These nonfiction books are Live Pterosaurs in America (third edition) and Searching for Ropens and Finding God (fourth edition). I suggest there are limited exceptions to the rule that ropens use storm channels and stream beds to fly along at night. cryptids of the Vatican. For sighting #1, in the words of an eyewitness, "It turned its head and looked right at me". . That man was a scientist. 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 . But after publishing many web pages about living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea, I received emails and phone calls from eyewitnesses: sightings in California, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland-Virginia border, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Washington State. it turned around and it stood still in the air, it was flapping its wings while it was there. Alone in the car, driving northbound . She was following a friend who was driving in a car ahead (the second woman did not notice anything, for the apparent pterosaur had flown behind that second car). Los Angeles River, near location of sighting of May 13, 2013 . . I watched as it flew above the water and into the other leg of the pond and out of sight. Ive communicated with only a few paleontologists over the past eleven years of my investigation. There are also intriguing rock carvings and even photographs that suggest that this species of amazing flying monsters could have survived extinction, could have soared through the skies of the southwestern United States until very recently and might still exist in small numbers in remote parts of the world. . Sighting in California, S.F. . 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. None of us had a clear view of the ropen, at least not clear enough to see any details of form or features. . charcoal gray/teal undertone skin. . Not a reissue or rerelease . .. Did not notice if it had a tail or not As I stood there a creature glided down from my right to just above water level directly in front of me, no more than 50 from where I was. 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. 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. With many photos, this is an online map of what is probably the oldest modern-pterosaur site ever published: Pterosaurs Still Living. I will not allow his encounter to evaporate from the memory of cryptozoology enthusiasts. . The person may not be aware of his or her own assumptions about me and my writings and my small online video productions, probably having only very limited experience with them. . As a gift giver for a child or teenager, you need to know what this does and does not do and what benefits it can give to the young reader. 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 . In fact, some scientists have witnessed a live pterodactyl with their own eyes. Video appears to show a bird-like creature with a very large wingspan The most recent sighting had been just fifteen days earlier, between Griffith Park and Glendale. I slowed down and asI was looking the birds suddenly BURST from one of the trees! San Diego (two men saw two gigantic flying creatures) Altadena (sighting of a giant "pterodactyl" in about 1968) Anaheim (a huge flying creature) Fairfield (giant apparent pterosaur) Central California (sighting by the cryptozoologist Scott Norman) Here's the video "Giant Pterodactyl in California": Educational music video on Youtube . Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina The four reports from S.C.: Bishopville, 1984: wingspan about 10-14 feet; no feathers; standing in the middle of a country road, it appeared to be at least 10 feet tall. Long live modern pterosaurs! 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. Ebay: None YouTube (Old): . After the encounter, the man estimated its wingspan was between 30 feet and 50 feet, probably closer to 50. 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. 8. The driver of the car, in clear daylight, saw the huge ropen fly not far above the road in front of him, about half a mile from San Diego Creek, at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. When shown illustrations of pterosaurs, Melland reported, the natives identified them as most resembling kongamoto. I know he was afraid of what he saw, just like I was. Sightings; Podcast; Toys. andI had to move on. . 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. Modesto California Likes: +2,142. 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. . While many experts believe the drawing is a bird, the beak, head prominence, wings, and legs also look very much like those of a pterosaur. When I returned from Papua New Guinea, in 2004, I knew almost nothing about reports of apparent pterosaurs, or dragons, in California. Pterodactyl Sightings in Central California Scott Norman, a cryptozoologist from Southern California, decided to meet with some of his associates in central California, where people had reported living pterosaurs. I was fishing for crappie April, 2020, at Lake Isabella an hour above Bakersfield Calif. FRESNO, July 31. The pterodactyl was as long as a bus, as it flew up into the mountains above Altadena. 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. Here are the videos (as of Aug 31, 2019): Five months ago today, I uploaded my first video to the Youtube channelProtect Animal Life. In case of both the photographs, some people suggested the creature could be a Thunderbird - mentioning some such sightings. . 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. Only two feet awaythats how close the creature was (horizontally)to the concrete wall of the channel. . Report it safely and privately here:https://www.livepterosaur.com/LP_Blog/contact-WhitcombRead the terms and conditions (legal):https://protect-animal-life.com/terms-and-conditions/ . . By living-pterosaur author Jonathan Whitcomb, Upcoming ebook Live Pterosaurs in America (fourth edition), The following quotations are from a preliminary version of this books interior. The first two sightings in the Winder, Georgia, area have been covered in various blogs. They appeared light in colorwhite, gray or light green. Their silhouettes resembled giant Sordes Pilosus pterosaurs. 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. Altadena, California (north of Pasadena) about 1968. . Ten years ago this summer (2007), the young cryptozoologist Scott T. Norman had a sighting of an apparent Pteranodon in Central California. My dog Ember was with me. [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]. This was just northeast of downtown Los Angeles. . Living on the West Coast, he had opportunity to investigate . . . Pterodactyls have been reported in many areas of North America, including Minnesota. . and there was a huge flying bird-like animal above us. 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. In 2005, Garth Guessman, another ropen investigator, in Montana video-taped his own interview with Hodgkinson and the session was analyzed by Whitcomb, who became even more convinced the World War II veteran was telling the truth: The man had seen a ropen. Their wings were long, angular and pointed and their tails had triangular points. Another fascinating tale of a pterosaur literally coming out of stone dates back to 1856 in France. The combinations of those two types makes 150,000 Americans with significant sightings. Lets consider each of these sightings in Southern California, in order of how close each flying creature was to a storm channel or stream bed. She said she saw a large flying animal over a small lake. 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. 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. Even more shocking was the ropen sighting near the University of California at Irvine, in 2007, for that modern pterosaur was gigantic: 30 feet long. Then . Message: " I was 17 in 1968 when I was going to my neighbor's house in late spring or early summer. [Tails were] long and thin with a bigger point at the tip. I was driving a car alone, on my way to pick up my sister. . [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. Pterodactyl with a Pee said: . She estimated that it had a 20 foot wingspan. . The species lived in the same location as several other hominins, but were much larger in body size. The creature, which was dark gray or black, had no feathers; he was sure it was featherless. [Introduction to Los Angeles Herald article] The Fresno sportsman now goes gunning for pterodactyls. Tim Dinsdale (1924-1987), Loch Ness Monster researcher [6] Jonathan Downes (b. The point is this: pterosaurs still living. . They were the largest creatures to ever attain flight. For three+ years, I have produced and uploaded to Youtube videos about modern pterosaurs, a.k.a. . Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of ape that existed as recently as 100,000 years ago. Sighting was for 15-20 seconds; Scott was the most skeptical of the observers; It looked like a pterosaur, but he was not 100% sure. . . Many of the apparent living pterosaurs are much larger than any bat; Many have long tails; many have head crests. Here are a few of them . Around 4 p.m. 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. We now consider the third sighting (perhaps not yet covered anywhere else). 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. . . Original Civil War Pterosaur Photograph. In California, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and many other states, eyewitnesses have been shocked by featherless creatures flying overhead. There are a lot of trees. Rather than begin by listing my four cryptozoology books, lets look at what you would like as a reader or at the needs and interests of the reader for which you would give a book as a gift. How many Americans now living have seen a modern pterosaur? Bay area I got the following in January of 2018, a few days after the sighting: Fremont, CA - 1/14/2018 - around 10pm PST I witnessed a pterodactyl from roughly 50-75 feet away. These four sighting reports of modern pterosaurs in California have perhaps never before been featured in a Youtube video. 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. . This forum discussion began in March of 2013 (The Gear Pagestill online early in June of 2018), when the great majority of Americans had little or no comprehension of any reports of pterosaur sightings in North America. . Reports of Living Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific gives you a better look at the ropen of Papua New Guinea. Various labels have been put onto these flying creatures: Ive received reports from a number of countries on five continents, yet most of the eyewitness reports have been from the USA, and theyre enough to now make an estimate that I believe is more accurate than my estimates in earlier years: how many Americans have seen a living pterosaur. . Garth Guessman also lectured on living pterosaurs (2007, in California). Presence or absence of feathers: No feathers No photos were taken but three-toed, 8-inch tracks were found in Harlingen. I am a scientist, and I have discovered that the great majority of eyewitness sighting reports of extant pterosaurs are neither misidentifications nor hoaxes . described the ropen-like creature: about 30 feet long, with a straight tail 15-16 feet long. 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). I know of a very few books written about living dinosaurs and living pterosaurs, but The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur is different: only about apparent non-extinct pterosaurs that have been seen by people in the 20th and 21st centuries. It was Fox TV/Universal Studio prop used to promote a Television series called FreakyLinks, produced by Haxan Films at the beginning of the 21st century. 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