By cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb
During the past seventeen years, I’ve received hundreds of sighting reports from the United States; now very few states remain in which a “pterodactyl” has not been reported to me. As a result, I have been able to estimate a minimum number of Americans who have had a clear sighting of one of these flying creatures at some time in their human lifetimes. It is at least in the hundreds of thousands of Americans.
As far as I can see, it would have to be over 300,000 Americans, for anything less than that does not make sense with how many of them have contacted me about not only their sightings but about one or more friends or family members who have also had a similar sighting.
I could almost write a book just on those cases. For example, one of my sisters and I knew a teenager in the 1960’s who said for that she had seen a gigantic “pterodactyl” fly up into the mountains north of Pasadena, California; that flying creature was the “size of a bus.” Is it just a coincidence that decades later I would write several books about modern pterosaurs? When I learned about that reported sighting in the 1960’s, as best as I recall, I dismissed it as impossible and forgot about what that teenager had told my sister.
Of course that experience may have had a subliminal effect on me, helping me to take up this strange little branch of cryptozoology, but I don’t think so, at least not to any great degree.
Cynthia Lee, who was featured in newspaper articles in North Carolina three years ago this month, is an eyewitness. Yet her mother and uncle also had a sighting when they were kids, although Cynthia did not believe them before her own encounter.
Many pterosaur sightings in North Carolina
The list would go on and on, but the point is this: All those eyewitnesses who know other persons who saw the apparent same thing yet the others never contacted me—those quiet eyewitnesses cannot be explained within the idea that less than a tenth of 1% of Americans have had a good sighting. With about 300 million Americans, that makes at least 300 thousand good sightings of these flying creatures.
The only other possibility I see is this: The average American has thousands of first cousins and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and also has many thousands of friends who would freely admit to almost everyone they knew that they had observed a live pterodactyl, even before the other person did NOT first admit seeing one.
My experience communicating with hundreds of American eyewitnesses, over the past 17 years leads me to this: The average American eyewitness of a modern pterosaur might not tell anyone except one or two close friends or relatives, and in many cases that trusted one had no apparent confidence that the other person saw a living pterosaur. That’s why only a tiny fraction of eyewitnesses ever contacts me or one of my associates: If you cannot convince someone very close to you, why bother contacting a stranger?
Pterodactyl sightings in North Carolina
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Living pterosaurs in the United States
Modern pterosaurs have been seen in many states of the USA, including California, Texas, Utah, South Carolina, North Carolina, etc.
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How many Americans have seen a pterodactyl?
As of early December of 2017, it seems that no scientist has a body of a recently-deceased pterosaur to examine, or at least I have no knowledge of such a discovery and examination. That’s why my associates and I continue to work in the realm of cryptozoology, using whatever knowledge is available.
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This is a long online article related to the nonfiction book Live Pterosaurs in America. This could be considered a lengthy book review.
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Pterodactyl sightings around the world
A Youtube video with sighting reports from Italy, Africa, Spain, England, and many encounters in North America.
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Over the past 16 years, hundreds of eyewitnesses have contacted Whitcomb from five continents, and some of those were from 41 states of the USA. Three of those states now stand out in the number of reported sightings of apparent pterosaurs in relation to each state’s human population: Hawaii, Utah and Arkansas, in that order.
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Youtube videos on modern pterosaurs
This is no joke. I, Jonathan Whitcomb, began investigating eyewitness reports of apparent living pterosaurs in 2003. One year later, I led a brief expedition in Papua New Guinea, as our team searched for the nocturnal ropen of Umboi Island.
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Video on Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina
I uploaded this short video to my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life on January 6, 2020, and it was doing better than average up until about August 26th of that year. From August 27-28, however, it skyrocketed . . .
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