The Meister Footprint

[bogeyman]

It was June 1, 1968, and rock hound William J. Meister along with some family and friends was searching for fossils, specifically trilobites an extinct arthropod from the Paleozoic a geologic era of approximately 250 to 550 million years ago when fish, land animals and plants first appeared. (The area they had chosen for the outing, Antelope Spring, Garfield County, is well known for its many fossils being part of the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale and Marjum Formation located west of Delta, Utah.)

It was Meister who made the discovery when he tapped the side of a rock with a hammer, cracking it open and revealing what appeared to be a fossilized sandal imprint complete with embedded trilobites. The find was later examined by Dr. Hellmut Doelling of the Utah Geological Survey, who purportedly pronounced the 10 ¼ by 3 ½ inch object devoid of fakery but drew the line at declaring it the fossilized impression of a sandaled human foot.


http://www.factfictionandconjecture.ca/files/meister_footprint.html

It seems there is other evidence that someone or thing was walking around millions of years ago on the Earth.

[GreenGuy]

I've seen the Glen Rose footprints (http://paleo.cc/paluxy.htm) with my own eyes. The impressions resemble a human footprint, and that's all you can say. They also resemble ape footprints, and they also resemble many other footprints, made in wet mud, that could have seen some weathering before becoming fossilized. The idea that humans and dinosaurs coexisted is intriguing, and I've never seen it disproven. But none of the "footprints" that I've seen could be called proof.

[Snoweagle]

There are two footnotes with that article that should be considered during discernment:
[1] Both Burdick’s academic credentials (the University of Physical Sciences, Phoenix, Arizona, from which he allegedly has a Ph.D., apparently doesn’t exist) and the validity of his other finds have been brought into question (indications are that the “Burdick Track” with which he was associated was carved, possibly by George Adams in the 1930s, as were other Glen Rose limestone “man tracks,” and that the conifer pollen he found in Grand Canyon shale is a result of contamination due to incompetence not fossilization).

[2] Examination by mainstream paleontologists/geologists indicate that though the trilobites are real, the “sandal print” is a spall pattern (a small chip or fragment of stone commonplace in the Wheeler Formation) and lacks the analytical features that would be evident in a real sandal print.

[GreenGuy]

It isn't that people couldn't possibly have walked the earth that long ago. It's just that believers are so eager for support that they'll take proof that isn't proof. As I said, I've seen the Glen Rose site, and I didn't even think the footprints were carved. They look like they could be human - maybe, but they could also be a lot of other things. And I've seen wind sculptures that some folks were sure were evidence of something besides the amazing potential of erosion - which does not disprove the idea that some rocks really are ancient carvings.

[Atlas]

Another footprint @12:57 in the video below:
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