Pastor Jakob Kepas was interviewed

by Garth Guessman on the mainland

of Papua New Guinea in October, 2004

 

(The American spelling of his given name is “Jacob.”)

Mary Blume (interpreter) and Garth Guessman interviewed Paster Jakob Kepas on his childhood sighting of a giant “seklo-bali.” It was on the mainland of Papua New Guinea (around Wau).
Text Box: Jakob Kepas was 12 years old when he saw a strange huge creature fly over his village. It was not the first time his people had seen this kind of creature. They call it “seklo-bali” or “he who carries his bed around with him.” Some investigators believe that this relates to reports that the creatures carry giant clams from the sea to inland areas where they eat them. Some think that the seklo-bali (also known as a ropen) is a pterosaur (also known as a pterodactyl). Jakob noticed only a few features of the creature (it flew too fast). He did remember that it was glowing (see bioluminescence). Text Box: Home: (Living Pterosaur) Jim Blume’s testimony (missionary) Guessman & Woetzel expedition in 2004 Book Reviews by Whitcomb Book Review: Ropens Dragons and Pterosaurs Credibility of testimonies Pterodactyls and Evolution “Flying Dinosaurs” Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific (including Australia) Living Rhamphorhynchoids A Living Pterodactyloid on New Britain Island, P.N.G.

http://www.laattorneyvideo.com/nonlegal/pterosaurs/Jakob

updated March 4, 2008

Cover for the book Searching for Ropens, (Living Pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea)

This is the expanded second edition
Text Box: In November of 2006, Jakob Kepas and Paul Nation (of Granbury, Texas) explored the main-land of Papua New Guinea. Several seconds of video footage were obtained of two biolumines-cent indavas, which investigators believe are the same kind of creature called elsewhere “ropen” or “seklo-bali.”