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Why do Pterodactyls Attack People?

YouTube thumbnail for a modern-pterodactyl video

By Jonathan D. Whitcomb

On December 2, 2023, I uploaded to YouTube a video that now looks like it could become viral or at least attain the rank of “mini-viral”. If you’d like to watch it while remaining on this blog, click below and you’ll remain on this post:

Without the late Brent Sawin interviewing Frank Sicilia, we would not have this important video footage of this eyewitness and his testimony. Thank you to all who made possible this disclosure to the world.

Three cousins were fishing at night in Pennsylvania when they were attacked by a huge flying creature. Frank estimated the wingspan: between twenty and twenty-two feet.

It hovered for a short while before diving down toward them, and those dives numbered at least twelve to fifteen times. One of the fishermen left, and the other two, including Frank, remained with their fishing lines and kept whacking the legs and lower body of the flying creature each time it came down.

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Preschool Girl Attacked in Oklahoma

The eyewitness contacted me and related the terrifying details: When she was a small child, in daylight as she was walking to her house in rural Oklahoma, a huge hairy flying creature, with teeth in its mouth, dived down towards her. Fortunately, she ducked down to the ground just in time and escaped.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in the U.S.A.

It was the summer of 1977 and I was 17 at the time. I was fishing at a gravel pit in Heyworth, IL and the dawn had just [broken]. . . . As I stood there a creature glided down from my right to just above water level directly in front of me, no more than 50′ from where I was. . . .

I realized this was no ordinary bird but appeared more like a featherless reptile.

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Ropen Danger to Children – Big Flying Creature

Is it possible that a ropen with a wingspan of about 16-18 feet could have carried away a two-year-old boy in southern Arizona, in 1945? About 24 hours after his disappearance, he was found alive, sleeping in a dug-out hole in the ground 15 miles from where he went missing.

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Pterodactyls ALIVE in the USA!

Apparent modern living pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls” or “dinosaur birds”, have been seen in North America for centuries, including sightings in the United States of America. The following are the locations covered . . .

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New Pterodactyl Sighting Reports

These two encounters are described here in this video on the “Protect Animal Life” channel. First was a terrifying pterodactyl sighting in Washington state, with Mom and Dad suddenly realizing that their whole family could be in danger. Second was an encounter in Topeka, Kansas, and the wingspan was as wide as the street.

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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States.

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Loss Aversion and Living Pterosaurs

I now write about a cognitive bias, loss aversion, that appears to have had a major influence over a critic of my research. Since I am diving into a potential weakness in this man’s thinking, I do not mention his name.

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Flying Dinosaur in Canada – I saw a Pterodactyl

. . . here is one such account of an encounter with such a flying creature (in part): “I saw something similar to a pterosaur in Maple Ridge, British Columbia Canada. It was approximately 1 a.m., in the summer of either 2013 or 2014. . . . What appeared to be a pterosaur flew past, it was high up in the sky, and I just spotted the GIANT wings”.

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Video About Support for Modern Pterosaurs on YouTube

eyewitness (portrayed) of a modern pterosaur in Arkansas

By Jonathan Whitcomb

Many videos on YouTube are positive about the possibility that not all “pterodactyls” became extinct millions of years ago. On November 24, 2023, a video was uploaded on the YT channel Protect Animal Life, and it directs viewers to six other videos that are on five channels:

Pterodactyl or Flying Dinosaur NOT Extinct

If you would like to watch it on this WordPress platform, click below:

By clicking on the above image, you can stay on this blog (Live Pterosaur) but still watch the video. You’ll even remain here on this post.

The following are the six videos mentioned in the new video (for links to them, see the bottom of this blog, below the “###”):

“Legend or Lie? Tombstone Thunderbird”

This is the least supportive of the concept that one or more species of pterosaurs may still be living. In fact, if you watch only the first two thirds or so of it, you’ll miss the surprise near the end: Although the newspaper article in The Tombstone Epitaph may have a number of falsehoods, it may be based upon an actual event with two ranchers who tried following a large flying creature before their horses refused follow it.

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eyewitness (portrayed) of a modern pterosaur in Arkansas

Ropen of Arkansas Reenactment Living Pterosaur Pterodactyl

Jacob Guerra introduces this video, and after providing basic facts about the state of Arkansas he gets into a dramatic presentation of an encounter a lady had with a gigantic flying creature that flew in front of her pickup truck on a small bridge in a rural area.

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Pterosaurs Seen in the United States

Explorers and cryptozoologists Milt Marcy and Peter Beach explain how they witnessed bioluminescent flying creatures at the Yakima River in Washington State and an apparent living pterosaur in Papua New Guinea.

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Ropen or Pterodactyl? American Eyewitness Talks

The American World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson was interviewed, in 2005, by the cryptozoologist Garth Guessman. The resulting video (on the YouTube channel Protect Animal Life) is one of the most popular on YT for supporting the possibility of modern living pterosaurs. The sighting itself was in New Guinea in 1944.

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Jonathan Whitcomb explains the skepticism he had in 1968

Flying Dinosaur or Pterodactyl Sightings

The investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb explains how he can understand the perspective of a typical skeptic: In about 1968, he was a skeptic himself, although he now firmly believes in modern pterosaurs. His sister, who was in high school at the time, had a friend who declared that she had seen a gigantic “pterodactyl” that flew up into the foothills just north of Altadena, California.

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Pterodactyl or Ropen on Camera on Flying Dinosaur

Cynthia Lee, in Raleigh, North Carolina, recorded with her cell phone camera two large ropens. Those flying creatures were close enough that she was able to record both of them while the city bus she was on began to pull away. The apparent pterosaur that was flying much lower was being chased by a bird.

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Pterosaurs Seen in the United States

This YouTube video is on the channel Dino Discovery. Milt Marcy and Peter Beach are interviewed concerning their pterosaur sightings and investigation into these flying creatures in the United States and in Papua New Guinea.

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Ropen or Pterodactyl? American Eyewitness Talks

In this YouTube video, the flight instructor Duane Hodgkinson reveals what he and his army buddy saw in 1944 in the southwest Pacific: a “HUGE” “pterodactyl” that flew overhead, just west of Finschhafen. The YouTube channel is titled “Jonathan Whitcomb”.

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Pterodactyl or Ropen on Camera on Flying Dinosaur

This is one of many videos on Whitcomb’s YouTube channel “Protect Animal Life”. It mostly covers two “pterodactyl” sightings in the United States. One of those encounters was in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Flying Dinosaur or Pterodactyl Sightings

This is also on the “PAL” channel (Protect Animal Life): Jonathan Whitcomb’s confession that he disbelieved a sighting report when he was young (in about 1968). The encounter was in Altadena, California, a little north of Pasadena.

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Legend or Lie? Tombstone Thunderbird

This YouTube video leaves a crack in the door for believing that an apparent pterosaur flew near Tombstone, Arizona, in the late 19th century. “KGUN9” is the name of the YouTube channel (Whitcomb is not connected with it).

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Ropen of Arkansas Reenactment Living Pterosaur Pterodactyl

The main point in this YouTube video is the sighting of a huge pterosaur that flew over a small bridge in rural Arkansas years ago. The YT channel is THE ROPEN NETWORK (not owned or controlled by Jonathan Whitcomb).

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Respecting Eyewitness Testimony

Another still image from the video "Why You Are NOT Crazy" on the channel "Protect Animal Life"

By Jonathan Whitcomb

How strange is this title for a video: “Why You Are NOT Crazy“! At only two and a half minutes long, it pleads for people to keep an open mind about those who declare that they have seen an apparent primitive flying creature.

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Still from the YouTube video "Why You Are NOT Crazy"

Here is the first paragraph of the narration:

No Problem! You are NOT crazy to believe someone who reports seeing a living pterodactyl — Many thousands of Americans have seen something that at least LOOKS like a non-extinct pterosaur, during the past 79 years, if we begin with a sighting by the late Duane Hodgkinson, during World War II.

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Another still image from the video "Why You Are NOT Crazy" on the channel "Protect Animal Life"

From this video on the YouTube channel Protect Animal Life

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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States.

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Loss Aversion and Living Pterosaurs

Two decades ago, a man started writing a web page criticizing the idea that not all species of pterosaurs are extinct. He often added to that page and mentioned my name many times. He expanded it so often, over the years, that the word count, as of earlier this week, was 40,676. How gigantic at 40 thousand words on that one online post! And how unique, mentioning my name (“Whitcomb”) 493 times!

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Youtube Videos on Living-Pterosaurs

As we approach the 15-year anniversary of my ropen expedition on Umboi Island, I’ll share my views on some Youtube videos and playlists: about these amazing flying creatures. You choose which ones to watch.

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Newly-Acquired Reports of Pterodactyl Sightings in the United States

The following are some of the *more-recently received sighting reports of modern pterosaurs in the USA. We’ll start with two Youtube videos on the channel Protect Animal Life (PAL) and then get into two emails. At least one report seems to have been about a ropen. (*The encounters themselves may be older.)

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Pterodactyl “Civil War” Photo

Rectangular belt buckles were not, apparently, worn by common Union soldiers during the American Civil War, as I understand. Is this just a rare exception shown in this Ptp image? Look at other men in Ptp:

Apparently not one of the six men has a rank even as high as a sergeant, and not one of them seems to have an oval belt buckle, which has been called the standard buckle shape for common Union soldiers during the American Civil War. So what are we to conclude? [They were very likely photographed shortly AFTER the end of the American Civil War.]

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The Ropen and an Alligator Story

ropen sketch over the Continental USA map

By Jonathan Whitcomb

The following comment I found under one of my videos on my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life. (This comment is edited for correct English.) I’ll include a bit about the video and a link to it at the bottom of the comment.  For a recent video on this subject, see “Ropen or Alligator Belief“.

From nix-cipher (about mid-2021):

The video above this comment is “Pterodactyls Living — Deceased Eyewitnesses“, although it is not close to being one my better videos. Feel free to go there and reply to that comment.

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Missing Persons in the United States

The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States.

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Pterodactyl or Ropen on Camera

[Youtube video] How is a sighting of two “pterosaurs” in North Carolina, both caught on camera, related to a sighting of two “pterosaurs” in Minnesota? . . . It’s possible that the four flying creatures are all of the same species, and both encounters were only a few years ago.

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Pterodactyl – ROPEN – Expedition in a Jungle

Much has been written, over the past 19 years, about the first year-2004 ropen expedition on Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea; not so much, however, has been written about the second expedition of that year. [another Youtube video on the channel Protect Animal Life]

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Flying Dinosaurs – Modern Pterodactyls ALIVE!

TWENTY pterodactyl sightings from excerpts of eight videos on the channel “Protect Animal Life”—those shocking encounters from around the world correlate with large flying creatures that can fly great distances around the world.

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Ropen sightings

Encounter, in Georgia, USA, with a Ropen

. . . 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. Although alone, she yelled, ‘What the— what — what is that?’ She was stunned.

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Civil War Dinosaur – Pterodactyl Photo

This ropen-pterodactyl-photo video has far more detail on the photograph itself, MUCH more information about Ptp image and how it very well may be a genuine photo of a modern pterosaur, recorded at around the year 1867.

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Living Pterosasurs and Alligators

Two animals that are called “prehistoric”

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What is a Ropen

After exploring Umboi Island in 2004, Jonathan  Whitcomb (author of Searching for Ropens and Finding God) concluded that there is only one large ropen living continuously in the interior of Umboi Island, but many live on the mainland of Papua New Guinea.

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