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Eyewitnesses Hodgkinson and Wooten compared

Living Pterosaur Investigations

Sighting in South Carolina In Susan Wooten’s own words: “I saw a pterodactyl [1980’s] . . . was embarrassed to tell anyone, and who I told laughed at me. “I live in South Carolina and saw it when driving down the highway traveling from Greenville to Florence.  I was in college at the time. . . . it was about 3 pm and the thing flew over the highway in a remote area . . . a lot of woods and swamps . . . after Columbia and before Florence. [‘Hwy 20 going from Columbia to Florence’] It looked as big as any car, and had NO feathers, not like a huge crane or egret, but like a humongous bat. “It started out above pine treetops and swooped lower between and up again to fly up above treetops on other side. [‘swooped down over the highway’] It came from the left towards me, then over median, and over me, then up over treetops on my side, to the right.” Wooten drew a sketch of the pterodactyl or pterosaur-like creature and she distinguished the legs from the long tail. Her sketch also showed the head appendage. She esti- mated the wing-tip-to-wing-tip to be about twelve to fifteen feet. Duane Hodgkinson, almost a half-century earlier and on the other side of the world (New Guinea, now called Papua New Guinea), saw a long-tailed pterosaur. His sighting was also in daylight. He also clearly saw the difference between legs and long tail: the “pterodactyl” ran a few steps before becoming airborne. Hodgkinson, like Wooten, saw an appendage coming out the back of the head. He estimated the wingspan: almost thirty feet (like Piper Tri-Pacer airplane). Both Hodgkinson (not deceased) and Wooten stood by their testimonies for years. Both of them experienced ridicule when they told people about their sightings, yet they did not recant.

South Carolina pterosaur sketched by Wooten

Duane Hodgkinson and Susan Wooten, in differ- ent decades, in different parts of the world, saw a huge long-tailed “ptero- dactyl” or pterosaur.

“When two eye- witness testimonies  agree  in  several points, then the credibility of the most  direct inter- pretation of those points is greatly strengthened. Watch for accumulat- ing evidence.” (J. D. Whitcomb)

Live Pterosaur  Hodgkinson- Hennessy  Testimonies  Jonathan Ragu and Jonah Jim (Umboi) Duane Hodgkinson  Living pterosaurs in South Carolina

copyright 2007-2017 Jonathan Whitcomb

Live Pterosaur

Eyewitnesses Hodgkinson and Wooten compared

Living Pterosaur Investigations

Sighting in South Carolina In Susan Wooten’s own words: “I saw a pterodactyl [1980’s] . . . was embarrassed to tell anyone, and who I told laughed at me. “I live in South Carolina and saw it when driving down the highway traveling from Greenville to Florence.  I was in college at the time. . . . it was about 3 pm and the thing flew over the highway in a remote area . . . a lot of woods and swamps . . . after Columbia and before Florence. [‘Hwy 20 going from Columbia to Florence’] It looked as big as any car, and had NO feathers, not like a huge crane or egret, but like a humongous bat. “It started out above pine treetops and swooped lower between and up again to fly up above treetops on other side. [‘swooped down over the highway’] It came from the left towards me, then over median, and over me, then up over treetops on my side, to the right.” Wooten drew a sketch of the pterodactyl or pterosaur-like creature and she distinguished the legs from the long tail. Her sketch also showed the head appendage. She esti- mated the wing-tip-to-wing-tip to be about twelve to fifteen feet. Duane Hodgkinson, almost a half-century earlier and on the other side of the world (New Guinea, now called Papua New Guinea), saw a long-tailed pterosaur. His sighting was also in daylight. He also clearly saw the difference between legs and long tail: the “pterodactyl” ran a few steps before becoming airborne. Hodgkinson, like Wooten, saw an appendage coming out the back of the head. He estimated the wingspan: almost thirty feet (like Piper Tri-Pacer airplane). Both Hodgkinson (not deceased) and Wooten stood by their testimonies for years. Both of them experienced ridicule when they told people about their sightings, yet they did not recant.

South Carolina pterosaur sketched by Wooten

Duane Hodgkinson and Susan Wooten, in different decades, in different parts of the world, saw a huge long-tailed “pterodactyl” or pterosaur. “When two eyewitness testimonies agree in several points, then the credibility of the most direct interpreta- tion of those points is greatly strengthened. Watch for accumulating evidence.” (J. D. Whitcomb)

Live Pterosaur  Hodgkinson- Hennessy  Testimonies  Jonathan Ragu and Jonah Jim (Umboi) Duane Hodgkinson  Living pterosaurs in South Carolina

copyright 2007-2017 Jonathan Whitcomb