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February 17, 2022

Pterodactyl Sightings and Youtube videos

Biologist Peter Beach on thumbnail for a Youtube video

By Jonathan Whitcomb, administrator of “Protect Animal Life”

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.

Pterodactyl Attack (length = 6:09)

Many years ago, a native fisherman in Papua New Guinea was attacked by what his people call a “kor”. . . the kor is said to have destroyed the man’s canoe. Then began a long battle between the fisherman and the apparent modern pterosaur (pterodactyl). [The end result was the death of both the flying creature and the man.]

From viewer “Steve W”

There is an old legend in Frederick, Maryland, of a pterodactyl-like winged creature called the “Snallygaster”. The legend is handed down from early German settlers in the 1700’s in Frederick, who called it a “Schneller Geist”, which means “quick ghost” in German.

Pterodactyl Caught on Camera – Part 2 – Jungle flying creature

The biologist Peter Beach, of Portland, Oregon, videotaped a modern pterosaur on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, on March 25, 2015, in the presence of Milt Marcy, a businessman from the Portland, OR, area. The two American explorers had flown into the jungle interior by helicopter and had then set up a viewing stand where they had a great view of the surrounding jungle.

Both men later testified of the features and form of the flying creature, giving their opinion that it was a living pterosaur (commonly called, in some Western countries, ‘pterodactyl’ or ‘dinosaur bird’). Larger than any eagle . . .

From viewer “Monu Rajput”

Very interesting. I believe it is very hard to get a clear video of this creature. Most people will be scared to even take out their cameras . . .

Pterodactyl Sightings – flying creatures around the world

Seventeen sighting reports are featured: modern pterosaurs around the world: Italy, Africa, Spain, England, Cuba, United States, and Papua New Guinea. They show how many similarities exist with these flying creatures that are seen by eyewitnesses across many areas of the planet.

From “nicole stanziale”

I live in South Carolina about 10 min away from North Carolina. When I was a senior in high school my friend and I were driving down a dark road, same area I am in now. All trees on each side of it. It was dark outside, don’t remember what time exactly. But a huge black bird was flying ahead and I will never forget this for the rest of my life…. it swooped down. I was so scared it looked like it was going to crash into the windshield, but it didn’t. . . . We stopped dead in our tracks. Along with the 2 cars ahead of us. We all got out of the car in amazement. We were all strangers and were like, did you just see what I saw?

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Video on Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

From August 27-28 [2020] . . . it skyrocketed [on Youtube]: Instead of 10-18 views a day, it soared into the hundreds, sometimes at least 50 views per hour.

Youtube Videos on Living-Pterosaurs

Giant Pterodactyl in California
Pterodactyls in the Tropics
Ropen – cryptid

Live Pterodactyls in California

. . . let’s look at a few facts about where sightings have been reported, in particular the five apparently most active states for these encounters in the USA, according to the online page “Declaration on Eyewitness Reports of Apparent Living Pterosaurs,” as of March 31, 2018 . . .

Youtube Videos on Living Pterosaurs

As of the beginning of July, 2019, the most popular of those eight on Youtube is the first one: “Giant Pterodactyl in California.”

An Individual Ropen is Identified and Named

. . . one clue pins this individual ropen to chicken murders in southern Salt Lake County : The predator does not eat chickens but stomps them into the ground. We call this pterodactyl the “Draper Ropen” (“DR”).

“Pterodactyl” Seen by a Soldier

Duane Hodgkinson is usually the man people have in mind when they think of a World War II veteran who saw, long ago, a “pterodactyl” in a jungle; his 1944 sighting near Finschhafen, New Guinea, will now be examined.

Credibility of Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

I was a forensic videographer in 2003, when I began investigating these eyewitness accounts of “prehistoric” flying creatures or “dragons.” I recognized, while viewing some amateur video footage, the credibility of natives who were interviewed on a tropical island in the southwest Pacific.

October 14, 2021

An Individual Ropen is Identified and Named – Precise Location Unknown

By Jonathan Whitcomb, executive director of Animal Discovery

How do I know that a ropen with a thirty-foot wingspan, now hunting house cats and killing chickens in Nevada, is the same animal seen in Draper, Utah, a few years ago? The one in Utah was about that size, or a bit smaller, and was there hunting house cats and killing chickens. Yet one clue pins this individual ropen to chicken murders in southern Salt Lake County : The predator does not eat chickens but stomps them into the ground. We call this pterodactyl the “Draper Ropen” (“DR”).

See the Youtube video “Whitcomb Interviewed”

Remote desert in Nevada

The flying creature seen in 2018 in Draper may have been a bit smaller, according to the rough estimate, than 30 feet in wingspan, but it may have grown during the past three years. The present wingspan estimate of 30 feet is close because of how DR was encountered on October 2, 2021, by the man whose head came to within four feet of one of its wings that night.

As of October 13, 2021, Jonathan Whitcomb does not know for certain whether or not this particular animal is clearly dangerous to humans. He advises great caution should it appear reasonably possible for any person to observe it from less than five hundred yards away.

A reservoir in a remote area of Nevada

Testimony of the Eyewitness in Nevada

“Approximately 9:20 pm Saturday, 02 October, 2021 [in a rural area of Nevada] I experienced something unusual . . . [While on my computer] in the garage, I heard something very heavy land on the tin roof near its edge. . . .”

“. . . the roof rafters creaked, then I heard claws scratch the roof (similar to big claws just resting on the tin roof). But, much heavier and bigger claws and much much louder than any domestic house cat or bobcat claws both in the area, and MUCH louder than a vulture, turkey, peacock, goose, owl, eagle or hawk . . .”

“I turned off the lights. And, quietly, and very carefully I opened the door and went outside. . . . The garage’s roofline measures 26 ft wide. This creature’s wingspan spread wider by about 2 feet on each side and its wingtip flapped within about 4 feet of my head as I opened the door. . . .”

“My best description is its wing appeared nearly light/tan/ brown/sandy on the topside, but more the color of the night sky underneath. As it flapped for takeoff, I saw the underside first, then the topside of the wingtip. I got a very clear and close view of the wingtip and the animal’s silhouette (and I felt the strong wind its wing produced on an otherwise calm night without any wind at that moment). . . .”

“The wingtip didn’t look like feathers, but it looked very much like a gigantic bat’s wing. From almost immediately underneath (at the closest point during its takeoff), it had a long narrow tail longer than its head to base of tail length. . . . It looked amazing and gigantic so close.”

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Missing Children and Pterodactyl Sightings

I suggest that to understand the potential danger that a few of these flying creatures may pose to children, we need to know something about modern “pterodactyls”, including the long-tailed ropen.

Live Pterodactyl

A Youtube playlist highly recommended for those who are new to Youtube videos about sightings of modern pterosaurs like the ropen

Attacks From a Ropen in New Mexico?

I’ve recently been reading the nonfiction Missing 411 – Western United States & Canada, by the former lawman David Paulides. On page 200, the author points out that all six of those missing persons listed in New Mexico disappeared in the Santa Fe National Forest. Why did none of them go missing in any other national forest of New Mexico?

An Apparent Living Pterodactyl Reported in Utah

The nonfiction author Jonathan Whitcomb, of Murray, Utah, in 2017 and 2018, interviewed four eyewitnesses of an apparent “pterodactyl” in central Utah. He now declares that those reports from Draper, Salt Lake County, help distinguish Utah in a map showing where similar sightings have been reported across the United States.

Ropen (Pterosaur) in Draper, Utah

This morning I interviewed, face-to-face, an eyewitness of an apparent living pterosaur that flew over his backyard in Draper, Utah, on Sunday, November 4, 2018. He seemed perfectly credible to me, and I also talked with his wife and found nothing wrong with her deportment.

September 15, 2021

Pterodactyl Sightings and Evolution

Patty Carson's sketch of a ropen with caption: "Yes, Virginia, there is a ropen"

By Jonathan Whitcomb

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.

Evolution and Neo-Darwinism

First, I recommend my Youtube video “Pterodactyl Sightings and Evolution – Part 2″ on my channel Protect Animal Life. There I explain a bit about the fallacy of lumping various concepts of biological evolution together and assuming it all means the same thing. Let’s get into that a bit deeper.

The word “star“ has various meanings and we rarely have any problem with that. But what about the word “evolution”? That’s a different matter.

In my Youtube video dated September 9, 2021, I mentioned how shooting stars are not literal stars; no problem. Yet we in Western societies are often bombarded with the word “evolution” when it refers to different things. The video presents four types of biological evolution:

Loss of a useful organ
Tiny change that helps in survival
Major change in outward appearance
Upward Evolution

An important point in the above is this: Nothing in the first three concepts gives any credibility to the fourth concept. In addition, the first three have been observed and relatively few persons dispute the details in those three concepts, but the fourth has major problems and is based upon many persons who imagine what has happened in the distant past.

Danger to Children

The reality of modern pterosaurs like the ropen—that is not just a subject for theoretical debates about evolution in the distant past but is extremely important to some cases of missing children, including possible attacks against persons in North America.

One lady has reported that she was attacked, when a preschooler, by a huge flying creature in western Oklahoma. The animal, which was covered in hair, flew down towards the girl but she ducked down to the ground and escaped, soon getting into the safety of her house. The child saw that the creature was very strange, for it had teeth in its beak. She knew that birds do not have teeth.

How can we protect children and adults from that kind of attack? We must learn the truth about these flying creatures and help others to know about the reality of ropens and similar apparent modern pterosaurs. Although it seems that only a tiny minority of modern “pterodactyls” every attack any human, that limited number of animals can be dangerous, at least on occasion.

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The Ropen and Evolution

A common criticism thrown at me and my associates relates to the age of the earth and evolution. Our critics will sometimes ridicule the idea that non-extinct pterosaurs “disprove” evolution or prove that the world is 6,000 years old. What they fail to mention, however, is that they construct a sentence or two, in their own words, as if it were our words or our precise purposes.

Missing Children

I suggest that to understand the potential danger that a few of these flying creatures may pose to children, we need to know something about modern “pterodactyls”, including the long-tailed ropen.

Living Pterosaurs

This is a well-established blog on non-extinct “pterodactyls” in our modern world, flying creatures sometimes called “dinosaur birds” or “dragons”.

The Quest for Discovering Modern Pterosaurs

The nonfiction book by Jonathan David Whitcomb: Searching for Ropens and Finding God (fourth edition)

Living Pterosaurs or Dragons

This may be the oldest living-pterosaur site on the internet

Modern-Pterodactyl News (2021)

The main news for now relates to the formation of a nonprofit organization that will specialize in research into reports of non-extinct modern pterosaurs, including the long-tailed featherless ropen [Animal Discovery].

July 31, 2021

Modern-Pterosaur News – July of 2021

banner for the Youtube channel "Protect Animal Life"

By Jonathan Whitcomb

The main news for now relates to the formation of a nonprofit organization that will specialize in research into reports of non-extinct modern pterosaurs, including the long-tailed featherless ropen, and to Youtube videos on the channel “Protect Animal Life”.

A new Nonprofit, “Animal Discovery”, for Research, Publicity, and Supporting Living-Pterosaur Expeditions

Animal Discovery has now been registered as a nonprofit organization in the state of Utah. By the end of July, 2021, it had four volunteer representatives in the United States (northern California, Utah, Kentucky, and Arkansas).

While the paperwork is being done to make it tax exempt in the USA, you can make a donation, although during that process there is no guarantee that your donation will be deductible for tax purposes.

State of Utah – Certificate of registration for Animal Discovery

Living-Pterosaur Videos on Youtube

As of July 31, 2021, the channel “Protect Animal Life” had 172 videos, almost all of them about eyewitness sightings of apparent modern pterodactyls and about research into such encounters with non-bat featherless flying creatures.

1) “Huge Pterodactyl – Bird with no Feathers”
https://youtu.be/G936pV7rHw8
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Sightings of large modern pterosaurs
Around the world ordinary persons have seen extraordinary flying creatures: apparent pterodactyls or pterosaurs. These “birds with no feathers” are here featured in sightings in North America and in Papua New Guinea.

2) “Ropens Have Long Tails – Pterodactyl Sightings”
https://youtu.be/Dc-HmprDC6s
From the description section:
What is a long-tailed pterodactyl that forgot to become extinct? It’s a ropen, a flying creature seen in many areas of the planet, although it’s nocturnal behavior and rarity or near-rarity have postponed its becoming classified in Western science.

3) “Flying Dinosaurs in Kansas – Pterodactyl Sightings”
https://youtu.be/lkANkrWI2yk
Sightings of modern pterosaurs in Kansas
Description (under the video):
According to the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, many persons have seen an apparent living pterosaur in Kansas, yet only a small minority of those eyewitnesses have contacted him.

4) “Modern Dragon – Pterodactyls Almost Everywhere”
https://youtu.be/wUShxkJZVFs
Description section:
The long-tailed nocturnal ropen is found worldwide, and some eyewitnesses call it a dragon. In this video of the PAL channel (Protect Animal Life) get the testimony of the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson and two natives in Papua New Guinea.

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Animal Discovery representatives

Candace Worman (Kentucky)
Gladys Whitcomb (Spanish language, worldwide)
Jonathan Archer (northern California)
Laura Dean (Arkansas)

Ropen Seen in Texas, by a Truck Driver

As I’m driving it is already early daylight and from the left side of the road about 30-50 feet high I see this not large but ENORMOUS creature glide, not fly, from the tall trees from the left side of the road to tall trees directly on the right side. . . .

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.

Cryptozoologie et le Ropen

Un animal qui semble être un ptérosaure moderne

Videos on Pterosaur Sightings

The following are from comments made under a number of videos on the *PAL channel of Youtube (*Protect Animal Life). Each heading below is the title of the video.