Possible Modern Pterosaur in China

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I recently got a tip from my associate Richard Muirhead, who referred me to a forum post in the Mandarin Chinese language. This Richard Muirhead is the same British cryptozoology researcher who, a few years ago, gave me critical text pages from a book by the British biologist Evelyn Cheesman, who observed flying lights in New Guinea. Thank you Richard!

The online comment is lengthy and entirely in Chinese. Here is part of the eyewitness account:

注意!头上有角,我那时的形容是一只牛角长在了头上。

另外,它有一条尾巴,我说是象猫尾巴一样的,一段黑一段白的,朝上翘着。

关于脚,我记的不太清楚的,貌似是垂在身后的,就像鸟儿在飞的时候那样平行的放在身后吧。

The eyewitness was a child at the time. The flying creature was very big, and it had a horn (or more than one horn) on its head. It also had a tail. It made an impression as a very strange “bird” but there is no indication of any feathers. The eyewitness had no memory of the feet, or no reasonable memory of the feet.

If I understand part of the report correctly, it seems that one of the two children drew a sketch of the flying creature, soon after the sighting, perhaps a drawing or painting on a wall of the house; but that image has been lost. The eyewitness seems to say that the imagination of a child could not have produced that drawing, in the details shown in the image.

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mountains somewhere in China - photo by Lee LeFever

A mountainous area in China (generic photo)

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Of course dragon legends in China go back countless centuries. I’m not the first to suggest those legends are not entirely fictional, that they originate from real living animals, although the artistic representations may be far from accurate. I do suggest that such a large area of Asia should not be devoid of those large featherless flying creatures that are seen in so many other areas of the world. Pterosaurs, whether or not called “dragons,” have no reason to avoid China.

I believe that if most Chinese citizens were proficient in English and spent as much time online as Americans, I would be receiving many emails from Chinese eyewitnesses, ordinary persons who have seen extraordinary flying creatures. As it is, I don’t recall receiving even one email from China during the past ten years of my investigation. Almost no person in China has any knowledge of me, an obscure American in an obscure branch of the obscure field of cryptozoology. But I am delighted to now receive, albeit indirectly, a report from an eyewitness in China. At last!

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Modern Pterosaur or Dragon in China

I just received my first report of a possible modern pterosaur in China. I don’t know Mandarin or any other Chinese language, so struggling with online translation sites has been difficult . . .

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