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Press Releases About Non-Extinct Pterodactyls

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.

map of USA, with colors for living-pterosaur sighings

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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YouTube Videos on Pterodactyl Sightings in the United States

black ropen-pterodactyl diving toward horse-and-buggy

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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Report a pterodactyl sighting

Contact form for getting in touch with Whitcomb

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Dragons or Pterosaurs in Griffith Park

Near the Colorado street exit from the northbound I-5 freeway - near where three "dragons" were seen flying on March 3, 2013

How delighted I was, this past March, to receive an eyewitness report of three “dragons” flying over the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles! I waited for weeks, hoping another driver on that stretch of freeway just east of Griffith Park, Los Angeles, would confirm the March 3rd flyover; but it would be in vain, for nobody else confirmed it.

How delighted I was, earlier this month, to received an eyewitness report of a “pterosaur” flying over that same stretch of freeway just east of Griffith Park! It was an unexpected but welcome confirmation from another credible lady who also showed no sign of playing a hoax or misidentifying any kind of bird. These two sightings were ten weeks apart and about 1.5 miles apart, near the Los Angeles River channel.

Let’s compare these two sightings of apparent pterosaurs in 2013 in Los Angeles.

Time of Sighting

  • March 3rd, at 6:10 a.m.
  • May 13th, at 4:00 p.m.

General Labeling

  • Three “dragons”
  • One “pterosaur”

Location on the I-5 Freeway

  • Near Colorado Street exit (from northbound I-5)
  • “Right before the Los Feliz exit” (from northbound I-5)

Misidentified-bird Possibility

  • “A head:body:tail ratio that was certainly not that of a bird”
  • “I’m almost positive . . . NOT a bird of any kind”

Direction of Flight

  • South
  • Northeast

Manner of Flight

  • No wing flapping
  • “The wings . . . never flapped. It glided . . .”

Presence or Absence of a Tail

  • “Tails had triangular points . . . [tails were] long and thin”
  • Unknown—eyewitness was concentrating on the head

Head Crest

  • Unknown – eyewitness saw the undersides of the three creatures
  • “I did see its head crest”

Color

  • “Light in color – white, gray or light green.”
  • “membranous charcoal gray/teal undertone skin” (may be referring to head)

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Near the Colorado street exit from the northbound I-5 freeway - near where three "dragons" were seen flying on March 3, 2013

Los Angeles River, near where three “dragons” were observed flying on March 3, 2013

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Los Angeles River, just south of where an eyewitness saw a "pterosaur" flying over the I-5 freeway at 4:00 p.m.

Los Angeles River channel, near where an eyewitness saw a “pterosaur” on May 13, 2013

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Press Release: Griffith Park Pterosaurs

Devin Rhodriquez was driving north on Interstate-5, near Griffith Park in  Los Angeles, when she was startled to see something strange gliding over  the freeway, unlike any bird, more like a “pterosaur.”

Griffith Park Dragons

This past Monday morning I read an email I received from a woman who encountered three “dragons” flying over the I-5 freeway, just northeast of downtown Los Angeles, on Sunday morning, March 3rd.

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