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:
But here, in contrast, we make only a brief overview and cover the significance of those belt buckles only a bit.
Ptp 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.
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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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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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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[one example] The short choir piece is titled “Come to Christ” . . .
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Communicate by email.
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