How marvelous that a live pterosaur has been seen in the state of Georgia! But Sandra Paradise has seen a long-tailed flying creature at least three times during the past four years. She has recently agreed to come out of anonymity, and she has revealed details about the third and fourth sightings, with the last one somewhat uncertain. We now deal only with the first two sightings (in 2008).
From the third edition of Live Pterosaurs in America:
“Late in the summer of 2008, I received an email from a lady who lives in Winder, Georgia. She seems to have had the rare privilege of observing two pterosaurs, apparently different individuals of the same species, on two different days . . . She had woken up early and could not get back to sleep, so she left her house at 6:45 a.m., with the sky still overcast from the last remnants of the storm. . . .
“She had driven less than ten miles, just leaving an area of pasture, entering an area of thick woods . . . when an animal suddenly flew from the right, just over the front of her car . . . She told me what made her yell out loud: It was the tail; she looked up at a ‘very long’ tail that had a strange shape at the end.
Georgia Sightings by Sandra Paradise
She was previously known simply as the lady who had seen two long-tailed pterosaurs in daylight east of Winder, Georgia, as she was driving to work on highway 82, east of the Barrow County Airport.
Pterodactyl in Southern States
. . . She had driven less than ten miles, just leaving an area of pasture, entering an area of thick woods, around a mild downhill curve, with high banks and brush on each side of the road, when an animal suddenly flew from the right, just over the front of her car.
Duane Hodgkinson Interviewed for a Film Documentary
Cryptotrip, from the director of The Death of Andy Kaufman, is the first documentary of its kind . . . We’ve set out to travel across the United States, visiting people who have had incredible encounters with creatures they can’t explain or identify, and giving them a chance to tell their stories. Thousands of unexplained creature sightings are reported in this country each year.