Is There a Bigfoot and the UFO Connection?

I don't get a lot of fan mail about Bigfoot but when I do it's always interesting reading. I can't even count how many times I hear from people who think there's a connection between Bigfoot sightings and UFO sightings. I usually scratch my head with one of those, "Say what?!?"

I'm assuming the people who believe in the connection are quite often Star Wars fans too. which makes me wonder if it isn't just wishful thinking that Bigfoot might be similar to Chewbacca, the Wookie character and loyal sidekick to Han Solo. Haven't we all wanted a tall hairy friend who wears a belt of bullets across his chest? Well maybe that's just my own wishful thinking but there's a heck of a lot of Bigfoot researchers who claim there's a UFO connection to these elusive bipeds in our forests.