. . . Lets begin with a list of some of the benefits available to young readers, for this is for kids and teenagers: To the best of my knowledge, this is the first nonfiction book ever published (on this subject) which was written for children and teenagers. I did not see a tail from my angle but the creature was huge definitely no feathers with a bat like wings. Age: 68. For Americans, that can mean driving. when he saw me he jumped off the telephone wires and when he opened his huge wings they sounded like heavy fabric . Yes, some scientists believe that a limited number of species of pterosaurs have survived into modern times. We did have three sightings of a flying light. and there was a huge flying bird-like animal above us. Location of sighting: Lansing, Illinois. A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed eyewitness accounts of apparent non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called "pterodactyls" or "flying dinosaurs," and found that several states in the USA stand out, including Utah. . . Name: Darrell Ashley. This post briefly mentions the book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur, but this is mainly about sightings of apparent pterosaurs, seen by children, in the following countries: The above locations for sightings are not in the book itself but are in the above-linked blog post. . The point is this: pterosaurs still living. An amateur astronomer, standing outside hisNew Mexico home, about 140 miles west of Lubbock, Texas, saw an apparent bioluminescent nocturnal pterosaur on September 1, 2014. Both eyewitnesses are young adult females, and both passed a brief credibility check; misidentifications also appear unlikely. It begins with late-20th century ropen expeditions in Papua New Guinea and then shows the two expeditions of the year 2004, led by the American explorers Jonathan Whitcomb, David Woetzel, and Garth Guessman. . ### . . . When I returned from Papua New Guinea, in 2004, I knew almost nothing about reports of apparent pterosaurs, or dragons, in California. came another one . The total number of clear sightings of modern pterosaurs, during the 20th century, appears to be at least in the hundreds of thousands . pterodactyls. . Amateur footage appears to capture extinct reptile flying over Ohio. There have been many modern-day sightings of creatures that by eyewitness description sound like pterosaurs, or pterodactyl sightings. . In the late 1980s, noted cryptozoologist Roy Mackal led an expedition into Namibia from which he had heard reports of a prehistoric-looking creature with a wingspan of up to 30 feet. [from the book Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition], "Live Pterosaurs in America" takes you across the United States, with eyewitnesses who describe the amazing encounters they have had with living pterosaurs. (The third edition, only in print format, was published in 2011. Their silhouettes resembled giant Sordes Pilosus pterosaurs. These four sighting reports of modern pterosaurs in California have perhaps never before been featured in a Youtube video. The body of the creature was taken to the nearby town of Gray, according to the story, where it was identified as a pterodactyl by a student of paleontology. I've noticed, over the years, that some reported sightings of flying "pterodactyls" come from eyewitnesses who seem to spend more time outdoors than the average person. Some think that tales of the "mythical" dragons in the lore of many cultures around the would be attributed to the sighting of pterosaurs. We each draw our own conclusions about these amazing flying creatures, yet we agree on many things. By the way, the sightings reported in this book are generally of ropens: long-tailed featherless flying creatures unlike any scientifically-acknowledged bat. [One of the sightings in this video was in Altadena, California, in the late 1960s, close to Pasadena; another sighting was in Irvine, California], Living-Pterosaur Videos on the Youtube Channel Protect Animal Life. it turned around and it stood still in the air, it was flapping its wings while it was there. The first two sightings in the Winder, Georgia, area have been covered in various blogs. . In addition, the flying creature was only seven or eight feet off the ground. . Estimated Number of Sightings of Pterosaurs in the United States. . Or why do they assume that if a few bird watchers saw a living pterodactyl then the whole western world would suddenly believe in those large featherless flying creatures? The persons who had significant sightings in the USA probably number at least 150,000, although only 25% of those involved good-enough views of the animals to make it reasonable for the persons to tell one or more persons about it. Here are a few details: New dinosaur book for LDS and other faiths. A Destination Truth episode about a potential modern pterosaur in Papua New Guinea, Special thanks to Kwong Yee Cheng for the use of the lovely photograph of the Getty Center in Southern California, Youtube Videos About Pterodactyl Sightings The Bible and Modern Pterosaurs. [The creature flew] "at low altitude," in front of his car, over the road (Campus Drive), into the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. I hit the brakes, pulled over hard and sat there with the camera Id been carrying with me for months saying, where ARE you??? It flew about 20 feet high, towards a cluster of trees near the wetlands of the wildlife sanctuary or refuge. Pterodactyl with a Pee said: . Sandra Paradise has seen a long-tailed flying creature at least three times during the past four years. . I was fishing at a gravel pit in Heyworth, IL and the dawn had just [broken]. flying straight at me, opposite the flow of traffic, along Early in 2013, a musician reported a close encounter with a pterodactyl that flew in front of his car while he was driving on a highway in Raleigh, North Carolina, at sundown. I was stunned from the entire experience . . It reveals the 19th Century photograph is authentic one, and the animal/object is real. . Thunderbird is a term in cryptozoology for describing large, bird-like creatures; generally identified as legendary creature . Eyewitness was almost positive it was not a bird How many persons did my sister know in 1969? 1. . Living pterosaurs (or pterodactyls) in California Sightings included in CA: Fremont Anaheim . flying dinosaurs, in North Carolina, including Raleigh, Durham, Conover, Wilmington, Guilford County, Kernersville, and Charlottethese are not rumors but taken from emails to the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, over a period of years. . . . They have been reported in Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Wilmington, and in other areas of N.C., as well as in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and in many other states . I had to resist a powerful urge to confine that word source within quotation marks, where the dubious are often detained. On March 18, 2013, I compared eight sighting reports of apparent pterosaurs in Southern California. This staged photograph of Pteranodon discredited the original one. My associates and I have helped each other a great deal over the years, although much of our work has been independent to a great deal. This is a Youtube channel trailer video for Protect Animal Life, with brief excerpts from seven living-pterosaur videos, out of about 170 total videos on this channel, almost all of which relate to pterodactyl sightings . . Calif. Los Angeles River, just northeast of downtown L.A. . Pterodactyl with a Pee Well-Known Member. . In the United States, we have been taught since early childhood that all such creatures became extinct many millions of years ago. . Published in October of 2014, Searching for Ropens and Finding God will take you around the world, with those who have risked life, health, and reputation, as they have looked for living pterosaurs. Well start with two Youtube videos on the channel Protect Animal Life (PAL) and then get into two emails. . Web Dinosaurs are running rampant all around California Washington and Oregon as well as Nevada and Utah so if you live in those states expect to see them. Contemporary pterosaur 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. Here are some more modern accounts: While other reports of pterosaur-like creatures have come out of Arizona, Mexico and Crete, it is out of central Africa that some of the most interesting anecdotes have come. This is more obvious in some of the many reports from Southern California, not that a flying creature always needs to be directly over such a structure on the ground, in order to use it for navigation. . With wingspans reaching nearly 40 feet, pterosaurs ruled the prehistoric skies for over 100 million years, until they died out with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. One of the best known living-pterosaur (LP) sightings by a car driver was in South Carolina. [near Maryland-Virginia border], Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition, by Whitcomb. Now we have an eyewitness in northern Alabama who saw two of the flying creatures chasing a bat at around 5:30 a.m., in the spring of 2020. . . You deserve. Ten years ago this summer (2007), the young cryptozoologist Scott T. Norman had a sighting of an apparent Pteranodon in Central California. Was there a head crest? For sighting #1, in the words of an eyewitness, It turned its head and looked right at me. Not one of those sightings was very far from a storm channel or stream bed. He was skeptical, thinking that they had videotaped only a bird at night. In the summer of 1891, southeast of Fresno, several eyewitnesses reported two featherless flying creatures with wingspans of fifteen feet . . The two huge flying creatures were about 1200 feet from the nearest creek bed, as two men observed them in San Diego at 8:00 p.m., in the fall of 2011. Music video: living pterosaurs in California. Reflector Series Trust one eyewitness of a plane crash over the imaginations of a hundred professors whove agreed how that kind of plane should fly. Nothing compares with this book about encounters with modern non-extinct pterodactyls.. When a large boulder of limestone was split open, the workers were astonished to see a large winged creature come tumbling out. I suggest there are limited exceptions to the rule that ropens use storm channels and stream beds to fly along at night. Pterosaur Eyewitness Group Support PEGS. Original Civil War Pterosaur Photograph. ), a flying reptile of the Mesozoic era, has been extinct for over 60 million years; however, several recent sightings may suggest these large "flying" reptiles are still alive. . Although its not covered in this video, one thing Ive learned about living pterosaurs is that sightings are not nearly as rare as people would suppose. Some of the other eyewitnesses were watching the stars at night or just enjoying a beautiful outdoor scene. I would think of myself as someone who knows a little something of the animal kingdom. Car Accidents Related to Pterosaur Sightings. Credibility verified by Whitcomb, but limited. Los Angeles River near the Colorado Street Bridge, east of Griffith Park, Pterosaur Sightings East of Griffith Park, May 13, 2013, Sighting of a Pterosaur Two sightings of a "dragon" were in Lakewood, California, and another eyewitness reported three dragons flying together over the I-5 freeway just east of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. described the ropen-like creature: about 30 feet long, with a straight tail 15-16 feet long. Yet these featherless flying creatures have been encountered in other areas of the United States, including California. it was a really clear night cuzz it had rained the day before. By the reckoning of one source, the area around Baker City is something of a focal point for UFO sightings. Texas and California are the states in the U.S. where some have occurred. Principal focus of this study is the nocturnal flight dynamics, vision (electro-optical systems analysis) and the general physical characterization of the animal in flight, level and at angle-of-attack. In this video of the PAL channel (Protect Animal Life) get the testimony of the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson and two natives in Papua New Guinea. \"Worldwide Ropens - Pterodactyls Almost Everywhere\" https://youtu.be/ghhICIhjW44(length = 4:28)A number of eyewitnesses are mentioned, including Duane Hodgkinson, Candace Worman, and Jonathan ArcherDescription:The large nocturnal long-tailed featherless flying creature called \"ropen\"that apparent pterodactyl is observed worldwide, in many nations of the earth. They navigate by them and find food in them. The huge flying creature, seen by a couple taking a walk, was about a mile from the storm channel that leads to Hansen Dam in the San Fernando Valley. Youtube playlist Pterodactyl Sightings in California. If only a few thousands of Americans had encounters, I would not have so many persons sending me sighting reports. They became especially . my girlfriend has 20-20 vision and she told a few minutes later that it had lights on it. Web There were a flurry of sightings in the 1940s and 50s before in 1961 Craig Black claimed to have seen a female carrying a pouched cub in Ben Lomond National. This was just northeast of downtown Los Angeles. (*The encounters themselves may be older.). [On another night two men] were surprised to hear a strange, strangling noise in the deep swale under the bridge. Why a pterodactyl sighting should be reported, The Van Meter Visitor and the Gun Shots. Garth Guessman also lectured on living pterosaurs (2007, in California). . 2. I am a scientist, and I have discovered that the great majority of eyewitness sighting reports of extant pterosaurs are neither misidentifications nor hoaxes . . Some of the publications listed are these: On the verge of the most astonishing discovery in the history of biology . 9. Michael Slack, of Roswell, New Mexico watched the flying creature both through the eyepiece and by direct observation. . Sandra had to drive on. The pterodactyl was as long as a bus, as it flew up into the mountains above Altadena. I saw one years ago on the East Hawaii Big Island side. ., I found this book very interesting. I slowed down and asI was looking the birds suddenly BURST from one of the trees! Date of sighting: Summer of 1968. The Plesiosauria (/ p l i s i s r i ,-z i-/; Greek: , plesios, meaning "near to" and sauros, meaning "lizard") or Plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period, possibly in the Rhaetian stage, about 203 million years ago. . Anyway, Im driving behind a man who is driving a mini-van . A great number of the encounters with pterodactyls have been in these states: Alguna vez viste un pterosaurio? it didnt look like a bird . . a 38-year-old woman saw what she at first called a dragon pteradactal. The featherless winged creature was sitting on a telephone cable above her backyard, on June 19, 2012 . A lady reported observing a huge dragon pteradactal that had been perched, at about noon on June 19, 2012, on a phone line or cable company wire over her backyard. (Por Jonathan Whitcomb, un experto en pterosaurios vivos), Pterosaur sighting while driving in Raleigh, North Carolina. . The sky was clear and only a few clouds crossed the sky. In Perth, Australia, in 1997, a man and his wife were taking an evening walk when they saw a gigantic flying creature soaring towards them, eventually getting very close. In case of both the photographs, some people suggested the creature could be a Thunderbird mentioning some such sightings. Alone in the car, driving northbound Fourteen years ago, in [Socorro], N.M., me and a close friend, who now has a masters in biology, were hiking during the midday sun at [a] box canyon and something blocked the sun for a moment. I call my young channel PAL and here list its seventeen public videos [as of July 31, 2019; there are now more] that are mainly about living pterosaurs . . pterodactyls) hunt bats at night. Non-extinct pterosaurs in North Carolina Where do these flying creatures appear? . Altadena, California (north of Pasadena) - about 1968 The "pterodactyl" was as long as a bus, as it flew up into the mountains above Altadena. Thats when some of the media in that area responded to my press release. These are dragons who lived in the carboniferous age, but who forgot to get petrified . Just before noon, on June 19, 2012, in her backyard in Lakewood, California,[the anonymous lady]clearly saw, at a close distance, what impressed her as a dragon-pterodactyl. It had no feathers but the tail she estimated at about six feet long. Apparent relationship to a Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur, By the living-pterosaur investigator Jonathan Whitcomb. [Introduction to Los Angeles Herald article] The Fresno sportsman now goes gunning for pterodactyls. All of a sudden I see the HUGE bird looking thing fly across the overpass I was on, maybe 20-25 feet in front of my car . Many people still assume that every species of pterosaur (aka pterodactyl) became extinct many millions of years ago. From the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God (third edition) we read about sightings of strange nocturnal flying creatures: That report prepared me for an email I received years later, early in 2012, about two men who had seen two huge flying creatures about twenty-five miles to the south, over San Diego [California]. Most of them have been in the United States. Playing Badminton Alone With the Wind, Video: Fact DMart 20th Anniversary Celebration Free Gifts: Scam. . Jonathan David Whitcomb, a forensic videographer, interviewed Hodgkinson, in 2004, and found his testimony credible [the sighting itself was in New Guinea in 1944]. She estimated that it had a 20 foot wingspan. What you believe the creature was: Pterodactyl. She has recently agreed to come out of anonymity, and she has revealed details about the third and fourth sightings, with the last one somewhat uncertain. On a Sunday morning, at a few minutes after six, the driver saw three dragons flying over the I-5 freeway, just 175 feet or so to the west of the nearbank of theLos Angeles River. Special effects or the return of a Pterosaur? Long live modern pterosaurs! This story was even featured in the Australian People Magazine and theorizes that pterodactyls inhabit the still-mysterious Amazon Rainforest.