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Objective investigations

Critics have sometimes questioned the objectiveness of investigators of eyewitness accounts of living pterosaurs. It seems that those critics have been hasty. Consider details, then judge for yourself.

Woetzel-Guessman expedition of 2004

When the American cryptozoologists David Woetzel and Garth Guessman explored Umboi Island late in 2004, they used a sketches in some of their interviews. Dozens of silhouettes were available for native eyewitnesses to compare: birds, bats, and pterosaurs. Detailed interview forms were used. To be more objective than previous explorers, they used those sketches and forms to interview native eyewitnesses.

When Woetzel had his sighting one night, he described the strange flying light that he had observed. He did not imagine any shape to the light, no form that would suggest a modern pterosaur. He only reported what he had seen. (Contrary to some of the vague ridicule from critics, we can really be quite objective.)

Nation-Kepas expedition of 2006

When Jacob Kepas climbed up a mountain ridge with a local guide, their first viewing location was insufficient for Kepas to be sure that what he was observing was a large winged-creature. Only after the guide had climbed up to a higher viewing location was it ascertained to be what they had suspected.

On that expedition, when Paul Nation videotaped the two strange lights on the ridge, he did not say that he had observed the shapes of two pterosaurs. He described the lights that he had seen; he admitted that no shape was observed.

Nation expedition of early 2007

Paul Nation returned to the Tawa Village area of Papua New Guinea only weeks after his first expedition there. He scrutinized the various lights that he had observed in late 2006 and determined that the bright white lights far to the east were from automobile headlights. After he had returned to the United States, he reported his findings to me and admitted his previous mistake, notwithstanding the other lights were genuine indava lights. This may have been somewhat embarrasing, at first, but it verifies the objective purity of the investigations. It shoots down the ridicule that we are grossly biased and therefore incapable of conducting objective investigations.

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Woetzel ropen sighting of 2004

David Woetzel, American cryptozoologist and explorer

David Woetzel, American cryptozoologist and explorer

“Ropen” is what natives of Umboi Island call the nocturnal flying creature, and legends abound. Most eyewitnesses have only seen it from a distance, at night, and they describe a strange flying light.

David Woetzel led the second ropen expedition on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, late in 2004, accompanied by fellow-American cryptozoologist Garth Guessman. One night, near Arot Village (northern Umboi), Woetzel saw a strange light flying towards the mountains near Lake Pung. Consider this excerpt from my interview with him in 2005:

“My sighting was so quick that it was impossible to get a video—maybe 2 seconds  . . . [The flying light was] almost golden and shimmering around the edges. It looked like an old-fashioned street light in the fog.

“There was no tail and it was flying horizontal from  Mt. Barik toward  Mt. Tolo . . . The size, color and speed made it immediately stand out as unlike any other thing I’ve ever seen in the sky.”

Woetzel estimated the angular-size of the light: about 20%-25% the size of a full moon. With a lack of any meteor tail and horizontal movement, a meteor interpretation is unreasonable. This must have been the same object observed by my interpreter (Luke Kenda) a few weeks earlier and a few kilometers to the east: a horizontally-flying light with a mountain background. I believe that both sightings were of the ropen.

Although this sighting, by itself, obviously does not prove that pterosaurs are still living, it validates the honesty of this cryptozoologist: Woetzel could easily have reported some kind of pterosaur-feature, rather than only a glowing object, were he to have been dishonest. This is one example (among many) of the honesty of the explorers who searched for  living pterosaurs from 1994 through 2004, for they interviewed many eyewitnesses but admitted never observing any pterosaur-like animal themselves. It disproves the careless general accusation (from some critics) that they are dishonest.

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