And who says there is no progress?

Specifically quoted was my mention of Alton Higgins’ Willow Creek lecture, which became the first public appearance of the word, as far as has been determined.

To clarify my clarification.

Sheesh…

A good sas video won’t just LOOK compelling. it will BE compelling; because our evolution as a hunter will tell us that all the appropriate search parameters are THERE. This ISN’T manipulated; it’s real video of a real animal.

Again: this is why the Patty film has stood up so well for so long. It is compellingly REAL. The biggest factor in its favor is also the biggest problem with it: almost everyone associated with both its making and its defense is an amateur. This (a) rules out a hoax, which would have had to be better-than-Hollywood-studio sophisticated (remember, “Planet of the Apes” was the best Hollywood could do the year after the Patty film), and means that folks trying to defend it get, well, put on the defensive, rather than laughing, out loud, at how anyone could get suckered into such a conspiracy-theory argument as that it’s a hoax.

Just my two cents, but my experience tells me to think that, if it were ever possible to get it (you kind of need a real animal first), a sasquatch video would look pretty compelling. Three million years of evolution as a predator trumps twenty years of Photoshop, methinks. We can all of us, maybe once we’ve trained our eyes a bit for some of us, pick out manipulation on a video of an animal. There is something about a real animal’s movement that is impossible to duplicate.

This is to me the most compelling thing about the Patterson film (other than that EVERY OTHER SUCH RECORD has been either a hoax or a blobsquatch!). You can tell immediately that it’s a moving animal. And it sure seems surefooted for a guy in a very heavy, very bulky suit with torso and arms way too long for him. River bars are nowhere near as flat as they look.

And motion gives you a dimension that a still photo, relying totally on the quality of a single exposure at a single instant in time, doesn’t.

I bet that if we ever get a REAL video of a sas, we won’t be sitting around trying to debunk it; we’ll all be buying plane tickets and packing our cameras!