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Giant Pterosaur in South Carolina

September 27th, 2010

Of course this account brings to mind the pterosaur sighting by Susan Wooten, also in South Carolina. Her giant flying creature, also seen in daylight, also very large, also appeared featherless. This new eyewitness remains anonymous, but we’ll examine his testimony.

I saw a pterosaur in Clinton, SC when I was 15 or 16 while at a soccer camp at Presbyterian College in 1994 or 1995. . . . It was huge, as big as a plane . . . I saw a huge pterodactyl-looking creature, flying very high in the sky. The strangest thing . . . how slow the wings were flapping and how high it was flying. . . . Years later in college . . . [a friend] ended up blurting out that he saw a pterodactyl. I told him I had seen one too . . . Seeing Susan Wooten’s story on your website further reinforces my belief in what I saw. . . . I periodically search for stuff about pterodactyls on the internet. This time I searched “pterosaur sightings south carolina”, and [a] site popped up. [Wooten sighting].

We should pay attention to these sightings in this part of the United States. If only someone would have a camera ready when one of the creatures flys by in daylight!

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Flying Dinosaurs

August 25th, 2010

We have been taught that giant flying creatures soared overhead long ago. We could call them “dinosaur birds,” but that would be technically incorrect: They were pterosaurs, and they came in two varieties: long-tailed and short-tailed. They’re also called “pterodactys,” but that is also incorrect. Say ”tear-uh-sore,” and spell it “pterosaur.”

But dinosaur birds (pterosaurs) seem to have soared overhead not so long ago. In fact one of them could fly over your house tomorrow night; I say “night,” for most of them seem to be nocturnal. They are seen rarely, for they are anything but common. When they are seen in the United States, the main danger to the eyewitness is not being attacked by the pterosaur, it is being ridiculed by those who hear about the sighting.

Live Pterosaur in Ohio

. . . The creature was reported “chasing sparrows as it flew over the Route 49 bridge near Antwerp, Ohio.” [reported in a local newspaper in Antwerp]

The challenge faced by most . . . eyewitnesses of apparent living pterosaurs in the United States (Ohio, or Kentucky, or any other state) is this: Who can you tell? Our culture frowns on reporting anything like a live dinosaur or live pterosaur . . .

Ghost Lights or Flying Dinosaurs?

So how do glowing owls relate to reports of live pterodactyls? In Papua New Guinea, the ropen is seen usually from a distance at night. How is it seen? It glows, sometimes brightly, as it flies. How can anyone conclude that it is a pterosaur? When it is seen up close, it is seen to be one.

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Another strange flying creature in California

June 28th, 2010

From the blog Live Pterosaurs in America, the post “Flying Creature in Los Angeles” says:

Flying only about 300 feet above the heads of two astonished humans . . . the creature appeared to have a wingspan of 10-20 feet. Also astonishing was the faint glow that led one of the eyewitnesses to connect the creature with the ropen of Papua New Guinea.

The sighting was in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, in 2009. The two eyewitnesses seemed to be credible.

California Pterosaurs Still Living (a different sighting, also early 21st century)

An apparent ropen sighting in California is being investigated by Jonathan Whitcomb (author of the book “Live Pterosaurs in America”). According to an anonymous eyewitness, a very large creature, in daylight, in August of 2007, flew over the wildlife refuge, crossing a road in front of the car that the eyewitness was driving.

It seems that live pterosaurs or strange flying creatures may not be so rare in California.

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Pterodactyl Alive in California?

May 17th, 2010

How would you interpret a report of a sighting of a giant living pterosaur flying over a road near the campus of the University of California at Irvine? In the summer of 2007, that’s what the eyewitness described, for it had no feathers, a long tail, and a length of about thirty feet. Somebody might dismiss the report as a misidentified bat, except for the giant size and the long tail.

According to another source, regarding live pterosaurs:

Several Americans searched for the elusive creature; important expeditions were in 2002, 2004 (two), and 2006. But the Sci-Fi Destination Truth expedition of 2007 introduced the word ‘ropen’ to many thousands of American T.V. viewers.

Live pterosaurs! But it gets even stranger. Reports starting coming in from North America, and some of the Americans who explored Papua New Guinea, in 2004, searching for ropens, began searching for them in the United States. In at least two of the West Coast states, one of the locations became extremely secret. Nevertheless, according to one press release, one of the living-pterosaur cryptozoologists has estimated that at least 1400 Americans have seen a living pterosaur between early-1980 and the end of 2008. Most of those who have given their reports remain anonymous.

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Glowing Orbs of the Mekong River

April 15th, 2010

What attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators, every October, to Nong Kai Province? The Naga Fireballs of Southeast Asia have attracted crowds for many years, and these strange glowing orbs have been seen emerging from the Mekong River for centuries.

What causes these lights? Is it the gravitational pull of the moon on methane gas? Are the legends true about the eggs of the giant snake? Could Laotin monks be playing hoaxes? Scientific explanations appear to fall flat, for at least one scientist strongly opposes any natural cause such as methane; it seems to unbelievable to imagine gas bubbles that start burning in the water and then continue to burn in the form of a balls as they emerge and float up above the river. Yet any attempt at a human explanation evaporates like the lights themselves: Lights slowing emerging from the water–that seems impossible for monks to create every year for centuries.

Perhaps the ancient legends may have some truth to them, for a living organism, not yet classified in Western science (albeit bioluminescent rather than mystical) appears to be the best explanation for the Naga Fireballs of the Mekong River. We know that some insects glow and some insects emerge from rivers to fly away. This may be a large bioluminescent insect.

There appears to be no direct relationship to the nocturnal glowing kor of Papua New Guinea.

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1400 American Eyewitnesses of Living Pterosaurs

February 10th, 2010

“A cryptozoologist estimates that at least 1400 credible eyewitnesses have seen, in the United States, over the past 29 years, large flying creatures unlike any known bird or bat: apparent pterosaurs.”

The estimate is crude, based largely on how reluctant Americans are to admit that they have seen something like a living pterosaur. But the nonfiction-book author has interviewed Americans for years, and has analyzed the resulting data. Several cryptozoology books have been written about strange flying creatures, including apparent pterosaurs. Eyewitnesses may be plentiful, but this is still cryptozoology, for no body (live or recently deceased) has yet been discovered.

A few critics using online forums have ridiculed those who believe in the possibility of a living pterosuar, but they have also often declared that there would be nothing unscientific about discovering that kind of creature. So why ridicule those who hope that the poor animals are alive?

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Some key words worth trying: pterosaur, pterodactyl, ropen

Also: Cryptozoology Book (nonfiction: Live Pterosaurs in America)

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