More Pterosaurs in Utah

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On August 13, 2015, I received an email from an eyewitness living South of Provo, Utah. It confirms earlier reports of apparent pterosaurs in Utah, especially nocturnal flying creatures that are very large. Here is part of what the new eyewitness reported to me:

Well, last night I was outside in my backyard in Spanish Fork, UT, we were watching the Perseid meteor shower. I brought out a very bright focused beam flashlight to point at stars and satellites for my buddies that were out there with me. After a few minutes, I saw these “birds” . . .

There were two or three circling around. I shined the flashlight on them and saw what was unmistakably the shape of bat wings. I know in Utah we don’t have bats that big . . . The largest bat in Utah supposedly has a 17″ [inch] wingspan. This flying animal was undoubtedly 7-10 foot wingspan.

My two friends that were out there with me confirmed the same thing. They said it had bat shape wings and that it looked huge. It was hard to judge the actual size with a backdrop of the night sky, but it looked to be flying 150-200′ overhead [150 to 200 feet high].

The beam of my flashlight barely illuminated it, but it was enough to see a greyish brown flying animal that looked similar to a bat. Very concerning. We found your site after researching it and we believe we’ve sighted a Pterosaur!

More About the August 12th Sighting in Spanish Fork

The flashlight used by the eyewitness was a Streamlight Stinger DS LED, and it has a 310-meter beam distance, at the highest setting, with a rating of “350 lumens; 24,000 candela peak beam intensity.” I believe that explains why the flying creatures (possible ropens) were seen overhead, for they came within minutes or so of when the beam was first pointed up into the sky that night. They may have been attracted to the light.

It was not the first time that this particular eyewitness had encountered those flying creatures. On August 8, 2015, in Salem, Utah, (just south of Spanish Fork) he saw something similar, during a large commercial fireworks display, about a quarter of a mile from where the possible-ropens were seen. Both sightings were at about 10:30 p.m.

At the first sighting, the man did not appreciate what he had seen and dismissed it. During the second sighting (four days later), he saw more, for he had the use of the high-powered flashlight.

The eyewitness also reported to me the following, concerning the second sighting:

The wings had the characteristics of bones, how you can see the skeletal structure and skin stretched in between. It looked a lot like a bat, but there is no doubt in my mind that it was MASSIVE. I’ve never seen a flying creature that big in Utah before.

He did not notice the presence or absence of a tail, which is common with sightings at night. He also told me the following about the possibility of bioluminescence:

I’ll admit, I learned about the apparent bio luminescence after the sighting by reading on your site and others, but now that I know that, it makes total sense why they looked ghostly . . .

Comparison With the Grantsville, Utah, Sighting

Two eyewitnesses of the night-time sighting in Grantsville, UT, years ago, saw more clearly that the huge flying creature had something like bioluminescence, a glow that the animal appeared to turn off and on. The farm animals became very alarmed at the appearance of that very large flying creature.

Like the sighting in Spanish Fork, there were multiple eyewitnesses.

Ropen Bioluminescence

The following is from the fourth edition of my nonfiction cryptozoology book Searching for Ropens and Finding God (Chapter 22: Fly by the Light):

Do all nocturnal pterosaurs glow like the ropen of Papua New Guinea? Not necessarily. Do all bioluminescent pterosaurs glow for less than seven seconds at a time? Not according to some witnesses of the indava.

We could have a number of species of large glowing flying creatures in this world, some of which are modern pterosaurs, including ropens. The eyewitness in southeast Texas has probably seen a species of ropen, for I have not yet found anything suggesting any bat has bioluminescence, and many daylight sightings in the southern USA convince me we have ropens.

Report Your Sighting

Please CONTACT me, if you have seen something similar, in Utah or anywhere else. Thank you.

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Religion and Belief in Modern Pterosaurs

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Pterosaur Sightings Reported in Utah

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Ropen Pterosaur

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Long-tailed Ropen

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Big Flying Creature in Utah

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Bioluminescent Ropen

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Pterosaur Sighting Data for the United States

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An Apparent Modern Pterosaur

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Nocturnal Ropen

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