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Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

thumbnail sketch for video "Pterodactyl Sightings in North America" - two pterosaur sketches

By Jonathan D. Whitcomb

Have you seen an apparent modern pterosaur, also known commonly as a “flying dinosaur”? Contact Whitcomb to report the encounter (this also applies if you just know somebody who has seen such a flying creature).

Youtube has more than 37 million channels, and the one with the most videos on sightings of modern pterosaurs appears to be Protect Animal Life. As of January 6, 2021, of the 113 videos on this channel, 111 of them were about these amazing featherless flying creatures.

In December of 2020, another video was uploaded to this channel: “Pterodactyl Sightings in North America”. Within a week or so, the number of views passed the one-thousand mark, making it very popular for a recently-uploaded video on this channel.

beach & mountains in Mexico "I used to visit Puerto Vallarta"

It begins with a sighting report from a small village south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and the flying creature was enormous.

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thumbnail sketch for video "Pterodactyl Sightings in North America" - two pterosaur sketches

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Videos on modern pterosaurs

The number-one Youtube channel on modern “pterodactyls” appears to be Protect Animal Life (PAL), and the following is but a small sampling of its videos on these astonishing flying creatures

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Weird flying creature

In the blog Live Pterosaur we can find this:

These weird disappearances are not confined to Yosemite, nor even to the United States. Several factors do seem to tie together cases that are separated by long distances and sometimes separated by decades. To understand what may be happening in Yosemite National Park, we need to see in a broader sense. Look to Canada and to Mexico.

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Press release on sightings of pterodactyls

A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed eyewitness accounts of apparent non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls” or “flying dinosaurs,” and found that several states in the USA stand out, including Utah.

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A girl saw a pterodactyl

[a nonfiction cryptozoology book] Some of the benefits for the young reader:

1) Is understandable yet stimulating for kids and teens of about 8-14 years old

2) Tells you not WHAT to think, like many other nonfictions, but HOW to think about possibilities

3) By a positive example, invites you to use critical thinking

4) Opens up an exciting new world: persons have seen an apparent living pterosaur

5) Uses sketches, photos, and other images to make things clear

6) Does not indoctrinate but gives you details on what people have seen flying overhead

7) Allows you to come to your own conclusions in this short non-fiction

8) Gives the young reader three of the most important interpretations possible for a sighting

9) Explains the benefits of believing someone who may be telling the truth

10) Compares one sighting report with one or more others, yet it allows you to believe what you will

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American Pterosaurs

Many Youtube videos related to non-extinct pterosaurs (a.k.a. “pterodactyls”) in the United States of America: real eyewitness accounts of these flying creatures seen in many areas.

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Shocking Flying Creatures with no Feathers

Youtube video on modern pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea, Cuba, and in the United States (including encounters in California, Arizona, Texas, and Arkansas.

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New Cryptozoology Book

just east of Griffith Park in Los Angeles

By living-pterosaur author Jonathan Whitcomb

Upcoming ebook “Live Pterosaurs in America” (fourth edition)

The following quotations are from a preliminary version of this book’s interior. The final publication may differ, at least in a few details. This will be the fourth edition of Live Pterosaurs in America, to be published first in ebook format. (The third edition, only in print format, was published in 2011.)

Chapter 2: Sightings of Pterosaurs in California

Long before getting this report early in 2018, I had concluded that at least some modern pterosaurs in the United States navigate by following stream beds or storm channels. This is more obvious in some of the many reports from Southern California, not that a flying creature always needs to be directly over such a structure on the ground, in order to use it for navigation.

Chapter 4: More-Recent Reports

I can only describe . . . a dragon or flying dinosaur. . . . I saw this large dark colored flying animal. At first I thought it was a vulture. However, I notice that it had pointed wings and a long tail that was skinny and had a pointed shape at the end of it like a triangle or something . . .

The fourth edition of SFRFG mentions this encounter in Raleigh, North Carolina, and says, “The many hundreds of comments on this encounter, some positive but mostly negative, deserve attention, yet not here.” It’s time to dive into some of those details. . . .

The [apparent living pterosaur] seen flying over the I-540 in Raleigh, in March of 2013, appeared to have a wingspan of five to six feet, much smaller than the one in Idaho. It had small things in the middle of the wings that could have been claws, according to the eyewitness, who reported the sighting on a musician’s forum within hours of the encounter. . . .

Let’s now pause to take all this in context. This forum discussion began in March of 2013 (The Gear Page—still online early in June of 2018), when the great majority of Americans had little or no comprehension of any reports of pterosaur sightings in North America. Not until January of 2018, apparently, did newspapers like The News and Observer or the news outlet Charlotte Stories report sightings of apparent “flying dinosaurs” in North Carolina and specifically in Raleigh. That’s when some of the media in that area responded to my press release. In other words, many of those who commented on The Gear Page forum knew little or nothing about pterosaurs except what they had been exposed to all of their lives: universal extinctions.

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just east of Griffith Park in Los Angeles

“Los Angeles River, near location of sighting of May 13, 2013 . . .”

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New cryptozoology book

“I found this book very interesting. . . . The problem with science is that we think we know it all and that is far from reality. This book shows courage to continue the search. If you have an interest in cryptozoology you should read this.” [reader comment from Dale, who lives in Pennsylvania]

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Nonfiction cryptozoology book

Searching for Ropens and Finding God – fourth edition

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Live Pterosaurs in America (cryptozoology book)

Some of the publications listed are these:

  • Bird From Hell
  • Mysteries of the Unexplained
  • Live Pterosaurs in America
  • Searching for Ropens and Finding God

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Cryptozoology book by Whitcomb

On the verge of the most astonishing discovery in the history of biology . . . “Live Pterosaurs in America”

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Modern pterosaurs in North America

Two sightings of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs in eastern Cuba in the mid-20th century, one by Patty Carson and one by Eskin Kuhn

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Living pterosaurs (or pterodactyls) in California

Sightings included in CA:

  • Fremont
  • Anaheim

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Non-extinct pterosaurs in North Carolina

Where do these flying creatures appear? They have been reported in Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Wilmington, and in other areas of N.C., as well as in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and in many other states

 

Live Pterosaurs In America, nonfiction book

cover of third edition of the nonfiction cryptozoology book

Updated early in 2018:

Excerpts from the book’s title page:

Eyewitness Reports of Pterosaurs in the Contiguous United States

Reports of huge flying “pterodactyls” in American skies have floated around the internet for years; but before about 2005, details were scarce. When an eyewitness was named, the interviewer was often anonymous; even when an eyewitness was credible, and the account published in a newspaper, the story was ridiculed, discouraging others who had also seen strange flying creatures. . . .

How are sightings in the United States related to those in the southwest Pacific? How do some apparent nocturnal pterosaurs pertain to bats, and how are bats irrelevant? How could modern living pterosaurs have escaped scientific notice? These mysteries have slept in the dark, beyond the knowledge of almost all Americans, even beyond our wildest dreams (although the reality of some pterosaurs is a living nightmare to some bats). These mysteries have slept . . . until now.

From the third chapter of the book:

The longer we watched, the more spooked we became. It was as though a giant vampire bat (like Dracula-style) was there, but neither of us thought it really looked like a bat, either, even a big one. Also, all the bigger bats are fruit-eaters and not scary at all. This was frightening. I get little chills just writing about it now.

Excerpts from the book’s Appendix:

Philosophy at the foundation

Charles Darwin chose an extreme dedication to Naturalism philosophy; his Common-Ancestry ideas seem to make God unnecessary. He chose atheism, but most Americans reject the idea that life arose without any creative act of God.

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Live Pterosaurs In America (third edition, print) by Jonathan Whitcomb

Live Pterosaurs in America -third edition of the nonfiction book - covers

“The Truth About Pterosaurs” — They are not all extinct