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More Videos on Modern Pterosaurs

black ropen-pterodactyl diving toward horse-and-buggy

by Jonathan David Whitcomb

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:

Bizarre Pterodactyl Sightings

In this 5½-minute video ten sightings are covered: five in the United States and five in Papua New Guinea.

sketch of one of the two "pterodactyls" seen in Cuba in 1971

  1. Pterosaur encounter in Antwerp, Ohio
  2. Sighting east of Buffalo, New York
  3. Police officer sees “prehistoric” flying creature in Massena, NY
  4. Two men see a huge flying creature in Long Island, New York
  5. Susan Wooten encounters a gigantic pterodactyl in South Carolina
  6. Sighting of a huge ropen flying over Lake Pung on Umboi Island
  7. Sighting by Duane Hodgkinson in 1944 in New Guinea
  8. Rex Yapi sees the tail of an enormous ropen near Umboi Island
  9. Ropen sighting by Jonah Jim on Umboi Island, PNG
  10. Sighting by Brian Hennessy in 1971: Bougainville Island, New Guinea

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California Desert Flying Creature

This covers a sighting two persons had in the Anza-Borrego desert in Southern California in about 1991.

pterodactyl head in a California desert with "Get out before dark"

The two persons were relaxing on lawn chairs in a remote desert when they noticed a big flying creature in the distance. At first, they assumed it was not unusual, but as they continued watching it they became astonished. It was clearly larger than an eagle and looked much more like a “pterodactyl”.

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Wild Animals in Pennsylvania – like pterodactyls

Several sighting reports are included.

black ropen-pterodactyl diving toward horse-and-buggy

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The Girl who saw a Pterodactyl

One critic might dismiss the report by Patty Carson, saying it was just the imagination of a small girl. But why would that US Marine see two flying creatures that were so similar to the one seen by that child? Keep in mind that both reports come from Guantanamo Bay, and the sightings were only six years apart.

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Popular Videos on Modern Pterodactyls

Three Youtube videos are featured:

  1. Pterosaur Sightings in 2020
  2. Pterodactyl Attack
  3. Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

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Are flying dinosaurs alive?

Do you believe in the possibility that long-tailed featherless flying creatures, much larger than any fruit bat, live in the jungles of Papua New Guinea?

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Modern pterosaurs

Two days ago I uploaded a video to Youtube: “Living Pterosaurs – in newspapers,” an introduction to some newspaper articles published over the years, one of them being back in the late 1800’s. Part of this mini-documentary explains part of why such news coverage is rare in the United States: Average readers assume that all “pterodactyls” became extinct long ago, and any reported sighting of a living one should be a mistake.

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Pterodactyl alive

In 1897, an eight year old girl, Virginia O’Hanlon, wrote a letter to the editor of a big newspaper in New York, asking if Santa Claus was real. The response has since become the most famous editorial of all time: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” I now apply that kind of positive journalistic response to what some persons have asked me over the past fifteen years. The question is in this general form: “Did I see a pterosaur?”

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Are pterosaurs extinct?

Not all of them are extinct.

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Attack from a pterodactyl

She charged over to the misguided soul who was irritating her. As soon as she got close, she realized her mistake. It was not one of the boys, but it was her worst nightmare, a devil bird. She realized she was attacking what she feared the most. . . .

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Youtube Videos on the Ropen

sketch of ropen on the official banner for the Youtube channel "Protect Animal Life"

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

The following is to the best of my knowledge, as of early September 27, 2019, regarding Youtube channels that have videos about eyewitness reports of apparent modern living pterosaurs, including the ropen.

Only two Youtube channels have many videos about these featherless flying creatures:

  1. “Jonathan Whitcomb” (obviously my channel)
  2. “Protect Animal Life” (also one of my channels)

The first is much older and has many views on most of its 9 active videos about living pterosaurs. The most popular is “Ropen-Pterodactyl – American eyewitness” (with over a third of a million views).

The second channel has fewer views but has been much more active in the last six months: It now has 27 active videos about these amazing flying creatures of the night.

Here’s the most recently uploaded video on the first channel:

The above video answers a question that few persons have ever wondered about, although it is relevant to living-pterosaur investigations: Why did the gigantic ropen of Umboi Island fly over the crater lake Pung, just a few minutes after the seven island boys had arrived at that lake? That was in the middle of the day, and the ropen is generally a nocturnal flying creature. This video gives a simple explanation.

Active Videos on the Channel “Jonathan Whitcomb”

  • Ropen Sighting at Lake Pung – Why?
  • Dragons and Pterosaurs Trailer 1
  • Grantsville Flying-Creature Sighting in Utah
  • Brief introduction to living-pterosaur investigations
  • Ropen expedition by Whitcomb (2004)
  • Ropen-Pterodactyl – American eyewitness
  • Abram sees the ropen (maybe fishing)
  • Grave robbery by the ropen pterosaur
  • Spiders of Umboi Island
  • Three Eyewitnesses of the Ropen

Both Youtube channels have videos about sightings in Papua New Guinea and in North America.

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Free online videos about modern pterosaurs

As we approach the 15-year anniversary of my ropen expedition on Umboi Island, I’ll share my views on some Youtube videos and playlists: about these amazing flying creatures. You choose which ones to watch.

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Videos on living pterosaurs

The most active Youtube channel on ropens (and other living pterosaurs), as of mid-2019

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Hair or fur on the ropen

Over the years, I’ve rarely mentioned much on this blog about the possibility that ropens in general are covered with some amount of fine hair. Only a small fraction of the total eyewitnesses have been close enough to see such a detail, even if they had a mind to take notice of hair, or lack thereof, at the time of their sightings.

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Ropen videos

The oldest and most popular Youtube channel having many videos about living pterosaurs

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Eyewitnesses of Possible Living Pterosaurs

in Papua New Guinea: Jacob Kepas and James Blume

By the nonfiction author Jonathan D. Whitcomb

Let’s examine types of sightings of potential pterosaurs and a small number of the more-important eyewitness encounters. The three types include:

  1. Flying light, with no discernible shape or features
  2. Glowing creature that flies (apparent bioluminescent winged animal)
  3. Apparent living pterosaur, with no glowing

The second type, for our investigation here, does not include probable-birds (or likely-owls).

Let’s also consider how eyewitnesses differ:

  • A) Common Westerner
  • B) College-educated Westerner
  • C) Native of a non-Western country

The first category includes children and those adults who have not obtained a four-year degree at a college or university or anything close to that. Many eyewitnesses are in this group.

The second category of persons includes professors or at least those who have taught, at some time, at a college or university, but it’s not limited to professors. An attorney or medical doctor or psychologist would also fit. In other words, this type generally includes one who has received a significant amount of education and is from a Western country.

A native of Papua New Guinea or of Namibia may or may not have had much education, but the third category is generally for non-Westerners (or those in non-industrialized countries) with limited or no formal education.

Please be aware that some of those who’ve reported seeing an apparent living pterosaur fit into the first category when they had the sighting but who graduated from a college or from a university (or may have done so) later, before reporting the sighting. These cases will be considered, should they come up in a related post.

Sighting by a British Biologist

Evelyn Cheesman (1882-1969), as an educated British biologist, explored on islands in the southwest Pacific early in the 20th century. Thanks to the British cryptozoology researcher Richard Muirhead, we know about how some of Cheesman’s observations relate to reports of possible living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea.

Her book The Two Roads of Papua was published in 1934 and has details about her observation of strange flying lights, but she gave no date for her sighting. Ropen searchers and researchers generally believe that Cheesman observed a group of bioluminescent flying creatures that are related to the ropen of Umboi Island. They’re also likely related to the indava that has been reported and videotaped a number of miles south of the location of Cheesman’s sighting.

Evelyn Cheesman - British biologist

Lucy Evelyn Cheesman

Be aware that this British biologist appears to have never considered the possibility of either modern pterosaurs or large bioluminescent flying creatures not yet classified in Western science. She was convinced, however, that the lights that she observed were not from any human behavior (like natives walking around with flashlights). It remained, for this British entomologist, a mystery, perhaps until the end of her life. The sighting type is 1-B.

Sighting by Jacob Kepas in 2006

The native Baptist minister may have more education than most citizens of Papua New Guinea, but we’ll put him in the third eyewitness category, at least for the moment. The sighting type is 3-C.

With a local native, Kepas observed what he thought was a large winged creature sleeping in a cave or under an outcropping of rock. It was at a distance, however: across from the mountain where the two men had binoculars to the other mountain that had the apparent winged animal, so that leaves room for misinterpretation (sighting in 2006).

Do not confuse this sighting with the one that Kepas had when we was a boy (see below: Boy Jacob Kepas).

in Papua New Guinea: Jacob Kepas and James Blume

Pastor Jacob Kepas (left) and American Baptist missionary James Blume

The sighting in 2006 connect with Cheeman’s in this way: The place where Jacob Kepas and another native saw what they thought was a large winged creature—that area is close to the following:

  • Where villagers report seeing the glowing indava flying creature
  • Where the American Paul Nation videotaped two flying lights in 2006

And all of those places are just south of where Cheesman made her flying-lights observations decades earlier. Taking all that together does not scientifically prove that they are all directly connected, but the reasonable possibility is obvious.

Some Other Potentially Related Sightings

  • Steven Cottingham – flying-light sighting (Umboi, 1972) – type 1-B
  • Michael – old man living in Opai Village (Umboi, 1949) –  ”  1-C
  • David Woetzel – American explorer (Umboi, 2004) – 1-B
  • *James Blume – American missionary (north of Umboi, 1996) – 1-B
  • Paul Nation – videotaped two lights (mainland of PNG, 2006) – 1-B
  • *Carl Baugh – American – same sighting as James Blume (above) – 1-B
  • Boy Jacob Kepas (near Wau, Papua New Guinea) 2-C
  • Jonah Jim – native eyewitness of a ropen (Umboi, 2001) – 2-C
  • Jonathan Ragu – native – sighting on the NW coast (Umboi, 2004) – 2-C
  • Gideon Koro – native – daylight sighting at a crater lake (Umboi, 1994) 3-C
  • Woman & her daughter – Caribbean cruise (between Cuba & Haiti, ~2010) – 2-A or 2-B
  • Husband & wife – on cruise ship (between Tortola & St Martin, 2012) 2-A or 2-B
  • Peter Beach & Milt Marcy (Yakima River, Washington state) both 1-B
  • Man driving to work (exactly same place as Beach-Marcy above) 3-A or 3-B
  • Lady & son (England, near border with Wales, 2017) both probably 3-A
  • Wife & husband (Hertfordshire, England, March of 2017) 3-A
  • Ten-year-old girl (England, about 1987) 2-A
  • Man at a music concert saw a long-tailed flying creature (Spain, 2007) 3-B

The above are only a small portion of the sighting reports that I have received over the past 13 years, but it makes a point that different types of sightings happen in the same general areas.

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Living Pterosaurs in Texas

Nightmare in the dead of winter

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Expedition for living pterosaurs

Since about the year 2004, it seems that a few extreme skeptics have searched for anything that might bring living-pterosaur researchers into a bad light. This post, “Evidences Jonathan Whitcomb was in Papua New Guinea in 2004,” was written in case any future skeptic chooses to dispute the reality of the ropen expedition led by Whitcomb and Paina.

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Ropen expedition

Whitcomb searches for a glowing pterosaur in Papua New Guinea

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Living pterosaurs in the United States

I’m not a professor of paleontology. To be brief, I was a forensic videographer in 2003, when I began investigating these eyewitness accounts of “prehistoric” flying creatures or “dragons.” I recognized, while viewing some amateur video footage, the credibility of natives who were interviewed on a tropical island in the southwest Pacific. Since 2003, I have spent well over 10,000 hours researching, interviewing, exploring, and writing—all within this narrow field of cryptozoology.

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Is the ropen a living pterosaur?

In five expeditions, from 1994 through 2004, several Americans have explored *Umboi Island in search of the nocturnal ropen.

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Living pterosaur eyewitnesses

Mr. Kouke was living on the isand of Oahu, Hawaii, when he was twelve years old. . . . he saw the creature flying about a hundred feet high, at mid-morning. . . . “[I was] not believing what I was seeing” when he first saw the flying creature. He estimated the wingspan at 24-30 feet. At first he wondered if it might be a man-made object, but the gliding changed into slow flapping . . .

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Ropen eyewitness

Youtube video of an American World War II veteran who saw a huge “pterodactyl” in New Guinea in 1944. Duane Hodgkinson was interviewed by the cryptozoologist Garth Guessman in 2005. The video footage was edited and published onto Youtube by Jonathan Whitcomb.

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Bioluminescence of modern pterosaurs

  • Ropen of Papua New Guinea
  • Marfa Lights in Texas
  • Fire-breathing dragons
  • Fiery flying serpent of the Bible

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