YouTube Videos on Pterodactyl Sightings in the United States

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by Jonathan Whitcomb

Each of these videos are on my YouTube channel Protect Animal Life:

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Pterodactyl Sightings in Central California

Scott Norman, a cryptozoologist from Southern California, decided to meet with some of his associates in central California, where people had reported living pterosaurs. He was skeptical, thinking that they had videotaped only a bird at night. When he spent a night watching the sky, however, 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.

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Pterodactyl Terror in Texas

These three encounters were in Brownsville, Austin, and San Antonio.

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Pterodactyl Sightings – Ropen Overhead in Minnesota

“Pterodactyls” have been reported in many areas of North America, including Minnesota. Eyewitnesses see modern pterosaurs around the world, actually, but this is mostly about two ropen sightings in western Minnesota in the summer of 2018, by a young man (Jonathan Archer) who was interviewed on camera for this video.

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Why Americans see Pterodactyls

Why do Americans report seeing non-extinct pterodactyls across the whole Continental United States? Why do people from around the world report the same flying creatures? It’s because pterosaurs are NOT all extinct: At least a very few species are still living.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in Georgia

This reveals two pterodactyl sightings in the same general area of Georgia, by two men who were camping together (brothers in law).

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A Bird or a Ropen in North Carolina – Pterodactyl

Flying dinosaurs in the capital city of North Carolina? ALIVE!? Yes, and many persons in Raleigh have seen these large flying creatures, including the eyewitness Cynthia Lee, a veterinary technician. Now we have video evidence from the cell phone of this young lady.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in Videos

Strange flying creatures in North America, including Canada

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Live Pterodactyls in YouTube Videos

My principal YouTube channel for videos about modern living pterosaurs is Protect Animal Life. As of early May, 2022, this channel had about 230 videos about modern living pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls”. Here are a few of them . . .

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Videos on Living Pterodactyls

To the best of my knowledge, no other YouTube channel has nearly as many videos on modern pterosaurs as Protect Animal Life (PAL). . . .

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New Pterodactyl Sighting Report From Colorado

. . . The huge flying creature flew by them, close to the ground, fortunately seeming to ignore the horse and rider; perhaps it was hunting different prey . . .

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“Pterodactyl” in Arkansas

So for the first time I’ll tell my weird story. In the summer of 2012 my husband was working . . . for *Buffalo River National Park, Arkansas . . .I was living in Georgia with our infant son but was really missing my husband so we arranged a visit getting a two week rental of a mountain cabin near the park in late August. . . . One morning . . . I looked up. Silently flying was a pterodactyl right over us, lowering in circles without flapping; it was featherless, long beaked, crested, and [had] a tail with something on the end of it. . . . From the window, I watched it fly as it turned to a tiny speck disappearing over the mountains. I had no phone signal, and the nearest houses were five miles down the road. I just sat shaking holding my baby for a long time. . . . I know what I saw, and it scared me into silence for five and a half years.

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Pterosaur Sightings in Pennsylvania

Near Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia, three children observed an apparent pterosaur flying overhead. . . . The sighting was on Thursday, May 5, 2016, in the middle of the afternoon, and the oldest child of the three is eight. Here is part of that email.

My children are as interested in dinosaurs as any children their age. . . . They have seen herons in the past, and know what they look like in flight. We have sometimes commented on the similar appearance. . . . There is no doubt in my mind that they truly believe that they saw a pterosaur.

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Videos on Pterosaur Sightings

I’m in Floyd county Georgia & in 2014 I saw one as a matter of fact there was a couple outside arguing at the time & when I said ohhh sh** that’s when they both looked up in the direction I was looking then they immediately stopped arguing as we watched it fly into the distance, and at first I thought it was a plane but realized that it made no noise but then it moved its head around & gave one giant flap then sped up . . .

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Pterodactyl Kills Chickens and House Cats in Nevada

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By Jonathan Whitcomb of Animal Discovery

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. It has also been killing barn cats in that same farming community. Most Americans would call this kind of flying creature “pterodactyl”, although it was called “dragon” in earlier human history.

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A remote desert area of Nevada (not necessarily the area where the “Draper Ropen” was observed)

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In the Words of the Eyewitness in Nevada

From an email sent to Jonathan Whitcomb:

By happenstance I found you after something amazing tonight. . . . Approximately 9:20 pm Saturday, 02 October, 2021 (tonight), I experienced something unusual (even unusual for this rural area in . . . Nevada).

While . . . in the garage, I heard something very heavy land on the tin roof . . . It landed softly, and after the roof rafters creaked, then I heard claws scratch the roof . . . Over the past few weeks, many of my neighbor’s barn cats disappeared. . . . Something at night has been eating her cats. Every few nights I hear a cat screaming its last breath trying to fend off something, which kills it very quickly. Marks of struggle are seen, but no footprints [animal tracks].

At first, I thought it might be coyotes or a ranch dog loose at night. But, when I realized I haven’t heard or seen coyotes for quite a while now (very unusual). And when she asked me to look around for tracks, I found no coyote tracks or dog tracks, or tracks of any kind. Only tracks of her barn cat tracks and some chickadee and quail tracks. . . .

Synchronous with the one neighbor’s cats disappearing (only at night), my neighbor to the south has been losing chickens (also, something killing them only at night) His chickens aren’t eaten but squished with no tracks nearby the dead chicken or near the fenced chicken run to reveal the predator. Very unusual, because the only thing that could do this must fly… but, nothing is known to fly in this area big enough to do this (not even eagles and great horned owls are big enough to crush a chicken . . .

Eyewitness Account Continued: The Encounter

Tonight, when this heavy, big “bird” creature landed on the garage roof, the neighbor’s dogs (to the north) went ballistic with frenzied barking that they make only when afraid. Quickly, I turned off the lights. And, quietly, and very carefully I opened the door and went outside. . . .

The garage’s roofline measures 26 ft wide. This creature’s wingspan spread wider by about 2 feet on each side and its wingtip flapped within about 4 feet of my head as I opened the door. . . . moment). I saw the silhouette clearly, because it blacked out the stars. The wingtip didn’t look like feathers, but it looked very much like a gigantic bat’s wing. From almost immediately underneath (at the closest point during its takeoff, it had a long narrow tail longer than its head to base of tail length.

In the Words of Jonathan Whitcomb, executive director of Animal Discovery

I soon received two more emails from this eyewitness in Nevada and was struck by the similar accounts from people in Draper, Utah. There a teenager heard a cat screech in the neighbor’s back yard but the screech was suddenly cut off, as if a predator had quickly killed the cat.

I also remembered another person that I had spoken with (face-to-face) in Draper: a man who used to have chickens next to his house. He lives just two doors away from the backyard where a cat was heard to screech before it was cut off. Those chickens in central Utah were also killed and in the same way: not eaten or carried away but squished as if something or someone heavy had stepped on them.

If all that were not enough, the ropen seen in Draper (in 2018) was nearly 30 feet in wingspan, and the one seen by the man at night in Nevada on October 2, 2021—that ropen had a wingspan of 30 feet, which estimate was made by taking the width of the garage roof (26 feet) and adding two feet for each side of that roof, where the wings went further than the ends of the roof. It seems reasonable to me that this ropen grew at least a little during those three years in which it traveled from central Utah to Nevada.

Sketches by Eskin Kuhn and Patty Carson

The Draper Ropen may be related to the American Hammerhead ropen that was seen in eastern Cuba in the mid-20th century; perhaps it is the same species. This flying creature may live in many areas of North America.

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Draper ropen in Nevada and Utah

How do I know that a ropen with a thirty-foot wingspan, now hunting house cats and killing chickens in Nevada, is the same animal seen in Draper, Utah, a few years ago? The one in Utah was about that size, or a bit smaller, and was there hunting house cats and killing chickens.

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Apparent ropen seen in Grantsville, Utah

Three boys were playing at night on a playground in the farming community of Grantsville, Utah, around the fall of 2001, when they were shocked at the appearance of a large glowing creature that flew overhead.

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Resources on Modern Pterosaurs

The following are blogs devoted primarily to the subject of extant (still living) pterosaurs, commonly called by non-scientists “pterodactyls,” and a few examples of posts published on those blogs.

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American Hammerhead Ropen

Jonathan Whitcomb, author of nonfiction cryptozoology books, has suggested that flying creatures reported in Raleigh, North Carolina, over several years, may be related to what Americans in other states have reported to him over the past fourteen years.

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Ropen Sightings

“Hi, Jonathan [Whitcomb]. Thank you so much for writing back to me … I do appreciate it. I live in a small town in northeast Georgia, called Winder . . .”

This eyewitness described to Whitcomb the large “pterodactyl” she observed fly in front of her car one morning in a rural area of Georgia.

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Pterodactyl sightings

Two video trailers feature overviews of “Pterodactyl Caught on Camera – Part 2” and “Giant Pterodactyl in California” two out of over 100 videos on modern pterosaurs on this Youtube channel “Protect Animal Life”.

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Ropen in Utah

Over the past 18 years, I’ve seen a number of questions related to the possibility that people who report seeing living pterosaurs have actually seen that kind of flying creature.

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Searching for ropens

The largest nonfiction book on pterodactyl sightings world wide, Searching for Ropens and Finding God is the #1 reference book on these shocking flying creatures and contains fascinating eyewitness accounts and adventures.

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Report a pterodactyl encounter or sighting

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Giant bat-like flying creature

To me, more weird than unidentified bat-like creatures in the United States is the idea that “the evolution of feathers could have taken place in a species that was the ancestor of pterosaurs and dinosaurs.” I don’t believe that . . .

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More Videos on Modern Pterosaurs

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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.

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  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.

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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.

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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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