By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

On February 21, 2020, I found a long comment under my Youtube video “Pterodactyl in a Jungle”, a detailed sighting report of a huge ropen seen in about the year 1994 in Garden City, Kansas. Here is part of that report:

I was playing outside with my siblings and uncle. . . . I was running home on a dirt road when I noticed it above me. It was about the size of a small plane. . . . about 30 ft. long.

There were no feathers on it for sure, it had a long tail with a triangle at the tip, and a crest on top of it’s head. The wings were like that of a bat- you know membrane and the beak was long and on the thinner side.

It was so large as it flew/glided (more glided) above me . . . it was dark in color . . . probably dark gray. I was not scared but frozen in awe. I watched it until it disappeared off into the horizon.

I remember even at that age knowing that people would think I was crazy if I recounted my story. . . . This is what I saw, it’s inexplicable and unbelievable, yet it happened. . . . the weather was clear . . . What I saw was clear as day. It was about as high up as the telephone wires . . .

Here’s the video itself:

Watch this video: “Pterodactyl in a Jungle”

Be aware that this flying creature on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, is a living pterosaur, even though it is apparently not a ropen, for it does not have a long tail.

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Ropen video

On the Youtube channel Protect Animal Life is the recent video “Counter Culture of the Ropen”

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Live Pterodactyl

Many of the eyewitness reports come from the southwest Pacific,including Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Indonesia; but some come from Africa, South America, North America, and Europe.

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Ropen eyewitness

Youtube video on three eyewitnesses of the ropen of Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea – interviews conducted by Jonathan Whitcomb in 2004

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Pterodactyl in Kansas

Get the facts on pterosaur sightings in Kansas, in this Youtube video.

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Ropen of Papua New Guinea

Video about this non-extinct “pterodactyl” in the southwest Pacific

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Living Pterosaurs

For generations, Americans and other people in Western nations have been indoctrinated into believing that all species of certain basic types of living things became extinct millions of years ago, the two most notable types being dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

 

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

Report a Sighting

If you have seen any flying creature that brings to mind one or more of the following words or phrases, please contact me. Also feel free to get in touch with me if you know of any friend or relative or neighbor who may have seen such an animal. This applies whether or not the sighting was in Arkansas. Thank you.

• Pterodactyl
• Flying dinosaur
• pterosaur
• Dinosaur bird
• Dragon
• Prehistoric bird

Sighting of a Modern Pterosaur in Sherwood, Arkansas

I got the first email from this eyewitness on November 12, 2018. I asked permission for publishing the person’s name and received it: Chancey Carter:

I saw what looked to be a flying dinosaur this morning. It flew above my vehicle and I was too late to take a picture. It had long wings and a long neck. I was in Sherwood, Arkansas when I saw this creature.

My Reply:

Thank you very much for telling me about this. About what time was it? Thanks.  Jonathan Whitcomb

Second email from Chancey Carter:

It was right around 7:15 am, it’s raining and cold here so the sun is not out.

My Reply:

Thank you. I just want to be sure that I understand. Was your sighting this morning, Monday, Nov 12th?

Third email:

Yes . . .

My Reply:

Thank you. I see Sherwood on a map now. Is it just a few miles from Little Rock? In what area of Sherwood was the sighting?

Fourth email from Chancey:

It’s a few miles from Little Rock, Arkansas. It flew from the direction of Sherwood police department. If you could find that on the map, it flew towards a wooded area with . . . trees. I wish I could’ve caught a picture but I was so shocked to see something I [had never seen before].

Another Sighting in Arkansas, Early in 2018

Earlier in the same year, I got an email from an eyewitness who told me about a sighting a few weeks earlier. James Smith and his mother Melba Smith saw a “pterodactyl” in Camden, Arkansas, at 11:45 a.m. (It was overcast that day.)

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Dinosaur Book for Children and Teens

Why would the new book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur be the best Christmas or birthday gift for many kids and teenagers? It invites them into a new world of adventure in cryptozoology: true stories of encounters with modern living pterosaurs.

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Modern pterosaurs and extinction

From fossils, we know that some pterosaurs had wingspans over 20 feet. Should such an animal live near humans, it would be feasible for it to carry off a child or small adult. A report of such an incident may resemble a fable to Westerners, yet natives in a remote jungle see no problem except the danger from that animal.

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Pterodactyl in Arkansas

“My father and I saw a huge, featherless bird in Arkansas . . . when I was sixteen . . . We were sitting on big rocks at a cliff about 300 foot above the river when it flew out just under us and we watched it all the way down toward the river till it passed the tree lines. . . .”

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Yes, the Ropen is Real

In 1897, an eight year old girl, Virginia O’Hanlon, wrote a letter to the editor of a big newspaper in New York, asking if Santa Claus was real. The response has since become the most famous editorial of all time: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” I now apply that kind of positive journalistic response to what some persons have asked me over the past fifteen years. The question is in this general form: “Did I see a pterosaur?”

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Dinosaur book for LDS children and teens

My new nonfiction is for middle-grade children and many (but not all) teenagers: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. This is a short cryptozoology book, not about religion but about eyewitness sightings of apparent living pterosaurs. It invites you to seek the truth behind what people around the world report observing. . . . my new book . . . really is for English-speaking people of all faiths.

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Flying-dinosaur adventure book

I wrote the nonfiction book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur for several purposes. As a gift giver for a child or teenager, you need to know what benefits it can give to the young reader. I recommend it for readers between about the ages of eight and fourteen; for some ten-year-olds (and eleven and twelve) it will be exceptionally delightful: easy to understand yet stimulating.

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Cryptozoology book for children and teenagers

It’s about eyewitness testimonies about strange flying creatures that appeared unlike any bird or bat. The scientifically correct name for what some people call a “dinosaur bird” or a “flying dinosaur” is pterosaur. Please now consider how a young reader may be better off because of reading this short book (for readers about 8-14 years old).

[This is about the book “The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur.”]

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A new nonfiction book for children and teenagers:

Nonfiction book for young readers: Non-extinct ‘dinosaurs’

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Last month I received the first email from Laura . . ., who encountered a huge flying creature in Central Arkansas in the spring of 2012. I have since received many emails from her, with many details about the extraordinary creature she had observed. Here is a beginning (with some editing of the English):

I saw a pre-historic bird here in central Arkansas back this past spring. As I was driving over a small bridge with a creek underneath, it flew up from under the bridge beside my truck and flew up above my truck and out and over a field. I watched it from the side and the underneath. It had no feathers and it was grey skinned with pink undertones. It had three sections to its huge wings and a crown behind its head. It was so huge and heavy that it had trouble flying up high enough to get up over the top of the bridge. I watched as each section of its wings worked. . . .

Please be aware that she initially reported to me her conclusion that she may have observed a Pelagornis, based on the overall shape, especially the wings. (The Pelagornis is thought to be an extinct bird, probably closely related to storks and pelicans. It had a wingpspan of 15-20 feet.) In our communications, she repeated her assertion that the creature had no feathers and said, “This bird seemed to be almost as big as my small pickup truck. This is not a prank…I have a life and no time for pranks.”

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Flight path: from lower to middle to upper image [Please note that the eyewitness has made a comment recently: “. . . the flying creature did have some type of (cone-like) head crest . . . even though I did not draw that . . .”]

Her sketches confirmed to me the strangeness of the wing shape. It’s more common, in sightings of modern pterosaurs, to see sharper wing tips, rather than the squares ones observed by Laura. Nevertheless, she reports a lack of feathers, in addition to a size too large to have been from a classified bird (even if feathers were present but not noticed).

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Pterosaur Sighting or Ropen-Pterodactyl

Youtube video of an interview of Duane Hodgkinson (American World War II veteran) by Garth Guessman (video edited and uploaded by Jonathan Whitcomb)

Pterosaur Sighting Report Credibility

To be sure, very few Rhamphorhynchoid fossils include a head crest, but that structure in not entirely unknown on “basal” long-tailed pterosaurs. Many modern pterosaurs, according to many eyewitnesses worldwide, have both horn-like (or cone-like) head crests and long tails, in spite of fossils.

Addendum:

Laura Dean called in during the Monster X Radio talk show interview, on August 18, 2013, in which Shane Corson and “Johnny Bigfoot” were the hosts. Laura gave details about her sighting experience and the strange pterosaur she had observed.

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Live Pterosaurs in America (3rd edition) by J. D. Whitcomb

 

This book is one of the best books that I have ever read! It reminds us to have an open mind and that the things we have all been taught as fact ….may not be fact at all. This is a very interesting and educational book and may change the way you see the world around you.

 

I received a message the other day, through one of my blogs: two eyewitnesses of an apparent “dragon” flying overhead at night. Here is part of the report:

. . . my wife and I were leaving the small town of Hudson, Kansas . . . traveling on a rural [two-lane] highway. There was a row of trees along side the road on the North . . . As we approached the end of the tree row, something huge took to the air from the top of the tree row. . . . I said “what the Hell is that?” My wife said . . . “It looked like a dragon.” . . . We sure saw something huge.

I had received previous reports of apparent pterosaurs in Kansas, the following one recorded in the third edition of my cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in America (third edition):

“My friend and I were talking and I mentioned that I had seen an extremely large bird that resembled a pterodactyl some years ago when [I was] driving to town from the family farm [in Kansas] . . . I immediately thought of a prehistoric bird when I saw it. It must have had a wing-span of 16-20 feet.

“I asked my friend what kind of bird it could have been. We looked at pictures on the internet to see if we could figure anything out. I know he thought I had a vivid imagination, etc. So I decided to check further and ran across this site. I was amazed to find a lot written about others who claim to have seen such a bird. . . .” [Note that some eyewitnesses use the word “bird” when they actually mean something resembling a pterosaur.]

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Pterodactyl Alive

An American World War II veteran says that he saw a live “pterodactyl” in New Guinea in 1944 . . . Natives on the island of Umboi (in Papua New Guinea) have reported the same thing: the long-tailed bat-like “ropen” eats fish. This is just north of Finschhafen, where the American veteran saw a giant pterodactyl that had a tail “at least ten to fifteen feet long.”

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