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Chapter Five: “Another Expedition on Umboi Island”
Jacob Kepas, years before Blume’s sighting, observed more than just a glow. In his 2004 interview with Guessman, Kepas described his encounter on the mainland when he was about twelve years old. A “whoosh” of wind caught his attention one night. He saw the flying seklo-bali briefly—the back of the wings and tail. He also saw “sparklers” that fell from the creature; that is a bad sign in his village in Morobe Province, for it is said that when the creature’s glowing particles fall upon a person, the seklo-bali will return for that person.
Chapter Six: “The Perth Creature”
In Australia, eyewitnesses also see large flying creatures unlike any bird or bat; unlike natives of Papua New Guinea, however, most Australians have no common tradition of any extant flying creature larger than any bird or bat. Most Australians do know the Western assumption that all dinosaurs and pterosaurs became extinct millions of years ago; but that Western tradition slaps eyewitnesses in the face. How do you tell a friend, neighbor, or relative that you saw a live pterodactyl?
Chapter Nine: “Other Sightings in Papua New Guinea”
A few days before my interview with Paul Nation in November of 2006, I consulted with Neil Mandt and some of his associates, in their Hollywood office. Their production company was planning an expedition for several episodes of the Destination Truth television series. I stressed the reality of the ropen, that it was not just a native legend but a living creature.
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Why do these large long-tailed flying creatures sometimes appear in daylight, when they are nocturnal? Why do natives in Papua New Guinea report their encounters but Australians rarely talk about them? Get the details from the world’s most prolific nonfiction author on this subject of modern living pterosaurs.
Live Pterosaurs in Australia and in Papua New Guinea
“Are you a lucky eyewitness who has seen a living pterosaur? . . . well, maybe a cursed eyewitness? This is for you: eyewitness reports of large featherless flying creatures seen over the past few decades in Australia and in Papua New Guinea. You are no longer alone.”
The first discovery of a pterosaur fossil by a Western scientist, in 1784, was decades before Charles Darwin began writing about his ideas on extinctions and evolution. Before Darwin, Western scientists had assumed that all species of pterosaurs were extinct for a simple reason: Those who discovered the fossils had no experience with any similar animal that was living.