Three “Dragons” seen early Sunday morning, May 3, 2013:

In the first encounter, a lady saw what she at first assumed were kites, for they were definitely not birds. She was soon shocked to see their tails move in a way proving they were alive.

“They appeared to be several feet long, with a head:body:tail ratio that was certainly not that of a bird. Their wings were long, angular and pointed and their tails had triangular points. They appeared light in color – white, gray or light green.”

“Pterosaur” seen at 4:00 p.m. March 13, 2013:

In the second encounter, another lady saw a “pterosaur” without knowing about the first sighting, ten weeks earlier. She was almost sure it was not a bird. She concentrated on the head, which had a crest, so she did not notice whether or not the flying creature had a tail.

“I’m almost positive what  saw fly over the freeway in Los Angeles WAS NOT a bird of any kind. and matches the exact descriptions of a pterosaur except for the tail. I didn’t actually look for a tail. I was too in shock by the head crest and the wings. I’d love to find out if what I saw could be a pterosaur.”

Three “dragons” flew between Glendale and Griffith Park in March of 2013

Griffith Park Pterosaurs

“I’m almost positive what I saw fly over the  freeway in Los Angeles WAS NOT a bird of any kind. . . . I’d love to find  out if what I saw could be a pterosaur.”

Live Pterodactyls in Los Angeles County

The teenaged girl . . . the late 1960′s, in her home on Altadena Drive, against the foothills north of Pasadena . . . was amazed to see a giant “pterodactyl” fly “straight up” over a mountain ridge, perhaps in the Henneger Flats area.

Pterosaur Sightings Near Griffith Park

In two separate sightings, two eyewitnesses in Los Angeles, California, reported flying creatures described like pterosaurs. The sightings were a little over a mile apart, both from drivers on the northbound Interstate-5 Freeway, just east of Griffith Park, near Glendale.

1. Who played the most minutes in a season?
2. Who made the most points in one game?
3. Who made the most free throws in one game?
4. Who had the highest average score per game, in a season?
5. Who had the most 50-point games in a season?
6. Who had the most points in a season?
7. Who had the most rebounds in a season?
8. Most 60-point games in a career?

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All eight questions are answered by one name: the star NBA center Wilt Chamberlain.

1. Most minutes in a season: 3,882 by Wilt Chamberlain, 1961–62
2. Most points in one game: 100 by Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Warriors (vs. New York Knicks) on March 2, 1962 (unfortunately, this game was not filmed and not covered on television.)
3. Who made the most free throws in one game? 28 by Wilt Chamberlain (tied with Adrian Dantley)
4. Highest average score per game, in a season? 50.4 by Wilt Chamberlain, 1961–62
5. Most 50-point games in a season? 45 by Wilt Chamberlain, 1961–62
6. Most points in a season? 4,029 by Wilt Chamberlain, 1961–62
7. Most rebounds in a season? 2,149 by Wilt Chamberlain, 1960–61
8. Most 60-point games in a career? 32 by Wilt Chamberlain

He also has many other NBA records including the most consecutive triple-doubles (nine, from March 8–20, 1968).

By the way, part of the 100-point game was recorded on audio.

I think we’re not the only ones who saw it, because my classmate told me that there are sightings of this thing in Atimonan, Quezon [Province], just one-half hr travel from Pagbilao.

If that were the only incident of a pterosaur sighting in the southwest Pacific, it could be dropped as just a strange report. But sighting have been reported for many years, across that area of the world.

Sighting by two Plane Pilots

We can read of a sighting near Indonesia, from the nonfiction cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in Australia and in Papua New Guinea:

In 2008 I received a phone call from a plane pilot in England, who reported what he and his co-pilot had seen just a few weeks earlier. The two men were flying a Britten-Norman Islander, past the halfway point from Broome, Australia, to Bali, Indonesia, at 6500 feet, when they nearly collided with a large flying creature. . . .

. . . what flew at them was on a head-on collision course. . . . “I saw what I thought was a dark-coloured, single-engine aircraft coming on reciprocal heading at same height. . . . the other ‘aircraft’ dived towards us. . . . “At that moment, its wings took one enormous, slow, articulated flap. This was no aircraft! I banked left and it went down our starboard side in the opposite direction.”

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Mystery Lights of the Mekong River

The Mekong River Lights, on the other hand, fly slower, emerge from under the surface of the river, and appear smaller than ropen lights: not likely miniature pterosaurs hatching under water. Nevertheless, how wonderful that mysteries still abound in our old world!

Pterodactyls in the Philippines

One of them is the legend of the Berbalangs of Cagayan de Sulu, an island that is now called Mapun Island. The Berbalangs were said to be mostly human-like but also like the European vampire somewhat, with cat-like eyes.

A large bird flies low to the ground and picks up a baby, under the mother’s nose; but it never happened

Immediately, as the video became very popular with Youtube viewers, critics began pointing out inconsistencies. In one frame of the video, one of the bird’s wings has vanished. Also, the apparent voice of the camera operator seems off, for he says “wow” when the bird is flying in an ordinary way high up above the park, but when it flies much closer and low to the ground the camera operator says nothing.

More telling is the behavior of what seems to be the mother. She seems to see nothing as the bird flies to her baby, picking it up off the ground; after all that, she turns her head and seems about to get into action. But as she begins to go after her kidnapped baby, she seems almost unwilling to catchup, hardly even getting into a run. When the baby falls out of the grasp of the deadly bird, the mother does not even stretch out her arms to try to catch her little one; the baby falls about eight feet down to the ground.

Fortunately the baby was only a computer animation model, as was the bird. If there had been an actual baby and an actual bird to carry it off the ground, things would probably have gone much worse for the baby.

How Popular is the Truth?

“Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” has now had over forty million (40,000,000+) viewers

 

Pretended Abduction of Baby by Bird

 It’s been shown to have been just a pretended abduction.

Glowing “Birds” in the Caribbean

The following is from a report from a lady who had taken a cruise with her daughter, in the Caribbean in May of 2009, given to the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, who specializes in sightings of pterosaurs:

“We were somewhere between Cuba and Haiti. The sighting occurred around 2 A.M.  To the best of our knowledge, no one else witnessed this. We tried contacting Royal Caribbean but they never responded.”

“My daughter and I returned to our cabin. She went out on the balcony and called me out about fifteen minutes later to see something weird. The minute I stepped onto the balcony, I knew exactly what she wanted me to see. Off in the distance were two, very, very large, pink/orange fluorescent birds flying behind each other.  They looked like the flying dinosaurs, I forget what they are called.  They would fly towards the ship, then back out to sea, then fly together in tandem then make a sharp right, away from the ship and disappear into the night.”

Not Manta Rays

That sighting in the Caribbean does not fit the leaping fish hypothesis, for no Manta rays would appear to fly through the air together and change directions in the air, even if that kind of fish were known to glow pink or orange.

Is the Manta Ray Illuminating?

The American cryptozoologists Garth Guessman, Jonathan Whitcomb, and David Woetzel explored Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, in 2004, interviewing many eyewitnesses . . . The great majority of sightings were not over the sea but over land.

Jumping Fishes Fall Short

How desperate is the critic of living pterosaur reports, the skeptic who suggests people are observing large fish that jump up above the surface of the sea!

From the Amazon-Kindle book Live Pterosaurs in Australia and in Papua New Guinea, we read:

I continued email contact with the Perth couple, on occasion, and in 2010 the lady forwarded me an email that she had received from another eyewitness: a lady in Queensland.

“We both saw it appear from the side of the road as a black big shape moving fast. The wings were so big. Black bat leather like.

“One wing covered the car . . . you could see, just the underneath. As it [bent its] wing to continue flight you could see how strong it was, so big.”

Nocturnal Flying Creatures

The author of the book, the American cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, believes he has found the answer to why the nocturnal creatures are sometimes observed in daylight:

Years after my expedition, I wondered why those seven boys had such a spectacular daytime sighting of a giant ropen but American cryptozoologists, who had searched for ropens on Umboi, never saw any form or features of the creature. (Most, if not all, modern pterosaurs are nocturnal.) After many years of interviewing eyewitnesses from around the world and analyzing their sighting reports, I have found the answer: A daylight sighting of a modern pterosaur usually happens when a sleeping creature is awakened by noise.

Pterodactyls in Australia

“I was standing outside about nine o’clock one night. It was full moon and very bright with a cloud bank to the south east extending to and over the Ranges. . . . I glanced to the south and something caught my attention. It was something flying that appeared to be at the height of light planes that fly around here . . . This thing was at least as large as a light plane, say a Cesna.”

In Altadena, just north of Pasadena, in about 1968, a creature flew right up over a mountain ridge. How was that flyer unlike a bird? The wingspan was like the length of a bus.

In Santa Fe Springs, in 2005, a creature the size of a Cesna airplane shocked family members who were about to gather for a family Easter celebration.

In Lakewood, northeast of Long Beach, in June of 2012, a lady encountered a “dragon-pterodactyl” that had a wingspan at least six feet wide and a long tail with a “triangle” at the end of that tail.

Pterosaur Sightings Near Whittier, California

Over the past ten years, eyewitnesses have reported living pterosaurs (AKA pterodactyls) flying over eastern Los Angeles County, sometimes around Whittier.

Live Pterosaurs in Southeast United States

She had driven less than ten miles . . . entering an area of thick woods . . . when an animal suddenly flew from the right, just over the front of her car. . . . She was stunned . . . It was the tail; she looked up at a “very long” tail that had a strange shape at the end

One of the many launches of the Space Shuttle Discovery (but what about a pterosaur discovery?)

On April 17, 2012, the Space Shuttle Discovery rode on a modified 747 over the nation’s capital, before coming to its final landing, to be placed in one of the Smithsonian museums. But still the Smithsonian seems to refuse to modify its position on eyewitness testimonies, worldwide, of living pterosaurs. The blog post “Don’t Get Strung Alone by the Ropen Myth” has not been modified.

Smithsonian Gets “Discovery” but Runs Away From Discovery

To be sure, the Smithsonian’s contributions to scientific knowledge may be immense, but just as none of us as individual humans are perfect, none of our institutions are perfect. I put forth my opinion here that the Smithsonian Magazine blog post “Don’t Get Strung Along by the Ropen Myth,” of August 16, 2010, by Brian Switek, was full of mistakes and missed important things regarding eyewitness reports.

Did Smithsonian Attack Man, Pterosaur, and God?

The Smithsonian, in general, seems unfriendly to the existence of a living God; that is hardly news. But what about attacking the civil and constitutional rights of a human and the existence of a living pterosaur?

Can a Cryptozoologist be a Pterodactyl Expert?

Of course, the real issue is the credibility of the eyewitnesses whose reports have been analyzed by Whitcomb. Could sightings have been misidentifications or hoaxes? The appropriateness of the label “pterodactyl expert” is way off the mark for what we need to be asking ourselves.

The Truth of Tall Tails

“I have been haunted for close to twenty years by what I saw in the desert. I have never told anyone due to the fact that I was afraid I would be thought nuts.”

Cats Make you Crazy

The parasite, which is excreted by cats in their feces, is called Toxoplasma gondii