Which has more validity?

[Archae]

Flying saucers or Bigfoot?

In GD there's an argument going on over the latest TV show from the Hysteria Channel about UFO's.

Yet people who have an interest in cryptozoobiology are either laughed at or dismissed.
Even by the UFO groupies.

I have an interest there, and let's face it, there's *FAR* more of a chance of unknown (so far) animals being discovered, than there is of flying saucers flitting around kidnapping trailer park denizens.

[rug]

1. I think Bigfoot crashlanded here from another galaxy.

[LeftyMom]

2. Well the guys who dreamed up Bigfoot admitted it was a hoax,

so flying saucers are only slightly more credible by virtue of not originating with a known fraud, although of course many accounts since were obvious crap.

I'd love to hear about a new great ape being discovered, but unfortunately most of the accounts I've heard from the cryptozoology folks sound implausible at best. Likewise for lake-dwelling plesiosaurs, mothman, el chupacabra and whatnot. But something unlikely-but-plausible like the continued existence of the thylacine would be lovely.

[Glassunion]

3. Loch ness... Everybody knows that...

Duh..

[dimbear]

4. There actually are UFOs. Later sometimes people figure out what they are, making them

just plain FOs. OTOH, there aren't any bigfoots. The reason we know this is that Native Americans have lived here for thousands of years and never run across one, and Native Americans are often woodsmen par excellence, nothing got by them.

Native Americans exterminated things like direwolves, sabertooth cats, mammoths, and so on. A powerful group. No coexistence with bigfoots.

[murielm99]

5. We have a nature trail close to us.

I take my dog there to run.

The trail is well maintained, and only once have I seen any vandalism. Someone put up a small cardboard sign that said, "Bigfoot XXXing."

For some reason, I laughed so hard I had to sit down.

[frogmarch]

6. More chance of ET ufo than

Bigfoot. There would have to be a population of Bigfoot, not just one. Even in remote areas of the U.S., it would take some doing for an entire population, even a small population, of large land animals to remain hidden, leaving no evidence of their existence (carcasses, skeletons, individual bones, teeth, scat, etc.). I’d say the likelihood of Bigfoot being real is zero.

I seriously doubt that Earth is being visited by ET, but I don’t rule out the possibility. On a probability scale of 0 to 5, I put ET visitation at 1.

[Amaril]

7. I've seen a UFO........

....while traveling on Alligator Alley (i.e. I75) across south Florida back in 1976.

I have never seen Bigfoot.