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Why do Pterodactyls Attack People?

YouTube thumbnail for a modern-pterodactyl video

By Jonathan D. Whitcomb

On December 2, 2023, I uploaded to YouTube a video that now looks like it could become viral or at least attain the rank of “mini-viral”. If you’d like to watch it while remaining on this blog, click below and you’ll remain on this post:

Without the late Brent Sawin interviewing Frank Sicilia, we would not have this important video footage of this eyewitness and his testimony. Thank you to all who made possible this disclosure to the world.

Three cousins were fishing at night in Pennsylvania when they were attacked by a huge flying creature. Frank estimated the wingspan: between twenty and twenty-two feet.

It hovered for a short while before diving down toward them, and those dives numbered at least twelve to fifteen times. One of the fishermen left, and the other two, including Frank, remained with their fishing lines and kept whacking the legs and lower body of the flying creature each time it came down.

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Preschool Girl Attacked in Oklahoma

The eyewitness contacted me and related the terrifying details: When she was a small child, in daylight as she was walking to her house in rural Oklahoma, a huge hairy flying creature, with teeth in its mouth, dived down towards her. Fortunately, she ducked down to the ground just in time and escaped.

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Pterodactyl Sightings in the U.S.A.

It was the summer of 1977 and I was 17 at the time. I was fishing at a gravel pit in Heyworth, IL and the dawn had just [broken]. . . . As I stood there a creature glided down from my right to just above water level directly in front of me, no more than 50′ from where I was. . . .

I realized this was no ordinary bird but appeared more like a featherless reptile.

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Ropen Danger to Children – Big Flying Creature

Is it possible that a ropen with a wingspan of about 16-18 feet could have carried away a two-year-old boy in southern Arizona, in 1945? About 24 hours after his disappearance, he was found alive, sleeping in a dug-out hole in the ground 15 miles from where he went missing.

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Pterodactyls ALIVE in the USA!

Apparent modern living pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls” or “dinosaur birds”, have been seen in North America for centuries, including sightings in the United States of America. The following are the locations covered . . .

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New Pterodactyl Sighting Reports

These two encounters are described here in this video on the “Protect Animal Life” channel. First was a terrifying pterodactyl sighting in Washington state, with Mom and Dad suddenly realizing that their whole family could be in danger. Second was an encounter in Topeka, Kansas, and the wingspan was as wide as the street.

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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States.

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Loss Aversion and Living Pterosaurs

I now write about a cognitive bias, loss aversion, that appears to have had a major influence over a critic of my research. Since I am diving into a potential weakness in this man’s thinking, I do not mention his name.

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Flying Dinosaur in Canada – I saw a Pterodactyl

. . . here is one such account of an encounter with such a flying creature (in part): “I saw something similar to a pterosaur in Maple Ridge, British Columbia Canada. It was approximately 1 a.m., in the summer of either 2013 or 2014. . . . What appeared to be a pterosaur flew past, it was high up in the sky, and I just spotted the GIANT wings”.

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Video About Support for Modern Pterosaurs on YouTube

eyewitness (portrayed) of a modern pterosaur in Arkansas

By Jonathan Whitcomb

Many videos on YouTube are positive about the possibility that not all “pterodactyls” became extinct millions of years ago. On November 24, 2023, a video was uploaded on the YT channel Protect Animal Life, and it directs viewers to six other videos that are on five channels:

Pterodactyl or Flying Dinosaur NOT Extinct

If you would like to watch it on this WordPress platform, click below:

By clicking on the above image, you can stay on this blog (Live Pterosaur) but still watch the video. You’ll even remain here on this post.

The following are the six videos mentioned in the new video (for links to them, see the bottom of this blog, below the “###”):

“Legend or Lie? Tombstone Thunderbird”

This is the least supportive of the concept that one or more species of pterosaurs may still be living. In fact, if you watch only the first two thirds or so of it, you’ll miss the surprise near the end: Although the newspaper article in The Tombstone Epitaph may have a number of falsehoods, it may be based upon an actual event with two ranchers who tried following a large flying creature before their horses refused follow it.

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eyewitness (portrayed) of a modern pterosaur in Arkansas

Ropen of Arkansas Reenactment Living Pterosaur Pterodactyl

Jacob Guerra introduces this video, and after providing basic facts about the state of Arkansas he gets into a dramatic presentation of an encounter a lady had with a gigantic flying creature that flew in front of her pickup truck on a small bridge in a rural area.

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three men in a Youtube video

Pterosaurs Seen in the United States

Explorers and cryptozoologists Milt Marcy and Peter Beach explain how they witnessed bioluminescent flying creatures at the Yakima River in Washington State and an apparent living pterosaur in Papua New Guinea.

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Ropen or Pterodactyl? American Eyewitness Talks

The American World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson was interviewed, in 2005, by the cryptozoologist Garth Guessman. The resulting video (on the YouTube channel Protect Animal Life) is one of the most popular on YT for supporting the possibility of modern living pterosaurs. The sighting itself was in New Guinea in 1944.

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Jonathan Whitcomb explains the skepticism he had in 1968

Flying Dinosaur or Pterodactyl Sightings

The investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb explains how he can understand the perspective of a typical skeptic: In about 1968, he was a skeptic himself, although he now firmly believes in modern pterosaurs. His sister, who was in high school at the time, had a friend who declared that she had seen a gigantic “pterodactyl” that flew up into the foothills just north of Altadena, California.

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Pterodactyl or Ropen on Camera on Flying Dinosaur

Cynthia Lee, in Raleigh, North Carolina, recorded with her cell phone camera two large ropens. Those flying creatures were close enough that she was able to record both of them while the city bus she was on began to pull away. The apparent pterosaur that was flying much lower was being chased by a bird.

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Pterosaurs Seen in the United States

This YouTube video is on the channel Dino Discovery. Milt Marcy and Peter Beach are interviewed concerning their pterosaur sightings and investigation into these flying creatures in the United States and in Papua New Guinea.

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Ropen or Pterodactyl? American Eyewitness Talks

In this YouTube video, the flight instructor Duane Hodgkinson reveals what he and his army buddy saw in 1944 in the southwest Pacific: a “HUGE” “pterodactyl” that flew overhead, just west of Finschhafen. The YouTube channel is titled “Jonathan Whitcomb”.

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Pterodactyl or Ropen on Camera on Flying Dinosaur

This is one of many videos on Whitcomb’s YouTube channel “Protect Animal Life”. It mostly covers two “pterodactyl” sightings in the United States. One of those encounters was in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Flying Dinosaur or Pterodactyl Sightings

This is also on the “PAL” channel (Protect Animal Life): Jonathan Whitcomb’s confession that he disbelieved a sighting report when he was young (in about 1968). The encounter was in Altadena, California, a little north of Pasadena.

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Legend or Lie? Tombstone Thunderbird

This YouTube video leaves a crack in the door for believing that an apparent pterosaur flew near Tombstone, Arizona, in the late 19th century. “KGUN9” is the name of the YouTube channel (Whitcomb is not connected with it).

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Ropen of Arkansas Reenactment Living Pterosaur Pterodactyl

The main point in this YouTube video is the sighting of a huge pterosaur that flew over a small bridge in rural Arkansas years ago. The YT channel is THE ROPEN NETWORK (not owned or controlled by Jonathan Whitcomb).

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Respecting Eyewitness Testimony

Another still image from the video "Why You Are NOT Crazy" on the channel "Protect Animal Life"

By Jonathan Whitcomb

How strange is this title for a video: “Why You Are NOT Crazy“! At only two and a half minutes long, it pleads for people to keep an open mind about those who declare that they have seen an apparent primitive flying creature.

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Still from the YouTube video "Why You Are NOT Crazy"

Here is the first paragraph of the narration:

No Problem! You are NOT crazy to believe someone who reports seeing a living pterodactyl — Many thousands of Americans have seen something that at least LOOKS like a non-extinct pterosaur, during the past 79 years, if we begin with a sighting by the late Duane Hodgkinson, during World War II.

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Another still image from the video "Why You Are NOT Crazy" on the channel "Protect Animal Life"

From this video on the YouTube channel Protect Animal Life

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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States.

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Loss Aversion and Living Pterosaurs

Two decades ago, a man started writing a web page criticizing the idea that not all species of pterosaurs are extinct. He often added to that page and mentioned my name many times. He expanded it so often, over the years, that the word count, as of earlier this week, was 40,676. How gigantic at 40 thousand words on that one online post! And how unique, mentioning my name (“Whitcomb”) 493 times!

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Youtube Videos on Living-Pterosaurs

As we approach the 15-year anniversary of my ropen expedition on Umboi Island, I’ll share my views on some Youtube videos and playlists: about these amazing flying creatures. You choose which ones to watch.

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Newly-Acquired Reports of Pterodactyl Sightings in the United States

The following are some of the *more-recently received sighting reports of modern pterosaurs in the USA. We’ll start with two Youtube videos on the channel Protect Animal Life (PAL) and then get into two emails. At least one report seems to have been about a ropen. (*The encounters themselves may be older.)

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Pterodactyl “Civil War” Photo

Rectangular belt buckles were not, apparently, worn by common Union soldiers during the American Civil War, as I understand. Is this just a rare exception shown in this Ptp image? Look at other men in Ptp:

Apparently not one of the six men has a rank even as high as a sergeant, and not one of them seems to have an oval belt buckle, which has been called the standard buckle shape for common Union soldiers during the American Civil War. So what are we to conclude? [They were very likely photographed shortly AFTER the end of the American Civil War.]

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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?

Jonathan Whitcomb with sketch of a pterosaur

By Jonathan David Whitcomb

The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States. (Click the image below to watch the video while remaining on this blog post.) The states involved were Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Ropen Danger to Children – Big Flying Creature (Youtube site)

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Western Oklahoma

The following are some of the words of the eyewitness (Sara) from Oklahoma. The encounter was a few miles south of Cordell. (edited slightly for English)

In 1977, in sw Oklahoma, . . . I was 4 years old. My older siblings just left off on the bus for school. I was heading to the house from the chicken house [at] about 8 a.m. when a large flying creature tried to grab me. The wings where slick like a bat. The body (about the size of a Volkswagen bug) was covered in hair. . . . It had a beak with teeth and I turned . . . and screamed. It missed me and it squawked a mean squawk. I kept looking up as I ran in the house.

Sara also reported to me that the huge flying creature had teeth in its beak, and she knew, even at only four years old, that it was not normal for a bird to have teeth.

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Eastern Texas

Now for the words of a grandmother in Texas, a few years ago:

My grandchild was outside playing just before dark at twilight. This grey reddish, giant looking bird, with no feathers, tried to take him. I grabbed him and ran inside the house. My grandchild didn’t see the danger. He kept on playing inside. It’s been three years since that [happened]. I never mentioned it [until someone asked me if I had seen this kind of flying creature]. I thought, no one would believe it . . .

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Another Oklahoma Pterosaur Sighting

I’m a truck driver and I was headed eastbound [on July 17, 2012] on I-40 about 30 to 40 miles west of Oklahoma city around 2:30 p.m. I was [on] the phone with my wife when I saw something I had never seen before flying southward in front of me . . .

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New Mexico and Texas

I live in central N.M.. Fourteen years ago, in [Socorro], N.M., me and a close friend, who now has a masters in biology, were hiking during the midday sun at [a] box canyon . . . and saw a large flying animal. . . . It had a 20-30 foot wingspan . . .

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Missing Persons & Pterodactyl Sightings – Ropen?

This Youtube video, on the channel “Protect Animal Life”, features Frank Sicilia, who was attacked by an apparent “pterodactyl” while he was fishing on the bank of the Delaware River.

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Missing persons and pterodactyls

From I can tell so far, from reading his book, most persons in these cases are never found, alive or dead. When a person or a body is found, it is often miles away and where that person or body should not have been found. It’s often at a much higher elevation, even on or near a mountain peak or ridge or it’s a body at the base of a cliff.

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Pterodactyl Attacks in British Columbia

This horse was not killed by a bear, a wolf, or a cougar. . . . None of these animals carries part of their dinner to the top of nearby trees, and they certainly have no reason to break branches on those trees.

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Modern pterodactyl danger

Almost never will a modern ropen or pterodactyl attack a person, yet those less-common times when someone is attacked—those deserve attention.

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Declaration on Living Pterosaurs

Most of the following are from direct eyewitness testimony sent by email to the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, who now lives in Murray, Utah. Some of the reports, however, involve more direct communication with the persons encountering the flying creatures: face-to-face interviews and phone conversations.

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