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August 29, 2011August 29, 2011

More on the 1965 Sighting in Cuba

The Gitmo Pterosaur, as it has been called, is again in the news, at least among some cryptozoologists. A sketch has come forth, although with many remarks about its being only a preliminary drawing: It has many modifications that the eyewitness artist feels are necessary before she is comfortable with it. This eyewitness is Patty Carson, who saw one of the flying creatures at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, around 1965, when she was a child.

The following shows where Patty’s home was located in relationship to where the pterosaur sighting took place.

Yellow dots signify pterosaur flight. Purple dots signify eyewitnesses walk.

There have been a number of changes in this area in the last 46 years, but the blue circle shows the house where Patty’s family lived and the red circle shows where the children saw the Gitmo Pterosaur, what Patty at first called a “dinosaur” or “pterodactyl.”

I don’t want to publish the preliminary sketch of the pterosaur, for it may lead to some people believing it to be very accurate in its present form. For those who are unfamiliar with this sighting, I provide the following:

Gitmo Pterosaur Revisited

I noticed something interesting in Patty Carson’s testimony. She said, “It had little teeth, a LOT of them.” Well, Rhamphorhynchoids had teeth and long tails, generally, and the Gitmo pterosaur does as well, even though Eskin Kuhn did not see any teeth in the mouths of the two that he saw. That does make sense. Carson saw a winged creature on the ground, and she thought it had been eating or resting just before it stood up to look at her and her brother; she saw teeth in a mouth that was slightly open. Kuhn saw two winged creatures flying with their mouths closed; he saw no teeth.

August 17, 2011

Modern Pterosaurs in Central America

With great anticipation, I await the cryptozoological examination of a video of three flying creatures reported to have flown over a beach, in 2006, just south of Belize City, Belize. The circumstances surrounding this video make it extremely unlikely to be related to any hoax. Of course, there is a possibility that the three flying objects were three large birds that held their legs behind them, making them look like they had long tails; but careful examination of the video should reveal the truth, pterosaur or not, for it was recorded by a professional film crew member who used a high-definition camera. I quote from the Live Pterosaur blog:

Beliz Pterosaur

The apparent pterosaurs were high and rather far off, but Kobliha had the impression that they were not ordinary birds. Videotaping three apparent living pterosaurs with a professional camera—that set this sighting apart from other sightings. I [Jonathan Whitcomb] hope to have a copy of his video soon, so that I can analyze the footage.

Sightings in Mexico

[This sighting] is by “Stew,” who was visiting Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in 2000 (“pterodactyl” sighting details) I hope that he will someday get in touch with me.

” . . . about one and a half miles away, a huge black bird-like creature came from the more mountainous region to my left, and flew toward the ocean . . . wingspan about equal to the length of the taller palm trees, I thought about 30 to 40 feet. The wings moved very slowly, almost touching on the downward swing . . .”

I believe RM-2 has information about another sighting in Mexico.

Getting back to the Belize sighting in 2006, the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, who is a friend of the eyewitness, showed him the sketch that Eskin Kuhn drew of the two pterosaurs Kuhn had seen in Cuba. The Beliz-2006 eyewitness told Whitcomb that it did resemble what he had seen, but he was not sure if it was exactly the same.

Kuhn Pterosaur Sighting in Cuba

I saw 2 Pterosaurs . . . flying together at low altitude, perhaps 100 feet, very close in range from where I was standing . . . I had a perfectly clear view . . . The rhythm of their large wings was very graceful, slow . . .

They had a long tail trailing behind with a tuft of hair at the end. . . . The head [had] a long crest at the back, long bill, long neck with a crook in it. The chest of the creatures was similarly prominent, protruding forward like the prow of an old ship . . . their wingspan [was] roughly 10 feet.

August 13, 2011October 28, 2011

Old Dragons in Great Britain

On the subject of a modern pterosaur, I have done only a little reading about sightings in Europe, but I know that some cryptozoologists have researched this subject: David Woetzel in the U.S.A. and Richard Muirhead in England.

I have not yet had the pleasure of reading the book published in 1909 by Marie Trevelyan. According to the book Live Pterosaurs in America, second edition, which I have read, someone “interviewed an old man who remembered ‘winged serpents’ that lived in the mid-1800’s around Penllyne Castle, Glamorgan, Wales.”

To continue quoting from Live Pterosaurs in America:

“The woods around Penllyne Castle, Glamorgan, had . . . . winged serpents . . . An aged inhabitant of Penllyne, who died a few years ago . . . said it was ‘no old story,’ invented to ‘frighten children,’ but a real fact. His father and uncles had killed some of them, for they were ‘as bad as foxes for poultry.’ This old man attributed the extinction of winged serpents to the fact that they were ‘terrors in the farmyards and coverts.’”

Pterosaur Sightings in Europe

In England, in 1987 or 1988, a ten-year-old girl saw “a glowing object which seemed to open up to what I thought looked like a dragon.” She was shocked and told nobody about it for many years. She told me, “I do still remember what I saw and think that it may have been a pterodactyl that decided to ‘glow.’”