Live Pterosaur Media Center Live Pterosaur Media Center Home Jonathan Whitcomb on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea Images for Media Pterosaur living in Cuba in 1965 Media professionals may use these images for news articles and news publications: online, in print, or on television Jonathan David Whitcomb Jonathan Whitcomb at home in Long Beach, California Whitcomb’s non-fiction book on pterosaurs Images from Jonathan Whitcomb’s 2004 expedition in Papua New Guinea Eyewitness Wesley Koro Eyewitness Mesa Agustin Eyewitness Gideon Koro Mountain near Lake Pung, where Wesley, Mesa, and Gideon saw the flying creature called “ropen” Abram, of Opai Village, saw the ropen flying just above a reef, like it was fishing Eyewitness David Mokay saw a bright light coming from above his head, one night Mount Bel, where the flying ropen light is sometimes seen at night, including in 2004 Luke Paina and Jonathan Whitcomb waiting for the big boat in Lae, PNG Lab Lab, on the east coast of Umboi Island, where Paina and Whitcomb disembarked in 2004 Mount Swal (or “Sual”), where Garth Guessman and David Woetzel camped out (near Lake Bono) late in 2004 Sometimes the ropen light is seen on or near Mount Barik, Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea Mount Tolo, near Lake Pung Villagers just south of Mount Tolo, Umboi Island Images related to the 1944 “pterodactyl” sighting in New Guinea, by Duane Hodgkinson Off the southern coast of Umboi Island, 2004 Children south of Lake Pung, Umboi Is. Comparing the largest fruit bat to the 1944 “pterodactyl” Entrance to the harbor at Finschhafen Photograph by Jonathan Whitcomb Hodgkinson examines a native-made comb Harbor of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea For media use: other images related to modern living pterosaurs  Sketch drawn by eyewitness Patty Carson - (480 KBytes) gray image, medium-large 177 KB, color image Flying Fox fruit bat Photo: fruit bat “Pterodactyl” seen by Eskin Kuhn Bayou in the Orange County wildlife preserve Sketched within hours of the sighting at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 1971 San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, near Irvine, California Where a giant “ropen” flew over the road Marshy land from where the huge flying creature came, before flying over the road Another pond at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Orange County Trails at the sanctuary Jonathan Whitcomb (center) and family at Loch Ness, Scotland, in 1972 One of many images from the computer-assisted analysis of Paul Nation’s video footage of two flying lights he recorded in Papua New Guinea Gideon puzzled at the question asked by Whitcomb. He replied, “There was no feathers.”