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Sighting in Southern Montana, Sep 4, 2009

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Early Sep 11, 2009

An eyewitness recently told me that he saw, “the largest flying creature I’ve ever seen,” at the Cooney Reservoir in Southern Montana, on Friday, September 4, 2009. I’m presently interviewing him, with the hope of communicating with another man who was with him that evening at the Red Lodge campground. Several preliminary signs indicate that this is a genuine sighting, unlikely a hoax. (See the press release on the elimination of hoax potential in overall testimonies; nevertheless, individual credibility is judged rather differently. The report of this Montana sighting has its own individual aspects that give it credibility.)

Early that night, it flew over them: about 50 feet high; the eyewitness estimated the wingspan: 20 feet. “We could hear the sound of the wings flapping.” Two other eyewitnesses may have seen something similar at different times in the area, giving us three additional potential eyewitness testimonies involving as many as two additional sightings. I’ll follow up on those as well. [Introduction to this blog]

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New insight into an old book

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[See the Page “Ropen Lights seen by a biologist.”]

Cheesman mentioned in her book that “It may be dismissed at once that the flashes were due to any human agency.” She gives a number of reasons for dismissing humans as the cause: It would have required about thirty natives to have coordinated flashing their flashlights, and the lights appeared to be above (not within) the forest. Even if all those natives had climbed trees at night, they would still have been within the tree canopy, not clearly above it. [detailed elaboration by Whitcomb]

She also mentioned that the flash of light lasted for “about four or five seconds.” This is close to the flash-length of the ropen light of Umboi (Siassi) Island, far to the east. It is not, however, close to the indava-light flash that is to the south of Mondo (Mondo is where Cheesman was doing her research, which was on another subject: She was an entomologist).

I noted that she also mentioned that the lights “were showing more or less in a straight line horizontally, and appeared at many points along that line.” Her sighting seems perfectly in harmony with a ropen-light interpretation.

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Introduction to living-pterosaur investigations

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The concept that pterosaurs continue to live in various areas of this planet has excited a few ardent cryptozoologists and many casual investigators. Not without controversy, the idea that some of the species not only survive in isolated rain forests in Papua New Guinea, but live in Australia, North America, Central America, South America, and Africa–that is shocking. Nevertheless, please consider what has been learned from expeditions and research from 1993 until the present. Shocking or not, my associates and I are excited about the prospect of an official discovery in our lifetimes.

My own work in living-pterosaur investigations began in 2003. I was a forensic videographer at the time, interviewing and videotaping accident victims (for attorney firms). I examined Paul Nation’s videos from his expeditions in 1994 and 2002 and became convinced that the native eyewitnesses were telling the truth about a strange large flying creature in Papua New Guinea: consistant with what would be expected of a sighting of a living pterosaur. My own expedition to Umboi Island, in late-2004, confirmed to me the reality of living Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs in that part of the world. I have since interviewed many eyewitnesses (many from North America, but others in Europe and elsewhere in the world) and written two non-fiction books.

This blog is now open to comments from those who have been involved or positively interested in living-pterosaur investigations. [Introduction to this Live Pterosaur blog]