Around 1983: "The creature was leathery and had a 'long snake-like tail that terminated in a sort of flange or sail.'" In 1976: ". . . three school teachers saw a pterosaur-like creature that they designated a 'pterodactyl.' . . . wingspan of 15-20 feet."

 

Pterosaur in California

" . . . at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, the man saw something that he later connected with the ropen of Papua New Guinea: a long-tailed pterosaur-like creature. The wrinkles on the underside of the wings indicated no feathers. The total length of the creature was about 30 feet and about half of that was the tail length."

 

Early in 2008, I was shocked by the death of the cryptozoologist Scott Norman. On learning of his living-pterosaur sighting (he saw one just months before his natural death), I was again shocked. . . . [pterosaur] in the Western United States.

 

 

 

" . . . as big as any car, and had NO feathers . . . . it swooped down over the highway and back up gracefully over the pines. . . . some cars in the opposite lane pulled over after the pterosaur-like creature flew over the highway. Susan wanted to pull over to talk with them but she would have been separated from her friend who kept on driving.  . . . The pterosaur was “gliding” but it flapped its wings slowly once or twice. The wingspan was about twelve to twenty feet."