Class B First-hand BFRO #1027

Father and son hear unidentifiable sounds

17 September 2000 4:00 Sunday afternoon Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona 2 witnesses

Account

The witness stopped with a child by Sunset Crater to look at lava formations while driving from Phoenix to Utah. From the pine-covered slope above them they repeatedly heard loud, breathy huffing. They saw nothing because trees blocked the view, and video recorded at the time did not capture the sound. They left uneasy without identifying the source.

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What was reported

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Sounds

Facts & provenance

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Date
17 September 2000
Stated BFRO report #1027 · BFRO report, labelled fields: Year, Month, Date
Time of day
4:00 Sunday afternoon
Stated BFRO report #1027 · BFRO report, “Time And Conditions” section
Place
Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona
Stated BFRO report #1027 · BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
Map point
35.1852, -111.6207 (± 15 km)
Geocoded BFRO report #1027 · gazetteer:place · read with 50% confidence
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Flagstaff city (GEOID 0423620), matched from nearest town 'Flagstaff'
Account type
First-hand
Stated BFRO report #1027 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witnesses
2
Derived BFRO report #1027 · BFRO report, “Other Witnesses” section
Witness was
sightseeing and filming a child climbing a lava ridge
Stated BFRO report #1027 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witness's word for it
very large animal
Stated BFRO report #1027 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Source classification
Class B
Stated BFRO report #1027 · BFRO classification label

Evidence & investigation

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Investigated by
Richard Hucklebridge (BFRO)
Follow-up

An investigator spoke with the witness by phone and noted the witness repeated the original account without identifying the sound, and that review of the camcorder tape captured no huffing or animal.

BFRO report, “Follow-Up” section

Source timeline

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  1. Published 2001-01-01 Retrieved 2026-09-25 Version 1 Hash 74aebb9a4aac
    BFRO - Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

The report refers to

  • “report from the bottom of Mt. Lemmon in Tucson”
    Not in the Anomadex yet
  • “report from the Phoenix area”
    Not in the Anomadex yet