Interviews of three
American Eyewitnesses
Late in 2006, Garth Guessman, a living-pterosaur investigator, interviewed three Americans who had worked in or visited a medical mission in Central New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea. The three had separate sightings, in daylight, of what may be extant (non-extinct) Pterodactyloids. (short-tailed pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls”)
“Trust one eyewitness of a plane crash over the imaginations
of a hundred professors who’ve agreed how that kind of
plane should fly.” Jonathan David Whitcomb (Searching for Ropens and Finding God)
Pterosaurs Still Living
Garth Guessman, cryptozoologist and explorer
Copyright 2006-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
Sightings of apparent
pterosaurs on New Britain
Island, Papua New Guinea
According to the fourth edition of the nonfiction cryptozoology book Searching for Ropens and Finding God, the ten sightings, of pterodactyl-like creatures flying over the island of New Britain, were from April of 1989 through 1991. None of the three American eyewitnesses saw anything like a tail. This, along with other things, indicates that the New Britain creature is quite different from the ropen of nearby Umboi Island. (notwithstanding both creatures are described like pterosaurs) The New Britain creatures are seen in the daylight and often fly two or three at a time, even in single file. They are said to glide without any wing flapping, at about 20-30 miles per hour, although one eyewitness did describe a much slower flight for the one that she had seen. Another American saw them “soaring” for half a mile. Estimates for overall length vary from four-and-a-half feet to six feet. The wingspan is from eight to twelve feet. The width of the wing has been estimated from one to two-and-a-half feet. Two American researchers, Garth Guessman (interviewer of the three Americans) and Jonathan Whitcomb (author of four nonfiction books on modern pterosaurs), noticed several clues that eliminated a fruit-bat- interpretation of the sightings. Not only the long-soaring flights and long wingspans are unlike the flying fox bats: The eyewitnesses reported pointed head crests on the New Britain flying creature. Read about living-pterosaur investigations in the fourth edition of the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God.
Two pterosaur books by Jonathan Whitcomb
Two more nonfiction books by Whitcomb
Images at top: Papua New Guinea (generic photo), Garth Guessman, and Monsterquest
Interviews of three American
Eyewitnesses
Late in 2006, Garth Guessman, a living-pterosaur investigator, interviewed three Americans who had worked in or visited a medical mission in Central New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea. The three had separate sightings, in daylight, of what may be extant (non-extinct) Pterodactyloids. (short-tailed pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls”)
“Trust one eyewitness of a plane crash over the
imaginations of a hundred professors who’ve agreed
how that kind of plane should fly.” Jonathan David Whitcomb
(Searching for Ropens and Finding God)
Pterosaurs Still
Living
Copyright 2006-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
Sightings of apparent
pterosaurs on New Britain
Island, Papua New Guinea
According to the fourth edition of the nonfiction cryptozoology book Searching for Ropens and Finding God, the ten sightings, of pterodactyl-like creatures flying over the island of New Britain, were from April of 1989 through 1991. None of the three American eyewitnesses saw anything like a tail. This, along with other things, indicates that the New Britain creature is quite different from the ropen of nearby Umboi Island. (notwithstanding both creatures are described like pterosaurs) The New Britain creatures are seen in the daylight and often fly two or three at a time, even in single file. They are said to glide without any wing flapping, at about 20-30 miles per hour, although one eyewitness did describe a much slower flight for the one that she had seen. Another American saw them “soaring” for half a mile. Estimates for overall length vary from four-and-a-half feet to six feet. The wingspan is from eight to twelve feet. The width of the wing has been estimated from one to two-and-a-half feet. Two American researchers, Garth Guessman (interviewer of the three Americans) and Jonathan Whitcomb (author of four nonfiction books on modern pterosaurs), noticed several clues that eliminated a fruit-bat- interpretation of the sightings. Not only the long-soaring flights and long wingspans are unlike the flying fox bats: The eyewitnesses reported pointed head crests on the New Britain flying creature. Read about living-pterosaur investigations in the fourth edition of the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God.
Two pterosaur books by Jonathan Whitcomb
Two more nonfiction books by Whitcomb
Images at top: Papua New Guinea (generic photo) and Monsterquest
Interviews of three
American Eyewitnesses
Late in 2006, Garth Guessman, a living-pterosaur investigator, interviewed three Americans who had worked in or visited a medical mission in Central New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea. The three had separate sightings, in daylight, of what may be extant (non-extinct) Pterodactyloids. (short-tailed pterosaurs, a.k.a. “pterodactyls”)
“Trust one eyewitness of a plane
crash over the imaginations of a
hundred professors who’ve
agreed how that kind of plane
should fly.” Jonathan David Whitcomb (Searching for
Ropens and Finding God)
Pterosaurs Still Living
Sightings of apparent
pterosaurs on New Britain
Island, Papua New Guinea
According to the fourth edition of the nonfiction cryptozoology book Searching for Ropens and Finding God, the ten sightings, of pterodactyl-like creatures flying over the island of New Britain, were from April of 1989 through 1991. None of the three American eyewitnesses saw anything like a tail. This, along with other things, indicates that the New Britain creature is quite different from the ropen of nearby Umboi Island. (notwithstanding both creatures are described like pterosaurs) The New Britain creatures are seen in the daylight and often fly two or three at a time, even in single file. They are said to glide without any wing flapping, at about 20-30 miles per hour, although one eyewitness did describe a much slower flight for the one that she had seen. Another American saw them “soaring” for half a mile. Estimates for overall length vary from four-and-a-half feet to six feet. The wingspan is from eight to twelve feet. The width of the wing has been estimated from one to two-and-a-half feet. Two American researchers, Garth Guessman (interviewer of the three Americans) and Jonathan Whitcomb (author of four nonfiction books on modern pterosaurs), noticed several clues that eliminated a fruit-bat- interpretation of the sightings. Not only the long-soaring flights and long wingspans are unlike the flying fox bats: The eyewitnesses reported pointed head crests on the New Britain flying creature. Read about living-pterosaur investigations in the fourth edition of the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God.
Two pterosaur books by Jonathan Whitcomb
Two more nonfiction books by Whitcomb
Copyright 2006-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
Images at top: Papua New Guinea (generic photo)
