Interview methods of Guessman and Woetzel

Interview methods of Guessman & Woetzel

Text Box: Garth Guessman (above) and David Woetzel (late 2004 expedition) prepared a questionnaire booklet before they arrived in Papua New Guinea. This greatly helped to ensure that important points would not be missed in interviewing eyewitnesses. Not only were their interviews well organized, but because of careful planning, many villagers, who had not previously been interviewed by anyone, gave many details that greatly benefited the research.

Text Box: Some of the pages of their interview book were devoted to pictures of birds that may possibly be mistaken for the ropen. This painstaking attention to detail helped to verify the authenticity of the unique charac- teristics of the ropen sightings. The local people were able to see these pictures and tell the interviewers if one or more of them might have been what they had seen. They were not. The ropen looks quite different.

Guessman/Woetzel

Leonard’s Sighting

Giant “Pterodactyl”

Australian sighting

What is a ropen?

Credibility, witnesses

Other witnesses

Text Box: Part of the interview book is devoted to comparisons between birds, bats, and pterosaurs. This allowed the explorers to find out if there were misidentifications or misunderstandings involving sightings.

The eagles of Umboi Island are well known to the local people. Guessman and Woetzel videotaped

these large birds. They are very different from the ropen descriptions given by eyewitnesses.

Pictures Copyright 2004 Garth Guessman

http://www.laattorneyvideo.com/nonlegal/pterosaurs/GW-int

In the book Searching for Ropens, the 2004 Guessman-Woetzel expedition is explained in detail; Whitcomb’s earlier expedition is also detailed. Why has the Western world been so ignorant of this giant living pterosaur? The book delves into why standard models of science are not as objective as portrayed.

In the second edition of the book (two chapters have been added) the break-through expedition of November, 2006 is explained: Two indava lights were videotaped deep in the mainland interior of Papua New Guinea; later, in the United States, a missile defense physicist analyzed the video footage.

updated March 4, 2008

Other local names for apparent living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea include duwas,

wawanar, kundua, seklo-bali, and indava. On Umboi Island, the name is “ropen.”