type person. He said he didn't know, but we had been gone quite a while & should get back to the house. He wrapped up his work and we followed the creek down the valley and back to my great grandparents house. Of course the first thing I did was to announce what had happened and everyone told me there was nothing to worrying about. I went inside and sat at a desk which was close to an open window to eavesdrop on what the grown-ups would talk about without any kids around. My great uncle told his mother, my great grandmother, exactly the same description which I have written above. Her response was priceless: it had always been said that there were people very different from us who lived in supposed caves from deeper into the woods; she had heard stories from even when she was a child (she was prob in her early/mid seventies at this time). Then she said "there's really no telling what might live there and we'd never see it. Leave them alone-let them be".
