It was in upstate New York and no one believes me. [Comment made, around February of 2017, on an online post: Dinosaur Sightings: Are Dinosaurs Still Alive Today in Africa?], Other Pterodactyl Encounters While Driving. If pterosaurs really died out with the dinosaurs and their fossil remains were not first discovered until 1784, then a depiction of one could not possibly exist in an ancient rock carving. A limited species of pterosaurs still live in this wonderful world of life, but human nature in Western cultures has remained mainly the same for a long time. The species lived in the same location as several other hominins, but were much larger in body size. The flying light seen one night in 2004, in Papua New Guinea, by a New Hampshire businessman, was a living pterosaur, according to the newly published book Searching for Ropens.. . . Several paranormal researchers claim to recall seeing that photo, but don't know where, and the photo has not been seen since. Youtube playlist Pterodactyl Sightings in California. . I also assumed that the few reports that I had readapparent pterosaurs in some of the 48 Stateswere of a few stragglers from Central America. From the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God (third edition) we read about sightings of strange nocturnal flying creatures: That report prepared me for an email I received years later, early in 2012, about two men who had seen two huge flying creatures about twenty-five miles to the south, over San Diego [California]. . This video is mostly about seven reported sightings of huge featherless flying creatures, most of the encounters being in Southern California. Experts now say that it was a ropen. The other day, I was doing an online search and found the following report (which Ive condensed and slightly edited for clear English): In 2010 I saw a flying dinosaur. The following are just a few of the hundreds of Youtube videos, on the channel Protect Animal Life, about modern living pterosaurs: Why do people around the world report seeing a long-tailed pterodactyl? . The men who live along the swales and sand hollows east and southeast of Selma on the evening of July 13th heard strange sounds in the air just after dark, like the rushing of wings when some large bird passes swiftly through the air overhead. Yes, it is true: We really do have at least a few species of modern pterosaurs still flying overhead. O'Donnell (2006), Gerhard (2007), and a few others relate still other sightings China, Scotland, and Vietnam. spent a night watching the sky . . The man who was driving has had to be anonymous because of his professional position (either a medical doctor, attorney, or police officerI will not even reveal which of those three it is). The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur is a nonfiction book, but its not technically about dinosaurs: Its a short cryptozoology book about apparent living pterosaurs. Washington I received an email from man who reported a pair of ropen-like creatures in the state of Washington. . . Here is the URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJ-jFoAo9g\u0026t=2sThe two sketches of modern pterosaurs were drawn by Patty Carson and Eskin Kuhn, both of whom gave full permission for Jonathan Whitcomb to publish and distribute those sketches.The video clips of aerial shots are used by a paid license from the company that has the rights to sell such licenses.The two music pieces are used by paid licenses from the companies that has the rights to sell such licenses. Generations of people in Utah have reported large flying creatures, sometimes using a word like dragon or pterodactyl or pterosaur. This is a brief introduction to eyewitness sightings of apparent living pterosaurs seen in Utah. 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. In general, a fossil expert will fight against the possibility of a modern pterosaur until an eventual admission emerges: [admitting] there is a small chance that a species may have survived into the present. Location of sighting: Lansing, Illinois. (Por Jonathan Whitcomb, un experto en pterosaurios vivos), Pterosaur sighting while driving in Raleigh, North Carolina. . it didnt look like a bird . Susan Wooten was following her friend, who was driving ahead on a major country highway, when the huge flying creature passed right in front of her car. It flew right over us . 6. Some of the other eyewitnesses were watching the stars at night or just enjoying a beautiful outdoor scene. The sighting by Wooten was at about 3:00 p.m. between Greenville and Florence, South Carolina. . "Trust one eyewitness of a plane crash over the imaginations of a hundred professors who've agreed how that kind of plane should fly. When shown illustrations of pterosaurs, Melland reported, the natives identified them as most resembling kongamoto. The yellow colored pencil I used in my sketches represents the Dull yellowish spotting I saw. I have never read about living pterosaurs nor have I heard of any others reporting of their sightings. . The story is not taken seriously by many researchers today, but it corresponds loosely with a story about a Thunderbird that was allegedly shot in the same area in 1886 and dragged into town to be photographed. two dragons. Non-fiction cryptozoology book by Jonathan David Whitcomb, sightings of apparent pterosaurs in California, By Jonathan Whitcomb, investigative journalist. Learn of the searches and research done by a few American cryptozoologists who stand up to ridicule and proclaim the truth. For sighting #1, in the. 0. . Tim Dinsdale (1924-1987), Loch Ness Monster researcher [6] Jonathan Downes (b. Well start with two Youtube videos on the channel Protect Animal Life (PAL) and then get into two emails. Message: " I was 17 in 1968 when I was going to my neighbor's house in late spring or early summer. What a surprise awaits you at the end of this video! Ebay: None YouTube (Old): . In addition, the flying creature was only seven or eight feet off the ground. The pterodactyl was as long as a bus, as it flew up into the mountains above Altadena. [near Maryland-Virginia border], Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition, by Whitcomb. . . . Flying Dinosaur book for a ten-year-old reader. Americans led two expeditions on Umboi Island in 2004. . We both looked up to see what did that and saw a large flying animal., Getting back to the ladys encounter northwest of Austin, she told her husband, It looked like a pterodactyl. Note that she first was thinking or hoping for a commonplace explanation: a big turkey vulture, only this thing had a long neck and a pointed beak and head. In other words, 37,500 Americans have told somebody something to the effect that they saw a flying creature that appeared more like a pterosaur than a bird or a bat, and 112,500 have not told anyone about seeing something that gave them the impression that it was a pterosaur. . . Name: Darrell Ashley. All of a sudden I see the HUGE bird looking thing fly across the overpass I was on, maybe 20-25 feet in front of my car . Three of my neighbors also did. . . described the ropen-like creature: about 30 feet long, with a straight tail 15-16 feet long. For three+ years, I have produced and uploaded to Youtube videos about modern pterosaurs, a.k.a. There was traffic and we were all going about 30 mph. Reflector Series he saw something like a Pteranodon, with bat-like wings but a wingspan of about 8-10 feet and a head that he estimated was four feet long.. News releases on pterodactyls In the United States, we have been taught since early childhood that all such creatures became extinct many millions of years ago. . . She was following a friend who was driving in a car ahead (the second woman did not notice anything, for the apparent pterosaur had flown behind that second car). This morning at about 6 a.m. . . [Pterodactyls Live in Hawaii Ropens Included]. it turned around and it stood still in the air, it was flapping its wings while it was there. Was there a head crest? I was driving a car alone, on my way to pick up my sister. Yet a pictograph found high on a cliff face near Thompson, Utah seems to show just that. Nonfiction: Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition. . Why do people in California report seeing a huge pterodactyl? Pterodactyls have been reported in many areas of North America, including Minnesota. As we were watching this strange bird, it let out a ghastly loud shrieking scream . . On the drawing of the winged creature if you will notice there is some yellow color addedthis also represents the area of the creature that looked to me like the most illuminated aspects/parts of the thing combined with the afore mentioned grayish/brown coloring., Other Night Sightings of Possible Pterosaurs in Western USA. The Plesiosauria (/ p l i s i s r i ,-z i-/; Greek: , plesios, meaning "near to" and sauros, meaning "lizard") or Plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period, possibly in the Rhaetian stage, about 203 million years ago. Thunderbird is a term in cryptozoology for describing large, bird-like creatures; generally identified as legendary creature of Native American tradition. Some of the publications listed are these: On the verge of the most astonishing discovery in the history of biology . Fourteen years ago, in [Socorro], N.M., me and a close friend, who now has a masters in biology, were hiking during the midday sun at [a] box canyon and something blocked the sun for a moment. The body of the creature was taken to the nearby town of Gray, according to the story, where it was identified as a pterodactyl by a student of paleontology. . two dragons [described]for the newspaper: broad heads, long bills, and large eyes. Video appears to show a bird-like creature with a very large wingspan Those numbers fit well with the following three factors: If many more persons had significant sightings, like many millions of Americans, these flying creatures would have been discovered before now and I would be swamped by eyewitness reports. A lady reported observing a huge dragon pteradactal that had been perched, at about noon on June 19, 2012, on a phone line or cable company wire over her backyard. 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 musicians forum within hours of the encounter. In a moment there was a heavy flapping of wings and the two monsters rose slowly from the water and flew so near the men that the wind from their wings was plainly felt. My sighting took place last night, 12/19/2016. Stories of flying reptiles have been recorded for many hundreds of years. My new nonfiction is for middle-grade children and many (but not all) teenagers: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. [from the book Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition], "Live Pterosaurs in America" takes you across the United States, with eyewitnesses who describe the amazing encounters they have had with living pterosaurs. The apparent pterosaur was flying about 1700 feet from the end of a storm channel, a few years ago, just south of the Long Beach Airport. Old Photograph of Pteranodon During Civil War, 2. Take it in context: forty-one reported encounters in California. I looked back at the road and witnessed the man swerve off the road and flip his van into [a field next to the road]. Flying northeast at about 4:00 p.m. This image is actually not a photo from the American Civil War, but it does appear to be a valid photograph of a modern pterosaur. . Credibility verified by Whitcomb, but limited. Then . Texas and California are the states in the U.S. where some have occurred. I know that some skeptics may not accept the following estimates, yet I disclose them now with confidence that theyre not very far off. They each had a distinct neck between body and head, that was more narrow and clearly visible. 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. . We were chatting when we saw this bird? . In both cases, the "dragon" (or "pterodactyl") was near a storm channel. Around 4 p.m. This book shows courage to continue the search. Workmen were digging through Jurassic-era limestone for a railway tunnel between the St.-Dizier and Nancy lines. Ive communicated with only a few paleontologists over the past eleven years of my investigation. Lets now pause to take all this in context. Lets consider each of these sightings in Southern California, in order of how close each flying creature was to a storm channel or stream bed. . . The following is overly simplistic, I know, but consider this: With about 300 million persons in the United States, if my sisters experience is typical then more than 300,000 persons in the USA, at least once in each of their lives, must have had a good sighting of a living pterosaur. . 7. from the west came this dark object in the sky. . The eyewitness was shocked to see that the creature had both a head crest (common in Pterodactyloids) and a long tail with a diamond tip (common in Rhamphorhynchoids). The Top 10 Most Mysterious Creatures of Modern Times, Stories of Live Animals Sealed Within Stone, 10 Lesser-Known U.S. Monsters and Cryptids, Lottery Curse Victims: 7 People Who Won Big & Lost Everything, Snowy Scares: Horror Movies to Feed Your Winter Need. . Special effects or the return of a Pterosaur? . It was the summer of 1977 and I was 17 at the time. The natives, who were occasionally tormented by these creatures, described them as being featherless with smooth skin, having a beak full of teeth and a wingspan of between four and seven feet. But why is it reported to live in many areas of the planet? I was driving along on I-540 in Raleigh at sundown tonight . The landscape photograph on the cover shows the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine, California, near where a pterosaur (ropen) was reported flying in 2007 Patty Carson saw the strange flying creature at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba around 1965 and sketched it more recently. It was Fox TV/Universal Studio prop used to promote a Television series called FreakyLinks, produced by Haxan Films at the beginning of the 21st century. I drew level to the place they crossed . 8. When a large boulder of limestone was split open, the workers were astonished to see a large winged creature come tumbling out. Many of the apparent living pterosaurs are much larger than any bat; Many have long tails; many have head crests. He was skeptical, thinking that they had videotaped only a bird at night. Even more shocking was the ropen sighting near the University of California at Irvine, in 2007, for that modern pterosaur was gigantic: 30 feet long. . ", "Not everybody embraces a live pterodactyl", The extinction of some species of pterosaurs, out of so, many known from fossils, is hardly disputed. We each draw our own conclusions about these amazing flying creatures, yet we agree on many things. There have been many modern-day sightings of creatures that by eyewitness description sound like pterosaurs, or pterodactyl sightings. . Web There were a flurry of sightings in the 1940s and 50s before in 1961 Craig Black claimed to have seen a female carrying a pouched cub in Ben Lomond National. For Americans, that can mean driving. Jonathan David Whitcomb, a forensic videographer, interviewed Hodgkinson, in 2004, and found his testimony credible [the sighting itself was in New Guinea in 1944]. Non-extinct pterosaurs in North Carolina Where do these flying creatures appear? With a wingspan larger than a Conder (12-15 ft) fly in and perch on the tree I was casting my fishing line towards. Not one of those sightings was very far from a storm channel or stream bed. Jonathan Whitcomb introduces excerpts from a number of Youtube videos about modern pterosaur sightings. The apparent pterosaur was flying about 1700 feet from the end of a storm channel, a few years ago, just south of the Long Beach Airport. They were the largest creatures to ever attain flight. 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