Live Pterosaurs
Commonly called “pterodactyls”
Many of the eyewitness reports come from the southwest Pacific,
including Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Indonesia; but some
come from Africa, South America, North America, and Europe.
Living pterosaurs, or flying creatures that appear so to be, have
been observed all over the world, obviously non-extinct. The type
with a long tail is called ropen, the name some of the villagers of
Umboi, Papua New Guinea, call the nocturnal flying creature of
their island. (“Ropen” comes from the Kovai language.)
Apparently these featherless flying
creatures, mostly with long tails,
live in many areas of the planet
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Pterosaur in Indonesia
In June of 2008, an English captain and Australian first officer, both former navy
pilots, were flying a small twin-engined plane near the end of a 700-mile flight
from Broome, Australia, to Bali, Indonesia, when the captain saw what appeared
to be another plane approaching on a collision course. Yet he soon saw that it
was no plane but a huge flying creature.
The captain put his plane into a dive, distracting the first officer from the map,
but the creature also went into a dive. A quick bank of the plane avoided the
collision, as the non-plane passed by the window. Both men came up with the
same word: “pterodactyl.”
Details about this report of an apparent pterosaur that nearly collided with a
small plane can be found in the nonfiction book Searching for Ropens and
Finding God, by Jonathan Whitcomb (fourth edition, pages 35-37).
This sighting off the coast of Indonesia, in 2008, needs to be taken in context:
Many eyewitnesses have seen apparent living pterosaurs in the southwest
Pacific, and these include local natives, Americans, and Australians.
Pterosaurs Living in Ohio
According to the book Live Pterosaurs in America, by Jonathan
Whitcomb, one eyewitness answered the following questions:
Q: Was there anything unusual about the tail?
Answer: . . . it was long and skinny, it also had a spade on it about
3 or 4 inches from the very end
Q: [were there any] feathers?
Answer: Absolutely no feathers
Jonathan Whitcomb also got an email with this:
“. . . Several years ago when I was in college I briefly saw what looked
like two of them flying close together . . . while I was driving. I thought
I was crazy for a minute, like I was seeing things . . . but I don't know
of any birds that look like that . . . featherless, that large, and gray. I
live in Marietta, Ohio, and this was maybe 8-10 years ago. Whatever
they were, they were awesome to see but I must admit that I was happy
to be inside my car.”
Pterosaur Sighting in Minnesota
“In 1995 I had a very close encounter [in southern Minnesota] with some-
thing similar to a pterosaur. . . . I headed down to ‘my’ fishing spot. . . . It
was dusk by the time I decided to head back home . . . . an outcropping
or a cave (. . . either a shallow cave or a deep outcropping) as I got near
it I heard something . . . like clicking or tapping . . .
“I got within 15 feet of the mouth of the cave. I see this beautiful burgundy
[colored] thing standing near the opening [of the cave]. It was smooth with
no feathers, and a large horn out of the back of it's head. I could see that,
as it was pulling meat off of a fish, its beak was making the tapping noise
I heard. I, being a complete idiot . . . decided to see how close I could get
to it . . . It turned around and stared right at me. I was transfixed . . . [It]
walked a little ways back in the cave ran forwards and flew off. That's
when I got a good look at it in flight.
The tail was about 1/3- 1/2 of it's wingspan [with] a point similar to a
diamond on a playing card. It's wings were huge . . . 19-20 foot wingspan
. . . I never went back to that area again. . . .”
Live Pterosaurs in America
Searching for Ropens
and Finding God
A modern pterosaur observed in eastern Cuba in 1965 and
sketched by the eyewitness years later: a flying “dinosaur”
For decades, many persons assumed that this photograph must be a hoax, for
some photographers in the mid-19th century did manufacture fake photos, and
it has long been common knowledge that Western scientists have long declared
that all dinosaurs and pterosaurs became extinct long ago. From early 2017 to
late 2018, two scientists became convinced that this was a genuine image of a
living pterosaur. Since late 2018, however, this has been thrown into doubt.
These two scientists (Jonathan Whitcomb on left; Clifford Paiva on
right) have declared that the video footage obtained by Paul Nation
deep in the interior of the mainland of Papua New Guinea , in 2006,
was most likely of the bioluminescence of two flying creatures.
This sketch of two “pterodactyls” was drawn by the eyewitness, U.S. Marine
Eskin Kuhn, a few minutes after he observed the two flying creatures near
the coast at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 1971, at close range and in clear
daylight. He has maintained the reality of his encounter from that day until
the present, in spite of occasional skeptical remarks from some persons.
The American explorer and nonfiction writer
David Woetzel has participated in expeditions
in search of living dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
His searching has been done in Africa, Papua
New Guinea, North America, and elsewhere.
He is not alone: Other Americans who have
searched for living pterosaurs in various areas
of the planet include Paul Nation, Jonathan
Whitcomb, and Garth Guessman.