16/12/2022 – Summersdale, Alabama - Bigfoot Photographs

Chairman Dave
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Birmingham UFO Group Case Report

Author: Dave Hodrien

Release Year: 2022

Last Updated: 21/07/2026

Initial Post & Photograph

On 16^th December 2022 a lady named Sonya Marie Rye started a thread on the Alien Abductions & UFO Sightings Facebook page (which is no longer active). She claimed that she had been looking at Google Earth in the vicinity of her home and saw a mysterious figure. Here is her post with the image:

As you can see the picture clearly showed a brown coloured Bigfoot-like silhouette seemingly standing among some bushes. Due to the lack of clarity of both the post and the image I initially suspected that it could potentially have been tampered with using electronic paint software.

Photograph Analysis

I contacted Sonya via Messenger and asked her if she could send me the two original screen grabs she took off her phone which were clearly used to make up the singular image she posted. She did so swiftly and without question:

These provided additional address details 17450 Co Rd 83 Building which were not present on the cut down posted image. I opened up Google Earth on my computer and used both this and the location mentioned on the original image, 23097 Powers Ln, to track down the location.

It took me a little while but I was eventually able to find the right road. I started to visually drive along it using street view. I was surprised to find that the figure was indeed present in the photograph:

I wondered if I would be able to capture it from different angles, as the camera car would have clearly driven along the road. So I started to move along the road:

The figure was then briefly hidden from view by vegetation:

However, it luckily came back into view for a number of additional positions:

As you can see above, it became immediately obvious to me that the object was a flat Bigfoot cut-out made out of wood, very likely placed in the undergrowth to trick passing drivers! I reached out to Sonya to inform her of my findings. I do not believe that she had anything to do with the cut-out, and had genuinely found it when looking on Google Earth.

A number of hours later she posted again, saying that she had walked out to the location and managed to find it! It is unknown how long the cut-out has been standing there or whether it is still there today. It's visible on Google Maps, and the street view photograph dates are from February 2022, meaning that it had been there at least 11 months when Sonya discovered it.

Even though the case was solved, it certainly provided much amusement for everyone involved.

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