Australian Pterosaur Sightings

“Call me Tom. In the early 1990s I was living in . . . South Australia. I’m an American, but I had a job there for a few years. . . . I had a girlfriend . . . We drove from Perth out to Western Australia . . . we wanted to . . . see the outback. . . . We stopped at about 6PM, ate, set up the tent, and [girlfriend was asleep, but] . . . I was up still and wanted to see the sun go down . . . [something] looked like an airplane, far away. . . . maybe a couple hundred feet [high]. . . . it got nearer to me, I noticed that the wings were actually flapping gently. . . . color was a dark tan. . . . no sound. It was getting closer . . . [I thought] maybe this is some kind of weird outback bird . . . had a wingspan [of about] 15 or 20 feet. It got close . . . leathery . . . no feathers at all."  Read the whole report.

 

Another report comes from Perth (sighting in 1997):

 

"In the distance I perceived an object in the sky. . . . [it was] rather indistinct . . . [I wondered] what it might be . . . as it approached. Soon I was able to determine that it was some sort of flying creature, and my first thought was that it must be some very large bird . . . I saw that it seemed to be a light reddish-tan color. It [was not] covered with feathers but had a leathery texture. Soon after it passed us it flew over a more brightly lit sports area which highlighted . . . the leathery appearance. . . . The wings were . . . leathery . . . shaped in a triangular arch, similar to a very elongated shark fin . . . the body was a streamlined torpedo shape, slightly broadest at the chest and tapering slightly back to the hip, then tapering more quickly after the hips to a moderately thin tail which was slightly longer than the body. . . ."  Read more about the Perth sighting.