By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb
Last week, I uploaded to Youtube the video “Pterodactyl Sightings“, a four-minute mini-documentary mostly about two sightings of apparent living pterosaurs in western Minnesota in the summer of 2018. I recommend you watch that video, so I’ll here quote not from that but from an email I got from the eyewitness who was later interviewed for the video.
I believe I saw a Pterosaur last year on July 16, 2018. I had just gotten done shopping at Walmart . . . in northwestern Minnesota . . . It was between 5 and 5:30 pm and . . . I turned to drive north and I immediately looked up at this flying creature that looked and flew very odd.
It was going over the top of me at a height of about 200 to 300 feet flying northwest. I was seeing it from behind. I didn’t think to look for a tail or even notice one at the time but what I did notice was the way it flapped its wings. The wings seemed to roll or have a wave like form from the body outward to the wing tip. The wings would flap very slowly but the creature did not seem to have any trouble flying.
That was the first of two sightings in that area, within minutes of each other, for another of the apparent same species soon flew in that same direction. Remember to watch the video on the PAL channel (Protect Animal Life).
This is the Youtube thumbnail for “Pterodactyl Sightings”.
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Another “Pterodactyl” Video on Youtube
On June 25, 2020, I uploaded the video “Cryptid Encounter“, concentrating on a few sighting reports, mentioned in brief, of apparent modern pterosaurs. The eyewitnesses that received more attention in this video were the following:
- Harriet Sconce
- Duane Hodgkinson
- Wesley Koro
- Mesa Augustin
- Gideon Koro
- Michael of Opai Village
Mentioned by name in the video are the first, second, and last names listed above. Also shown are dozens of sightings in the USA, mostly in California, yet those encounters are seen only briefly and with few details.
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The oldest popular web site on these featherless flying creatures
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Ropen Rhamphorhynchoid in Minnesota
The teeth in this flying creature, plus the long tail with a “spade” at tail end, suggests it was a Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur. This sighting was in northern Minnesota, near some cedar swamps. Of the three eyewitnesses, one sent an email to Jonathan Whitcomb, in 2011, reporting the shocking encounter.
By the way, this sighting is mentioned in the video “Pterodactyl Sightings”, which was uploaded to Youtube, on the channel Protect Animal Life (PAL), on Thursday, June 18, 2020.
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The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur
This was the longest video on the PAL channel, as of mid-June, 2020. A significant part of it is about the sighting little Patty Carson had of a ropen at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the 1960’s, several years before the U.S. Marine Eskin Kuhn had his sighting in that same area.
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How shocking was Susan Wooten’s sighting of a giant pterosaur between Columbia and Florence, in about 1986, on a remote highway surrounded by some swamps and wooded areas of South Carolina!
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What is this flying creature called “ropen?” Countless eyewitnesses, in many countries across the planet, have pondered what it was they had seen. But ropens continue to fly overhead, continuing to shock humans who had assumed that all pterosaurs had become extinct millions of years ago.
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Those cryptozoologists who have explored tropical islands in Papua New Guinea, in search of living pterosaurs, believe the ropen is a large long-tailed flying creature having no feathers. It’s not yet officially classified in Western science.
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