South Carolina – Cryptid Eyewitness

September 28, 2020

Pterodactyl Sightings in Videos

By investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

(to report a sighting of a modern pterosaur)

As of September 28, 2020, my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life has 91 videos, 89 of them about sightings of modern “pterodactyls” (the correct word for these featherless flying creatures is pterosaur). I think I can understand some of the reasons many Westerners find it strange, at first glance: Some people believe that not all “flying dinosaurs” are extinct. Feel free to watch the following three videos:

Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

As of September 28, 2020, this is the most popular video on this Youtube channel, in terms of number of views. The second sighting featured is by Susan Wooten, and here is part of what she testified about her encounter:

It looked as big as any car and had NO feathers.

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Pterosaur Sightings in 2020

Less than three minutes long, this mini-documentary featured only two sightings, but both of them are in the year 2020: in Manitoba, Canada, (not far from Lake Winnepeg) and in North Carolina.

Here is part of what the eyewitness said in North Carolina:

I recently saw something that has blown my mind. After a week of people thinking I’m crazy . . . I have located your contact info . . . decided to write you in regards to a recent [sighting] in the foothills of North Carolina. I saw some type of flying creature in [the] sky on the evening of 8/28/2020. At first glance I thought it was a bat. As it got closer I assumed it was a drone. Then the creature turned in mid-air . . . expanding its wings as it [started] ascending higher. It was then that I realized . . . this was not a low-flying bat nor drone but something much larger.

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Ropen in South Carolina

A nocturnal flying creature sometimes is seen in daylight; why?

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Video on Pterosaur Sightings in South Carolina

I uploaded this short video to my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life on January 6, 2020, and it was doing better than average up until about August 26th of that year. From August 27-28, however, it skyrocketed . . .

North Carolina Pterodactyl Sightings

For the past 16 years, I’ve been an independent investigative journalist, concentrating mostly on eyewitness reports of what many people call a ‘pterodactyl’ or ‘dinosaur bird’ or ‘dragon’.

Pterosaur sightings

I don’t mean to imply that people should rely mainly on Youtube videos for information about living pterosaurs. You’ll learn much more from reading one or more of my nonfiction books on these amazing flying creatures. I also recommend online press releases about modern pterosaurs or one or more of the scientific papers that my associates and I have written.

Pterodactyls in South Carolina

Look not to a biology professor at a university, if you should be one of the lucky ones who has seen an apparent living pterosaur in states like South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, or North Carolina (or any other state or country). Contact me to report the flying creature you encountered.

Modern pterosaurs

A modern pterosaur!? How could it be? Extraordinary but true, huge flying creatures, with no feathers yet unlike any bat, live among us, although they mostly fly at night. In Papua New Guinea, on Umboi Island, the giant long-tailed pterosaur is called “ropen,” although it has other names elsewhere.

Flying Dinosaurs

I’m a passionate investigator of reports of living pterosaurs throughout the world. I explored part of Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, in 2004, interviewing many natives who had seen the ropen. [author Jonathan Whitcomb]

Living Pterosaur Cryptozoology

Next year will be the 50th anniversary of two sightings of ropens: at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and on Bougainville Island, New Guinea, both in daylight in 1971.

October 12, 2010October 12, 2010

Pterosaur sightings in St. Louis and in North Carolina

Apparent pterosaurs have been reported in St. Louis, Missouri, and in North Carolina, in recent communications with eyewitnesses. They deserve attention here.

St. Louis Pterosaur

The man and his grandmother saw the large apparently smooth-skinned creature, on July 15, 2004, flying about a hundred feet above an Arby’s restuarant in St. Louis . . . it did have the diamond-shaped tail end. [Missouri sighting]

North Carolina Pterosaur (comment by Adri)

I saw something extremely similar . . . something HUGE above me in the sky. It looked like a pale greenish white and smooth-skinned. It didn’t appear to have any feathers, and it had the tail with the diamond shape on the end. . . . I just looked up the Rhamphorhynchus and it was definitely similar to what I saw. [Jacksonville, North Carolina]

Oh, I saw the creature at about 7:20AM-7:30AM on October 7th, 2010. I’m sure I’m not the only person to see it. I stopped my car and pulled over to look at it more in depth, since I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. . . .

In addition to the above two sightings that were reported in 2010 (sighting-reports, not necessarily years that sightings took place), we have a 2010-report of a sighting in South Carolina (not the Wooten sighting).

Sighting in South Carolina

. . . It was huge, as big as a plane . . . a huge pterodactyl-looking creature, flying very high in the sky. . . . Years later in college . . . with some friends . . . one of them ended up blurting out that he saw a pterodactyl. I told him I had seen one too and as it turns out, he was at the same soccer camp in Clinton, SC when he saw it. . . .

September 23, 2010September 23, 2010

Arkansas pterosaur sighting

Around the end of 2004, I received an email from an eyewitness in Arkansas. More details are available in my book Live Pterosaurs in America, but I include many of the details here, for those who live in the Texarkana, Arkansas, area and have seen a similar flying creature but have not yet read my book.

It was probably 1982 [in Texarkana, Arkansas]. It was getting dark but there was plenty of light in the sky when we saw what we believe to be a pterodactyle [pterosaur AKA “pteodactyl”]. The wingspan seemed to be about 25’ to 30’ ft wide. It was probably about 70’ to 80’ off the ground, flying over a large tree in front of the house. . . . The incident was very brief but nontheless was an awesome sight to see. If someone would have told me that they had seen a creature like that, I doubt I would have believed the story until I saw it for myself. . . . [from the cryptozoology book Live Pterosaurs in America]

The meaning of this sighting of an apparent living pterosaur (and a giant one at that) is better understood in context of many sightings of similar flying creatures in the United States, over the past few decades. Here are excerpts from a few online sources:

Texas Flying Creature (actually two apparent pterosaurs in two parts of Texas)

I was about 11-12 yrs old . . . In the open backyard next door was what looked like a 9 or 10 ft tall man . . . then the man turned and I realized that this man didn’t have a face like a man at all! . . . I watched what looked like disgusting black leathery . . . bat-like wings . . .

Ropens — Sightings in the United States

. . . a teenager riding his bicycle on a dirt road in Washington State, years ago . . . stopped when he saw, by the side of the road, the two huge flying creatures with wings that had no feathers but looked like “black rubber.” The wingspan . . . twenty feet.

Pterosaur near Swamp in South Carolina

The pterosaur was “gliding” but it flapped its wings slowly once or twice. The wingspan was about twelve to twenty feet. . . . The huge featherless creature swooped down over the highway, maybe only “twenty feet” high and only “twenty five” feet in front of the car. (Highway 20, South Carolina) [The car was driven by Susan Wooten.]