Singapore Pterosaur

In September of 2010, I received an email from a man who lives in Singapore. Around 1958-1960, when he was a small boy, he watched two flying creatures (that he now believes were pterosaurs) as they flew and ate some orange fruit from some tall palm trees.

I was wandering some distance from the village; I was staying in Alexandra Road area, and was out on an adventure hunt one hot afternoon in a forested area when I came across a pair of them flying together [as they circled the palm trees] . . . at that time I thought nothing more of them as I was of the notion that such bird-like creatures were the order of the day – at such a young age, at that time, I never knew they were thought to be extinct.

Question: Where was your sighting (country and state or area of country)?

I apologise that, in my eagerness to share my experience in your website, I had inadvertently missed out in reporting the place (country) that I live in, i.e. the place of my sighting.

I live in Singapore, an island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula (South East Asia). There are many much bigger islands south of my country, and they form the Indonesian Archipelago. In one of the islands there, I believe it was Sumatra, there was a recent sighting of a similar kind, a couple of years ago . . .

In those days, we lived in a small village which was near a densely wooded area. Of course with the general development of Singapore to a metropolitan state it is today, the creatures, if they had propagated, would have ventured further south to the wilder regions to avoid civilisation (to ensure their survival). . . .

Pterosaur Near Singapore (same sighting as above)

I have seen a pair of them way back in the early 60′s when I was a small boy . . . circling some tall palm trees (those with small orange coloured fruits) and then helping themselves to the fruits. They were making cries which sounded like squawking . . . They were large . . .

Pterosaur Near Indonesia

In June of 2008, two very experienced pilots were at the controls of a light twin-engined plane, flying over the sea southeast of Bali, Indonesia. While the copilot was looking at a chart, the pilot noticed what he assumed was another plane, heading in the opposite direction, threatening a direct collision. The pilot put the plane into a dive, but the other “flyer” also dove, forcing the pilot to veer away, with a bank to the left. . . . Both men [pilot and copilot] were sure, at that time, that it was a creature and not another plane that had nearly hit them, for in passing them it made one slow flap of its wings.

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