{"id":24164,"date":"2017-04-20T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T22:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24164"},"modified":"2017-04-20T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T22:59:34","slug":"bigfoot-ufos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bigfoot-ufos\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bigfoot, UFOs, Crocodiles&#8211; Fact, Fiction, Fake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bigftufo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we just want to believe. Other times we refuse. Recently newspapers announced that California has the most UFO sightings of any place on the planet. Data collectors say a lot of stuff in our skies\u00a0is\u00a0unidentified.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;People don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re the real\u00a0deal\u00a0or not, they just want to believe,&#8221; says Rob Champion (left photo) who was mobbed by a crowd of 400 Crocodile Dundee fans\u00a0seeking autographs and selfies. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/crocodile-rob-champion.html\">Huntington Beach look-alike<\/a>\u00a0is a dead-ringer\u00a0for Paul Hogan.<\/li>\n<li>One of the most disputed and scrutinized Bigfoot cases is the\u00a0famous &#8220;Patti&#8221; Bigfoot (center photo) near Willow Creek, Calif., filmed in 1967 by cryptozoology hunter Bob Gimlin. ANIMAL PLANET returns to the location for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/big-foot-days-festival.html\">Finding Bigfoot Festival and Parade<\/a> on April 29, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>There have been some famous UFO cases that remain unsolved such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/rex-heflin.html\">Rex Heflin &#8220;hat&#8221; UFO<\/a>\u00a0(left picture) taken in 1965 by a\u00a0highway maintenance engineer for the Orange County road department.<\/li>\n<li>Paranormal fans converge at Joshua Tree each year for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/contact-in-the-desert.html\">Contact in the Desert festival<\/a> held May 19-21, 2017. Topics include Extraterrestrial Abductions, Government Cover-ups, Crop Circles, Dimensional Beings, Contact, Secret Space Programs, and Our Universe\u00a0Is A\u00a0Computer Simulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we just want to believe. Other times we refuse. Recently newspapers announced that California has the most UFO sightings of any place on the planet. Data collectors say a lot of stuff in our skies\u00a0is\u00a0unidentified. &#8220;People don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re the real\u00a0deal\u00a0or not, they just want to believe,&#8221; says Rob Champion (left photo) who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}