Gideon’s Testimony
Part Two
Gideon Koro was one of seven boys who hiked up to the crater lake that was just north of their village in central Umboi Island (Siasi), Papua New Guinea, around December of 1993. They soon encountered the long-tailed ropen.
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According to the cryptozoology book Searching for Ropens and Finding God, Gideon Koro was a credible eyewitness. His mannerisms matched his words in a way expected of a truthful eyewitness. Some details of the ropen’s appearance were not noticed and Gideon admitted that he didn’t know all the answers. Two other eyewitnesses confirmed his report about the giant ropen flying over Lake Pung. The ropen has often been seen either near this crater lake (on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea) or flying toward or away from it.
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When asked about the mouth of the ropen, Gideon thought for a moment and replied: “a mouth like a crocodile.”
When Whitcomb asked Gideon how many ropens they encountered, he said, “We saw only one,” surprising Whitcomb.
Gideon was very clear: no feathers. In fact, he appeared surprised that the American would ask.
When asked about the length of the tail, the native thought for awhile and then said, positively, “seven meters” (a tail about 23 feet long)
Whitcomb asked if the wings were like those of byung or blak bokus  (flying fox bat), and Gideon was very affirmative that they were.
When the American explorer Jonathan Whitcomb had his interviews with three young native men, just south of the crater lake Pung, on Umboi Island, in 2004, he knew the word for “flying fox” in both the Kovai language (byung) and Tok Pisin (blak bokus). Yet both the eyewitnesses and the visitors understood that what those boys had seen on the shore of Lake Pung was not any fruit bat. The ropen was much bigger and had a tail more than two hundred times as long as the tail of a flying fox.
Books about living pterosaurs (including "Searching for Ropens and Finding God")
The ropen of Umboi Island may be related to the long-tailed pterosaur  seen in Cuba by Patty Carson in 1965 and by Eskin Kuhn in 1971. Similar featherless flying creatures have been reported worldwide.
copyright 2005-2017 Jonathan Whitcomb
Gideon’s Testimony
Part Two
Pterosaurs Still Living
Gideon Koro was one of seven boys who hiked up to the crater lake that was just north of their village in central Umboi Island (Siasi), Papua New Guinea, around December of 1993. They soon encountered the long-tailed ropen.
Facebook page - "Searching for Ropens and Finding God" Email contact form for Jonathan Whitcomb
When asked about the mouth of the ropen, Gideon thought for a moment and replied: “a mouth like a crocodile.”
When Whitcomb asked Gideon how many ropens they encountered, he said, “We saw only one,” surprising Whitcomb.
Gideon was very clear: no feathers. In fact, he appeared surprised that the American would ask.
When asked about the length of the tail, the native thought for awhile and then said, positively, “seven meters” (a tail about 23 feet long)
According to the cryptozoology book Searching for Ropens and Finding God, Gideon Koro was a credible eyewitness. His mannerisms matched his words in a way expected of a truthful eyewitness. Some details of the ropen’s appearance were not noticed and Gideon admitted that he didn’t know all the answers. Two other eyewitnesses confirmed his report about the giant ropen flying over Lake Pung. The ropen has often been seen either near this crater lake (on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea) or flying toward or away from it.
Whitcomb asked if the wings were like those of byung or blak bokus  (flying fox bat), and Gideon was very affirmative that they were.
Ropen seen in eastern Cuba in 1965 and in 1971
When the American explorer Jonathan Whitcomb had his interviews with three young native men, just south of the crater lake Pung, on Umboi Island, in 2004, he knew the word for “flying fox” in both the Kovai language (byung) and Tok Pisin (blak bokus). Yet both the eyewitnesses and the visitors understood that what those boys had seen on the shore of Lake Pung was not any fruit bat. The ropen was much bigger and had a tail more than two hundred times as long as the tail of a flying fox.
Books about living pterosaurs (including "Searching for Ropens and Finding God")
The ropen of Umboi Island may be related to the long-tailed pterosaur  seen in Cuba by Patty Carson in 1965 and by Eskin Kuhn in 1971. Similar featherless flying creatures have been reported worldwide.
copyright 2005-2017 Jonathan Whitcomb
Gideon’s Testimony
Part Two
Pterosaurs Still Living
Gideon Koro was one of seven boys who hiked up to the crater lake that was just north of their village in central Umboi Island (Siasi), Papua New Guinea, around December of 1993. They soon encountered the long-tailed ropen.
Facebook page - "Searching for Ropens and Finding God" Email contact form for Jonathan Whitcomb
When asked about the mouth of the ropen, Gideon thought for a moment and replied: “like a crocodile.”
When Whitcomb asked Gideon how many ropens they encounter- ed, he said, “We saw only one,” surprising the American.
When asked about the length of the tail, the native thought for awhile and then said, positively, “seven meters” (a tail about 23 feet long)
Gideon was very clear: no feathers. In fact, he appeared surprised that the American would ask.
Whitcomb asked if the wings were like those of byung or blak bokus  (flying fox bat), and Gideon was very affirmative: they were.
When the American explorer Jonathan Whitcomb had his interviews with three young native men, just south of the crater lake Pung, on Umboi Island, in 2004, he knew the word for “flying fox” in both the Kovai language (byung) and Tok Pisin (blak bokus). Yet both the eyewit- nesses and the visitors understood that what those boys had seen on the shore of Lake Pung was not any fruit bat. The ropen was much bigger and had a tail more than two hundred times as long as the tail of a flying fox.
Ropen seen in eastern Cuba in 1965 and in 1971
The ropen of Umboi Island may be related to the long-tailed pterosaur seen in Cuba by Patty Carson in 1965 and by Eskin Kuhn in 1971. Similar featherless flying creatures have been reported worldwide.
According to the cryptozoology book Searching for Ropens and Finding God, Gideon Koro was a credible eyewitness. His mannerisms matched his words in a way expected of a truthful eyewitness. Some details of the ropen’s appearance were not noticed and Gideon admitted that he didn’t know all the answers. Two other eyewitnesses confirmed his report about the giant ropen flying over Lake Pung. The ropen has often been seen either near this crater lake (on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea) or flying toward or away from it.
Books about living pterosaurs (including "Searching for Ropens and Finding God")
copyright 2005-2017 Jonathan Whitcomb