By Jonathan Whitcomb, cryptozoologist
I’ve been writing the fourth edition of my nonfiction Live Pterosaurs in America, which will be in e-book format, and much of the work is in improving and expanding the earlier print-format book. The exceptional leaving out one or more paragraphs includes part of a sighting report from New Mexico. The following is in the third edition but is left out of the fourth:
Q: Can you tell me more about the local news report of a flying animal?
A: It was the local news 13, a CBS channel. If you look on the internet it will be KRQE. The story went something like this . . . A man alone in the Dona Ana Mountains, a mtn. range just north of the Las Cruces, was walking during the day in the desert along the base of the mountain . . . he saw two of the pterodactyl like creatures. They were sitting on the ridge top watching him, then flew towards and over him. He described them much the same as I did. He said [it was] about ten years ago. I am not sure what inspired the local newscast to do the show last Thursday. [end of answer to the question about the news report]
RA added, “There are also a myriad of other little stories I have heard but have not mentioned since they are a bit vague. I used to tell people that I had seen a dragon twice in the wild but never a mountain lion. In Soccoro there is a local legend that an animal similar in description to what we are speaking [about] frequents the gravel pits near the Rio Grande River. We conjectured that it might have a gizzard. (?)”
If you’re now reading the fourth edition of Live Pterosaurs in America (ebook format), the above two paragraphs were taken from the third edition, right before the paragraph that ends in this: “Early in 2008, I received an email from man who reported a pair of ropen-like creatures in the state of Washington.”
The flying creature seen by RA, not mentioned in this blog post but covered in both editions of Live Pterosaurs in America, seems to have been a large ropen.
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Pterodactyl attacks in New Mexico?
Of the six persons who were missing in one area of New Mexico, three of them were children, in age from three to seven, in June of 1951. Those three kids were lost together and found together, all alive. The other three persons were adults who were never found, and they disappeared in 1982, 1998, and 2009.
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I saw two pterodactyls, side by side, flying past the tree. . . . But what struck me was that it had a giant size beak and the wings had no feathers.
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Ropen sightings in the United States
The correct word for it is pterosaur rather than pterodactyl. Many eyewitnesses have seen it in North America, including many states in the USA, and these flying creatures appear to care nothing about Western teachings about extinction, flying wherever they please.
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Not Extinct, Flying Creatures of Cryptozoology That Some Call Pterodactyls or Flying Dinosaurs . . .
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At least hundreds of thousands of eyewitnesses worldwide have seen living pterosaurs, and real science must progress with human experience.