no, this year a documentary got released showing a practice run in the Patty suit. The footage is a year before the famous sighting, the physical film has development time stamp on it.
I worked with a guy who saw Big Foot when he was 8 yrs old in NC. He and his brother were playing outside at his grandmother’s house. It was a very rural place with few people. He and his brother smelled something so strong and when they saw where the odor was coming from, it was an 8 ft-ish hairy creature walking away from them upright. He said people called it a skunk ape.