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Pterosaur Extinction or Still Living?

Perhaps the best evidence (against generations of indoctrination into universal extinctions of all species of pterosaurs) is the accumulation of credible eyewitness accounts of living pterosaurs. Consider some of these pages and posts:

Pterosaur Eyewitnesses on Umboi Island

Gideon Koro related how he was terrified at the sight of the giant ropen that flew over Lake Pung (around 1994). He and his friends were only children when they had climbed up to the crater lake on Siassi (Umboi) Island.

Three American explorers; Jonathan Whitcomb, Garth Guessman, and David Woetzel; interviewed Jonah Jim regarding his ropen sighting. He saw more than the glow: He saw the pterosaur-shape and long tail.

This is a page of the Pterosaurs Still Living site. Also mentioned are sightings by a government official, David Woetzel, Leonard of Opai Village, and David Moke (a local clan leader and also from Opai). Most of those sightings are of the flying ropen light, but Gideon Koro’s is an exception: a clear view of a giant ropen in daylight.

Pterosaurs in Kansas and Arkansas

“My friend and I were talking and I mentioned that I had seen an extremely large bird that resembled a pterodactyl some years ago . . . I could not believe my eyes as I immediately thought of a prehistoric bird when I saw it. . . . a wing-span of 16-20 feet.”

“It was probably 1982 when me and my older brother were sitting in our carport [in Texarkana, Arkansas] It was getting dark but there was plenty of light in the sky when we saw what we believe to be a pterodactyle [pterosaur]. The wingspan seemed to be about 25’ to 30’ ft wide. . . . an awesome sight to see.”

Leaving sighting details, and examining non-extinction directly:

Pterosaur Extinction Indoctrination

How has anyone now living come to the conclusion that all species of pterosaurs became extinct? From a scientific test? No. From a mathematical formula? No. From a set of statistics? No. From early childhood, Americans and citizens of other Western countries are indoctrinated into universal extinctions of certain general types of animals, dinosaurs and pterosaurs especially. It has become a deeply ingrained assumption of our cultures.

Mesozoic Objection, Pterosaurs, and non-Extinction

Many living-pterosaur critics make the same oversight as Darren Naish, for this typical response appears, on the surface, to be scientific: “No pterosaur fossil has been found above the Mesozoic.” The problem lies in the unstated assumption that fossils can be used to determine what kinds of organisms can be presently living. Whatever strengths and weaknesses may lie in layers of reasoning in the world of standard-model geology, that geology was never constructed to explain what organisms can or cannot live presently.

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Eyewitness Gideon Koro

Eyewitness Gideon Koro of Umboi Island, Papua New GuineaWhen I began interviewing Gideon Koro, I was still assuming that at least “ten or twenty” ropens live on Umboi Island. I came to explore the island to videotape at least one of the apparent-pterosaurs, but here I was, videotaping an eyewitness (Whitcomb-Kenda 2004 expedition). When my questioning got to the number of ropens that he and his six friends had seen years ago, Gideon surprised me, staring at me as if I were very ignorant: They had seen only one ropen. I resumed questioning; I’d have to figure out that puzzle later.

When I got to the tail-length of the ropen, Gideon said, “sefan meetuh.” “Seven meters?” I asked. “Yea.” Only later did I tie this length-estimate to the puzzle of the “ten or twenty” comment in an interview many years earlier. That first interview with Gideon (around 1994) involved a question about the size of the creature. When the two interviewers looked away at a nearby house (to get an idea of ropen-size), Gideon said something about “ten or twenty.” The interviewers thought that he meant the numbers of creatures. He must, however, have still been talking about size, for fifteen meters (the medium of ten and twenty) is roughly similar to the length of a ropen that has a tail length of seven meters.