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Pterodactyl Photo in a Youtube Video

More credible of the two apparent Civil War photos of a large pterosaur and some soldiers

By Jonathan Whitcomb

In this Youtube video on the “Protect Animal Life” channel, I explain the importance of the Ptp photo, yet I admitted that it is not completely proven that the image shows a modern pterosaur.

Near the beginning of the video, the image is compared with a photo hoax of several Civil War reenactors who helped create a fake photo for the Freakylinks TV show of two decades ago.

comparing two photos of possible modern pterodactyls

Two images which could easily be confused

The photo on the left leaves no room for doubt: Not only is the original fake pterodactyl possessed by the cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, but the original photograph (in color and before any digital processing was used to make it appear old) can be found online. It was created by Freakylinks for their TV show, although it was not used directly in any of their episodes, apparently, but only used on their online promotion for their show.

On the right, however, is the Ptp image, and this shows a number of signs that the original was a true old photo that includes a real modern pterosaur.

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A Reply to an Attack Against the Pterosaur Photograph

According to the physicist who has examined this old photo in detail, Clifford Paiva, the apparent pterosaur has a head that suggests it was a Pteranodon. . . .

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Pterodactyl sightings in North Carolina – Newspaper article

The News & Observer published an article, earlier this week, about a sighting by Cynthia Lee and about my ideas on non-extinct “pterodactyls,” including pterosaur sightings in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Youtube Videos on Pterodactyl Sightings in the United States

Flying dinosaurs in the capital city of North Carolina? ALIVE!? Yes, and many persons in Raleigh have seen these large flying creatures . . .

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The Hobbit and Searching for Ropens

As we approach Hobbit Day, here’s a little fun with comparisons to Searching for Ropens and Finding God.

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Pterodactyl sightings in press releases

Over the past two decades, many online press releases have been published about modern pterodactyls, and some of them are about encounters with large featherless flying creatures in the United States.

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Modern pterosaur sightings in the United States

. . . Eleven sighting reports of ropens, a.k.a. flying dinosaurs, in North Carolina, including Raleigh, Durham, Conover, Wilmington, Guilford County, Kernersville, and Charlotte. [Youtube videos]

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Press Releases on Flying Dinosaurs

We now take a brief look at four press releases about modern pterosaurs, what some people call “pterodactyls” and others call “flying dinosaurs”. They’re seen not only in Papua New Guinea but in the United States.

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Report Pterodactyl Sighting

Whitcomb's nonfiction book "Live Pterosaurs in America"

By Jonathan Whitcomb

I encourage people around the world to report their sightings of apparent living pterosaurs to me or to one of my associates. Why tell someone about your sighting? It helps bring the world closer to officially discovering these amazing flying creatures.

A number of dedicated cryptozoologists and eyewitnesses have made this field their specialty: modern non-extinct pterodactyls, in other words “flying dinosaurs”, although these flying creatures are not really dinosaurs.

The following email form will make it easy for you to contact me:

→   Report Pterodactyl Sighting  

 

You may remain anonymous if you so choose. On the other hand, I will be delighted if you allow your name to be connected to your report. Yet at least until you grant me permission to use your name, your report will be kept in the most secret confidence. If you never choose to allow your name to be revealed then I will continue to keep your name away from the public eye: always secret.

The following is an example of an anonymous reported sighting, given here as only an excerpt of the original email:

Pterosaur Sighting Report Example

[email sent to me in the middle of 2021]

Dear Mr. Whitcomb, I hope you and yours are doing well in these crazy times. Anyway, I just wanted to relate a personal story that happened to me and my husband almost five years ago. Briefly, we had just finished a 10 mile bike ride around the perimeter of Foster City here in California. . . .

. . . this was between 8:15 and 8:30 pm. We were standing with our bikes at the edge of the bay on the path which is about 7-8 feet above the water looking out over towards the east bay. . . .

I looked to our right . . . this large creature . . . I am sure there were two of them flying in close proximity together towards the north just above the surf line. . . . they were maybe 10-15 feet in front of us . . .

It didn’t click with me what I was looking at until I saw the picture of the sketch on the front of your book. When I got home I recorded the whole event on the calendar . . . the skin of the creature was dark and textured . . . I would say the length and width was about 10-12 feet maybe slightly more. Thanks for hearing me out.

Here is the front cover of my book Live Pterosaurs in America (third edition):

Whitcomb's nonfiction book "Live Pterosaurs in America"

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New Pterodactyl Sighting Report From Colorado

Youtube video on a pterosaur encounter in Colorado

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Eyewitness Reports of Living Pterosaurs

. . . research into many eyewitness sightings of apparent extant pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls,” . . .

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Pterodactyl Sighting Reports

Jonathan Whitcomb, author of the nonfiction book “Live Pterosaurs in America,” interviewed, from 2005 to 2009, eyewitnesses from 19 states: California, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Washington State. The sightings themselves were from 1980 through 2008.

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Report a flying dinosaur encounter

Blog related to the book “The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur”, which has a link for reporting a pterodactyl sighting

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Prehistoric flying creature report

Nonfiction cryptozoology paperback “Live Pterosaurs in America”—this has been a leading online book about non-extinct pterodactyls in the United States. This is here offered on Barnes & Noble.

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Report seeing a pterodactyl

Reports of “flying dinosaurs” or “pterodactyls” have accelerated during the past year or so, probably because more and more eyewitnesses are becoming aware of the research of cryptozoologists like Garth Guessman and me, Jonathan Whitcomb. Some reports are of sightings that happened months ago or even years ago, accounts of flying creatures described like what scientists would call “pterosaurs.”

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Press Releases on Pterodactyl Sightings

“Some people in Western countries like the United States do not belief everything that is said by natives in Papua New Guinea” [That is truly unfortunate, for the great majority of natives have told the truth.]

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Youtube Videos on Pterodactyl Sightings

The eyewitness said, “I was horseback riding when suddenly my horse stopped dead in her tracks then began to tremble violently . . . I saw it. This thing was huge and gliding rather than flying, and it was very close to the ground.”

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Press Releases on Pterodactyl Sightings

photo of young lady Cynthia Lee, a pterosaur eyewitness

By Jonathan Whitcomb

Report Pterodactyl Sighting

A press release is generally an official statement delivered to news professionals  giving information on a subject, sometimes to explain the official position of a person or an organization, making it available for the public.

Although the format or style of a press release can make it appear to be an objective news story, it almost surely originated from a person or an organization promoting its own point of view.

In that context, I present the following three press releases that I wrote a number of years ago.

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Two types of modern pterosaurs - long tailed from Cuba and one in Papua New Guinea without any long tail
Sketch by an eyewitness (Cuba) and image from a video (southwest Pacific)

Reports of Living Pterosaurs

According to the American nonfiction author Jonathan Whitcomb, many eyewitness accounts of live pterosaurs cannot be reasonably dismissed as pranks, misidentifications, or hallucinations. He cites statistical data

Pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls,” live in various parts of the world . . . [Whitcomb] has written three nonfiction books, based on eyewitness reports that he has received over the . . . years of his investigation in cryptozoology.

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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur

Simple basics about how culture relates to these sightings—that is covered in this book: “Some people in Western countries like the United States do not belief everything that is said by natives in Papua New Guinea. Those natives may think differently than we do, because they live in a different culture. Maybe something in their culture might cause them to think that they had seen something like a Sordes pilosus. I have an answer to that.” (from page 32)

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photo of young lady Cynthia Lee, a pterosaur eyewitness

Eyewitness Reports of Apparent Living Pterosaurs in North Carolina

Where do these flying creatures appear? They have been reported in Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Wilmington, and in other areas of N.C. . . .

Cynthia Lee, who has been studying to become a veterinary technician, reported to Whitcomb an apparent pterosaur that she saw on Thursday, January 4, 2018, in Raleigh. She was sure that the flying creature had no feathers, but it did have a long tail with a “diamond shaped bulb at the end of the tail.” It also had a head crest.

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Pterodactyl Press Releases

It seems to be a nocturnal flying creature reported by World War II veterans who fought in the Pacific. Unlike the fruit bats that are common in Papua New Guinea and Australia, this animal has a long tail and has been described by some eyewitnesses as much larger.

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Reply to a Newspaper Article in North Carolina

The News & Observer published an article, earlier this week, about a sighting by Cynthia Lee and about my ideas on non-extinct “pterodactyls,” including pterosaur sightings in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Ropen

I am a scientist, and I have discovered that the great majority of eyewitness sighting reports of extant pterosaurs are neither misidentifications nor hoaxes; part of my conclusion is based upon the data from eyewitness estimates of wingspan.

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Free Nonfiction Book

Are you a lucky eyewitness who has seen a living pterosaur? . . . well, maybe a cursed eyewitness? This is for you: eyewitness reports of large featherless flying creatures seen over the past few decades in Australia and in Papua New Guinea.

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Living Pterosaurs

Those cryptozoologists who have explored tropical islands in Papua New Guinea, in search of living pterosaurs, believe the ropen is a large long-tailed flying creature having no feathers.

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Ropen Flying Creature

A tradition in north-central Umboi Island was related to David Woetzel and Garth Guessman regarding the ropen’s tail. Can the tail move or bend? The tradition says that it is always straight except at the base where the tail connects to the body. This correlates precisely with the biology of the tails of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs.

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Pterodactyl Sighting in a Newspaper

The Morning Call of San Francisco published “Pterodactyls and others” on Wednesday, August 5, 1891, a brief report of two “pterodactyls” flying near Fresno. Most of the article, however, was about why the writer thought it was almost impossible for anybody to have seen what was reported.

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Ropen Sightings

. . . on August 27 [2008] she had driven less than ten miles, just leaving an area of pasture, 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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More Youtube Videos on Pterodactyl Sightings

from the YT video "Pterodactyl Terror in Texas"

By Jonathan Whitcomb

Why report your pterodactyl sighting

I suggest you use the search engine Duck Duck Go: https://duckduckgo.com (It is much better than Google, in giving you sites that include positive references to the possibility that not all species of pterosaurs are extinct.)

On May 6, 2022, I uploaded to Youtube the video “New Pterodactyl Sighting Report From Colorado”:

Youtube thumbnail for a video on a pterodactyl in Colorado

The encounter was in northeast Colorado

The eyewitness said, “I was horseback riding when suddenly my horse stopped dead in her tracks then began to tremble violently . . . I saw it. This thing was huge and gliding rather than flying, and it was very close to the ground.”

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Pterodactyl Terror in Texas

from the YT video "Pterodactyl Terror in Texas"

Three sightings of apparent modern pterosaurs, two of them terrifying, are covered here, although they are only a small fraction of all sightings from Texas that have been reported to the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb over a period of many years.

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Live Pterodactyl – 200+ Videos by 2022

So only three brief overviews of three videos are featured, each one about modern non-extinct pterodactyls, also called “flying dinosaurs”. What about the other 200 or so videos? Almost every one of them is mostly about those same flying creatures. Technically, the proper name is “pterosaur”.

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Worldwide Ropens – Pterodactyls Almost Everywhere?

The large nocturnal long-tailed featherless flying creature called “ropen”—that apparent pterodactyl is observed worldwide, in many nations of the earth. But why is it reported to live in many areas of the planet? Why is it seen almost everywhere? This video answers that question, and it’s simple: Ropens can fly long distances, so after thousands of years they have found ways to live in many areas of the planet.

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thumbnail: Youtube video on the channel "Protect Animal Life"

Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

Sara also reported to me that the huge flying creature had teeth in its beak, and she knew, even at only four years old, that it was not normal for a bird to have teeth.

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Pterodactyl Sightings and Youtube videos

The following videos are some of the most popular on the Youtube channel Protect Animal Life (not in any precise order). The lengths are in minutes and seconds with quotations taken from the description sections of the videos and from comments submitted by viewers.

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Pterodactyl Sightings and Human Cultures

During my expedition on Umboi Island in 2004, I saw that native the eyewitnesses sometimes might find it awkward to talk about the ropen, but they apparently had no fear that their neighbors would think them crazy for talking about seeing a ropen. On the other hand, I have noticed, over the years, that persons in Western countries commonly fear that friends and family might think them crazy for saying they had seen a living pterodactyl.

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Pterodactyl Sightings and Evolution

My associates and I, over the past two decades or so, have been criticized in various ways, one of them in a strawman argument something like this: “They try to disprove evolution by trying to convince people that pterodactyls are alive.” The main problem with that criticism is that it’s not usually quoting any of us but declaring what our intentions are, and critics oversimply reality.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in New York

My wife . . . was backpacking around 1988 in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. She said she saw a large flying animal over a small lake. She estimated that it had a 20 foot wingspan. But the weirdest thing was that she said it didn’t look like a bird, but rather a featherless reptile like a pterodactyl!

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Pterodactyl Sightings and Youtube Videos

On the live-stream chat of the video “Youtube Pterodactyl Videos Success” (Youtube channel Protect Animal Life), on May 21, 2021, the American eyewitness Nicole Stanziale told of her sighting. . . . When I was a senior in high school in 1993, my friend and I were driving down a dark road, in Fort Mill, S.C. . . . [South Carolina]

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Pterodactyl Sighting in Delavan, Illinois

When I looked to the south I saw this outrageously large bird just fly straight up and start flying east. It scared the living daylights out of me because it was the size of our house and bigger than the apple trees and as soon as I saw it I knew what it was. It was a friggin Pterodactyl!

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Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

Have you seen an apparent modern pterosaur, also known commonly as a “flying dinosaur”? Contact Whitcomb to report the encounter (this also applies if you just know somebody who has seen such a flying creature).

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