The latest online rumor about reports of living pterosaurs is a misidentification hypothesis, that people are actually observing big Manta ray fish that jump out of the water. But the fish itself makes a bigger splash than the hypothesis.
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.
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!
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