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There is very little that the United States government and its various agencies have not investigated over the years. Even if something is very far-fetched, like the existence of UFOs, Bigfoot, Noah’s Ark, or people claiming to be telepathic, there is a good chance that someone in the FBI, CIA, or other U.S. agency has taken the time to investigate it.
One example of this sort of thing occurring involves declassified documents which reveal the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), at one point, conducted lab testing of some hair samples. These weren’t just any old hair samples, though. They supposedly belonged to a Bigfoot.
According to the 22 pages of FBI documents recently brought to light by Popular Mechanics and Metro, in 1976, a man named Peter Byrne of the Bigfoot Information Center (BIC) in Oregon wrote to the assistant director of the FBI Jay Cochran Jr. In his letter, Byrne requested the FBI’s Scientific and Technical Services Division test an unusual hair sample.
“We do not often come across hair which we are able to identify and the hair that we have now, about 15 hairs attached to a tiny piece of skin, is the first that we have obtained in six years which we feel may be of importance,” Byrne wrote.
The FBI wasn’t quick to jump on the Bigfoot Information Center’s request
“Will you kindly, to set the record straight, once and for all, inform us if the FBI has examined hair which might be of a Bigfoot; when this took place, if it did take place; what the results of the analysis were,” Byrne wrote in one of his correspondences with the FBI. “Please understand that our research here is serious. That this is serious question that needs answering and that an examination of hair, or the opposite, by the FBI does not in any way, as far as we’re concerned, suggest that the FBI is associated with our project or confirms in any way the possibility of the existence of the creature(s) known as Bigfoot.”
The FBI eventually did, however, respond. After some prodding from Byrne, the New York Times, and Washington Star-News, the agency wrote back to Byrne. In the correspondence, the FBI stated that its lab “primarily conducts exams for law enforcement agencies in connection with criminal investigations.”
Several months of correspondence later, the FBI finally revealed to Byrne and the Academy of Applied Science that the hairs were tested and were determined not to be Bigfoot in origin.
While disappointing, the declassified documents, like many others before, once again reveal how seriously U.S. government agencies have at one time or another taken unusual subjects such as Bigfoot, aliens, remote viewing, the Ark of the Covenant, and other mysterious topics very seriously.