Living pterosaurs (or pterodactyls) in California Sightings included in CA: Fremont Anaheim . 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. The creature, which was dark gray or black, had no feathers; he was sure it was featherless. Garth Guessman also lectured on living pterosaurs (2007, in California). With many photos, this is an online map of what is probably the oldest modern-pterosaur site ever published: Pterosaurs Still Living. This has brief book reviews: comparing two cryptozoology books about these astonishing featherless flying creatures. The pterosaur is very real . The second one was led by David Woetzel and Garth Guessman, with Jacob Kepas interpreting. On the drawing of the winged creature if you will notice there is some yellow color addedthis also represents the area of the creature that looked to me like the most illuminated aspects/parts of the thing combined with the afore mentioned grayish/brown coloring., Other Night Sightings of Possible Pterosaurs in Western USA. Website sfrfg.com reports extensive research on the apparent Pterosaur photograph. 1968), American science educator, environmental scientist, and cryptozoology skeptic. Flying northeast at about 4:00 p.m. 7. Here's the report from October 10, 2017 (anon. Im almost positive whatI saw fly over the freeway in Los Angeles WAS NOT a bird of any kind. Not one of those sightings was very far from a storm channel or stream bed. In this video, I get into a sighting in Altadena, California, in about the year 1969. Pterodactyl with a Pee said: . . The most recent sighting had been just fifteen days earlier, between Griffith Park and Glendale. . 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. To add more to the mystery of the photograph, there is a second photograph floating on internet space that is very similar a group of soldiers again standing over a different carcass. She had driven less than ten miles, just leaving an area of pasture, entering an area of thick woods, around a mild downhill curve, with high banks and brush on each side of the road, when an animal suddenly flew from the right, just over the front of her car., Belief in Modern Pterosaurs Reply to a Critic. . 8 min ago. I suggest there are limited exceptions to the rule that ropens use storm channels and stream beds to fly along at night. . The following is part of the mans email report to me . Michael Slack, of Roswell, New Mexico watched the flying creature both through the eyepiece and by direct observation. . Then another person driving on that freeway saw an apparent pterosaur flying near where the other sighting was reported, east of Griffith Park, and it was just a few weeks later (in 2013). Music video: living pterosaurs in California. . . I was [shocked] by the head crest and the wings. 2. In Texas, there were reports of pterosaurs in Harlingen in 1976, San Antonio in 1976 and Los Fresnos in !982. Take that in context: Over the past thirteen years, Ive looked at hundreds of eyewitness sighting reports of possible living pterosaurs. Several paranormal researchers claim to recall seeing that photo, but don't know where, and the photo has not been seen since. 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. Calif. from the west came this dark object in the sky. . Why do people in California report seeing a huge pterodactyl? came another one . Taking measurements, they reported that the monster was 92 feet long with a 160-foot wingspan and a mouth full of sharp teeth. It was gliding across the telescopes field of view, which was at low magnification for finding the Andromeda Nebula. . . I know that some skeptics may not accept the following estimates, yet I disclose them now with confidence that theyre not very far off. . While traveling through Zambia in 1923, Frank H. Melland collected reports from natives of an aggressive flying reptile they called kongamoto, which means "overwhelmer of boats." Pterosaur Eyewitness Group Support (PEGS) this blog promotes emotional and social assistance between persons who have seen a living pterosaur. . We both looked up to see what did that and saw a large flying animal., Getting back to the ladys encounter northwest of Austin, she told her husband, It looked like a pterodactyl. Note that she first was thinking or hoping for a commonplace explanation: a big turkey vulture, only this thing had a long neck and a pointed beak and head. This video is mostly about seven reported sightings of huge featherless flying creatures, most of the encounters being in Southern California. . These two paperbacks include much information about ropens. . Live Pterodactyls in Youtube Videos .. . . Several more have been reported from Texas and here is an interview with Scott Norman about his Pterodactyl sighting in California State. Learn of the searches and research done by a few American cryptozoologists who stand up to ridicule and proclaim the truth. . . . (*The encounters themselves may be older.). At least two pterosaur species, (quite uncommon, mostly nocturnal) still live in North America. 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.. . . . Not one of those sightings was very far from a storm channel or stream bed. The fourth edition of SFRFG mentions this encounter in Raleigh, North Carolina, and says, The many hundreds of comments on this encounter, some positive but mostly negative, deserve attention, yet not here. Its time to dive into some of those details. Cryptozoologists who specialize in investigating eyewitness reports of pterodactys, generally refer to all modern long-tailed pterosaurs with the name ropen.. pterodactyls. This scientific paper, peer-reviewed in a journal of science years ago, is briefly featured in this video . Stories of flying reptiles have been recorded for many hundreds of years. . . . Sometimes an eyewitness will remain quiet about seeing a live pterodactyl until he or she learns that a friend or member of the family has also seen such a flying creature. [deleted] 2 yr. ago. 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 suggest that at least some eyewitnesses were telling the truth, regardless of the opinions of the news reporters of that time, and that at least some eyewitnesses may have seen a living pterosaur. Reportedly, some people from the middle of the 20th century saw the first, original photograph; long before digital Photoshop/image processing was generally available. In fact, some scientists have witnessed a live pterodactyl with their own eyes. Report it safely and privately here:https://www.livepterosaur.com/LP_Blog/contact-jdw-page* Pterodactyl Sightings - 100+ videos by early 2021:https://youtu.be/IAYTZRVoVc8 Don't miss what may be the most popular video on Youtube, regarding a positive and highly relevant approach to sightings of apparent modern pterosaurs: the interview of the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson\"Ropen-Pterodactyl - American eyewitness\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1A2xXnxpU\u0026t=1s Here's a more-recent video about these amazing flying creatures: \"A Confession About a Pterodactyl\" (with Jonathan Whitcomb on camera)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4wYmmxe0bU Also you'll probably enjoy \"Living Pterosaurs - Part-1\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mTSAJVjKpU You might enjoy the short video play-list \"Test yourself with a short quiz\":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-iKE7VIqQ8\u0026list=PLbrGHtcHOcPyv7syvjZheoOrpaRDurZ20Permissions, etc.Beginning around 2:52 into the video is a still image of Scott Norman, which was taken from the video \"Living Pterosaur Report\" at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKz5JFtPsQ0This is on the channel \"Tom Canfield\" and is a recording of a Biblical Creation meeting held on July 21, 2007.In general, however, the photos in this video were recorded by the person who uploaded the video, Jonathan Whitcomb, who has full rights to use his own recorded photos.The still image of Jonathan Whitcomb himself was taken from the video \"Brief introduction to living-pterosaur investigations\" (Whitcomb has full rights to that recording of his own image.) The photograph in question shows a group of civil war soldiers posing before camera around what appears like an enormous bird carcass (said to be pterodactyl) they apparently killed (or found). Joined: . [One of the sightings in this video was in Altadena, California, in the late 1960's, close to Pasadena; another sighting was in Irvine, California]. Its tail, which I could see clearly, was straight and had a diamond shape on the end. . He described the dark gray or black animal as 30 feet long, with 15-16 feet of that being a tail. A few skeptics have declared that no bird watchers have ever seen a modern pterosaur. This story was even featured in the Australian People Magazine and theorizes that pterodactyls inhabit the still-mysterious Amazon Rainforest. Susan Wooten was following her friend, who was driving ahead on a major country highway, when the huge flying creature passed right in front of her car. A man (who has two college degrees in biology) and his son together had a sighting in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. . I feel blessed that God has allowed me to see this creature that should not be here, and yet is, this strange dragon-like thing that lives somewhere in the woods in this redneck little town., Dragon Pterodactyl Living in California. . . 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. Texas and California are the states in the U.S. where some have occurred. Generations of people in Utah have reported large flying creatures, sometimes using a word like dragon or pterodactyl or pterosaur. This is a brief introduction to eyewitness sightings of apparent living pterosaurs seen in Utah. If you have an interest in cryptozoology you should read this. [reader comment from Dale, who lives in Pennsylvania], Searching for Ropens and Finding God fourth edition, Live Pterosaurs in America (cryptozoology book). Ten years ago this summer (2007), the young cryptozoologist Scott T. Norman had a sighting of an apparent Pteranodon in Central California. Date of sighting: Summer of 1968. 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. Two pterosaursightings in Los Angeles, in 2013, have caused a stir, being ten weeks apart and the second one being just a mile and a half south of the first one. . I watched as it flew above the water and into the other leg of the pond and out of sight. Non-extinct pterosaurs in North Carolina Where do these flying creatures appear? It was the summer of 1977 and I was 17 at the time. The dragon pterodactyl surprised the lady, to put it mildly, as she gazed at the huge winged creature that sat perched on the telephone cable over the storm canal at the back of the backyard. . described the ropen-like creature: about 30 feet long, with a straight tail 15-16 feet long. . THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE DOUGLAS ADAMS Complete & Unabridged Contents: Introduction: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 . From Garth (at the same meeting in 2007) Big flying creature in that area; Has a big head crest; Long tail has a diamond-shaped flange . . Lake Isabella in California - pterodactyl or ropen sighting near here Large flying creature in California I was fishing for crappie April, 2020, at Lake Isabella an hour above Bakersfield Calif. . It flew about 20 feet high, towards a cluster of trees near the wetlands of the wildlife sanctuary or refuge. When shown illustrations of pterosaurs, Melland reported, the natives identified them as most resembling kongamoto. . [near Maryland-Virginia border], Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition, by Whitcomb. "Trust one eyewitness of a plane crash over the imaginations of a hundred professors who've agreed how that kind of plane should fly. . 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 . The report that two strange dragons with wings have recently appeared in the swamps east of Selma was at first regarded by many as a sen- sational story without foundation in fact, but after different persons at different places had claimed to have seen the strange creatures it began to be thought worth investigating. . 0. Hasbro Lines - Main Lines - Collector Lines - Movie LInes; Takara Lines . Ive communicated with only a few paleontologists over the past eleven years of my investigation. The pterodactyl was as long as a bus, as it flew up into the mountains above Altadena. . 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