Flying creatures described like large pterosaurs have been reported in the Philippines. One man described what he called two “pterodactyls” in the city of Pagbilao, in the Quezon Province. He said:
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.