Comments on: Thunderbird Defeathered

By: Bigfoot73

Bigfoot73 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:08:09 +0000

How diligent and honest and considerate of the photographer to go back and sort this out for us!
Let’s hope fate rewards his integrity with a sighting of a real t-bird one day.

By: planettom

planettom — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:09:45 +0000

Great follow up and input from everyone. Nice to see this one fully explored and examined. Great work!

By: Harold

Harold — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:03:48 +0000

This has been an excellent example of how this sort of thing can be analyzed and investigated. Huge kudos to the photographer for following-up on this. And thanks for the very cool cloud photo, too!

By the way, are those hotels in the background? I sure hope they are, and not townhouses. I can’t imagine anyone leaping at a piece of real estate that offers such a lovely view of a well-lit parking lot!

By: roylehew

roylehew — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:25:48 +0000

This Thunderbird stuff is interesting. I checked my “Mysteries of the unexplained” book after reading the older thread about the arizona picture. Kim was right, the picture is not there. Page 45 talks about erratic enigmatics.

By: Dr. Strings

Dr. Strings — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:29:17 +0000

Agreed, and it also illustrates the leaps people make when seeing an odd or unknown object or creature. An oddity, aberration, or unrecognized lifeform appears in a photo or video, and suddenly the mind jumps to the far-flung reaches of monsters and legends. Lends credence to that theory of the witness “seeing what they believe should be there” instead of what it might actually be. It’s still an amazing photo just for those clouds and that sky.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:48:02 +0000

This has still been a very instructive incident, because it illustrates the natural human desire to put a label on an unrecognized object, and also how ambiguous even clear photo evidence can be.

By: Insanity

Insanity — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:31:39 +0000

Though not from the exact same perspective, it does confirm the suspected conclusion. Thanks to the original photographer to going back, something of a rarity in these investigations.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:08:07 +0000

I appreciate the photographer’s honest effort to get to the bottom of this and coming forth to share the findings.

Like I said before, I didn’t think the photographer was willingly deceiving or hoaxing us. Something showed up on film that they couldn’t understand and was curious. I’m glad we got to the definitive answer behind this one. It would be nice to have this kind of drive to get absolute answers from some of the photographers of other blobsquatches and whatnot.

Good work.

By: Fhqwhgads

Fhqwhgads — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:47:36 +0000

Maybe you just solved the problem of the missing thunderbird nests — they nest in Walmart parking lots, where they are mistaken for lamps!