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Eyewitnesses: Hodgkinson and Wooten compared |
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Duane Hodgkinson and Susan Wooten, in different decades and in different parts of the world, saw a long-tailed “pterodactyl” or pterosaur. |
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In Susan Wooten’s own words:
“I saw a pterodactyl in 1989 or 1988 sometime in there, 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 . . . it was 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 pterosaur or pterosaur-like creature and she distinguished the legs from the long tail. Her sketch also showed the head appendage. She estimated 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 the legs and the 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 to be almost thirty feet (like Piper Tri-Pacer airplane).
Both Hodgkinson and Wooten have stood by their testimonies for years. Both of them experienced ridicule when they told people about their sightings, yet they have not recanted. |
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When two eyewitness testi-monies agree on several points, the credibility of the most natural or direct interpretation of those points is strengthened. Accumu-lating evidence strengthens the case. |
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South Carolina pterosaur sketched by Wooten |
