U.S.A. Sightings | Live Pterosaur

June 7, 2021June 8, 2021

Ropen Seen in Texas, by a Truck Driver

Gitmo Pterosaur of Guantanamo Bay Cuba, sighting in 1965

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

The following are the words of an eyewitness who sent me an email in mid-2021, although this is only an excerpt:

. . . My sighting was in June of 2014 heading north from Laredo, Texas, between Laredo and Austin. At that time I was working as a truck driver for an “expedite delivery company”.

It was approximately 6:15 a.m. and I was off the major highway on a back road where the terrain was mostly ranches and openness with tall trees scattered about the sides of the road.

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. . . .

The creatures wingspan I can only guesstimate was between 15-25 feet across. There were no feathers and its body looked more like skin or membrane like a bat. The creature did not flap its wings during its flight across to the other side of the road that I saw.

It looked almost exactly as the sketch from the man who drew what he saw in Cuba in the 1970’s. The long beak, crest at the back of its head. The creature had its mouth closed during its short flight so I do not know if it had teeth or not. The tail was very very long, but I do not recall seeing a spade or any defining shape at its end. My total visual contact was only about 4-5 seconds.

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Worldwide Ropens

The large nocturnal long-tailed featherless flying creature called “ropen”—that apparent pterodactyl is observed worldwide, in many nations of the earth.

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Pterodactyl sighting in Marion County, Texas

He estimated the wingspan at 4 1/2 to 5 feet with a long tail that had a “diamond type shape” at the end [Update: See other posts on the ropen]. The creature had leathery skin rather than any hair or feathers.

Ropen sightings in the United States

Youtube video on the channel Protect Animal Life

Worldwide ropens

. . . 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.

Ropen pterodactyl

Many years ago, a native fisherman in Papua New Guinea was attacked by what his people call a “kor”. Many years before that attack, apparently, the natives stopped fishing at night because of the danger from those flying creatures.

Pterodactyls in Texas

Getting specific, what some particular eyewitnesses have observed in Texas are not fossils, and the correct general name for the flying creature is “pterosaur,” not “pterodactyl,” but why could they not live in Texas? With plenty of space to hide in the day, nocturnal flying predators could roam the skies at night, rarely seen by humans . . .

June 3, 2021

Pterodactyl Sightings and Youtube Videos

By Jonathan Whitcomb

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. Here is part of what she said:

I am 44 now. I live in South Carolina about 10 min away from Charlotte, North Carolina. 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. . . .

. . . it was all wooded then, no houses or anything, just trees as far as you could see on both sides of the road . . . A huge black bird was flying ahead. It looked really big, but as it got closer I realized that this thing was massive! . . .

It swooped down. I was so scared it looked like it was going to crash into the windshield, but it didn’t. . . . I will never forget its face and eyes. Long face and beak, horn shape on the top of its head, a bit of a boxy horn, but a horn, a very long tail. The tail did have a shape at the end . . .

I had longer to look at the head and wings as it was headed strait towards the windshield. It did not have feathers. It was slick, like a bat. I would describe the wings and legs like a bats wings and legs.. but it was MUCH BIGGER! It glided. I actually never saw its wings flap.

long-tailed pterosaur seen by U.S. Marine in Cuba — pterosaur U. S. Marine Eskin Kuhn saw in Cuba in 1971

The S.C. creature may be related to the above

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Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

Youtube video on the channel Protect Animal Life

Two Pterodactyls Chase a Bat

For many years, researchers have seen indirect evidence suggesting some modern pterosaurs feed on bats, at least as a part of their diet. Now we have direct eyewitness testimony that at least two apparent pterodactyls were chasing a bat at night in northern Alabama, in the spring of 2020.

The Strawman Argument with Worldwide Ropens

In a hypercritical Youtube video, a man attacks the idea that the ropen is a real animal, even potentially a modern pterosaur.

Are Modern Pterosaurs Dangerous?

The following is not a first-hand account but from a native who contacted me by emails in 2010, and he got the story from the grandson of the native fisherman who died three days after being attacked by a kor. I believe this animal is at least related to the ropen, if it is not the same exact species.

South Carolina Pterosaur

. . . and it was flying north. It was huge, as big as a plane, and looked very similar to the sketch created by Susan Wooten on your website. . . . I saw a huge pterodactyl looking creature, flying very high in the sky. The strangest thing about the sighting was how slow the wings were flapping and how high it was flying.

May 11, 2021

Pterodactyl Talk in mid-2021

pterodactyl sketch and an old newspaper article on a monster in Utah

By cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb

The following are comments viewers have made on Youtube videos of the channel Protect Animal Life:

Pterodactyl Sightings

(eyewitness interviewed by Whitcomb)

From Poppins:
Wow this is incredible great video !!!

From Mary Land:
Fascinating encounter. Thank you so much for your passionate work, PAL.

From Bandit Quest: [slightly edited for English]
About 3 weeks ago, A friend and I were on my back porch here in Rural Covington, Louisiana when we both saw a huge bird that looked like a Pterodactyl fly over my property at about 200 feet elevation. It had a long beak with a rear ward protruding crest behind its head, the wings were very bat like and I could see two feet extending rearwards behind the bird. I would estimate the wingspan to be approx. 8 to 10 feet across. I could not see any feathers on it. . . .

Pterodactyl Sightings in Utah – an introduction

From Jordan Henrichs:
Wow! Those are the stories that I like when more than one person sees the same pterosaur! I really like it when you do a video interview, you can see the person’s expressions and emotions that help to authenticate the sighting.

From Static X:
I had a sighting in Oklahoma. I researched to make sure I didn’t see a large crane know in these parts. It was NOTHING close to a bird. It flapped twice though… once to get in the air and once to disappear in the trees. . . .

Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

From Stetson Gray: [slightly edited for English]
I got my own story: My dad and I were driving down this back road in SC and we saw these gigantic bird things. Let me add we were like half a mile away, maybe a little further, but they had to be like almost 10 feet tall because it was just so easy to see them from far away. We stopped in the road because we were shocked seeing a bird so huge. We got closer. It was like a greyish brown, and had some blue on its head. Its head was long and its wings were really skinny but it was shaped like a stretched M. It wasn’t flailing them around but just opening and closing the wings. It looked like it was eating something. I vividly remember they were on top of this huge tree, and every time they moved their wings the tree moved . . .

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Are Modern Pterosaurs Dangerous?

The following is not a first-hand account but from a native who contacted me by emails in 2010, and he got the story from the grandson of the native fisherman who died three days after being attacked by a kor.

Dangerous modern pterodactyl

Recent investigations suggest the fiery flying serpent of the Old Testament was not actually a snake but a Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur. Even more recently, “pterodactyl attacks” against humans in Canada have been reported in a nonfiction cryptozoology book, Bird From Hell, by Gerald McIsaac. This author believes that many human deaths may have been caused by attacks from what some Native Americans in British Columbia call the “devil bird.”

Pterodactyl attack in Oklahoma

I was four years old. . . . no clouds . . . early fall. I was walking from the pumphouse/ chicken coop . . . I looked up behind me . . . I know what I saw, because it was less than six feet above me. This thing was huge. I liken his body size to a Volkswagen bug. [It was] covered completely with brown / blackish fur [and had] no feathers. . . . I ducked down just enough, I guess, for it to be a miss for it. I stayed looking up [at it] this entire time. It opened its beak . . . I see teeth and at four I knew that wasn’t right . . .

January 21, 2021

Many Americans Have Seen a Modern Pterosaur – 300,000+

photo of young lady Cynthia Lee, a pterosaur eyewitness

By cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb

During the past seventeen years, I’ve received hundreds of sighting reports from the United States; now very few states remain in which a “pterodactyl” has not been reported to me. As a result, I have been able to estimate a minimum number of Americans who have had a clear sighting of one of these flying creatures at some time in their human lifetimes. It is at least in the hundreds of thousands of Americans.

As far as I can see, it would have to be over 300,000 Americans, for anything less than that does not make sense with how many of them have contacted me about not only their sightings but about one or more friends or family members who have also had a similar sighting.

I could almost write a book just on those cases. For example, one of my sisters and I knew a teenager in the 1960’s who said for that she had seen a gigantic “pterodactyl” fly up into the mountains north of Pasadena, California; that flying creature was the “size of a bus.” Is it just a coincidence that decades later I would write several books about modern pterosaurs? When I learned about that reported sighting in the 1960’s, as best as I recall, I dismissed it as impossible and forgot about what that teenager had told my sister.

Of course that experience may have had a subliminal effect on me, helping me to take up this strange little branch of cryptozoology, but I don’t think so, at least not to any great degree.

Cynthia Lee, who was featured in newspaper articles in North Carolina three years ago this month, is an eyewitness. Yet her mother and uncle also had a sighting when they were kids, although Cynthia did not believe them before her own encounter.

Many pterosaur sightings in North Carolina

The list would go on and on, but the point is this: All those eyewitnesses who know other persons who saw the apparent same thing yet the others never contacted me—those quiet eyewitnesses cannot be explained within the idea that less than a tenth of 1% of Americans have had a good sighting. With about 300 million Americans, that makes at least 300 thousand good sightings of these flying creatures.

The only other possibility I see is this: The average American has thousands of first cousins and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and also has many thousands of friends who would freely admit to almost everyone they knew that they had observed a live pterodactyl, even before the other person did NOT first admit seeing one.

My experience communicating with hundreds of American eyewitnesses, over the past 17 years leads me to this: The average American eyewitness of a modern pterosaur might not tell anyone except one or two close friends or relatives, and in many cases that trusted one had no apparent confidence that the other person saw a living pterosaur. That’s why only a tiny fraction of eyewitnesses ever contacts me or one of my associates: If you cannot convince someone very close to you, why bother contacting a stranger?

Pterodactyl sightings in North Carolina

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Living pterosaurs in the United States

Modern pterosaurs have been seen in many states of the USA, including California, Texas, Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, etc.

How many Americans have seen a pterodactyl?

As of early December of 2017, it seems that no scientist has a body of a recently-deceased pterosaur to examine, or at least I have no knowledge of such a discovery and examination. That’s why my associates and I continue to work in the realm of cryptozoology, using whatever knowledge is available.

A new level of weirdness

This is a long online article related to the nonfiction book Live Pterosaurs in America. This could be considered a lengthy book review.

Pterodactyl sightings around the world

A Youtube video with sighting reports from Italy, Africa, Spain, England, and many encounters in North America.

Apparent pterodactyl in Utah

Over the past 16 years, hundreds of eyewitnesses have contacted Whitcomb from five continents, and some of those were from 41 states of the USA. Three of those states now stand out in the number of reported sightings of apparent pterosaurs in relation to each state’s human population: Hawaii, Utah and Arkansas, in that order.

Youtube videos on modern pterosaurs

This is no joke. I, Jonathan Whitcomb, began investigating eyewitness reports of apparent living pterosaurs in 2003. One year later, I led a brief expedition in Papua New Guinea, as our team searched for the nocturnal ropen of Umboi Island.

Video on Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

I uploaded this short video to my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life on January 6, 2020, and it was doing better than average up until about August 26th of that year. From August 27-28, however, it skyrocketed . . .