Could Do More
The remote control blimp seeking Big Foot could do more than search for a legend. It can also be used to study animals we know about but lack information about how they interact through out the year.
Charles Forte wrote a book called "The Book of the Damned" where he catalogs weird incidences like stones falling from the skies. The scientific concensus at the time was that these events were folklore and not real. The current consensus is that these kinds of event did happen and still happen in the form of meteor showers. Good science is sceptical about vague reports until events can be studied and facts gathered. The point is that there is a balance between scepticism and being open to different ideas to make good science.