Bart & Robert's FLIR Thermal Experiment

With the help of fellow WA BFRO & Olympic Project members, Bart Cutino and Ranger Robert Leiterman conduct a black & white handheld thermal experiment in the Northern Cascades, WA state. The use of proprietary thermal units as a visual documentation research tool in the bigfoot field has drawn much speculation about both capabilities and what you "can" and "can't" discern. Our goal as researchers was to set the standard and end that speculation by creating a field of 20-90 yards (10 yd increments) and recording ourselves "clothed" & "unclothed" with brief pauses, using a FLIR H-Series unit (operated by Kirk Brandenburg). As the use of thermal units becomes more commonplace in an ever-changing research arena, our hope is that this experiment will provide our peers with proper expectations for evaluation of future visual documentations with thermal.