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David Craig Wortham
Modern witness profile documenting a reported encounter in Not yet resolved during Thanksgiving 2007, with source provenance and connected research records.
Not yet resolvedThanksgiving 2007Provisional research profile
Media & documentation
Featured media & source material
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Overview
At a glance
Encounter periodThanksgiving 2007
RegionNot yet resolved
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo / not stated
Co-witness / corroborationYes – father-in-law and brother-in-law
Primary sourceBigfoot Eyewitness Radio
Exact locators0
Media / transcript records0
Summary
David Craig Wortham is represented in the Observatory as a modern witness record associated with a reported encounter in Not yet resolved.
Background & context
Retired police officer (16 years); outdoor experience: Not stated. The profile preserves what the entered sources document and does not infer missing biographical or encounter details.
Only public, encounter-relevant context is shown. Private contact details and precise residential information are not published.
Events
Encounter record
Thanksgiving 2007 · Not yet resolved
Thanksgiving 2007 reported encounter
David Craig Wortham is represented in the Observatory as a modern witness record associated with a reported encounter in Not yet resolved.
Witness-level record; dedicated case page not yet created
Dedicated case page not yet createdReported observations
Matrix-coded
Matrix-coded reported observations
- David Craig Wortham is represented in the Observatory as a modern witness record associated with a reported encounter in Not yet resolved.
Original source ↗ Exact locator pending
Media & source material
Watch, listen & read
Interviews, reports and transcripts are gathered at the research layer and displayed here when the source and rights state permit it. The original provider is always preserved.
No dedicated media record is currently registered.
The source chronology remains available below. New audio, video, transcripts and documents will appear here when recovered.
Indexed source passages
Concise research summaries point to exact source locations when available; long third-party transcript passages are not reproduced.
Exact source passage not yet indexed.
The source is retained, but paragraph/timestamp/page-level recovery is still required before excerpts or exact-locator analysis are displayed here.
Provenance
Source history
A chronological record of where this testimony appears. Media above is presented for reading or playback; this timeline preserves source order and provenance.
Thanksgiving 2007
Reported encounter period
Not yet resolved. David Craig Wortham is represented in the Observatory as a modern witness record associated with a reported encounter in Not yet resolved.
Recovered source
EP436 – Now I Know They're Real
Source supporting this witness profile: Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio
Open source/record ↗Consistency & changes over time
Stable / recurrent
None coded in the current record.
Added later
None coded in the current record.
Changed / contradicted
None coded in the current record.
Unresolved
- Prior desire to see Sasquatch
- Recover co-witness testimony
- Exact source locator has not yet been recovered for this profile.
Controls
Corroboration & evidence
Yes – father-in-law and brother-in-law. This is not coded as independent testimony unless the co-witness's own source is recovered.
Research assessment
Documentary strengths
- Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
- Recoverable source URL is preserved.
- The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.
Limitations / controls
- No exact source locator has yet been entered for this profile.
- Current profile is primarily dependent on one entered source layer.
- Reported co-witness information is not automatically independent corroboration.
What would improve the record
- Recover an exact timestamp/page/paragraph locator.
- Search for earlier or independent firsthand source layers.
- Recover the co-witness's own statement where possible.
- A dedicated case record may be added if the event details can be resolved from public sources.
Research graph
Connections
No additional canonical connections are entered yet.
The witness remains searchable in the archive while event/source/media relationships are resolved.
Related reporting & research
No witness-specific analytical publication is linked yet.
This does not mean the witness is absent from future cross-era or trait analysis.
Public record reference
Record identifier
- Witness ID
- N015
This stable identifier helps readers and researchers cite the same Observatory witness record over time.