Hudson Interviewed on Un-X News

  https://www.youtube.com/live/vi9jWdp-RlI?si=hxPfBA_HtMegw4Ys

The live interview from 28 June 2024

A YEAR OF SAUCERS SEEN AROUND THE GLOBE: Discover 1965

In 1965 the top song would be the Rolling Stones, bemoaning their lack of satisfaction.  For UFO experiencers and researchers, it would be a complaint as well.  Despite a year long record of GLOBAL sightings, often in clusters and pairs, from military, police, and thousands of civilian witnesses - the year would be largely written off through a vast propaganda of explanations that ignored facts to focus on an agenda.

Today, a search on the internet for significant cases for the year usually brings up only one case.

Learn what was really being reported and seen in the skies around the globe....

Author and researcher Marilyn A. Hudson adds a new title to her series UFO SKIES with 1965: Summer of the Saucers.  Read the others : Sooner Saucers, vol. 1 & 2, 1947: Those Saucy Saucers, Encounter in Kansas and Sunflower Saucers: Some Kansas UFO's.  All available on Amazon.

 

New Story Collection Available: Scream in the Night - True tales of encounters with Bigfoot

 

Over the years, at conferences, book talks, and festivals, author and researcher Marilyn A. Hudson, had people share their stories. Here is the best of those stories gathered in one short and easy to read format. Some in the very words of the witnesses and others a sharing of the story, and the emotional impact conveyed by the witness, and written by Hudson. All wished their names to be withheld.  The stories, however, are all real.  True tales of bigfoot sightings... available on Amazon in book and Kindle formats. 

Bigfoot In A Box

 A mystery photo from the early 1960's, mysteriously submitted and unclaimed. The place was somewhere in the vast green forests of the Pacific Northwest...since then a long game of "is it?" or "isn't it?" has revolved around this, and similar images, ensuring the legend of mythos of the Bigfoot continues.

At one point in the late 1950's and early 1960's a carnival sideshow claimed a frozen young bigfoot creature.  Crowds silently shuffled past the ice encrusted and frozen creature - forever caught in a twisted posture - as if warding off the demise that surely caught him.

Noted zoologists Ivan Saunderson was able - with assistants - to study the creature in the case. Detailed drawings, the best measurements capable in the setting and a photo or two were taken. He produced the first ever scientific study of an alleged creature. The findings were - unique - details were very specific for someone conducting a sideshow hoax.  His conclusions , although tempered by the lack of real access to the remains (an autopsy or necropsy) and the questions the very existence of such a reality might present, did note that it laid open the path for his scientific fellows to consider the real possibility of an undiscovered hominid in the forests of the northwest. 

As with all good stories - the ultimate end to this creature is clouded in mystery. It is known that the "real" or first frozen exhibit was replaced soon by a replica. A sideshow magic trick of staying one step ahead of legal steps regarding handling a dead body? The issue of a hoax being found out? 

All science was left with were some detailed notes by an expert working under less than ideal conditions, attempting to do as professional a task as best he could, while remaining open minded to things still to be discovered.

Maybe one day the rest of this tale can be told...until then, the search continues...despite hoaxers and despite the tsking fingers of a scientific community that had closed its mind to possibilities yet to be found. 

It Was Just A Bear! A standard explanation for alleged Bigfoot Sightings

From the early reports in newspapers to - today - bears are offered as a probable explanation for many reported Bigfoot type sightings. Is that correct? How similar - and how different - are the upright walking creatures?

BEARS

These images - unknown sources - reveal some common features of the rare occasions when bears stand or walk upright.

Things to Note:

• The shape and visibility of the ears
• The profile of the bear (protruding snout)
• The stubby bearing of the arms
• The short distance from ground to groin and the resultant short legs
• Note the hunched or arched neck and the forward thrust of the head
• Note the snout when seen facing forward appears more triangular

GORILLA

This image - again source unknown - reveals what a great ape looks like walking upright. This gorilla is a great picture of confidence.

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Things to Notice:

• The visible crest on the skull
• The low center of gravity
• The protruding abdomen (a beer gut) and buttocks
• The hairy/pelted arms
• The short legs (and usually thick)
• A side profile shows a pronounced jutting outward of jaw line and ridge over eyes

SOME DATA TO BE COLLECTED: BIGFOOT RESEARCH

 A lot of the data online about Bigfoot or Sasquatch remains extremely basic: place, date, and narrative account of brief sightings of the illusive creature.  This dearth of real and intentional data allows the topic to remain at the sidelines. 

In my research for my books on UFOs, I also found that there is a strong emphasis on "Look, up in the sky!" Less emphasis on teaching people to be observant and record specific and crucial elements (where the sighting took place, the direction witness was looking, comparing sizes with known objects in the area, weather conditions, etc.)

That in mind, let me offer the following as a checklist of valuable details to collect, when a person sees something strange.  The items are tied to specific factors that will help determine if the person saw a bear or other normal forest dweller or something truly unique.                                                                         

Things to Observe	Y or N	Notes (add details here)
Shape of skull: Rounded top
Shape of skull: Crested top
Standing upright on two legs
Forehead: Visible
Forehead: Hairy
Forehead: Heavy brow or ridge
Nose: Wide and flat
Nose: Narrow and protruding
Mouth: Wide and thin lipped
Mouth: Wide and thick lipped
Teeth: Large, human-like teeth
Teeth: Prominent fangs
Jaw: Heavy, squared, hairy
Jaw: Narrow, pointed, flesh showing
Shoulders: Wide and hairy
Shoulders: Narrow and muscled
Shoulders: Hunched/Stooped
Arms: Hairy and falling closer to the knee level area
Arms: Hairy and falling to groin area
Chest: Hairy with no flesh showing
Chest: Hairy but with flesh showing
Hands: Human-like (5 fingers +thumb)
Hands: Large, prominent thumbs
Legs: Long and hairy (giving ht.)
Legs: Short and hairy (decreasing ht.)
Feet: Large and hair covered
Feet: Human-sized with flesh
Side view of head: Flat face (human-like)
Side view of head: Protruding nose/snout
Ears: Visible and set on sides of head
Ears: Visible and set toward top of head
Ears: Not visible
Eyes: Deep-set, below brow, and dark in color. Space about width of the nose or mouth.
Eyes: Farther apart (toward sides of nose line) placing them more to the sides of the head. Color dark.

                               

                               

Screams in the Night!: Bigfoot and similar mysteries

 Imagine the total darkness of deep night, the silence of slumber is shattered by the sound of a horrific moaning or screaming. The sound is shrill, high pitched, and sounds like a woman crying out or jabbering in excited terror.

Ghosts, bloodsucking creature of the doomed, monsters, Bigfoot or the ill-defined but prevalent "Skinwalkers" of Native American lore. and beliefs.

Video and audio collections online are filled with captures of bizarre sounds. Many, however, do have a basis in something real, breathing and physical. 

Cougars, bobcats, panthers, and coyotes can all create howls and cries that fill that bill. Coyotes are often depicted with their mournful yipping cry.  Sounds and their purposes vary. A call out to see "is anyone there?" to "want to hook up?" and to other communication purposes. Sometimes, it is a basic statement that the creature is out, and others beware. 

A common feature of all these animals, and the cries of racoons, foxes, and others, is shrillness.  Even the cougar starts out with a low rough growl, but the pitch rises, and the shrillness of the hissing housecat comes through. 

In comparison, however, many of the available audio samples of alleged Bigfoot calls or cries seem to fall within a lower range.  A search for studies of the audio qualities of Bigfoot calls compared to other animals came up empty. They may have been done but were not easily available but here is one...

It is clear some significant research is needed to expand this aspect of studies into this cryptid. Right now a lot of focus is on merely mapping reports and revealing grainy photos of a "something" (real, mistaken identity or hoax). 

For other examples - check out this link Catalog of Recorded Audio - North American Wood Ape Conservancy

BIGFOOT

One of the ongoing mysteries is the concept of the Bigfoot (or similar names) that might exist in remote regions, use waterways to migrate, and plays a mean game of hide-and-seek.

I am intrigued by the way perceptions of this creature have changed and continue to change. Peaceful beast of the forests and hills, ill-tempered monster, and peeping tom with a bad attitude. His descriptions fluctuate as well. If one went by the illustrations and AI images the creature is part werewolf, part lion and part giant monster.

This array of details also paints a picture of an animal ranging from a hairy man to an upright gorilla like creature.   Depictions come seldom from a study of eye witness accounts but more from an active imagination. 

A random survey of eyewitnesses who were willing to share details with me resulted in some characteristics of note.

First, let's look at the skull of a gorilla and see its markers. The gorilla has a "crest" created by the bone formation of the upper skull. It has broad, defined brow ridge, high check bones, a wide nasal cavity and two outer downward protruding "fangs" and two small upward fangs and central broad teeth. All of these features will determine how the muscles, fat and flesh will look once added. 

Now look at a human skull. The more rounded skull cap, the smaller nasal cavity, the smaller check bones and the smaller and more numerous teeth. Again, all of these factors will influence the end result once muscle, fat, flesh are added. 

So, what have been seen most in eyewitness encounters? Most of the people who responded to my questions agreed that the 

• EYES - were more almond shaped, large, and deep set.
• NOSE- bridge was narrow, with wide, squatty type nostrils, and a scooped inward appearance.  
• CHEEK- bones were defined. 
• SKULL- was rounded with less of a crest. The brow line and forehead were covered in hair - not fur. No hair under eyes, around nose but forehead was hairy. MOUTH - There was NO simian look to the mouth (protruding teeth and jaw such as in a chimpanzee). The mouth was wide, with thin lips.

IIn humans there is diversity and adaptation of form - this probably exists in this mammalian cousin (if it exists).  Since environment often influence adaptations, the diversity would be most likely be in hair color for camouflage, nasal size due to altitude or other factors, the teeth and size. Experience has shown that the emptier an environment the larger wildlife can grow, and cramped environments can see a reduction in the size of the members of a population.

A sketch of an eyewitness sighting based on witness descriptions of facial features. Art done in 2023 by MAH from witness 23-15.