The following comment I found under one of my videos on my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life. (This comment is edited for correct English.) I’ll include a bit about the video and a link to it at the bottom of the comment. For a recent video on this subject, see “Ropen or Alligator Belief“.
From nix-cipher (about mid-2021):
. . . A quick story that may interest you as a former breeder of crocodilians and expert on ropen.As a former resident of Florida and active outdoor enthusiast, I used to kayak the various swamps throughout the state.During these excursions I routinely encountered a wide variety of Florida’s indigenous fauna (along with numerous invasive species) from alligators to monkeys (a few Cormorants, but regrettably no ropen.)
Several years after moving to a northern state (during a family get-together) I met a man, and we engaged in conversation. One of the topics included outdoor activities, of which I related my frequent encounters with alligators and how I would attempt (sometimes successfully) to feed leftover food to the “small” [three-to-four feet long ones] who would come into my yard periodically (my property bordered a grown in waterway.)Well, he practically called me a liar.
As it turned out, this man has never visited any southern State nor took any opportunity to leave the boundaries of his home state.To him, what I related regarding my experience was a fantastically fictitious story, and he vocalized this to his chagrin, as several family members and a few guests (who were listening to said conversation) who were fortunate enough to have either lived “down South” or vacationed there (including Florida) collaborated my story, especially with the alligators intruding into “backyards”.
This to me highlights the limited mindset of people when told something outside the scope of their experience, for example ropen.I believe the ropen exists without seeing one, as a substantial amount of creditable people worldwide have experienced and importantly reported the sighting of them.Thank you for all your painstakingly investigative research and your most valuable time in sharing and enlightening us and those who seek the truths of our world.
The video above this comment is “Pterodactyls Living — Deceased Eyewitnesses“, although it is not close to being one my better videos. Feel free to go there and reply to that comment.
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Missing Persons in the United States
The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States.
[Youtube video] How is a sighting of two “pterosaurs” in North Carolina, both caught on camera, related to a sighting of two “pterosaurs” in Minnesota? . . . It’s possible that the four flying creatures are all of the same species, and both encounters were only a few years ago.
Much has been written, over the past 19 years, about the first year-2004 ropen expedition on Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea; not so much, however, has been written about the second expedition of that year. [another Youtube video on the channel Protect Animal Life]
TWENTY pterodactyl sightings from excerpts of eight videos on the channel “Protect Animal Life”—those shocking encounters from around the world correlate with large flying creatures that can fly great distances around the world.
. . . entering an area of thick woods, around a mild downhill curve, with high banks and brush on each side of the road, when 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.
This ropen-pterodactyl-photo video has far more detail on the photograph itself, MUCH more information about Ptp image and how it very well may be a genuine photo of a modern pterosaur, recorded at around the year 1867.
After exploring Umboi Island in 2004, Jonathan Whitcomb (author of Searching for Ropens and Finding God) concluded that there is only one large ropen living continuously in the interior of Umboi Island, but many live on the mainland of Papua New Guinea.
How common are reports of long tails on apparent modern pterosaurs! We now begin with a report from Sudan, Africa, as I wrote in the fourth edition of my book Searching for Ropens and Finding God (page 152):
Flying Creature in Africa
I received another email, one directly from an eyewitness himself:
“In Sudan the classic house is one level made of mud bricks and walls, 3-5 rooms, 1-2 bathrooms and a kitchen, each room being a separate unit, but connected by a roofless hallway that leads to the patios.
“One evening in July of 1988, we had some guest over the house. . . . The guest were in the living room which was at one end of the house . . . I took the tray [of cookies and tea] walked through the open hallway and proceeded to the living room.
“When I got to the patio, I noticed something on the roof of my uncle’s room. . . . I was standing by the bathroom, about 10 feet away from it. . . . I seen it very clearly . . .
“It was very large, about 4 or 5 feet in height. It was an olive brown color, no feathers. It was leathery looking.. . . It had really large black claws and its tail looked like a lion’s tail . . . very long and had a bushy or hairy tip.
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Ropen Sightings in Papua New Guinea
During my expedition on Umboi Island, in the southwest Pacific in 2004, I was fortunate to interview three young men deep in the interior of that island. They were in a group of seven native boys, about ten years earlier, who had a shocking encounter with a gigantic ropen. Soon after arriving at the crater lake Pung, in the middle of the day, the creature flew over the surface of that lake.
While questioning Gideon Koro, I asked how long the tail was: He said, “seven meetuh” (7 meters or 23 feet). His brother Wesley later told me that the ropen they had encountered was “too big”.
Non-native eyewitnesses in Papua New Guinea have also described a long tail on an apparent “pterodactyl” or “prehistoric” flying creature. Duane Hodgkinson, in 1944, saw one with a tail he estimated to have been “at least ten or fifteen feet” long. Brian Hennessy’s creature (1971) had a tail that he described as “longish narrow”.
Other eyewitnesses, in many areas of the world, often describe apparent pterosaurs as having long tails. In addition, many of those persons also saw some kind of appendage at the end of the tail.
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Conclusion
It seems that at least one species of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur lives in many areas of the planet. These flying creatures are generally nocturnal and rare in any particular area at any particular time.
Within a few weeks after my return to the United States, two other Americans searched that same island for the ropen. They were able to explore areas in the north, where I had not been, and interview natives that I had not been able to contact.
In 2007, a businessman encountered a gigantic pterosaur as it flew in front of his car in Irvine, California, near the university, according to what he reported to me. The tail alone was about 15 feet long . . .
Three of us seen it. It was just turning light and it was gliding over a two lane road in front of the truck headed for a swampy area in Minnesota. . . . The teeth were all sharp, yes that’s how close we were. It had a spade tail as long as its body and a crest on its head with wings like a bat. Its color was reddish brown.
How could they now be living in California, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Ohio, New York, and many other states? Did not pterosaurs become extinct millions of years ago? Cryptozoology is the study of reports of creatures (or apparent creatures) whose descriptions suggest something other than animals classified by standard biology as extant.
Jonathan Whitcomb, executive director of Animal Discovery in Utah, suggests why a few professional paleontologists, along with some amateurs, have loudly objected to conclusions from investigators of eyewitness accounts of apparent non-extinct pterosaurs: “Most likely they’re afraid that public respect for traditional paleontology may be damaged.”
In 2007, I was on Bragg Street and I heard the trees ruffle and that same thing flew from one side of the street to the other. It was beside the bike trail before you get to Central Women’s Prison. I knew I wasn’t crazy: This time a guy at the other end looking towards me saw it [at] the same time. We just stared and both said, “Did you see that?”
Featherless flying reptiles appear to live across the globe, shocking and sometimes frightening eyewitnesses of these apparent modern pterosaurs. The animals are also called “pterodactyls” or even “flying dinosaurs” or “dinosaur birds”.
If it has a long tail, it is called “ropen”, but in some areas of Africa this reptile-creature is known as “kongamato”.
It is a strange description, to be sure, that combination of a head crest and a Rhamphorhynchoid-like tail that has a structure at tail-end. It appears almost as strange as a description of a platypus, to someone who knows about mammals and ducks but who has been ignorant of that strange animal that now lives in Australia.
On the Youtube channel Protect Animal Life, you can find well over 200 videos on modern pterosaurs: “pterodactyl” or “ropen” sightings. Here are some of the better videos that contain the word ropen:
“. . . The two large flying creatures he encountered just east of Fargo, North Dakota, apparently had no feathers, and the second one was seen to have teeth. According to the interviewer (the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb) the two flying creatures observed there on July 16, 2018, were probably related . . . .”
From comments by viewers:
“Kris Kosach Wellen
mid-2021
wow. i just heard from a family member who swears they saw one
too. I googled this to get more info. she doesn’t want to share,
but thank you for doing so. BTW- for the record, her sighting was
out west, not midwest so I wonder if these things migrate?”
“Jim M.
mid-2021
NO WORDS TO SAY EXCEPT, THAT’S AWESOME.”
Why was a teenager biker in shock in southwest Washington state in about 1987? In the words of the eyewitness: “I lived in the country with my parents. I was riding my bike home . . . I heard a strange noise.” He then saw two huge flying creatures sitting on a fence. He reported, “I almost crashed my bike . . . they were huge.”
A viewer’s comment:
“I love this eyewitness’ account! One of my favorites!”
As one of the “Friday afternoon livestream chats”, this video was recorded onto Youtube in November of 2021.
From the description:
What photo has been more controversial, over the past decade or so or living-pterosaur investigations, than the “Ptp” image? It could also be titled the “Civil War pterodactyl”. Does it show a real ropen or pterodactyl, or is it a hoax—that question has been met with both strong support and complete denial.
. . . My sighting was in June of 2014 heading north from Laredo, Texas, between Laredo and Austin. . . . 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 . . .
Yesterday I uploaded to Youtube the music video “Ropen in South Carolina”, which is mostly about three sightings of apparent living pterosaurs in the northern area of that state.
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.
The large nocturnal long-tailed featherless flying creature called “ropen”—that apparent pterodactyl is observed worldwide, in many nations of the earth.
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.
. . . 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.
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.
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 . . .