Newly-Acquired Reports of Pterodactyl Sightings in the United States

Lake Isabella in central California - where a pterodactyl was seen
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By Jonathan D. Whitcomb

The following are some of the *more-recently received sighting reports of modern pterosaurs in the USA. We’ll start with two Youtube videos on the channel Protect Animal Life (PAL) and then get into two emails. At least one report seems to have been about a ropen. (*The encounters themselves may be older.)

An encounter in Hawaii

Yes they do live in Hawaii. I saw one years ago on the East Hawaii Big Island side. Three of my neighbors also did.

[“Pterodactyls Live in Hawaii – Ropens Included”]

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Sighting in Canada

My roommate saw one at night in the summer in Peterborough, Ontario Canada, I think in 2016.

[“Pterodactyl Sightings – Flying Creatures NOT extinct”]

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Featherless flying “reptile” in Illinois

It was the summer of 1977 and I was 17 at the time. I was fishing at a gravel pit in Heyworth, IL and the dawn had just [broken]. . . . As I stood there a creature glided down from my right to just above water level directly in front of me, no more than 50′ from where I was. . . .

I realized this was no ordinary bird but appeared more like a featherless reptile. I watched as it flew above the water and into the other leg of the pond and out of sight.

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Lake Isabella in central California - where a pterodactyl was seen

Lake Isabella in California – pterodactyl or ropen sighting near here

Large flying creature in California

I was fishing for crappie April, 2020, at Lake Isabella an hour above Bakersfield Calif. I was fishing on the western side near the South fork. There are a lot of trees. . . . My dog Ember was with me. . . .

A women who had lived for sixty years at the lake was fishing beside me. We were chatting when we saw this bird? With a wingspan larger than a Conder (12-15 ft) fly in and perch on the tree I was casting my fishing line towards.

It was featherless; its head had a crest that slanted backwards and a very elongated head, very creepy. Its bat-like skin was a dark tannish color. Its tail, which I could see clearly, was straight and had a diamond shape on the end. . . .

As we were watching this strange bird, it let out a ghastly loud shrieking scream . . . the dog started shaking, rolled on her back and peed all over herself!

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Pterodactyl photo Ptp

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.

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Pterodactyl press releases

A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed reports of non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls” or “flying dinosaurs,” and found how sightings relate to thirty-three states (and Washington D.C.) of the United States.

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Pterosaur sightings worldwide

The total number of clear sightings of modern pterosaurs, during the 20th century, appears to be at least in the hundreds of thousands . . .

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Ropen press releases

“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.. . .”

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Flying Dinosaur Caught on Camera

Apparently this is a genuine photo of a modern pterosaur, what some call the “Civil War pterodactyl photo”, although it was actually recorded AFTER the American Civil War.

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Flying ropen

Patty Carson’s sketch of the ropen she saw – Some cryptozoologists say it is related to the fiery flying serpent of the Bible.
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Modern pterosaurs around the world

The American World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson reporting seeing a huge pterodactyl in a jungle clearing in New Guinea in 1944. Experts now say that it was a ropen.

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Pterodactyl sightings

Jonathan Whitcomb introduces excerpts from a number of Youtube videos about modern pterosaur sightings.

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“Civil War” Photo of a Pterodactyl

A real animal in a 19th century photograph
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By Jonathan Whitcomb

This is nothing close to an exhaustive coverage of the Ptp image of an apparent huge “pterodactyl” with six apparent Civil War soldiers. See the following blog-post link for details about the relevance of the belt buckles and other evidences for the authenticity of the original image:

Pterodactyl “Civil War” Photo

But here, in contrast, we make only a brief overview and cover the significance of those belt buckles only a bit.

A real animal in a 19th century photographPtp image of six apparent soldiers next to a gigantic flying creature

Were these men Civil War Reenactors?

No, these apparent 19th century American soldiers were actually what they appear to be, almost: They were most likely photographed between about 1866 and 1880. In other words, they were not technically Civil War soldiers, at least not at the time they were photographed.

How can we be sure? These soldiers, uniforms, and equipment differ from those of the common Union soldiers during that war: The belt buckles are not oval but rectangular; the men had pistol holsters, almost unheard of for common Union soldiers during most of the war; the men seem to be a bit too well fed to be from the war period, although that is not as significant as the other points about belt buckles and holsters.

So doesn’t that mean that these men must be Civil War reenactors, with uniforms and holsters that were mistakes? No, not at all. Look at a hundred photos of common “Union” soldier reenactors (not officers). You might not see even one of them with a rectangular belt buckle.

In addition, you will not see even one common Union soldier reenactor with a pistol holster. Why? The great majority of such reenactors appear to be very accurate in their uniforms and equipment, making it look as much as reasonably possible for them to appear to be Union soldiers.

Yet there is often a weighty problem with 20th century and 21st century American Civil War reenactors: A significant number of them are much heavier than the average soldiers that they portray.

Civil War reenactor soldier - too big for his uniform

Heavyset Civil War reenactor “soldier” (NOT in Ptp)

That does not prove positively that those six men could not have been photographed in recent decades to make a fake pterodactyl “photo”, but it does put that possibility into serious doubt. It is far more likely that Ptp, in its original form, was a genuine photograph of real soldiers with a real and huge flying creature.

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small sapling tree broken down - probably real object moved

Evidence a small sapling tree may have been broken down to allow a real object to be dragged into the clearing shown in the Ptp image

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Pterodactyl Photo in a Youtube Video

This is a blog post about a video on a Youtube channel.

Near the beginning of the video, the image is compared with a photo hoax of several Civil War reenactors who helped create a fake photo for the Freakylinks TV show of two decades ago.

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Pterodactyl Kills Chickens and House Cats in Nevada

A particular modern pterosaur has now been tied to chicken loses in both central Utah and in Nevada. Earlier in October of 2021 I gave it the name “Draper Ropen”, and it was last seen in a rural neighborhood of Nevada on October 2, 2021.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in Videos

I recently saw something that has blown my mind. After a week of people thinking I’m crazy . . . I have located your contact info . . . decided to write you in regards to a recent [sighting] in the foothills of North Carolina. I saw some type of flying creature in [the] sky on the evening of 8/28/2020.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

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

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Vivre ptérosaure dans l’Ohio

C’est dans la ville de Columbus, tôt le matin. Une mère avec sa jeune fille, alors qu’ils attendaient un autobus scolaire. . . .

. . . as we stood there out the corner of my eye, to my left I saw something large flying down the middle of the street. I turned to my left and see a pteradactyl. [spelling should be “pterodactyl”]

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Critics of Living-Pterosaur Investigations

I have examined hundreds of eyewitness reports over the past fifteen years, interviewing eyewitnesses from around the world and receiving first-hand accounts from five continents. Perhaps few persons, if any, have been given more first-hand reports of sightings of apparent pterosaurs than I have.

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Paleontologist Attacks Pterosaur Publications

Can a writer legitimately and honestly use a pseudonym, AKA a pen name? A variety of conditions can validate this old practice, including getting attention to the writing itself rather than the gender or ethnicity of the writer.

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Press Releases on Flying Dinosaurs

We now take a brief look at four press releases about modern pterosaurs, what some people call “pterodactyls” and others call “flying dinosaurs”. They’re seen not only in Papua New Guinea but in the United States.

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New Harmonic System in Music

[one example] The short choir piece is titled “Come to Christ” . . .

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Contact Whitcomb

Communicate by email.

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Press Releases About Non-Extinct Pterodactyls

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By Jonathan David Whitcomb

Over the past eighteen years, many press releases have been published about encounters that people have have with apparent living pterosaurs. Since a good number of these relate to sightings in the United States, let’s begin there.

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Eyewitness Reports of Apparent Living Pterosaurs in the United States (LUAPT press release)

A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed reports of non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls” or “flying dinosaurs,” and found how sightings relate to thirty-three states (and Washington D.C.) of the United States. Jonathan Whitcomb, of Murray, Utah, has been receiving emails, and an occasional phone call, over a period of 13 years, from eyewitnesses from five continents, and most reported sightings are in North America.

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Two Dragon Hunters in Southern California

Two men living in Los Angeles County proclaim that dragons are not all fictional and that some species of pterosaurs are still alive. For Garth Guessman of Los Angeles and Jonathan Whitcomb of Long Beach, 2013 is the tenth anniversary of their beginning serious research into sightings of “flying dragons,” what many Americans call “pterodactyls.” [In more recent years, Whitcomb has lived in Utah.]

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Santa in a sleigh, followed by a ropen

Yes, Virginia, there is a … flying dinosaur ( for the Christmas season)

According to a nonfiction author in Utah, he does not likely follow reindeer on his nightly journeys but probably follows other deer and wildlife. He can be seen almost anywhere except near the north pole or south pole, and little ones do not welcome his nightly visits.

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Press Releases on Modern Pterodactyls

This post mentions three news releases on these shocking featherless flying creatures, two of which are about sightings in California.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

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.

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Videos on Living Pterodactyls

Three YouTube videos are featured, each about these amazing featherless flying creatures that are not bats and not birds.

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New Book on Child (and Adult) Eyewitnesses of Living Pterosaurs

Her father did not believe her at first, but later may have been unsure. Patty’s older brother and sister later saw what may have been the same thing . . .

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Mini-Documentary on the Sighting by Patty Carson

Patty Carson, I am sad to announce, passed away early in 2019. Her contributions to living-pterosaur investigations have been great, for she has spoken freely about many details that she observed in the flying creature she encountered in Cuba in about the year 1965, when she was a little girl. She also gave us a remarkable sketch, drawn from her memory of that ropen.

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Danger from Pterodactyl Attacks

Is the ropen, or any other modern pterosaur, dangerous? First, we have more than one animal of that type in our modern world. At any particular time and place, a particular long-tailed ropen may search for bats or jack rabbits or fish, and that choice of prey depends a lot on the experiences of that particular animal.

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