Live Pterosaur Media Center Live Pterosaur Media Center Home Jonathan Whitcomb cryptozoology author Press Room for News Releases Pterodactyl Reported in Papua New Guinea   A study by an American cryptozoologist suggests that the "pterodactyl"  described by the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson was a real  creature, of a species living in coastal areas of Papua New Guinea. . . .   Whitcomb disputes the idea that sightings of giant “pterodactyls” are only  misidentifications of Flying Fox fruit bats. A few years before his 2004  expedition, other Americans interviewed two Umboi Island natives who  described how one ropen held itself upright on a tree trunk; fruit bats, on  the other hand, hang upside down from branches. In addition, the ropen is  said to eat fish and to have a long tail, unlike the Flying Fox. . . .   Glowing Creatures Videotaped In Papua New Guinea   A physicist [Clifford Paiva], who examined video footage of two strange  lights that explorers think are bioluminescent pterosaurs, declares that the  glow is not from meteors, lanterns, campfires or an airplane. Paul Nation,  of Granbury, Texas, videotaped the lights one night, in November, 2006,  in a remote mountainous area of the mainland of Papua New Guinea. . . .   Paul Nation's 2006 sightings make his expedition stand out from all  previous living-pterosaur expeditions from 1994 through 2004. He saw  eight flights of the nocturnal creatures: low altitude over the mountain  ridges, far northwest of Port Moresby . . .   Paiva told Whitcomb that the analysis found no evidence of any smoke or  rising plume that would indicate a fire-source. . . .   Reports of living pterosaurs in the U.S.A. not hoaxes   "Hoaxes are disproved," declares Jonathan Whitcomb, author of the  nonfiction book, "Live Pterosaurs in America." After compiling data from  reports collected from early-2004 to mid-2009, from eyewitnesses across  the United States, he found three kinds of evidence disproving any hoax-  explanation.   Pterodactyl-like creatures on New Britain Island   Leathery-skinned creatures with pointed head crests and bird-like beaks  fly over the interior of a tropical island in Papua New Guinea, according  to three American eyewitnesses who worked in a medical mission there.  With wingspans estimated between eight and twelve feet, the pterosaur-  like creatures are said to glide, in daylight, over valleys in central New  Britain Island . . .   Unmasking a Flying Predator in Texas   For generations, the mystery lights of Marfa, Texas, have entertained  residents with their strange dancing. On some warmer nights, a ball of  light seems to split into two, which will separate and fly away from each  other before turning around and flying back together. They have recently  been linked to flying lights in the southwest Pacific, lights that natives of  Papua New Guinea testify are from large flying creatures.   Pterodactyl in mid-20th-Century Cuba   Two large long-tailed flying creatures, apparent pterosaurs, caught the  Marine’s attention. He later reported that they were “flying together at low  altitude, perhaps 100 feet, very close in range from where I was standing,  so that I had a perfectly clear view of them.” . . . He had no idea that  anybody else had seen such a creature. [sighting by Eskin Kuhn]                                                            ### Other LPMC Resources “Gitmo Pterosaur” of Cuba The opinions here expressed are those of Jonathan David Whitcomb.  Media professionals are welcome to use these paragraphs in whole or in part for news distribution.  All of the images on this page may also be used by the news media. Contact: Native Eyewitness of a Giant Pterosaur on Umboi Island Jonathan Whitcomb 4503 Walnut Avenue Long Beach, CA 90807 Fruit Bats and Pterosaurs Misidentification Controversay Eyewitness Duane Hodgkinson Other Press Releases Dracula in Europe may have been a large flying animal, even a modern pterosaur Extinct or not, That is the Question about Pterosaurs pdf file of “Extinct or not” Pterosaurs in Cuba --- sketched by the eyewitness himself