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Washington State Pterosaur Pair

From the second edition of Live Pterosaurs in America (to be published within the next few weeks; available from Amazon and other retailers):

Early in 2008, I received an email from man who reported a pair of ropen-like creatures in the state of Washington. [sighting in 1987] . . . the plausibility that he has honestly reported two living pterosaurs that he did encounter—that appears significant enough to justify inclusion here. More likely than not, he told the truth, and that is what he encountered. GW is anonymous.

I was 15 yrs old . . . riding my bike home from a friend’s house around 5 pm . . . I heard a strange noise . . . 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?

I can tell you I believe their wing span was about 20 ft tip to tip. These creatures didn’t fly very high up when we first saw them, they don’t glide much either. . . . I still heard a screaching type noise, enough to make your skin crawl. . . .

The thing on the back of their heads looked like HMMM more spooned shape and narrow on the head side and wider on the other end. They did notice me at one point, and these creatures were nesting on the ground! Not in the trees, but in a brushy woodsy area near a small abandoned home.

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“Radar Criticism” of Live Pterosaurs

Less common than most objections, the “radar criticism” of modern pterosaurs is easily refuted. Regardless of how often specific airport radars pick up flocks of birds, how would an operator deal with a blip that was made by a live pterosaur? Remember, blips have no labels; they’re interpreted according to common interpretations. Then how could any radar operator report a living pterosaur?

One critic pointed out that a radar system can “spot a flock of birds, yet no pterosaurs ever.” Where did the critic get that idea? There is no hardware or software that signals “no pterosaur” on the radar screen; there is no radar-procedure for concluding that no blip from a live pterosaur ever appeared on a particular radar screen. Radar systems are not put together to disprove live pterosaurs; it’s not their function.

To illustrate the nonsense of the radar objection, what if an airport radar system picked up the flight of a large pterosaur? How would “pterosaur” ever enter the mind of the radar operator? Even if the operator heard a report that somebody had seen what he only observed as a blip, and they had seen an obvious pterosaur, and they had immediately reported the pterosaur sighting to the airport tower, how could the operator report anything other than an unusual blip?

The idea that radars disprove the existence of living pterosaurs is ludicrous.

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City Pterosaurs

Some people assume that pterosaurs, because they have not yet been officially discovered by Western science, fly only in remote areas of the planet. Think about this: If a butterfly can be carried by wind over the Atlantic Ocean, still alive, (it happens sometimes) what about a large pterosaur, still alive? In other words, if even just one species of pterosaur were living, let’s say in a remote jungle in South America, what would keep some of its descendents (over centuries) from flying elsewhere?

On page 45 of my book, Live Pterosaurs in America (first edition, published in mid-2009), a lady describes a flying creature (“at least twice the size of a hawk. Maybe three times”) that she and her friend thought might have a wingspan of twenty feet; that creature was sailing over Philadelphia. A few months after my book was published, a couple reported to me a flying, dimly glowing creature, too big to be a bird, that they observed while they were taking a walk one night; that creature was gliding over a residential neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles, California, area). Large flying creatures, including pterosaurs, cannot be confined to remote areas of the planet.