JEANNE MOOS: The city of Amarillo, Texas,
is asking folks to guess, what is this thing?
The image was captured last month at 1:25 AM
by a camera set up inside the Amarillo Zoo,
looking out through a perimeter fence.
"Is it a person with a strange hat
who likes to walk at night?"
city officials asked in a tweet, referring to it as a UAO.
- The unidentified Amarillo object.
- Wow.
JEANNE MOOS: Let the guesses begin, from Fantastic Mr. Fox--
- I don't wanna live in a hole anymore.
JEANNE MOOS: --to Rocket Raccoon from "Guardians of the Galaxy."
- Oh, yeah.
JEANNE MOOS: The camera is motion-activated and sends
an alert to zoo officials when it captures something,
there were some serious theories.
MICHAEL KASHUBA: The raccoon standing on its hind legs
or potentially a person walking through the park
that just happened to get captured in a peculiar way.
JEANNE MOOS: But the public's guesses were more colorful,
from Sonic the Hedgehog to the San
Antonio Spurs coyote mascot.
Someone tweeted the movie "Dog Soldiers called
and want their werewolf back."
Another poster wondered, "Is this guy on the loose?"
And, of course, there were references to Bigfoot,
though someone thought Littlefoot
might be more appropriate.
There is no video, just this image.
One poster went all out to illustrate his theory it was
a "coyote jumping the fence," diagrammed with anatomy
like ears, tail, et cetera.
Noted.
If nothing else, all these guesses
could leave folks howling.
[howling]
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.