By Jonathan Whitcomb
I am the executive director of the nonprofit Animal Discovery, which emphasizes searching for certain cryptids that have been seen by eyewitnesses. Our motto is “We listen to you.”
From the page About the Ropen “Pterodactyl” on the official blog of this nonprofit organization:
Since the year 2003, I [Jonathan Whitcomb] have held a special interest in eyewitness reports of a flying creature that has become known as the ropen, what some persons have called a “pterodactyl” or a “flying dinosaur”. The word ropen comes from the Kovai language of Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea, although over the past fourteen years it has become known around the world as a word that refers to any modern flying creature that appears to an eyewitness to be a featherless long-tailed pterosaur . . .
Report your sighting of a pterodactyl
Milt Marcy (left) and Peter Beach, in S.E. Washington state
I’m delighted that these two cryptozoologists are on the board of directors for Animal Discovery. Both of them have been on an expedition on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, and not only were they searching for a modern living pterosaur but they found and videotaped such a flying creature.
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Reports of smaller ones, less than three meters in wingspan, in the Manus Island area of Papua New Guinea (second-hand accounts) might be juveniles of the same species as the larger ones on or around Umboi Island.
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Scott Norman, a cryptozoologist from Southern California, decided to meet with some of his associates in central California, where people had reported living pterosaurs. He was skeptical, thinking that they had videotaped only a bird at night. When he spent a night watching the sky, however, he saw something like a Pteranodon . . .
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Hodgkinson was hiking up into the interior, away from Finschhafen, with an army buddy, when the two soldiers encountered the strange flying creature. In a jungle clearing with moderately high grass, a clearing about a hundred feet in diameter, the two men saw something at the far side, something astonishing. From the scientific paper “Reports of Living Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific,” we read . . .
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Two cryptozoologists see a modern pterosaur
I was delighted to discover, earlier this week, the Youtube video “PNG Expedition 2015 Documentary (Milt Marcy).” I talked with Milt Marcy and Peter Beach, by phone, soon after they returned to the USA from their expedition on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea . . .
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From a comment on this Youtube video (ANOTHER eyewitness): “You don’t have to go to New Guinea to see one! I saw one back in 1968 in Lansing, Illinois and in broad daylight! People in the USA are seeing these things more and more . . .”
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How do I know that a ropen with a thirty-foot wingspan, now hunting house cats and killing chickens in Nevada, is the same animal seen in Draper, Utah, a few years ago? The one in Utah was about that size, or a bit smaller, and was there hunting house cats and killing chickens.
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