1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,800 Here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news. 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:11,800 While there is no official government position on the existence, or non-existence of Bigfoot, 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:16,960 Sightings has discovered at least one government document in which Sasquatch is not only acknowledged. 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:25,720 He's deemed worthy of special attention as one of this country's endangered species. 5 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:30,960 In Maple Valley, Washington, the owner of this ranch is being prevented from developing 6 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:36,600 his suburban Seattle property because, according to an official King County document, one man's 7 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,440 ranch is another man's Bigfoot breeding ground. 8 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,080 And landowner Jim Baum is not very happy about it. 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,720 Yeah, I'm madder than hell. 10 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,520 I mean, basically the county has taken away my one and only asset and they're telling 11 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,000 me that I made a bad investment. 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,240 Baum bought this ranch in 1988 and had big dreams for the neglected property. 13 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,040 Oh, I was looking for a piece of property that I could either turn into a horse boarding 14 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,320 facility or actually farm. 15 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:09,440 And I checked with the county to see if I could rehab the farm and turn it back into an active farm. 16 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:14,800 Jim Baum's land use application was denied because King County had designated the property 17 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,920 as a class 2 wetland, home to many protected plant and animal species. 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,880 They handed me a single piece of paper and on the back of this piece of paper there were 19 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:29,560 lists of the birds, mammals and plants that are supposedly in this wetland. 20 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,160 Among the protected mammals were bear, beaver and Bigfoot. 21 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:38,200 There's like 350 different species on this list and I came across a bipedist Giganticus 22 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,920 which I'd never heard of before and when I saw that it was a Sachquatch I was fairly 23 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:42,920 amazed. 24 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,360 While Baum may be amazed, he is definitely not amused. 25 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,680 I am angry about this whole thing because I cannot do what I wanted to do with this 26 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,880 property even though I checked it out before I bought it and the county has the audacity 27 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,640 to list Sachquatches as a protected species. 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,000 According to the county's Agriculture and Resource Department, the list was compiled 29 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,400 from a variety of sources including citizen observations and the department doesn't make 30 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,720 a judgment about whether sightings are real or imagined. 31 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:23,480 Socorro, New Mexico is the site of one of the most baffling UFO encounters in US history. 32 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:29,240 On April 24th 1964, an unidentified craft reportedly landed and then assented into the 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:30,240 New Mexico twilight. 34 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,240 On a recent episode of sightings we brought you the first-hand account of Sheriff's Deputy 35 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,000 Lonnie Zamora who witnessed the egg-shaped craft. 36 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,920 Those are the exact bushes that were there and the craft was sitting right in between 37 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:41,920 them too. 38 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:49,320 So I started down to see what it was and then I heard this big boom on the bottom and the 39 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:55,040 fire came off the bottom so I started running behind my police car to take cover and then 40 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:00,360 it gradually pulled up about 20-30 feet and stayed there for a while and then just took 41 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:01,360 off. 42 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:06,520 Almost instantly, Socorro was the center of intense media interest. 43 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,520 But except for the few frames of footage seen here, all film and photographs taken by news 44 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,400 agencies and curious onlookers was reportedly confiscated by the government. 45 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,440 But sightings was recently contacted by a Southern California woman whose family home 46 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,960 movies had somehow eluded the authorities. 47 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:28,960 Well I was sitting home one night and the program sightings came on and there was a 48 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:34,920 story about Socorro, New Mexico and I sat up and I went, oh my God, I cannot believe 49 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:35,920 it. 50 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:36,920 He was there. 51 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:39,640 I have home movies to this. 52 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,880 In April 1964, the family was on vacation in New Mexico. 53 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:48,640 This rare home movie, recorded at the scene of Socorro's sighting, shows the aftermath 54 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,000 of the UFO landing and takeoff. 55 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,720 As I recall, we stopped at a gas station and I remember we spoke to a sheriff and he told 56 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:03,720 us that he had been in the desert and he saw a UFO landing. 57 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,840 My father was really amazed about this and really interested. 58 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:15,280 So we followed the sheriff out to the location where this occurred. 59 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,680 The scene of the UFO encounter was just as Lonnie Zamora has always described it. 60 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:25,720 I got out of the car and I walked and you could see very clearly where it looked like 61 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:31,360 a tripod had burned into the ground or something, a craft had landed. 62 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:36,240 And you could see the landing marks very clearly on the ground. 63 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,040 There was a bush that was all charred and burned. 64 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:45,280 Though short in duration, this film footage is significant because it not only validates 65 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:51,240 Deputy Zamora's story, but also provides important documentation for ufologists who continue 66 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:52,960 to study the Socorro case. 67 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:59,920 We were kind of quiet when we got back in the car and I said, wow, dad, that was amazing. 68 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,720 Affected both of us. 69 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:08,280 It was a remarkable thing to see and we both believed what the sheriff told us. 70 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:09,320 There was no question about it.