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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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https://youtu.be/BJuOVl0kcZU

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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https://youtu.be/c3GslUHL6hI

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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“I saw a Flying Dinosaur”

sketch, by eyewitness, of the Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur of eastern Cuba

Although it’s more common, in the United States, for an eyewitness of an apparent living pterosaur to use the word pterodactyl, I sometimes come across the phrase “flying dinosaur.” Consider now an encounter in July of 2012, in the words of the eyewitness herself:

Wed 18 2012 my two sons n i was traveling down Hwy 27 n Franklin Georgia around 8:15 or so in the morning…when i looked up n saw a flyin dinosaur..I was so shocked at what i was seein i started yealing to my sons to look up look up..i ask my oldest ..do u see what im seeing..n he goes..Wow..in i go what do u see..cause i wanted to make sure i could belive my own eyes n he goes..it looks like a Terradactyl…in i go…yeah it looks like a dinosaur to me too and dats my n my son story n we’re stickin to it.

Before going any further, please be clear in this: Eyewitnesses of apparent living pterosaurs are not always less skilled in the English language. Some of them are highly educated, and they include men and women in a variety of professions:

  • an attorney in California
  • a college professor in Florida
  • a former biology professor in Oregon
  • a scientist in Australia (Perth sighting)
  • a president of an electronics company in New Hampshire

I could go on, with other eyewitnesses who reported to me their encounters with these astonishing featherless flying creatures, but I’ll let it go at that. We need to consider a common skeptical comment.

One criticism that I have seen more than once is something like this:

“How could living pterosaurs have gone undetected for so long?”

First, I see a contradiction: The reason a skeptic makes a comment like that is because somebody has reported that they saw a living pterosaur. In other words, it was not only detected but it was reported, so the skeptic is completely wrong in assuming that apparent living pterosaurs have gone undetected.

But I think the skeptic actually means something different, notwithstanding it may appear to be similar. The critic, when he or she asks something like the above question, probably assumes that any species of pterosaur that survived into the present day would have been discovered by one or more scientists before the day that the eyewitness (supposedly a non-scientist) reported the sighting in question. Not only that, but the skeptic probably assumes that when one scientist sees a living pterosaur then its existence will somehow automatically become common knowledge among scientists in general and the non-extinction of that species will become accepted by many scientists. How greatly would that skeptic be wrong! The reality is this: A scientist who reported seeing a living pterosaur would likely lose his or her position at a university or college or would lose his or her employment.

Another reality of which a typical skeptic would be ignorant is this: The number of eyewitnesses, worldwide, who have seen an obvious living pterosaur is at least in the tens of thousands, and the number of persons who have had some kind of an encounter, however brief and difficult to see clearly, with a living pterosaur is at least between 7 million and 128 million. How enormous is the depth of ignorance of the typical skeptic who encounters one eyewitness report of a non-extinct pterosaur and quickly rejects it! (Please be aware that those numbers are not from tabulations of eyewitness reports directly but from estimations based upon sightings that have been reported.)

By living-pterosaur expert Jonathan Whitcomb

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Flying Dinosaur

Of course we mean “pterosaur” when we say “flying dinosaur,” but people use various words and phrases when they refer to this featherless flying creature . . .

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Flying Dinosaurs in Papua New Guinea

Until 1938, the fish called Coelacanth was thought to have become extinct 65-million years ago. Does that number sound familiar?

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When a Child Sees a Flying Dinosaur

Why should only adults see apparent living pterosaurs? In fact, some of the eyewitnesses of “pterodactyls” are children.

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 Dinosaur Bird sightings

The older estimate for the number of sightings that Americans have had of living pterosaurs—1400 or more—is now believed to have been an under-estimate. It now seems that the number is more like in five or six digits at least, depending on one’s definition of “sighting.”

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Flying dinosaur book

An excellent nonfiction book for children and teenagers

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Sightings of Living Pterosaurs

Let’s examine what’s been learned from sighting reports that are mostly from North America, with a critical eye on the overall honesty-credibility of eyewitnesses.

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Pterosaur sighting in Georgia (USA)

In mid-2012, a lady and her sons saw a “flying dinosaur” in the city of Franklin, GA.

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Credibility of Georgia Pterosaur Eyewitnesses

Flying creatures observed in the state of Georgia, according to the reports I have received from eyewitnesses, resemble apparent pterosaurs of other states and indeed of other countries. But what about credibility? Why should the general public, including common citizens of Georgia, believe that those eyewitnesses observed actual pterosaurs, not in faraway Papua New Guinea but in their own state? I’ll tell you why I believe them.

I have received eyewitness reports from around the world, probably more direct-eyewitness reports of apparent pterosaurs worldwide than any other cryptozoologist has received. Since the fall of 2003, most of those reports have been through email (with most of the exceptions being from my expedition on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, late in 2004). I have found those many sighting reports adequate to make up much of the content of the three nonfiction books that I have written over those nine years. In other words, we have plenty of eyewitnesses.

Overall Credibility and Hoax Elimination

Because of the great number of sightings worldwide, we now have compiled statistics from 128 accounts. Those 128 reports I chose because they showed signs of general credibility, meaning each one was more likely than not from an observation of an actual living pterosaur. Some of the data compiled were in the following categories:

  • featherlessness
  • tail length
  • head crest
  • wingspan
  • tail flange
  • number of witnesses
  • day or night
  • closeness of the creature
  • flying height
  • wing flapping or gliding
  • overall color of flying creature
  • location of sighting

Three factors make it obvious that no combination of hoaxes played any significant part in the reports:

  1. Certainty of featherlessness
  2. Long tails
  3. Wingspan estimates

With 75% of those sightings being in the United States, I found it easy to see that hoaxes were practically eliminated as a reasonable explanation for sightings of pterosaurs. Long tails dominate reports from Americans, which is the opposite of common ideas about those flying creatures, for “basal” pterosaurs (Rhamphorhynchoids, the long-tailed type) are seldom seen in film or on television. But long tails far outnumber no-long-tail descriptions from eyewitnesses in the United States.

Also, eyewitnesses who are certain about the lack of feathers are outnumbered by eyewitnesses who think something like “probably no feathers,” outnumbered 25% to 21%. Why would any hoaxer leave any doubt? Why would he allow for the possibility, in other’s minds, that it was a misidentified bird? When asked any question related to certainty of featherlessness, the hoaxer would leave no doubt. But real eyewitnesses sometimes realize that their powers of perception are imperfect, so they admit that it was only probably no feathers.

Many of the eyewitness accounts involve numeric estimates of wingspan. Those wingspan estimates in the range of 8-16 feet account for 35% of those sightings in which wingspan was estimated. If many hoaxes were involved, there would be hardly any hoaxers that would give a wingspan estimate in that range of 8-16 feet. It’s too small to be convincing and too big to correlate with common assumptions about long-tailed pterosaurs.

Credibility of Eyewitnesses in Georgia

The eyewitness reports that I have received from Georgia appear similar to reports from other parts of the United States. Regarding honesty credibility, I found several factors that suggest individual eyewitnesses were telling me the truth about what they experienced. I cannot reveal specific methods I use to assess individual honesty-credibility, however, because it would make it much easier for some future hoaxer to fool me with a hoax.

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Featherless Flying Creature in Georgia

. . . it leapt out from the woods, I saw it from below, and the tail was very long with a shape on the end . . .

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Press Release “Live Pterosaur in Georgia”

Reports of living “pterodactyls” in Georgia, during the past seven years, probably relate to sightings of some flying creatures in South Carolina and Florida . . .

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Pterosaurs in Georgia

Sandra Paradise recently gave me permission to use her real name in connection with her sightings near Winder, Georgia. She had previously been anonymous and called “PS” in my cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in America [third edition].

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front and back covers of "Live Pterosaurs in America" nonfiction book

 

Live Pterosaurs in America (third edition) by Jonathan David Whitcomb

For the second edition, part of an Amazon review by “stevie:”

“This is an updated review of the book and I am changing my rating to 5 stars. This book has been on my shelf for almost a year now. I pick it up every now and then and a part of me becomes more impressed by the book every time. . . . I highly recommend this. . . . Whitcomb painstakingly reviews every account for credibility and reason. This man is not a crank. He tries to weed out would be hoaxes and miss-identification. This is not a guy looking to create evidence to confirm his own beliefs. On top of this, I have great respect for a guy who follows his dreams so passionately. He has traveled to Papua New Guinea to search for the creature there and this book is somewhat of a sequel if you will. After Whitcomb traveled to New Guinea, he started to collect more stories from North America concerning the pterosaur like creature; probably as a response to the new guinea book. Now, if the creature exists, it could be more close to home than currently imagined.”