Pterodactyl Sighting in Mexico

sketch of a modern pterosaur - by Eskin Kuhn
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By cryptozoologist Jonathan D. Whitcomb

Here’s part of an email I received recently [corrected for English]:

I’ve been talking to my mother about the pterodactyl like creature she saw about 15 years ago. . . . in Lázaro Cardenas, Michoacán (Mexico) . . . There were cats, iguanas, bats, raccoons (at night) and even once a baby crocodile pass through . . .

. . . in 2007 . . . One morning, around 7:00 am, my mother left the house . . . about 80 meters far from the house she noticed what she described . . . a small pterodactyl like creature climbing up . . . the tennis court fence (she was about 15-20 meters far from the creature . . .)

. . . she ran back to the house very scared, and told my father, who was having his breakfast. He went out to take a look, but the creature was not there anymore.

Physical characteristics described by my mother:

1) Small pterodactyl like animal. Leathered. . . . Wingspan, as they weren’t completely open, could be a meter (bit more or less)

2) No feathers.

3) No hair.

4) Color: Medium dark brown, similar to boxes.

5) Sharp peak, as in pterosaurs, but not huge, about two feet long (no teeth observed)

6) Claws on its two paws, it was using them to climb the tennis court fence.

7) Two wings were moving gently as it was climbing, but weren’t wide open; she noticed also [these] kind of bone rods on them.

I already have shown her different types of big fruit bats found on the internet and even this hammerhead bat, thinking that maybe it was a bat, but she would not recognize them as the creature she saw. . . .

Additional sighting report details (or lack)

Because the animal was climbing a fence and because the lady did not observe it for long, certain details could not be observed: She did not know whether or not it had a head crest or a long tail.

The lady’s son also told me, “between 2007 and 2008 most of the wild “home cats” living there disappeared. We never saw dead cat bodies; at the time we thought maybe the new administration eradicated them.

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Pterodactyl “Civil War” Photo

. . . take a closer look, in particular at the belt buckle of one man

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More Pterosaur Sightings in Mexico

. . . los hechos ocurrieron hace aproximadamente 10 años, en una presa cerca de mi ciudad, la cual se encuentra en el estado de chihuahua en Mexico . . . It happened about 10 years old at a dam near my city, which is in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico . . .

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Pterodactyl Sightings in North America

It begins with a sighting report from a small village south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and the flying creature was enormous.

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New Music for Church Choirs

Written in 2022, the S.A.T.B. choir piece “Come to Christ” has text adapted from the scriptures of both the Book of Mormon and the Bible.

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Pterodactyl Sightings Reported on Videos

For three+ years, I have produced and uploaded to Youtube videos about modern pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls”. As of mid-2022, this channel (Protect Animal Life) has well over 200 active videos on these amazing featherless flying creatures . . .

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Potential Pterodactyl Attacks Against People

I saw two of them when I was seven with my two younger sisters on a beach in Florida at night. They hovered right over us in one spot silently looking at us like we were dinner.

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Pterodactyl sightings in the United States

When he spent a night watching the sky . . . he saw something like a Pteranodon, with bat-like wings but a wingspan of about 8-10 feet and a head that he estimated was four feet long.

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Pterosaur Sightings Worldwide

From Jonathan Whitcomb: After my expedition on Umboi Island in the southwest Pacific in 2004, I returned home to California, anxious to publicize what I had learned from native eyewitnesses of the ropen. Within a few years, I learned another shocking truth about these flying creatures: They live in many areas of the planet . . .

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Live Pterodactyl – 200+ videos by early 2022

This has three video trailers from the 200+ videos available for you to watch on the Youtube channel “Protect Animal Life”.

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Pterosaur sightings in North Carolina

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.

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Sightings of Living Pterosaurs in New Mexico

I used to tell people that I had seen a dragon twice in the wild but never a mountain lion.

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Pterodactyl sighting in Texas

Alex Salinas was looking out across a field in Weslaco, Texas, in around the year 1998, when he saw something flying towards him. At first, he assumed it was a crane, but it was flying alone at night, which was not what cranes did in that area of southeast Texas. . . . it was not only not a crane but unlike any kind of bird. With a leathery appearance, it had a long tail and a bone-like head crest.

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Pterosaur sightings in California

. . . when reports of big featherless flying creatures in California are taken in context with similar reports from many other areas, the shock is not quite as great, although it still is a shock to learn about those animals.

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Pterodactyl sightings in Georgia

If we combine recent reports with those of Sandra Paradise, it may eventually make enough material for somebody to write a book about this subject: modern pterosaurs in Georgia [USA].

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Pterodactyl Photo in a Youtube Video

More credible of the two apparent Civil War photos of a large pterosaur and some soldiers
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By Jonathan Whitcomb

In this Youtube video on the “Protect Animal Life” channel, I explain the importance of the Ptp photo, yet I admitted that it is not completely proven that the image shows a modern pterosaur.

Near the beginning of the video, the image is compared with a photo hoax of several Civil War reenactors who helped create a fake photo for the Freakylinks TV show of two decades ago.

comparing two photos of possible modern pterodactyls

Two images which could easily be confused

The photo on the left leaves no room for doubt: Not only is the original fake pterodactyl possessed by the cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, but the original photograph (in color and before any digital processing was used to make it appear old) can be found online. It was created by Freakylinks for their TV show, although it was not used directly in any of their episodes, apparently, but only used on their online promotion for their show.

On the right, however, is the Ptp image, and this shows a number of signs that the original was a true old photo that includes a real modern pterosaur.

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A Reply to an Attack Against the Pterosaur Photograph

According to the physicist who has examined this old photo in detail, Clifford Paiva, the apparent pterosaur has a head that suggests it was a Pteranodon. . . .

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Pterodactyl sightings in North Carolina – Newspaper article

The News & Observer published an article, earlier this week, about a sighting by Cynthia Lee and about my ideas on non-extinct “pterodactyls,” including pterosaur sightings in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Youtube Videos on Pterodactyl Sightings in the United States

Flying dinosaurs in the capital city of North Carolina? ALIVE!? Yes, and many persons in Raleigh have seen these large flying creatures . . .

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The Hobbit and Searching for Ropens

As we approach Hobbit Day, here’s a little fun with comparisons to Searching for Ropens and Finding God.

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Pterodactyl sightings in press releases

Over the past two decades, many online press releases have been published about modern pterodactyls, and some of them are about encounters with large featherless flying creatures in the United States.

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Modern pterosaur sightings in the United States

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

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Press Releases on Flying Dinosaurs

We now take a brief look at four press releases about modern pterosaurs, what some people call “pterodactyls” and others call “flying dinosaurs”. They’re seen not only in Papua New Guinea but in the United States.

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Report Pterodactyl Sighting

Whitcomb's nonfiction book "Live Pterosaurs in America"
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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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Press Releases on Pterodactyl Sightings

photo of young lady Cynthia Lee, a pterosaur eyewitness
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By Jonathan Whitcomb

Report Pterodactyl Sighting

A press release is generally an official statement delivered to news professionals  giving information on a subject, sometimes to explain the official position of a person or an organization, making it available for the public.

Although the format or style of a press release can make it appear to be an objective news story, it almost surely originated from a person or an organization promoting its own point of view.

In that context, I present the following three press releases that I wrote a number of years ago.

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Two types of modern pterosaurs - long tailed from Cuba and one in Papua New Guinea without any long tail
Sketch by an eyewitness (Cuba) and image from a video (southwest Pacific)

Reports of Living Pterosaurs

According to the American nonfiction author Jonathan Whitcomb, many eyewitness accounts of live pterosaurs cannot be reasonably dismissed as pranks, misidentifications, or hallucinations. He cites statistical data

Pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls,” live in various parts of the world . . . [Whitcomb] has written three nonfiction books, based on eyewitness reports that he has received over the . . . years of his investigation in cryptozoology.

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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur

Simple basics about how culture relates to these sightings—that is covered in this book: “Some people in Western countries like the United States do not belief everything that is said by natives in Papua New Guinea. Those natives may think differently than we do, because they live in a different culture. Maybe something in their culture might cause them to think that they had seen something like a Sordes pilosus. I have an answer to that.” (from page 32)

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photo of young lady Cynthia Lee, a pterosaur eyewitness

Eyewitness Reports of Apparent Living Pterosaurs in North Carolina

Where do these flying creatures appear? They have been reported in Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Wilmington, and in other areas of N.C. . . .

Cynthia Lee, who has been studying to become a veterinary technician, reported to Whitcomb an apparent pterosaur that she saw on Thursday, January 4, 2018, in Raleigh. She was sure that the flying creature had no feathers, but it did have a long tail with a “diamond shaped bulb at the end of the tail.” It also had a head crest.

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Pterodactyl Press Releases

It seems to be a nocturnal flying creature reported by World War II veterans who fought in the Pacific. Unlike the fruit bats that are common in Papua New Guinea and Australia, this animal has a long tail and has been described by some eyewitnesses as much larger.

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Reply to a Newspaper Article in North Carolina

The News & Observer published an article, earlier this week, about a sighting by Cynthia Lee and about my ideas on non-extinct “pterodactyls,” including pterosaur sightings in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Ropen

I am a scientist, and I have discovered that the great majority of eyewitness sighting reports of extant pterosaurs are neither misidentifications nor hoaxes; part of my conclusion is based upon the data from eyewitness estimates of wingspan.

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Free Nonfiction Book

Are you a lucky eyewitness who has seen a living pterosaur? . . . well, maybe a cursed eyewitness? This is for you: eyewitness reports of large featherless flying creatures seen over the past few decades in Australia and in Papua New Guinea.

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Living Pterosaurs

Those cryptozoologists who have explored tropical islands in Papua New Guinea, in search of living pterosaurs, believe the ropen is a large long-tailed flying creature having no feathers.

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Ropen Flying Creature

A tradition in north-central Umboi Island was related to David Woetzel and Garth Guessman regarding the ropen’s tail. Can the tail move or bend? The tradition says that it is always straight except at the base where the tail connects to the body. This correlates precisely with the biology of the tails of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs.

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Pterodactyl Sighting in a Newspaper

The Morning Call of San Francisco published “Pterodactyls and others” on Wednesday, August 5, 1891, a brief report of two “pterodactyls” flying near Fresno. Most of the article, however, was about why the writer thought it was almost impossible for anybody to have seen what was reported.

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Ropen Sightings

. . . on August 27 [2008] she had driven less than ten miles, just leaving an area of pasture, 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.

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