 According to the hunters (there were no independent witnesses), the pig weighed 1,051 lb (477 kg).Several days after the story broke, suspicion mounted over the authenticity of the photographic evidence.StinkyJournalism.org interviewed a retired New York University physicist, Dr. Richard Brandt, who used perspective geometry to measure the photograph and showed that, as represented, the pig would be 15 ft (4.57 m) long—much larger than the claimed.