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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 . . .

January 9, 2021

Pterodactyl Sightings – how can they be?

old sketch of a mad man with a knife: chasing a ropen

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

Eyewitness report (Use that link to communicate with Whitcomb about a sighting of an apparent living pterodactyl.)

This answers a skeptic who made a comment on one of my Youtube videos; it’s a rhetorical question:

“Why is it that ever since smart phones came out, people continue to claim they saw this type of flying animal but not one single person has video taped it?”

I don’t say that a person making this kind of statement has a split-personality disorder, but he or she appears to be sitting on a fence, ready to hop off into either of the following positions:

God-like omnipotent knowledge
Puppet-like regurgitating of what others have said

Should that skeptic be challenged, he or she can take the role of #2, and if nobody makes a challenge then role #1 is taken, although omnipotence is never stated: Only a knowledge of something is implied.

In this case, role #1 means that the critic knows about every person who has ever lived on this planet who has ever held a smart phone and the critic knows with god-like certainty that not one of those persons has ever recorded video footage of a modern pterosaur.

Here is part of my response to the rhetorical question:

Let’s take that phrase “people continue” and look at it more deeply. For countless centuries people have continued to talk about flying dragons around the world. These are people from various cultures and various languages and various traditions, yet they report seeing the same, or similar, large featherless flying creatures. In old art, they are often depicted with long tails.

Those sightings have continued into recent decades and recent years and recent months; in other words people have always reported seeing these reptilian-like winged creatures. Yet more recently, especially since around the mid-1800’s, eyewitnesses sometimes use the word “pterodactyl”.

In general, eyewitnesses in Western cultures have smart phones, yet those persons live within those Western cultures: They have been raised with the idea that all dinosaurs and pterosaurs became extinct long ago. That means that when the person sees what appears to be a living pterosaur, he or she stares at the thing, trying to figure out what it is or how it might be something other than a “pterodactyl”. In that state the person remains until the creature flies away. Even if the person had enough time to get out the smart phone and set it up for videotaping, that never entered the mind until it was too late.

Most persons living outside Western cultures do not have smart phones, and rarely have a camera of any kind ready at hand should they witness something strange.

Has Anybody ever Videotaped one with a Smart Phone?

I know of a lady in North Carolina who videotaped, with her smart phone, an apparent modern pterosaur, but that is another subject for another time.

Thumbnail image for the Youtube video “Pterodactyl Sightings – secret pterosaur FEAR” (on the channel Protect Animal Life)

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Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

A Youtube video on the channel Protect Animal Life

Strange flying creatures

Nocturnal pterosaurs have always lived among us, but hidden by something. Enter now the realm of a new branch of cryptozoology, a branch overshadowed by the dogma of a “universal extinction.” How did scientists miss living pterosaurs? Get the answers here . . .

Videos about living pterosaurs

This is the #1 channel on Youtube for videos on these amazing featherless flying creatures, apparent modern pterosaurs.

Apparent living pterosaurs in the USA

Jonathan Whitcomb, of Murray, Utah, has been receiving emails, and an occasional phone call, over a period of 13 years, from eyewitnesses from five continents, and most reported sightings are in North America.

The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur

Patty Carson was a child when she witnessed a large flying creature at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in around the year 1965. This Youtube video gives some of the details on that “pterodactyl” sighting.

Flying creatures without feathers

For the protection of human life, I now publish a portion of the email communications I had with a lady who lives in Long Valley, New Jersey.

Pterodactyl sightings

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.

October 26, 2020

Modern Pterosaurs

Pre-publication version of book's front and back covers

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

Not all pterosaurs are extinct. Considering all the investigations and research done over the past two decades, it is practically impossible for all their species to be extinct, unless hundreds of thousands of persons worldwide have been encountering flying creatures that are not descended from ancient pterosaurs yet have appeared to have inherited a significant number of their obvious characteristics. That seems unlikely.

“Scary Flying Creatures in the Southwest Pacific” (video)

The video above is mostly on a few sightings of apparent living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea, including some of the more frightening encounters.

Modern Pterosaurs in Australia

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

Pages 31-33:

The couple was taking a walk in December of 1997, at 10:30 p.m., (in Southwestern Australia, probably a pleasant evening) between the suburbs of Ocean Reef and Heathridge, on Marion Avenue, when they saw, about half a mile inland, something in the sky. As it drew closer, gliding south, parallel to the coast, it shocked them with a “lizard appearance” and a wingspan of thirty to fifty feet. . . .

[in the words of a scientist (one of the two eyewitnesses)]

We had been walking in the evening and had just crested a hill and were on the down slope along a major thoroughfare. In the distance, I perceived an object in the sky. . . . its progress had brought it closer and while its shape did resemble a bird, I thought by now that from its apparent distance, it must be the largest bird I had ever witnessed.

It did not appear to be covered with feathers but had a leathery texture. Soon after it passed us, it flew over a more brightly lit sports area which highlighted even more the leathery appearance, also bringing more detail to view. . . .

I . . . estimated the size to be in excess of thirty foot, possibly as great as fifty foot. My eyes told me it was nearer the greater of these, my rational mind wants me to believe the lesser, since either of these is astounding for a flying creature . . .

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Modern living pterosaurs

A modern pterosaur!? How could it be? Extraordinary but true, huge flying creatures, with no feathers yet unlike any bat, live among us, although they mostly fly at night.

Pterodactyl sightings in South Carolina

I never heard of Charlamagne tha God (CTG on this blog post) until I read the new comments under my video.

Not all pterosaurs are extinct

. . . if my assessment of each of those 128 reports was anywhere near the mark, it is practically impossible for all of those reports to have come from non-pterosaurs: Not all pterosaurs are extinct.

Pterodactyls alive

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

Living pterosaurs in a newspaper article

“As a self-described ‘modern pterosaur expert,’ the Utah-based author is circulating news and running websites that describe encounters with prehistoric, flying reptiles that scientists classify as thoroughly extinct.” [referring to Jonathan Whitcomb]

Modern pterodactyls

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.

Strange flying creatures in North Carolina and Utah

A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed eyewitness accounts of apparent non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls” or “flying dinosaurs,” and found that several states in the USA stand out, including Utah.

Flying creatures in the southwest Pacific

Ropens and other modern pterosaurs live in and around Australia and Papua New Guinea . . . Reports of Live Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific

August 29, 2020September 1, 2020

Video on Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

By investigative journalist Jonathan David Whitcomb

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: Instead of 10-18 views a day, it soared into the hundreds, sometimes at least 50 views per hour. I searched for the reason and found it in the comments.

“Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina”

“Charlamagne tha God” sees a Modern “pterodactyl” on the TV News in South Carolina

I never heard of Charlamagne tha God (CTG on this blog post) until I read the new comments under my video. At first I assumed he had mentioned my video in his own Youtube video; then I watched the podcast he had with Andrew Schulz (Aug 27, 2020): “Proof That Dinosaurs Never Existed!” I soon realized that hundreds of persons were watching my video because they had searched for information, using Google and Youtube search, after they watched that podcast of CTG and Schulz.

CTG shocked the other two person on the podcast when he said, “I saw a pterodactyl.” He later said the following:

. . . there was a time . . . between South Carolina and North Carolina, people used to see pterodactyls all the . . . time.

Charlamagne tha God “saw a pterodactyl”

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Pterodactyl Sightings in South Carolina

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. [plus three other sightings in South Carolina]

Flying Dinosaurs in South Carolina

Encounters with living pterosaurs Live “pterodactyls?” In the United States? Many scientists have long assumed all pterosaurs died millions of years ago. Now take a whirlwind tour of many years of investigations in cryptozoology . . . [nonfiction book by Whitcomb]

Live pterosaurs in South Carolina

I [Jonathan Whitcomb] interviewed Susan Wooten, by email in 2007, about her sighting of an apparent pterosaur that flew over a highway that ran by a swamp in South Carolina.

Pterodactyl sightings in North Carolina

The sighting was reported on The Gear Page, an internet forum that is popular with some musicians. Because it’s not a cryptozoology forum, we can better see how Western cultural assumptions influence how people react to a report of a “pterodactyl” flying over a highway on the outskirts of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Pterosaurs in North Carolina and in South Carolina

Susan Wooten was driving . . . to the town of Florence, on a clear mid-afternoon in the fall of about 1989 . . . [In a forested swampy area] Wooten saw something flying from her left, then passing in front of her, behind her friend’s car. “It swooped down over the highway and back up gracefully over the pines,” . . . “It looked as big as any car . . . NO feathers . . .

People see pterodactyls in South Carolina

Some cars in the opposite lane pulled over after the pterosaur-like creature flew over the highway. Susan wanted to pull over to talk with them but she would have been separated from her friend who kept going.

Photo attribution (Charlamagne tha God in a red shirt):

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