However, FBI records disclosed by the agency on its public documents page show that in 1976, Byrne repeatedly wrote the FBI asking for the tests to be conducted on both hair his group had obtained, and on other samples that he had heard might be in the agency's possession. 'It's out of my memory,' he added, while noting that he does recall asking the FBI in the 1970s about an incident at a campground in Washington state where a Bigfoot was suspected When told about the FBI documents showing his correspondence with the agency in the 1970s asking it to test hair samples, Byrne chuckled.īut he also said, 'I don't remember this.' 'We have motion-sensitive cameras out in the mountains' of Oregon, he said.īut, he added, 'it's a hobby for me now.'

'Right now, I'm still active,' Byrne said. 'I was in it full time, seven days a week,' Byrne said of his earlier Bigfoot hunts, which last were funded in the 1990s. With the backing of what he said were wealthy men, he tried to find conclusive evidence of Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch in America's Pacific Northwest, the 1960s, Byrne went on to direct 'The Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition' in Oregon. Byrne said that in the past 50 years he had found two or three sets of possible Yeti footprints, with five toes on each foot, left in tracks in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 15,000 feet.īut he conceded Wednesday that those prints could have been left by Hindu holy men, or sadhus, whom he has seen walking barefoot in the snows at such heights.Īfter moving to the U.S.

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