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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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Sightings of Living Pterosaurs in the South – Yes, in the USA

sketch of the two pterosaurs observed by Eskin Kuhn in Cuba

Eyewitness Accounts of Modern Pterosaurs in the Southern States

By the living-pterosaur expert Jonathan Whitcomb (author of books on extant pterosaurs)

UPDATE: To encourage practices of internet security and to support those online sites that are safe, this post on encounters with non-extinct pterosaurs has been updated with “https” in the URL’s of its links.

The online Living Pterosaurs proclamation gives the following American states in the South, among many U.S. states, as places where eyewitnesses have seen apparent non-extinct “pterodactyls,” by whatever name those persons used for the flying creatures (sometimes using the word “dragon”):

  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • Oklahoma
  • South Carolina
  • Texas
  • Virginia

Pterosaur Sighting in Raleigh, North Carolina

I received the following email in February of 2014. It’s edited here for standard English (“b4” in the original means “before”), with a small part of it being deleted. The eyewitness reported two sightings: in 2003 and in 2007.

I have been telling this . . . to my family for the past 10 years. I was coming from work, walking down Cross Link Road, going towards Garner Road, and I saw this huge (what I thought was a) bird, but it was not any bird I had seen before. I stopped walking and watched it until I couldn’t see it anymore. Cars where just driving by; nobody even noticed (2003).

In 2007, I was on Bragg Street and I heard the trees ruffle and that same thing flew from one side of the street to the other. It was beside the bike trail before you get to Central Women’s Prison. I knew I wasn’t crazy: This time a guy at the other end looking towards me saw it [at] the same time. We just stared and both said, “Did you see that?” GOD as my witness, I saw this. . . .

It didn’t flap its wings like a bird . . . more like back peddle like a bat, then it soars out and repeats to get more speed. I hope one day someone gets more info. I wish I had my cell with a good camera then. Thanks for your time.

lovely old mansion in North Carolina

Governor’s Mansion in Raleigh, North Carolina (photo in public domain)

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Pterosaur Sighting in Edmond, Oklahoma

In June of 2014, I got the following two emails:

I believe I saw a pterosaur last night in Edmond, Oklahoma, just north of OKC. . . . Today I was trying to look up other recent sightings and was shocked to see that two other people have seen something similar in my state.

. . . my friend that was with me immediately said “Is that a dragon!?” It had a long tail, pointed wings straight to the side, short head. I thought it was a giant bat, but it would have to be the largest bat in the world. I didn’t want to report it as I didn’t think it would matter. But seeing that others have had recent sightings in Oklahoma, I felt obligated to do so.

The sighting was almost close to 9 pm, right before sunset. It was dark but not too dark and I got a really good look at it because it flew right over the car and I was able to see the exact shape of the creature from underneath. It was out in the country, I live in a very rural area.

We were driving and I was the one who saw fly out of the tree and instantly I could tell something was different because of the way it flew. It is hard to describe, all I can say is it flew very “majestic” like, almost like a dragon. Slow wings.

Notice that both sighting reports mention the word bat. That can shoot down a misidentified-bird conjecture.

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Living Pterosaurs in Louisiana

Last night, I got a phone call from a Ryan Causey, who had a sighting in 1994 in southern Louisiana. The flying creature was seen late at night as it flew over the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway bridge . . .

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Pterosaurs sightings in Oklahoma and in West Virginia

This happened to me about an hour ago. My dad, my baby sister, and I were outside in the hot tub. . . . giant winged creature flying across the sky . . .

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Books on Living Pterosaurs

Brief reviews of five nonfiction books about these wonderful flying creatures

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LDS Books

  • Ender’s Game
  • Searching for Ropens and Finding God
  • Common Sense (by Glenn Beck)

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Nonfiction books for LDS

Fear not the light of unfamiliar hue
Washing sand at first
Then penetrating the depths
It bids a hidden feast emerge at last

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Pterosaur sighting in Bethany, Oklahoma

. . . on two occasions have seen a huge winged creature that had no feathers, gray leathery skin. It looked like the pictures I have seen of pteradactyls.

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Pterosaur Sighting in Raleigh, North Carolina

I was going over a report of a pterosaur sighting in North Carolina and noticed similarities with Susan Wooten’s sighting in South Carolina.

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Pterosaur or a giant bat?

Sometimes an eyewitness will say “giant bat.” We need not assume the flying creature was literally a bat. In Western cultures, the idea of universal pterosaur extinction is so deeply ingrained that eyewitnesses find it difficult to use that word [pterosaur], for it makes them feel unbelievable.

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