By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb
During the past couple of years or so, I have received reports that make it clear that some modern pterosaurs can be dangerous to humans. Here is one report from the past few weeks:
Attack in Florida
I saw two of them when I was seven with my two younger sisters on a beach in Florida at night. They hovered right over us in one spot silently looking at us like we were dinner. Only a few times their wings flapped down, making a shuddering sound, wuumph! and we could feel the vibrations from their flaps. I always wondered how they stayed in one spot hovering like that.
We backed away slowly keeping our eyes on them, then turned around and ran for our lives screaming back to the grownups. None of the grownups believed us. It was pitch black. I will never forget that sound of their wings.
The following is from an eyewitness who was only four years old at the time:
I know what I saw, because it was less than six feet above me. This thing was huge. I liken his body size to a Volkswagen bug. [It was] covered completely with brown / blackish fur [and had] no feathers. . . . the wings [had the] same color but like a bat. . . .
I ducked down just enough, I guess, for it to be a miss for it. . . . It opened its beak . . . I see teeth and at four I knew that wasn’t right . . .
This woman reported that she believes that some cases of missing children in this area of the country could be from attacks from this kind of flying creature.
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Are Modern Pterosaurs Dangerous?
The following is not a first-hand account but from a native who contacted me by emails in 2010, and he got the story from the grandson of the native fisherman who died three days after being attacked by a kor.
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A modern dragon in Papua New Guinea
This is a Youtube video showing three eyewitnesses who testify that they have encountered a huge flying creature (in the southwest Pacific).
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Press release on flying creatures in Utah
A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed eyewitness accounts of apparent non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls” or “flying dinosaurs,” and found that several states in the USA stand out, including Utah. Jonathan Whitcomb, of Murray, Utah, has been receiving emails since 2004, from five continents, and most of those reported sightings, in recent years, have been in North America.
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Eyewitness Reports of Apparent Living Pterosaurs
The following persons ask the general public to become aware of research into many eyewitness sightings of apparent extant pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls,” and to consider the possibility that at least some of the accounts have been from actual encounters with flying creatures descended from animals closely related to pterosaurs known from fossils.
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