By the cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb
Why do I write this post on the blog Clear Thinking? Consider the following:
- Eyewitnesses around the world report long-tailed pterosaurs
- Eyewitnesses in forty states of the USA report such flying creatures
- Forty-one eyewitnesses in California have reported the same thing
In other words, when reports of big featherless flying creatures in California are taken in context with similar reports from many other areas, the shock is not quite as great, although it still is a shock to learn about those animals.
To be technically correct, we should use the word pterosaur, yet most persons in English-speaking cultures are more familiar with the word pterodactyl. Of the 41 sightings reported in California, 7 are featured in the new Youtube video “Giant Pterodactyl in California.”
Most of the encounters in the video were in Southern California. This music video is about four minutes long:
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Youtube video “Giant Pterodactyl in California“
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Video: Pterosaur Sightings in California
Most of the encounters were in Southern California, and in almost all of them the eyewitness contacted me directly.
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Pterosaur sightings in Los Angeles County
In this post are listed two reports from Santa Fe Springs, one from Altadena, and one from the San Fernando Valley.
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Yes Virginia, there is a ropen
In 1897, an eight year old girl, Virginia O’Hanlon, wrote a letter to the editor of a big newspaper in New York, asking if Santa Claus was real. The response has since become the most famous editorial of all time: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” I now apply that kind of positive journalistic response to what some persons have asked me over the past fifteen years. The question is in this general form: “Did I see a pterosaur?”
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Non-extinct pterodactyl in California
Three “dragons” were reported to have flown over the I-5 Freeway in Los Angeles, at 6:10 a.m., Sunday, March 3, 2013, just east of Griffith Park. Ten weeks later, another eyewitness reported a “pterosaur” flying over that same freeway but about a mile and a half to the south . . .
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Modern pterosaur in Southern California
A 38-year-old woman in a residential neighborhood of Lakewood, California, just northeast of Long Beach, reported a “dragon-pterodactyl” that had no feathers but a long tail with a “dragon” “triangle” at the end of that tail.
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From the Youtube video “Giant Pterodactyl in California”
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