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Apparent Pterodactyloid in Southern California desert

From the nonfiction cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in America, we read of a startling sighting in a remote California desert:

We were sitting in the late afternoon shade of a ridge, on lawn chairs, enjoying the solitude and peace and quiet of the desert when it passed over. I caught the sight of it with the corner of my eye and looked up. It was soaring along the side of a plateau not far from us . . . I remember saying ‘. . . that looks just like a Taradactyl!’ . . . My friend looked in the binoculars and said it looked like one but it had to be a kite or something because they were extinct. . . . I grabbed the binoculars . . . What I saw was large and very much alive. Its hue was close to the hue of the desert sand but more the color of rust. Its skin, I say skin because there were no feathers, . . . looked like dull leather sort of dusty looking. . . . The back of the head was pointed.

[From page 16 of the first edition of the book] I interviewed this eyewitness and questioned her about details. She answered thoroughly, demonstrating her credibility. I have communicated with her since that 2007 interview and she maintains the truthfulness of her account; I have no reason to doubt her experience. This sighting seems to have been of a Pterodactyloid pterosaur, for it had no tail: only “a nub where a tail would be.”

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Why so few eyewitnesses?

Occasionally I encounter an objection like “if pterosaurs were still living, we would see them flying around.” Several answers pop up, suggesting the critics who ask that kind of question have failed to think deeply about it. The main problem is circular reasoning, for the objection is an attempted refutation of eyewitness sightings: “They could not have seen a living pterosaur because they are no longer living <–> Pterosaurs are no longer living because nobody has seen one.”

Over many years, I have flown from and to airports in many cities. I love to gaze out the window soon after taking off and soon before landing. During all those observations, however, I don’t recall observing any human, not even one, although I look for people. It’s not that humans are extinct; they just have a shape that makes them difficult to see from above (most of them), and few humans spend much time walking near airports.

I’ve lived more than half a century in Southern California, but I have never seen a mountain lion in the wild. It’s not that I’ve never walked through a wilderness area; mountain lions keep hidden, most of the time. But a few Southern Californians do see them.

Area near where an apparent ropen flew into the sanctuaryAt the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, in Southern California, near Irvine, in the summer of 2007, a man was driving north from the university, with the ponds on his right. From the marshy area on his left a very strange flying creature flew across the road, right in front of him, flying into the sanctuary. Much has been written about this sighting of an apparent modern pterosaur, but let’s now consider the eyewitness. How difficult it must have been for him to find somebody to talk with about his experience! It was almost a year before he contacted me, and it’s my work (or my pastime, depending on who you ask) to interview eyewitnesses of apparent pterosaurs.

The point? It’s not that eyewitnesses of apparent modern living pterosaurs are extremely rare; the creatures may be somewhat rare and nocturnal, but eyewitnesses in Western countries may be ridiculed for reporting something we’ve been taught should not exist. Therefore most eyewitnesses keep quiet, as if hiding what they’ve seen by trying to make themselves invisible.

I am grateful for those special persons who have reported their experiences to me, for they have thereby contributed to sharing this wonderful news to the Western world: Pterosaurs live!

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"Live Pterosaurs in America" nonfiction book. The front coverDid you know that living pterosaurs have been reported in North America, even in the United States? Yes! Get the details of many eyewitness sighting reports  by purchasing a copy of this nonfiction book on Amazon.

Learn much more about the South Carolina sighting by Susan Wooten. But this cryptozoology book is packed with many more sightings, eyewitness encounters from across the United States: California, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Georgia, New York, Wisconsin, Ohio, and many more states.

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Cover, back and front, of Live Pterosaurs in America - nonfiction book

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San Fernando sightings of glowing creatures

This week I received a sighting report from Sun Valley, California. It resembles an account from nearby Sherman Oaks, in that a large flying creature seems to be glowing. Here’s an excerpt from the Sun Valley report:

It was late in the evening almost dark but not quite there still visible. I was walking from my car to my house [in Sun Valley] and something in the sky caught my eye. My girlfriend also looked up and right away said is that a bat but she wears glasses so she has trouble seeing how close objects are. What caught my eye was the bright radiation like light coming from the belly of this Pterodactyl looking animal. I seen it fly right above us maybe 150 -200 feet  and this thing wasn’t no bat it was bigger with large wing span and when it flapped its wings it was kind of a slow lazy flap kind of gliding through the air. The animal radiated light from the bottom like when something is wet and you flash a light on it the light reflects back and shimmers. . . .

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Rancho Santa Margarita Account

In Orange County, California, this encounter, around 1997, was more of a hearing than a sighting. This account should be read in full: Rancho Santa Margarita Cryptid. In brief, it includes:

“One night I was awakened . . . with the most . . . awful screeching and screaming that I have ever heard. . . . like . . . pigs being slaughtered. . . . I opened the window . . . the sound was accompanied [by] some thrashing around in some hedges or bushes in the backyard of my . . . neighbors  [vacant] house . . . The unearthly screeching continued . . . like . . . [a] struggle to the death. . . . I went into the front yard . . . Chills shot up and down my spine. As I stood holding my breath, a heard a deep, soft, ‘hushing’ sound, like giant wings lifting something heavy into the air. This came from around the side of my house . . . I didn’t ‘see’ so much as ‘felt’ it. Whatever it was swept up and onto the chimney of the next-door-neighbors house. the night sky was incredibly dark so I could not really make out anything, but a large hulking ‘presence’ sat on that chimney. As I stared hard into the dark, trying to make out a shape or a movement, I realized whatever it was was staring right back at me. I left the yard quickly and went inside. . . . The next day I called around and finally got a hold of a wild animal control center in Orange County . . . they told me that it was most likely a great horned owl.”

In itself, this cannot prove that pterosaurs live in Southern California, of course. But it contributes to the accumulating cryptozoological evidence that those who contact me with their experiences are, in general, obviously not hoaxers. I have received similarly vague accounts, occasionally, from various parts of the world, including the U.S.A., Greece, Africa, and Australia. Hoaxers would not try to convince anyone of a pterosaur sighting with such vagueness. But if actual living pterosaurs have indeed been observed (at least on occasion, in various places in the world) then at least a few encounters would naturally include less-clear sightings, with sound-evidence more than visual. This puts one more nail in the coffin holding the hoax hypothesis.

A clearly seen apparent pterosaur, in 2007, in another area of California, suggests a giant Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur. That one was seen near the university at Irvine.

Read more about this encounter in the third edition of the cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in America.