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May 6, 2019May 6, 2019

Video: Pterosaur Sightings in California

beginning of the Youtube video on pterosaur sightings - map of California

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

The following is a paranormal-educational music video: “Giant Pterodactyl in California” (uploaded to Youtube on May 4, 2019]

Sightings of huge living pterosaurs in California

Please share the above link with family, friends, relatives, and anyone who might enjoy a different kind of music video.

Most of the encounters were in Southern California, and in almost all of them the eyewitness contacted me directly. In other words, this is not a cheap shock video with anecdotes or fake video clips; it’s a serious mini-documentary (only about four minutes long) in music-video format (no voice-over narration).

It briefly covers seven encounters with some of the largest flying creatures reported in California. Take that in context: I’ve received dozens of credible eyewitness sighting reports from the Golden State, over the past 15 years.

Most of the seven sightings were in Southern California, with one in Fairfield (northeast of San Francisco) and one in Central California (by the late cryptozoologist Scott Norman).

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“Giant Pterodactyl in California”

Today I uploaded a four-minute music video to Youtube, a mini-documentary on seven sightings of these flying creatures in California.

Dragon Pterosaurs in Southern California

For at least the second time in the past nine months, somebody has reported a flying “dragon” in Los Angeles County. I don’t know that they are the same species, but a few similarities deserve attention here . . .

“Dragon-pterodactyl” in Los Angeles County

Neither the man nor his wife had any previous interest in cryptozoology, not in the slightest. Nothing in the lady’s discussions gave me any sign of any mental health problem or over-active imagination.

Pterosaur sightings in California

30 feet long, with 15-16 feet of that being a tail. He saw the creature fly “at low altitude,” in front of his car, over the road (Campus Drive), into the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, in daylight. [Irvine, Orange County, California]

March 30, 2019March 30, 2019

Youtube Video “The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur” (a mini-documentary)

the late Patty Carson - "We will always remember you" Patty Carson

By the LP cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb

Let’s begin with the good news: I uploaded a new video to Youtube yesterday, about the sighting at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in about the year 1965, and about how it relates to other sightings. In my opinion, this is the best mini-documentary ever produced on the subject of modern living pterosaurs, at least as an introduction to the encounters people have had with these shocking flying creatures and how a number of sightings relate to Patty Carson’s observation of the “dinosaur” seen in 1965. Take my opinion in context, however: I am the producer and director and narrator for this video, which I titled “The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur.”

Now for the bad news: A few days ago I learned that my friend Patty Carson had passed away. I was not expecting that; I am her senior by many years. Hearing that bad news inspired me to set aside plans for another Youtube production and focus on Patty and on her sighting. It took more than two weeks of hard work to complete the 16-minute video, but I wanted it to have both the quality and length that would honor Patty.

Some persons might wonder how sixteen minutes could be an honorable length for a documentary. Take it in context: On Youtube, a typical video that gets many thousands, or millions, of views is often one of the following:

Very short but extremely shocking or extremely funny or extremely . . .
Between five and fifteen minutes long

Neither of the above two, however, generally have high production values that we take for granted in television and film productions, usually nothing remotely close to that. “The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur” does not have that high of a standard but it’s a lot closer than a typical popular Youtube video, and it is longer than many of them.

I acknowledge the exceptional qualities in some Youtube videos, but those are the exceptions.

From near the beginning of the video (from a family photo)

“The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur” shows how Patty Carson’s sighting in 1965 relates to encounters with strange flying creatures in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the United States.

Please view this video and feel free to make comments on that page on Youtube.

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An introduction to living pterosaurs

This Youtube video, published in 2015, is almost 13 minutes long.

Book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur

This is the official home page for the nonfiction cryptozoology book for older kids and younger teens. It should soon be updated to include information on the Youtube video of that same name.

Pterosaur sightings in Cuba

Eskin Kuhn and Patty Carson are given much attention, yet more eyewitnesses are mentioned [in the non-fiction book], including three siblings of Carson.

Pterodactyl seen by Patty Carson

Shows the sketch drawn by this eyewitness

Pterosaur sightings in the United States

Over the past 15 years, I’ve seen hundreds of reports of non-extinct pterosaurs, often called “pterodactyls.” Most of those have been direct contact with eyewitnesses, often emails that they send me. The great majority of those have been from ordinary Americans who have seen extraordinary flying creatures.

Sighting of a flying creature in Australia

This includes the Perth pterosaur sighting of 1997, among a variety of encounters in Australia.

December 20, 2018

Modern Pterosaurs in Arkansas

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

Report a Sighting

If you have seen any flying creature that brings to mind one or more of the following words or phrases, please contact me. Also feel free to get in touch with me if you know of any friend or relative or neighbor who may have seen such an animal. This applies whether or not the sighting was in Arkansas. Thank you.

Pterodactyl
Flying dinosaur
pterosaur
Dinosaur bird
Dragon
Prehistoric bird

Sighting of a Modern Pterosaur in Sherwood, Arkansas

I got the first email from this eyewitness on November 12, 2018. I asked permission for publishing the person’s name and received it: Chancey Carter:

I saw what looked to be a flying dinosaur this morning. It flew above my vehicle and I was too late to take a picture. It had long wings and a long neck. I was in Sherwood, Arkansas when I saw this creature.

My Reply:

Thank you very much for telling me about this. About what time was it? Thanks. Jonathan Whitcomb

Second email from Chancey Carter:

It was right around 7:15 am, it’s raining and cold here so the sun is not out.

My Reply:

Thank you. I just want to be sure that I understand. Was your sighting this morning, Monday, Nov 12th?

Third email:

Yes . . .

My Reply:

Thank you. I see Sherwood on a map now. Is it just a few miles from Little Rock? In what area of Sherwood was the sighting?

Fourth email from Chancey:

It’s a few miles from Little Rock, Arkansas. It flew from the direction of Sherwood police department. If you could find that on the map, it flew towards a wooded area with . . . trees. I wish I could’ve caught a picture but I was so shocked to see something I [had never seen before].

Another Sighting in Arkansas, Early in 2018

Earlier in the same year, I got an email from an eyewitness who told me about a sighting a few weeks earlier. James Smith and his mother Melba Smith saw a “pterodactyl” in Camden, Arkansas, at 11:45 a.m. (It was overcast that day.)

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Dinosaur Book for Children and Teens

Why would the new book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur be the best Christmas or birthday gift for many kids and teenagers? It invites them into a new world of adventure in cryptozoology: true stories of encounters with modern living pterosaurs.

Modern pterosaurs and extinction

From fossils, we know that some pterosaurs had wingspans over 20 feet. Should such an animal live near humans, it would be feasible for it to carry off a child or small adult. A report of such an incident may resemble a fable to Westerners, yet natives in a remote jungle see no problem except the danger from that animal.

Pterodactyl in Arkansas

“My father and I saw a huge, featherless bird in Arkansas . . . when I was sixteen . . . We were sitting on big rocks at a cliff about 300 foot above the river when it flew out just under us and we watched it all the way down toward the river till it passed the tree lines. . . .”

Yes, the Ropen is Real

In 1897, an eight year old girl, Virginia O’Hanlon, wrote a letter to the editor of a big newspaper in New York, asking if Santa Claus was real. The response has since become the most famous editorial of all time: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” I now apply that kind of positive journalistic response to what some persons have asked me over the past fifteen years. The question is in this general form: “Did I see a pterosaur?”

Dinosaur book for LDS children and teens

My new nonfiction is for middle-grade children and many (but not all) teenagers: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. This is a short cryptozoology book, not about religion but about eyewitness sightings of apparent living pterosaurs. It invites you to seek the truth behind what people around the world report observing. . . . my new book . . . really is for English-speaking people of all faiths.

Flying-dinosaur adventure book

I wrote the nonfiction book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur for several purposes. As a gift giver for a child or teenager, you need to know what benefits it can give to the young reader. I recommend it for readers between about the ages of eight and fourteen; for some ten-year-olds (and eleven and twelve) it will be exceptionally delightful: easy to understand yet stimulating.

Cryptozoology book for children and teenagers

It’s about eyewitness testimonies about strange flying creatures that appeared unlike any bird or bat. The scientifically correct name for what some people call a “dinosaur bird” or a “flying dinosaur” is pterosaur. Please now consider how a young reader may be better off because of reading this short book (for readers about 8-14 years old).

[This is about the book “The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur.”]

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A new nonfiction book for children and teenagers:

Nonfiction book for young readers: Non-extinct ‘dinosaurs’

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018

Ropen-Rhamphorhynchoid in Minnesota

living pterosaur with many small teeth - a sketch by Patty Carson

By non-fiction cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb

I got an email this week from an eyewitness who had first contacted me in 2011. She confirmed the sighting that she and two others had near some cedar swamps in northern Minnesota.

Before quoting from the recent report, I give the following points from her earlier email:

The skin was a reddish brown color.
The animal had no feathers.
It had a head crest (no further details on that).
Many teeth could be seen in its mouth.
The tail was long.
The end of the tail had a structure: “spade shaped.”
It may have had three toes.

That sounds to me like it was a ropen, a modern Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur. I include in this post a sketch drawn by Patty Carson, whose sighting was in Cuba in 1965, because similar sightings in North America are probably at least related to that one, even if not all the animals are the same species.

The end of the first email ended with this: “I’ve learned not to tell anyone because they just laugh and think i’m crazy.”

Here’s the recent email from the eyewitness:

Three of us seen it. It was just turning light and it was gliding over a two lane road in front of the truck headed for a swampy area in Minnesota. We went on driving for a while until I asked the others what that was. My son said ‘I don’t know but if we tell anyone they’ll think we are crazy.’ I remember seeing it as if it were yesterday. I won’t go out into the woods anymore. The teeth were all sharp, yes that’s how close we were. It had a spade tail as long as its body and a crest on its head with wings like a bat. Its color was reddish brown.

In the earlier email, she made it clear that the “spade shaped thing” was at the end of the tail.

Sketch drawn by a different eyewitness (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba)

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Pterosaur sighting in southern Minnesota

I don’t want to sound crazy, and I know you will keep an open mind about it, but it still seems crazy after 20 years. . . . In 1995 I had a very close encounter with something similar to a Pterosaur in southern Minnesota.

Living-pterosaur book for children and teens

Non-fiction books by an LDS author, including The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur (published late in 2018)

Pterosaur seen by three eyewitnesses in northern Minnesota

It had . . . no feathers, bat like wings, a crest on it’s head, a mouth full of small teeth in the back and larger in the front, all very sharp . . . The tail was long, with a spade shaped thing at the end of it.

What is a Ropen?

I made many comments and recommended online resources (including this blog), and recommended my new book, Searching for Ropens and Finding God. But not everybody wants to read a 343-page book about the adventures of searching for giant living pterosaurs and interviewing countless eyewitnesses. Some persons are only a bit curious: What is a ropen?

‘Dinosaur’ Book for Children and Teens

The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. Like most of my previous books, this one is about eyewitness reports of apparent living pterosaurs, but this new ‘flying-dinosaur’ book is for children and teenagers, especially those about ten to fourteen years old.

A modern Rhamphorhynchoid

It is a strange description, to be sure, that combination of a head crest and a Rhamphorhynchoid-like tail that has a structure at tail-end. It appears almost as strange as a description of a platypus, to someone who knows about mammals and ducks but who has been ignorant of that strange animal that now lives in Australia.