By Jonathan Whitcomb
On the Youtube channel “Protect Animal Life”, the compilation video “Flying Dinosaurs – Modern Pterodactyls ALIVE” (FDMPA) features twenty sightings: excerpts from eight videos. I highly recommend watching that 26-minute video to get an overview of the living-pterosaur branch of cryptozoology.
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A “Pterodactyl” Sighting in Rome, Italy, in 2019
Here is the subtitle-text from the first encounter featured in this video:
In the words of an eyewitness, “It had a long tail that fanned out at the tip. It was close to the Colosseum. . . around 10 p.m.”
“My girlfriend also witnessed this creature. It was about the size of a man: membrane type wings . . . gliding, not flapping its wings. Went back and forth three times.”
Two kongamatos encountered in Kenya, Africa, in 1969
A 14-year-old boy witnessed two long-tailed flying creatures during an expedition with his father. He estimated their wingspans at between 24 and 36 feet. At the time, he kept quiet, fearing he would be laughed at.
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Missing Persons in USA – Attack from a Ropen?
The following Youtube video covers three possible “pterodactyl” attacks against children, during the past 80 years, in the United States.
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Sightings of Living Pterosaurs: Long Tails
How common are reports of long tails on apparent modern pterosaurs! We now begin with a report from Sudan, Africa, as I wrote in the fourth edition of my book Searching for Ropens and Finding God (page 152)
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The Ropen is an alleged “modern pterosaur with Rhamphorhynchoid characteristics.”
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“Creature Fear! – What’s Worse Than This Lady’s Terror?”
The first video uploaded to the Youtube channel “Mystery of Monster Creatures” (early in 2023, by Jonathan Whitcomb)
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Cognitive Biases and Modern Pterosaurs
[Availability cascade] is a self-reinforcing activity whereby a belief, in people of a culture or community, gains more and more popularity through repetition. How does this relate to sightings of apparent living pterosaurs in the United States? It’s in extinction indoctrination.
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Loss Aversion and Living Pterosaurs
Two decades ago, a man started writing a web page criticizing the idea that not all species of pterosaurs are extinct. He often added to that page and mentioned my name many times. He expanded it so often, over the years, that the word count, as of earlier this week, was 40,676. How gigantic at 40 thousand words on that one online post! And how unique, mentioning my name (“Whitcomb”) 493 times!
The point is this: He was trying to defend old standard models of geology.
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Pterodactyl Sightings – Top 10 Videos in 2022
These are excerpts from the ten most popular living-pterosaur videos on this channel (Protect Animal Life) in 2022, ending with the #1 most-viewed. Watch the full videos: . . .
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Press releases on apparent pterodactyl sightings
A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed reports of non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls” or “flying dinosaurs,” and found how sightings relate to thirty-three states (and Washington D.C.) of the United States. Jonathan Whitcomb, of Murray, Utah, has been receiving emails, and an occasional phone call, over a period of 13 years . . .
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Newspaper Articles on Pterosaur Sightings
The Houston Chronicle, by circulation the ninth largest newspaper in the United States, pulled away the welcome mat to “flying dinosaurs” that might want to fly over southwest Texas; it emphasized Whitcomb’s lack of credentials and experience. But “What’s going on in Marfa?” (December 19, 2010 issue) was elicited by the press release “Unmasking a Flying Predator in Texas,” which was written by Whitcomb after he had received, over several years, eyewitness reports of apparent living pterosaurs in Texas, from citizens of Texas. The Houston Chronicle writer failed to mention that.
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From viewer “Steve W”