. Yet a pictograph found high on a cliff face near Thompson, Utah seems to show just that. Pterodactyl with a Pee said: . In the late 1980s, noted cryptozoologist Roy Mackal led an expedition into Namibia from which he had heard reports of a prehistoric-looking creature with a wingspan of up to 30 feet. Take it in context: forty-one reported encounters in California. It had small things in the middle of the wings that could have been claws, according to the eyewitness, who reported the sighting on a musicians forum within hours of the encounter. Someone else had to see. . ThatsdumbDoit 2 yr. ago. Experts now say that it was a ropen. . ), Chapter 2: Sightings of Pterosaurs in California. . . Lake Isabella in California pterodactyl or ropen sighting near here. I slowed down and asI was looking the birds suddenly BURST from one of the trees! With wingspans reaching nearly 40 feet, pterosaurs ruled the prehistoric skies for over 100 million years, until they died out with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. . from the west came this dark object in the sky. Special effects or the return of a Pterosaur? the freeway. One of the best known living-pterosaur (LP) sightings by a car driver was in South Carolina. It was right over us [90-120 feet high] . It was featherless; its head had a crest that slanted backwards and a very elongated head, very creepy. Some of the publications listed are these: On the verge of the most astonishing discovery in the history of biology . The second one was led by David Woetzel and Garth Guessman, with Jacob Kepas interpreting. There was traffic and we were all going about 30 mph. Workmen were digging through Jurassic-era limestone for a railway tunnel between the St.-Dizier and Nancy lines. Giant Pterodactyl in California You deserve to know the truth about these accounts of sightings of gigantic living pterosaurs. 41 reported sightings of living pterosaurs in California. . The popular, textbook declaration that all species became extinct millions, of years ago, universal pterosaur extinctionthat concept, itself is approaching extinction. Jonathan Whitcomb. eyewitness JC): Subject: Pterodactyl Sighting In Irving TX "I was on my way to school this morning and I saw a very large flying creature above a nearby woodsy [area]. The pterodactyl was as long as a bus, as it flew up into the mountains above Altadena. Ive been investigating sightings of these flying creatures for sixteen years now, reported encounters with apparent living pterosaurs. Here are a few details: New dinosaur book for LDS and other faiths. . It flew right in front of my car seemingly almost fell out of the trees trying to gather wind under its huge wings. In both cases, the "dragon" (or "pterodactyl") was near a storm channel. 13. two dragons. I was fishing on the western side near the South fork. . My new nonfiction is for middle-grade children and many (but not all) teenagers: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. Lets now pause to take all this in context. The eyewitness said, As to there being any lights or luminescencethe grayish colored areas of my sketches was a dull grayish brown (Brackish) color that could easily be seen with the naked eye against the night sky. 3. The landscape photograph on the cover shows the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine, California, near where a pterosaur (ropen) was reported flying in 2007 Patty Carson saw the strange flying creature at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba around 1965 and sketched it more recently. Apparently this is a genuine photo of a modern pterosaur, what some call the Civil War pterodactyl photo, although it was actually recorded AFTER the American Civil War. Looking ahead and up a hill,I saw a flock of crows cross the road, from right to left, followed byyep, you guessed it. . . Not until January of 2018, apparently, did newspapers like The News and Observer or the news outlet Charlotte Stories report sightings of apparent flying dinosaurs in North Carolina and specifically in Raleigh. Americans led two expeditions on Umboi Island in 2004. Eyewitnesses from around the world testify of the featherless flying creatures that they have observed, unlike any bat and obviously not any bird. I drew level to the place they crossed . Pterosaur or Pterodactyl Sightings By Jonathan Whitcomb Featherless flying reptiles appear to live across the globe, shocking and sometimes frightening eyewitnesses of these apparent modern pterosaurs. A limited species of pterosaurs still live in this wonderful world of life, but human nature in Western cultures has remained mainly the same for a long time. . FRESNO, July 31. At least two pterosaur species, (quite uncommon, mostly nocturnal) still live in North America. You deserve to know the truth about these accounts of sightings of gigantic living pterosaurs. The huge flying creature, seen by a couple taking a walk, was about a mile from the storm channel that leads to Hansen Dam in the San Fernando Valley. Two sightings of a "dragon" were in Lakewood, California, and another eyewitness reported three dragons flying together over the I-5 freeway just east of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. This book shows courage to continue the search. Well start with two Youtube videos on the channel Protect Animal Life (PAL) and then get into two emails. But after publishing many web pages about living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea, I received emails and phone calls from eyewitnesses: sightings in California, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland-Virginia border, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Washington State. This will be the fourth edition of Live Pterosaurs in America, to be published first in ebook format. Here are some more modern accounts: While other reports of pterosaur-like creatures have come out of Arizona, Mexico and Crete, it is out of central Africa that some of the most interesting anecdotes have come. . This story was even featured in the Australian People Magazine and theorizes that pterodactyls inhabit the still-mysterious Amazon Rainforest. The video is titled A confession about a pterodactyl and gives my account of an ironic twist in my life: from a severe skeptic to a firm believer in modern pterosaurs. I know that some skeptics may not accept the following estimates, yet I disclose them now with confidence that theyre not very far off. it didnt look like a bird . ### . Non-fiction cryptozoology book by Jonathan David Whitcomb, sightings of apparent pterosaurs in California, By Jonathan Whitcomb, investigative journalist. The men who live along the swales and sand hollows east and southeast of Selma on the evening of July 13th heard strange sounds in the air just after dark, like the rushing of wings when some large bird passes swiftly through the air overhead. Car Accidents Related to Pterosaur Sightings. Jonathan David Whitcomb, a forensic videographer, interviewed Hodgkinson, in 2004, and found his testimony credible [the sighting itself was in New Guinea in 1944]. . In this video of the PAL channel (Protect Animal Life) get the testimony of the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson and two natives in Papua New Guinea. \"Worldwide Ropens - Pterodactyls Almost Everywhere\" https://youtu.be/ghhICIhjW44(length = 4:28)A number of eyewitnesses are mentioned, including Duane Hodgkinson, Candace Worman, and Jonathan ArcherDescription:The large nocturnal long-tailed featherless flying creature called \"ropen\"that apparent pterodactyl is observed worldwide, in many nations of the earth. The total number of clear sightings of modern pterosaurs, during the 20th century, appears to be at least in the hundreds of thousands . Cryptozoologists who specialize in investigating eyewitness reports of pterodactys, generally refer to all modern long-tailed pterosaurs with the name ropen.. . . . Lets consider what the eyewitnesses say,in their ownwords. it looked like a huge bird, it was gliding in the air . a 38-year-old woman saw what she at first called a dragon pteradactal. The featherless winged creature was sitting on a telephone cable above her backyard, on June 19, 2012 . Living on the West Coast, he had opportunity to investigate . Living pterosaurs or misidentified birds? The Plesiosauria (/ p l i s i s r i ,-z i-/; Greek: , plesios, meaning "near to" and sauros, meaning "lizard") or Plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period, possibly in the Rhaetian stage, about 203 million years ago. The pterosaur is very real . . Pterodactyl with a Pee, Feb 26, 2023 at 7:26 PM #66562. Yet these featherless flying creatures have been encountered in other areas of the United States, including California. . [from the book Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition], "Live Pterosaurs in America" takes you across the United States, with eyewitnesses who describe the amazing encounters they have had with living pterosaurs. Most of us only know it as a a large flying animal that lived long ago when dinosaurs were alive. . Despite their appearance, they were not related to birds and were highly successful flyers that might have dined on fish and insects. Sighting in California, S.F. Music video: living pterosaurs in California. . For eyewitnesses of apparent living pterosaurs, The following are some of the *more-recently received sighting reports of modern pterosaurs in the USA. What Happened at Lake Elizabeth, California? In that same general area, about two years later, Susan Wooten witnessed a huge flying creature: "as big as any car and had NO feathers." when he saw me he jumped off the telephone wires and when he opened his huge wings they sounded like heavy fabric . I also assumed that the few reports that I had readapparent pterosaurs in some of the 48 Stateswere of a few stragglers from Central America. The animals are also called "pterodactyls" or even "flying dinosaurs" or "dinosaur birds". There have been many modern-day sightings of creatures that by eyewitness description sound like pterosaurs, or pterodactyl sightings. . 5. small creatures, generally resembling small male humans who appear when people open doors without knocking, causing hallucinations of various acts to appear in the victims head. Reports of Living Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific gives you a better look at the ropen of Papua New Guinea. The natives, who were occasionally tormented by these creatures, described them as being featherless with smooth skin, having a beak full of teeth and a wingspan of between four and seven feet. Around 4 p.m. They each had a distinct neck between body and head, that was more narrow and clearly visible. Hasbro Lines - Main Lines - Collector Lines - Movie LInes; Takara Lines - Main Lines - Collector Lines; 3rd Party; Comics. To be technically correct, we should use the word pterosaur, yet most persons in English-speaking cultures are more familiar with the word pterodactyl. Lets begin with a list of some of the benefits available to young readers, for this is for kids and teenagers: To the best of my knowledge, this is the first nonfiction book ever published (on this subject) which was written for children and teenagers. . Theres been wide skepticism about authenticity of the picture, but as explained below, the photograph is real, although the object/creature seen in it is not known well. Long live modern pterosaurs! There have been a number of alleged pterosaur sightings around the world. 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. Take that in context: Over the past thirteen years, Ive looked at hundreds of eyewitness sighting reports of possible living pterosaurs. . I will not allow his encounter to evaporate from the memory of cryptozoology enthusiasts. It reveals the 19th Century photograph is authentic one, and the animal/object is real. She had driven less than ten miles, just leaving an area of pasture, entering an area of thick woods, around a mild downhill curve, with high banks and brush on each side of the road, when an animal suddenly flew from the right, just over the front of her car., Belief in Modern Pterosaurs Reply to a Critic. 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.. News releases on pterodactyls Published in October of 2014, Searching for Ropens and Finding God will take you around the world, with those who have risked life, health, and reputation, as they have looked for living pterosaurs. 4. . . Not one of those sightings was very far from a storm channel or stream bed. The body of the creature was taken to the nearby town of Gray, according to the story, where it was identified as a pterodactyl by a student of paleontology. Over the past eighteen years, many press releases have been published about encounters that people have have with apparent living pterosaurs. Sometimes an eyewitness will remain quiet about seeing a live pterodactyl until he or she learns that a friend or member of the family has also seen such a flying creature. I was fishing for crappie April, 2020, at Lake Isabella an hour above Bakersfield Calif. . 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