(Protocols) Sighting Classification Protocol
(Courtesy of the Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center as part of their extensive listing of protocols.)
This is the official designation and classification of reports submitted to the MABRC, and as such, efforts should be made to stick with this classification procedure as possible.
- S – Single sighting or observation, one Bigfoot seen
- SM – Observation of multiple Bigfoot
- H - Hair
- T – Single Bigfoot track
- TM – Multiple Bigfoot tracks, but not from the same individual
- TT – Multiple Bigfoot tracks of the same individual, a track way
- P – Photograph, manned or unmanned, still or motion, film or digital
- A – Audio recording of a Bigfoot
- O – Detected odor
- V – Vegetation disturbance, such as browsing, tree twists, etc.
- N – Nest or beds
- F – Fecal matter
- L – Lore, indigenous oral traditions, historical references
- B - Audio Heard
- DK - Deer Kill
- R - Rock throwing
- W - Wood knock
- 1 – Single observer, no collected evidence
- 2 – Single observer, collected evidence
- 3 – Multiple observers, no collected evidence
- 4 – Multiple observers, collected evidence
As an example if a group, say XBO, has three of its members find three different sets of Bigfoot tracks, photographs them and casts them on 1-12-06 in Bend Oregon, you could designate the observation as TM4-XBO-1-12-2006-Bend-Or. This would be better than trying to describe the event with the sentence above. All multiple track finds could be searched with the later designation.
When submitting a sighting report to the MABRC, this is the classification system we use for sighting reports.
This is based on a recommendation by Rick Noll to better classify Sighting Reports
