“Monkey Bird” Pterosaur in Washington State

The state of Washington may soon be competing with California and Texas for the attention of cryptozoologists who follow reports of apparent living pterosaurs. This recent report comes from an eyewitness who calls the flying creatures “monkey birds” because of their strange vocalizations.

Monkey Bird or Pterodactyl

(Near Tacoma, WA) on many acres of mostly tree covered land . . . We have seen and heard a strange nocturnal, bat-like creature. This thing is huge, light grey, skin with no fur, feathers or scales . . . There were two of them together and they seemed fearless of me when they swooped down at me more than once and returned way up to the top of the highest trees.

Washington State Pterosaurs (an older report)

I was 15 yrs old . . . riding my bike home from a friend’s house around 5 pm . . . on a wood plank fence were two of the biggest bird-like creatures I could ever imagine! I almost crashed my bike! They were about 50 ft from me; the first thing I noticed was their heads, then I thought this can’t be! Could they be dinosaurs? . . . Their wingspan was about 20 ft, tip to tip.

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Live Pterosaurs in America

(Quotation from the second edition)

“I received an email from Peter Beach, a biology professor. He had gone on two expeditions into Africa (searching for the Mokele-mbembe cryptid), before becoming involved in living-pterosaur research.

“I went on a short trip to the Yakima River . . . because there was a [sighting]. [no photo, but:] we saw many . . . flashing lights. I would have assumed that [they] were fireflies but we [don’t] have them in Washington. One of the flashes took off from a big tree overhanging the river . . . there were many fish . . . Prime hunting grounds for fish-eating birds. Only these things [possible pterosaurs] fish at night with bioluminescence. At first I thought I was just seeing shooting stars, but they were all parallel to the river and close to the horizon. Next I noticed that when the cloud cover came in, I could still see the flashes. They were under the cloud cover.”