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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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The Youtube Channel “Protect Animal Life”

banner for the Youtube channel "Protect Animal Life"

By Jonathan D. Whitcomb

If you, or someone you know, has seen an apparent living pterosaur, please contact me, Jonathan Whitcomb.

With only one exception, all of my videos on this channel are entirely about modern pterosaurs. Protect Animal Life has grown slowly over the first ten months, since its inception early in 2019, as devoted followers subscribe one by one, yet the great majority of comments have been positive, and comments number in the hundreds.

Of the forty videos on this channel as of January 16, 2020, some of them are about sightings of non-extinct “pterodactyls” in the United States, including (but not limited to) the following states:

Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

The four reports from S.C.:

  1. Bishopville, 1984: wingspan about 10-14 feet; no feathers; standing in the middle of a country road, it appeared to be at least 10 feet tall.
  2. In that same general area, about two years later, Susan Wooten witnessed a huge flying creature: “as big as any car and had NO feathers.”
  3. Clinton, about 1994: “I saw a pterosaur as big as a plane, and looked very similar to the sketch created by Susan Wooten.”
  4. Rock Hill area of South Carolina, 2000: “It flew over me & my dog & made a terrifying call.”

evening darkness approaches in South Carolina

Youtube video “Pterodactyl Sightings in South Carolina”

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Ropen in New York – pterosaur seen by a policeman

This short music video has text that includes:

“The policeman was interviewed by Jonathan Whitcomb. . . . Officer William Lashomb saw a very strange flying creature. bulbous head, no feathers . . .”

a bridge in Massena, upstate New York, where a police officer saw a living pterosaur

Youtube video “Ropen in New York”

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Pterodactyl Sightings in Los Angeles

The five reports from L.A. County:

  1. Lakewood, California, June 19, 2012: The lady clearly saw the flying creature . . . The “dragon-pterodactyl” sat on a phone line near a storm channel.
  2. Same location as #1 above, 2009: The sister of the eyewitness of #1 sighting saw a dragon-like flying creature near the same location. She told nobody about her sighting until after she had learned about her sister’s encounter.
  3. Three “dragons” flew over the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles, just east of Griffith Park, in March of 2013.
  4. Just a few weeks after sighting #3, and less than two miles away, Devon Rhodriquez saw a strange flying creature: “not a feather in sight.”
  5. To the west of Griffith Park (on the other side of it), on March 24, 2018, another eyewitness encountered what may have been the same species as was seen by eyewitnesses #3 and #4. “I saw what I would call a pterosaur.”

downtown Los Angeles from a distance of many miles

Youtube video “Pterodactyl Sightings in Los Angeles”

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Modern dragon in the USA

LDS author Jonathan David Whitcomb wrote the revised and enlarged fourth edition of the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God [nonfiction, in print]

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Ropen Bioluminescence (Youtube video)

You can watch this short video (3 min, 20 sec), so rather than list what’s in it, I’ll go into more details about these flying lights by answering three questions that are based upon comments people have sent me over the years.

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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]

From the Youtube video "Giant Pterodactyl in California"

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.

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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 . . .

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“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.

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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]

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“Dinosaur Book” and ‘The Neverending Story’—a Comparison

book "The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur" back cover

By the nonfiction cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb

I’ve already written several posts, on this blog, on my new book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur (GFD). Let’s now compare elements of this nonfiction with what is found in a popular fiction: The Neverending Story. We’ll use the film version (1984) of NS for many comparisons.

For those new to promotions of my new book, “flying dinosaur” refers to a kind of modern pterosaur: the ropen; it’s not about dinosaurs in the scientific use of that word. In addition, some of the eyewitnesses who have contacted me over the past fifteen years have used the word ‘dragon’—nothing close to scientific, but I’ll use it here.

A Young Reader can Find Himself or Herself in the Story

In the make-believe NS, a long story, young Bastian eventually comes to completely believe, while reading the book, that he is part of the never-ending story. This takes a long time for him, and only near the end does he believe to the extent that he is able to be transported into that new world of wonderful life.

In the non-fiction GFD, a short book, the young reader may come to believe in the stories, yet that may be long before the end of the book. This is not likely to be as gripping an adventure for the child or teenaged reader, but he or she can soon become aware of already living in the same world as a yet-to-be-discovered wonderful form of life. That can mean that taking a walk, without reading, can feel like an adventure, for that person who thinks about the wonder of living in the same world as living pterosaurs. The reader is not literally transported but his or her understanding can be positively transformed.

In NS, Bastian appears to be almost the only person in his immediate world who is aware of a new incredible world he is discovering: a world without humans. In GFD, the young reader may actually be the only person in his or her immediate world who is aware of something not yet scientifically discovered: an incredible animal in a world with humans.

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Bastian and Mr. Coreander in the 1984 film "The Neverending Story"

Near the beginning of The Neverending Story (1984 film)

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A Fictional Dragon and Real “Dragons”

In The Neverending Story, a boy is carried to safety by a luck dragon that discovers him in a swamp of sadness; the boy is saved from death. In The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur, the young reader discovers that one kind of “dragon” has been lucky enough to have escaped the sadness of extinction; that species was somehow saved from death.

The Basics in Comparing the Nonfiction with the Fiction

The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur has only 56 pages. The mass-market paperback version of The Neverending Story, if you prefer that to the film, has 448 pages. From my experience, writing GFD and reading the first part of NS, I think that the popular fiction is much more exciting to read, in a story-telling sense, at least for the first 100-200 pages.

But reading my book, for a child or a teenager, can make all of life more exciting, giving the reader a sense of adventure that stays with the young reader long after the reading is over. For all those moments when a kid or teen is not reading, my book will give a lasting benefit, incalculably better than if that young person had read the fiction book instead.

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"The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur"

Real eyewitness reports of modern pterosaurs (ropens)

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Is this “flying dinosaur” book for you?

Actually, I highly recommend my book that was just published: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. I just want to be sure that copies of it go to those young readers who want the adventure of approaching this subject with an open mind.

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Benefits from reading a “dinosaur book”

1) Simple to read yet stimulating for middle-grade children and teens
2) Explains the benefits of believing someone who has seen something
3) Gives interesting comparisons between accounts, allowing the reader to come to his or her own conclusion about each report
4) Explains the three major interpretations available for a sighting report, allowing the reader to choose one of them . . .
5) Gives the young reader many photos, sketches, and other images, making the book easier to dig into and understand

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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur

This short non-fiction book, for readers eight to fourteen years old, gives the following benefits . . .

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Living Pterosaurs in the USA?

This gives the numbers of sightings in many states of the USA, including but not limited to the following:

  • California (39)
  • Georgia (15)
  • Texas (15)
  • North Carolina (13)
  • and in 36 other states and in Washington D.C.