Pterosaurs
Still Living
Jim Blume, missionary
He has helped in many cryptozoological expeditions in Papua New Guinea
Research, and ropen searching, done by James Blume
Copyright 2005-2019 Jonathan David Whitcomb
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Baptist missionary interviewed
In 1996, Blume saw a glow of something on a cliff above a mangrove swamp around
Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. He was assisting Carl Baugh, of Texas, in their
search for pterosaur-like creatures seen in that area. Although Jim Blume does not
declare he saw a living “pterodactyl,” other researchers believe that it was.
Twice Garth Guessman interviewed Jim Blume: by telephone in 2000 and in person
in 2004. The missionary helped Guessman and Woetzel to obtain a flight from the
mainland of Papua New Guinea to Umboi Island, in the 2004 expedition.
Blume assisted Baugh in late 20th century
Jim Blume, a plane pilot and missionary in Papua New Guinea for about 30 years,
was helping Baugh research pterosaur-like creatures in 1996. One evening they
were near the shore of a mangrove swamp when Blume noticed a strange light. He
tried getting closer to get a better view, but the object soon left.
It was about the size and general shape of a very large penguin but no details were
visible: He saw only the light emitted by it. He described the glow: similar to a “light
stick” that has been broken (not bright).
This is in an area of Papua New Guinea where natives report seeing creatures
suggesting pterosaurs, according to Blume. The creatures have wingspans of about
three to four feet, and they eat fish, according to the natives that this missionary
has spoken with.
Blume had interviewed about 70 natives who have seen apparent giant living
pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea. Much of what extant-pterosaur investigators
know about Blume’s interviews with natives—that comes from the telephone
interview by Guessman. Blume said that the apparent extant-pterosaurs seen in
coastal areas of the mainland, and on Umboi Island and on New Britain Island,
have wingspans of over ten feet.
These flying creatures are said, by natives who spoke with Blume, to have long bodies
with tails. They also have comb-like structures on their heads like “a rooster’s, only
stiffer.” Some of the larger creatures are dangerous and feared by the people of some
areas. In the mid-1980’s a man was attacked and killed in his garden.
Some of the names used by natives
Some people have been misinformed about a word floating about on the world wide
web: “duah.” This probably comes from someone assuming that “duah” is singular
for “duwas;” it is not. The correct word is "duwas."
Other names, in various village languages, including the following:
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Kor
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Ropen
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Seklo-bali
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Wawanar
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Indava
Jim Blume interviewed in Lae, PNG, in 2004
Jacob Kepas (left) with James Blume
A mountain deep in the interior of Papua New
Guinea—this still is from a video recorded from the
plane flown by Jim Blume for the indava expedition:
Paul Nation and Jacob Kepas (Tawa Village, 2006).
Nonfiction books on living pterosaurs, by Whitcomb
Searching for Ropens and Finding God (fourth edition)
Live Pterosaurs in America
The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur