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Living Pterosaurs in Newspapers

young woman reads newspaper, from the Youtube video "Living Pterosaurs - in newspapers"

By the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb

On occasion over the past 16 years, a critic might say something like, “If pterosaur are still living, why do we not see newspaper articles on them?” Such a skeptic may assume that he or she would have heard or read about such a newspaper article if it existed. In reality, no critic of living-pterosaur investigations reads every headline of every newspaper, not even just the ones printed in the United States.

Last night, I uploaded a new video to Youtube, “Living Pterosaurs – in newspapers” and present it as an introduction to such newspaper articles. I believe it makes a good start in answering questions about such news publications, yet I hope to produce one or more additional videos about apparent extant “pterodactyls” in newspapers.

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Jonathan Whitcomb at the end of a Youtube video

Jonathan Whitcomb in “Living Pterosaurs – in newspapers”

In contrast to most of the early videos on my new Youtube channel (Protect Animal Life), on this mini-documentary I speak on camera most of the time. It’s the second in a series of videos that introduce various topics related to the investigations of eyewitness reports of living pterosaurs.

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Video “Living Pterosaurs” on Youtube

It begins with a brief overview of what was accomplished in the late-20th-century expeditions on Umboi Island. It then covers a bit of what we did in the two expeditions of 2004, including my interviews of Gideon, Wesley, Mesa, and Michael: Three clear daylight sightings and one ropen-light sighting at night.

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How Many Americans Have Seen a Modern Pterosaur?

The number of persons who have actually seen such a flying creature in the USA, at some time in their human life spans, after combining type-1 and type-2, is in the general neighborhood of 150,000. Please understand me here: This does NOT include misidentifications; it is the number of actual encounters between humans and extant pterosaurs in recent decades in the USA in terms of the combination of the first two types explained above.

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Book reviews – living pterosaurs

What do these two living-pterosaur books have in common? Both of them give the reader details about two important sightings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: by little Patty Carson in 1965 and by the U.S. Marine Eskin C. Kuhn in 1971. (Both of these nonfictions, however, also cover many others sightings.)

  • Live Pterosaurs in America
  • The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur

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New Video: Living Pterosaurs in England

I just uploaded a video to Youtube, from two detailed eyewitness accounts I received from Shropshire, England, with both of those sightings being in 2017.

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Living pterosaurs in a podcast interview with Jonathan Whitcomb

On Beastly Theories

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Living pterosaurs in newspaper articles

The Houston Chronicle, by circulation the ninth largest newspaper in the United States, pulled away the welcome mat to “flying dinosaurs” that might want to fly over southwest Texas . . .

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Scientific paper on living pterosaurs

Creation Research Society Quarterly - cover

Creation Research Society Quarterly - coverThe peer-reviewed Creation Research Society Quarterly (CRSQ), Volume 45, Number 3, contains the article “Reports of Living Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific,” by Jonathan D. Whitcomb.

Included was the eyewitness account of the Umboi Island native Gideon Koro, interviewed in 2004 by Whitcomb:

“In about 1994, at Lake Pung, Umboi, and in daylight, seven boys, aged about eleven to sixteen, saw what three of them (in 2004) told me was a ropen . . . Their testimonies were videotaped during an interview in the Awelkon Village area . . .

“According to Gideon Koro, who speaks some English, a few minutes after they had arrived at the lake, ‘it came down.’ . . . When I asked about the tail length, he pondered, seeming to recall and estimate; then he said, “seven meetuh.” [seven meters or about twenty-two feet]

“Gideon was sure that the creature was a ropen. . . . When I asked about feathers, he at first appeared to be puzzled; his answer and mannerisms then seemed to me to reveal that he was surprised that I should ask that question: ‘There’s no feathers’ . . . I then asked, ‘Was there just skin?’ The Kovai word ‘byung’ came up as did the English term ‘flying fox.’ Gideon agreed that the skin was like that of a fruit bat.”

More: Credibility of the Umboi Island Eyewitnesses

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Table of Contents for the nonfiction book "Live Pterosaurs in America"From Chapter Two of “Live Pterosaurs in America” (nonfiction book on Amazon.com)

“The greatest danger facing innovators, rebels, and those who search for living pterosaurs—that’s a newspaper. National newspapers ignored the success of the Wright Brothers (their December, 1903, successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina). News reporters and editors, many of them, assumed that the controlled powered-flight of two bicycle mechanics was a lie, that it never happened. Even as late as 1908, many newspaper professionals thought the Wright Brothers ‘better liars than flyers.’ After all, a well-funded government-sponsored flying machine had crashed only a few days before the Wright Brothers were said to have first flown. But lack of news reporting and abundance of lie-insinuations can relate to both flying machines and flying pterosaurs.”