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January 24, 2022

Ropen Videos on Youtube

By Jonathan Whitcomb

On the Youtube channel Protect Animal Life, you can find well over 200 videos on modern pterosaurs: “pterodactyl” or “ropen” sightings. Here are some of the better videos that contain the word ropen:

“Pterodactyl Sightings – Ropen Overhead“

From the description:

“. . . The two large flying creatures he encountered just east of Fargo, North Dakota, apparently had no feathers, and the second one was seen to have teeth. According to the interviewer (the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb) the two flying creatures observed there on July 16, 2018, were probably related . . . .”

From comments by viewers:

“Kris Kosach Wellen
mid-2021
wow. i just heard from a family member who swears they saw one
too. I googled this to get more info. she doesn’t want to share,
but thank you for doing so. BTW- for the record, her sighting was
out west, not midwest so I wonder if these things migrate?”

“Jim M.
mid-2021
NO WORDS TO SAY EXCEPT, THAT’S AWESOME.”

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“Ropen Courtship in Washington State – Pterodactyl COVER UP“

From the description:

Why was a teenager biker in shock in southwest Washington state in about 1987? In the words of the eyewitness: “I lived in the country with my parents. I was riding my bike home . . . I heard a strange noise.” He then saw two huge flying creatures sitting on a fence. He reported, “I almost crashed my bike . . . they were huge.”

A viewer’s comment:

“I love this eyewitness’ account! One of my favorites!”

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“Ropen or Pterodactyl Photo – Ptp Photograph”

As one of the “Friday afternoon livestream chats”, this video was recorded onto Youtube in November of 2021.

From the description:

What photo has been more controversial, over the past decade or so or living-pterosaur investigations, than the “Ptp” image? It could also be titled the “Civil War pterodactyl”. Does it show a real ropen or pterodactyl, or is it a hoax—that question has been met with both strong support and complete denial.

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Ropen Seen in Texas, by a Truck Driver

. . . My sighting was in June of 2014 heading north from Laredo, Texas, between Laredo and Austin. . . . it is already early daylight and from the left side of the road about 30-50 feet high I see this not large but ENORMOUS creature glide, not fly, from the tall trees from the left side of the road . . .

Video “Ropen in South Carolina”

Yesterday I uploaded to Youtube the music video “Ropen in South Carolina”, which is mostly about three sightings of apparent living pterosaurs in the northern area of that state.

Pterodactyls Living — Deceased Eyewitnesses

Comment from a viewer of this video:

from “bluegrass nnawoods”

[about January 3, 2022]

‘I saw a pterodactyl in Florida in the late 1980’s’

October 14, 2021

An Individual Ropen is Identified and Named – Precise Location Unknown

By Jonathan Whitcomb, executive director of Animal Discovery

How do I know that a ropen with a thirty-foot wingspan, now hunting house cats and killing chickens in Nevada, is the same animal seen in Draper, Utah, a few years ago? The one in Utah was about that size, or a bit smaller, and was there hunting house cats and killing chickens. Yet one clue pins this individual ropen to chicken murders in southern Salt Lake County : The predator does not eat chickens but stomps them into the ground. We call this pterodactyl the “Draper Ropen” (“DR”).

See the Youtube video “Whitcomb Interviewed”

Remote desert in Nevada

The flying creature seen in 2018 in Draper may have been a bit smaller, according to the rough estimate, than 30 feet in wingspan, but it may have grown during the past three years. The present wingspan estimate of 30 feet is close because of how DR was encountered on October 2, 2021, by the man whose head came to within four feet of one of its wings that night.

As of October 13, 2021, Jonathan Whitcomb does not know for certain whether or not this particular animal is clearly dangerous to humans. He advises great caution should it appear reasonably possible for any person to observe it from less than five hundred yards away.

A reservoir in a remote area of Nevada

Testimony of the Eyewitness in Nevada

“Approximately 9:20 pm Saturday, 02 October, 2021 [in a rural area of Nevada] I experienced something unusual . . . [While on my computer] in the garage, I heard something very heavy land on the tin roof near its edge. . . .”

“. . . the roof rafters creaked, then I heard claws scratch the roof (similar to big claws just resting on the tin roof). But, much heavier and bigger claws and much much louder than any domestic house cat or bobcat claws both in the area, and MUCH louder than a vulture, turkey, peacock, goose, owl, eagle or hawk . . .”

“I turned off the lights. And, quietly, and very carefully I opened the door and went outside. . . . The garage’s roofline measures 26 ft wide. This creature’s wingspan spread wider by about 2 feet on each side and its wingtip flapped within about 4 feet of my head as I opened the door. . . .”

“My best description is its wing appeared nearly light/tan/ brown/sandy on the topside, but more the color of the night sky underneath. As it flapped for takeoff, I saw the underside first, then the topside of the wingtip. I got a very clear and close view of the wingtip and the animal’s silhouette (and I felt the strong wind its wing produced on an otherwise calm night without any wind at that moment). . . .”

“The wingtip didn’t look like feathers, but it looked very much like a gigantic bat’s wing. From almost immediately underneath (at the closest point during its takeoff), it had a long narrow tail longer than its head to base of tail length. . . . It looked amazing and gigantic so close.”

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Missing Children and Pterodactyl Sightings

I suggest that to understand the potential danger that a few of these flying creatures may pose to children, we need to know something about modern “pterodactyls”, including the long-tailed ropen.

Live Pterodactyl

A Youtube playlist highly recommended for those who are new to Youtube videos about sightings of modern pterosaurs like the ropen

Attacks From a Ropen in New Mexico?

I’ve recently been reading the nonfiction Missing 411 – Western United States & Canada, by the former lawman David Paulides. On page 200, the author points out that all six of those missing persons listed in New Mexico disappeared in the Santa Fe National Forest. Why did none of them go missing in any other national forest of New Mexico?

An Apparent Living Pterodactyl Reported in Utah

The nonfiction author Jonathan Whitcomb, of Murray, Utah, in 2017 and 2018, interviewed four eyewitnesses of an apparent “pterodactyl” in central Utah. He now declares that those reports from Draper, Salt Lake County, help distinguish Utah in a map showing where similar sightings have been reported across the United States.

Ropen (Pterosaur) in Draper, Utah

This morning I interviewed, face-to-face, an eyewitness of an apparent living pterosaur that flew over his backyard in Draper, Utah, on Sunday, November 4, 2018. He seemed perfectly credible to me, and I also talked with his wife and found nothing wrong with her deportment.

September 15, 2021

Pterodactyl Sightings and Evolution

Patty Carson's sketch of a ropen with caption: "Yes, Virginia, there is a ropen"

By Jonathan Whitcomb

My associates and I, over the past two decades or so, have been criticized in various ways, one of them in a strawman argument something like this: “They try to disprove evolution by trying to convince people that pterodactyls are alive.” The main problem with that criticism is that it’s not usually quoting any of us but declaring what our intentions are, and critics oversimply reality.

Evolution and Neo-Darwinism

First, I recommend my Youtube video “Pterodactyl Sightings and Evolution – Part 2″ on my channel Protect Animal Life. There I explain a bit about the fallacy of lumping various concepts of biological evolution together and assuming it all means the same thing. Let’s get into that a bit deeper.

The word “star“ has various meanings and we rarely have any problem with that. But what about the word “evolution”? That’s a different matter.

In my Youtube video dated September 9, 2021, I mentioned how shooting stars are not literal stars; no problem. Yet we in Western societies are often bombarded with the word “evolution” when it refers to different things. The video presents four types of biological evolution:

Loss of a useful organ
Tiny change that helps in survival
Major change in outward appearance
Upward Evolution

An important point in the above is this: Nothing in the first three concepts gives any credibility to the fourth concept. In addition, the first three have been observed and relatively few persons dispute the details in those three concepts, but the fourth has major problems and is based upon many persons who imagine what has happened in the distant past.

Danger to Children

The reality of modern pterosaurs like the ropen—that is not just a subject for theoretical debates about evolution in the distant past but is extremely important to some cases of missing children, including possible attacks against persons in North America.

One lady has reported that she was attacked, when a preschooler, by a huge flying creature in western Oklahoma. The animal, which was covered in hair, flew down towards the girl but she ducked down to the ground and escaped, soon getting into the safety of her house. The child saw that the creature was very strange, for it had teeth in its beak. She knew that birds do not have teeth.

How can we protect children and adults from that kind of attack? We must learn the truth about these flying creatures and help others to know about the reality of ropens and similar apparent modern pterosaurs. Although it seems that only a tiny minority of modern “pterodactyls” every attack any human, that limited number of animals can be dangerous, at least on occasion.

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The Ropen and Evolution

A common criticism thrown at me and my associates relates to the age of the earth and evolution. Our critics will sometimes ridicule the idea that non-extinct pterosaurs “disprove” evolution or prove that the world is 6,000 years old. What they fail to mention, however, is that they construct a sentence or two, in their own words, as if it were our words or our precise purposes.

Missing Children

I suggest that to understand the potential danger that a few of these flying creatures may pose to children, we need to know something about modern “pterodactyls”, including the long-tailed ropen.

Living Pterosaurs

This is a well-established blog on non-extinct “pterodactyls” in our modern world, flying creatures sometimes called “dinosaur birds” or “dragons”.

The Quest for Discovering Modern Pterosaurs

The nonfiction book by Jonathan David Whitcomb: Searching for Ropens and Finding God (fourth edition)

Living Pterosaurs or Dragons

This may be the oldest living-pterosaur site on the internet

Modern-Pterodactyl News (2021)

The main news for now relates to the formation of a nonprofit organization that will specialize in research into reports of non-extinct modern pterosaurs, including the long-tailed featherless ropen [Animal Discovery].

September 2, 2021

Missing Children and Pterodactyl Sightings

By Jonathan Whitcomb

I recommend the following Youtube video-playlist, which contains 16 videos related to attacks or potential attacks from modern pterosaurs:

Pterodactyl Danger to People

Jonathan Whitcomb in video "Pterodactyl Attacks are Dangerous"

Jonathan Whitcomb on a live-stream Youtube video

I suggest that to understand the potential danger that a few of these flying creatures may pose to children, we need to know something about modern “pterodactyls”, including the long-tailed ropen.

The vast majority of sighting reports of apparent non-extinct pterosaurs show no sign that an attack took place or was imminent. In fact, many of these flying creatures are the general sizes of birds, although ropens are mostly nocturnal. The point is this: The great majority of them do not attack people.

Attack Against Three Fishermen in Pennsylvania

One of the three men left as soon as the attack began, but the other two kept whacking the “pterodactyl” with their fishing rods, as it continuously hovered over them and apparently tried to grab them with its talons. Frank Sicilia estimated the wingspan was 20-22 feet. Fortunately neither man was hurt, for the huge flying creature eventually gave up and left them.

middle-aged man who was attacked by a pterodactyl

Frank Sicilia was attacked in 1984 while he was fishing at night

The point of that attack against those men is this: If grown men can be attacked by one of these flying creatures, how can children always be safe?

In fact, within the past eighteen months, I have received several reports of attacks or potential attacks against children in the United States, including one case in western Oklahoma.

The eyewitness herself, many years after the attack in Oklahoma, described to me what happened: The huge flying creature was covered in hair and had teeth in its beak. It tried to grab the preschool girl but she dived down to the ground and escaped, then she ran into her house. After the lady reported to me what happened when she was a small child, she told me that she thought that the creature may have been responsible for missing children in that area of the country. I share her concern.

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Potential Pterodactyl Attacks Against People

During the past couple of years or so, I have received reports that make it clear that some modern pterosaurs can be dangerous to humans. Here is one report from the past few weeks: “Attack in Florida” . . .

Young Dinosaur Fossils Carbon-14 Dated

It almost looks like the Jurassic World is really upon us, not in a science fiction film but in carbon-14 dating of dinosaur bones that were supposed to be many millions of years old. The fossils sampled turned out to be much younger than most scientists had imagined.

Pterodactyl Sightings and Youtube Videos

. . . I live in South Carolina about 10 min away from Charlotte, North Carolina. When I was a senior in high school in 1993, my friend and I were driving down a dark road, in Fort Mill, S.C. . . .

. . . it was all wooded then, no houses or anything, just trees as far as you could see on both sides of the road . . . A huge black bird was flying ahead. It looked really big, but as it got closer I realized that this thing was massive! . . .

Why Believe in the Ropen or Modern “Pterodactyls”

Why are some skeptics so insistent that somebody must force them to believe in non-extinct pterosaurs before they will believe? The following is part of a comment made under a Youtube video on my channel Protect Animal Life, and it’s from a young man who used to live in Florida . . .

Pterodactyl Talk in mid-2021

About 3 weeks ago, A friend and I were on my back porch here in Rural Covington, Louisiana when we both saw a huge bird that looked like a Pterodactyl fly over my property . . . It had a long beak with a rear ward protruding crest behind its head, the wings were very bat like . . . I would estimate the wingspan to be approx. 8 to 10 feet . . .

Youtube Videos on Living-Pterosaurs

You deserve to know the truth about these accounts of sightings of gigantic living pterosaurs. Enjoy this lively music video as you learn about the shocking flying creatures men and women have encountered in California.

Cryptozoologie et le Ropen [in the French language]

Au début de 2014, une dame dans l’Ohio, Etats-Unis, a vu une grande créature volante. C’est dans la ville de Columbus, tôt le matin. Une mère avec sa jeune fille, alors qu’ils attendaient un…

“Pterodactyls Alive in North Carolina” (Youtube video)

On Jan 19th 2019 near downtown Asheville, NC in a neighborhood that borders the blue ridge parkway where I live. I was in my front yard playing with my almost 4 year old children on a clear day. My daughter pointed up to the sky and said, “look dad an airplane . . .”