Live Pterosaurs in America
Real Pterosaur Sightings in Texas
Read the astonishing nonfiction cryptozoology book: Live
Pterosaurs in America (third edition) by Jonathan Whitcomb
By the world’s leading expert
on reports of living pterosaurs
The truth about pterosaurs:
Not all species are extinct
Eyewitness accounts of living pterosaurs in Texas
“I was outside my apartment building . . . talking to my brother. . . .
on several occasions, noticed bats flying right near our heads . . .
Neither my brother or I was prone to being scared by anything
outside at night. This night was different. . . . [from page 25,
Live Pterosaurs in America]
"We noticed something flying around across the road . . . the
creature was flying just above the phone lines. It would go one
direction, turn, and swoop back. The shape was wrong for any
large bird of the area, and the size was much too large to be
any bat . . . The wingspan was huge, anywhere from 6-10 feet
across. We watched the thing for maybe twenty minutes or so . . .
I get little chills just writing about it now.
"This was alive, and watching us, and very, very scary (& I
don’t scare easily)." [San Antonio, Texas, about 1986]
Many other eyewitnesses have seen apparent pterosaurs in
many states of the USA, including in South Carolina, Florida,
Georgia, Arkansas, and Texas. Yet these featherless flying
creatures have been encountered in other areas of the United
States, including California.
Other Eyewitness Reports in Texas
In the Declaration on Living Pterosaurs page, eleven
sightings are listed for the state of Texas, the two most
recent encounters being in April of 2017 and on October
10, 2017 (although DLP has been updated many times
and it may yet list more sightings in Texas in the future,
for the eyewitnesses continue to send in reports).
Report from April, 2017 (anonymous eyewitness HN):
Subject: Ropen
“I saw one this evening. It was very large and all black
. . . I was driving from Houston to Nederland and I was
shocked.”
Whitcomb: “Thank you, Nina, for telling me about your
sighting. I've received many reports from Texas, over
the past 13 years.
“Did it have a long tail?”
HN: “Yes it did... I couldn't believe what I saw. It was
the size of an interstate sign... it was black... wings
flapped... I don't think it had feathers [It had a] large
crest on its head... someone else had to of seen it ... it
was in daylight and it flew in the trees... I felt crazy
telling my friends about what I saw. . . . One of my
friends insisted I report it.”
Here’s the report from October 10, 2017 (anonymous
eyewitness JC):
Subject: Pterodactyl Sighting In Irving TX
“I was on my way to school this morning and I saw a
very large flying creature above a nearby woodsy [area].
It had wings, head and tail similar to a pterodactyl and
it was gliding above the trees. It was a cloudy morning
as well. . . . feel free to contact me if you need any
more details!”
Whitcomb: “Thank you, Clarissa, for telling me about
your sighting. . . . was [the tail] long or short?”
JC: “The tail was kind of medium and stretched a bit
beyond the legs.”
Conclusion
What about the other states where eyewitnesses
report seeing live pterosaurs? What about California,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Georgia, Florida, Michigan,
Arkansas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Ohio, Kansas, and other states? The more credible
sightings are included in Live Pterosaurs in America,
not the most fantastic ones. These many sightings
span many years. Why not purchase a copy of this
book for yourself or as a gift?
In the appendix, details of Eskin Kuhn's 1971 sighting in
Cuba are revealed. He observed two pterosaurs flying
nearby in clear daylight. Early in 2010, he was interviewed
by the author and found to be highly credible. This U. S.
Marine stands by his testimony: He saw what he saw.
This eyewitness sighting report gives further credence to
what Americans tell us of their encounters in the USA. Why
should large flying creatures be confined by bodies of water?
Marfa Lights of Texas
Chapter six is devoted entirely to the Marfa Lights. Before
the publication of the second edition of Live Pterosaurs in
America, (it’s now its third edition) very little had been
written about the possibility that these strange lights in
southwest Texas could be made by some unclassified species
of large bioluminescent predators: nocturnal flying creatures
that may hunt, among other things, the Big Brown bat that
commonly flies in parts of Texas and Mexico.
This chapter of Whitcomb's book delves into this possibility
by showing how non-living explanations fail to address the
strange "dancing" behaviors. The light splittings and rejoin-
ings may be one of the larger flying predators' techniques
for attracting insects that attract bats. After the insects have
congregated around the glowing predators, those larger
creatures separate for awhile; when bats come to feast on
those insects, the larger predators return for a bat feast.
copyright 2009-2017 Jonathan Whitcomb