Papua New Guinea – The Bible and Modern Pterosaurs

November 21, 2019

10 Most Shocking Facts – Youtube Video

Lady holds her hands onto her mouth in shock - with sketch of a modern pterosaur

By the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb

I uploaded the following video to Youtube on November 8, 2019: “Shocking Pterodactyl Facts – Top 10”. You can watch it now:

Video versus other online resources

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.

Yet videos are a quick and easy way to learn some basic facts and I also offer the above video as a resource for those seeking the truth about discoveries in this narrow branch of cryptozoology.

Brief Summary of the Shocking Facts in This Video

Beginning with the least shocking:

#10: Three fears are common in Western cultures: not just fear of the animals themselves but fear of what others may think and fear about the possibility of personal temporary insanity or at least a problem with vision.

#9: Reports of living pterosaurs in the southwest Pacific are NOT from misidentifying fruit bats or frigate birds.

#8: Not all biologists . . . believe that all pterosaurs are extinct. In fact, biologist Peter Beach has searched for modern pterosaurs.

#7: Some modern pterosaurs have intrinsic bioluminescence.

#6: Most of them have long tails and appear to be descendants of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs.

#5: A significant minority of these flying creatures are HUGE.

#4: Hoaxes have been eliminated for the overall reports.

#3: Three scientific papers have been written about the possibility that not all species of pterosaurs are extinct.

#2: These flying creatures are not confined to Papua New Guinea. They’ve been seen in many areas of the world.

#1: Of all the Americans now living, about 150,000 of them have had, at some time in their lives, a clear sighting of a living pterosaur.

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Top Ten – Most Shocking – modern pterosaurs

Fact #8: Not all paleontologists or biologists believe that it’s impossible for a species of pterosaur to still be alive. In fact, one biologist has searched for living pterosaurs in both North America and in Papua New Guinea: Peter Beach.

Video footage of a living pterosaur

A biologist (Peter Beach) and his fellow American explorer (Milt Marcy) observed an apparent living pterosaur in a jungle on New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, in the year 2015, and Professor Beach was able to videotape the flying creature, although the resulting footage was at a distance and zoomed out, because of difficult recording circumstances of the moment.

Press release on living pterosaurs

Pterosaurs, commonly called “pterodactyls,” live in various parts of the world, according to Jonathan Whitcomb . . . By the end of 2012, he had compiled statistics on the more credible sightings, including details that, after examination, make hoaxes an unsatisfactory explanation for the reports overall.

Youtube video channel Protect Animal Life

As of November 19, 2019, this channel has 33 videos, each of which is positive about the possibility that not all species of pterosaur are extinct.

Resources: press releases on living pterosaurs

Strange flying creatures in Utah
Pterodactyl reported in Papua New Guinea
Flying dinosaurs – strange flying creatures
Pterodactyls in mid-20th century Cuba

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014

Fourth Edition of the Biggest Live-Pterosaur Book

Bioluminescent Glow of the Flying Creature

I sometimes get a report of a large glowing creature, a shocking animal seen at night, even in the United States. The latest one was about two miles from Point Pleasant West Virginia, on the night of October 20, 2014. An eyewitness may search online for a similar sighting in the same general area where he/she witnessed the flying creature. This may result in disappointment, for reported sightings may be in other areas of the country but not near that person’s area. Please be aware of two factors:

These large ropens (or other glowing flying creatures) can travel long distances
They do not always glow and are not always noticed at night

Please also be aware that more than one species may be involved and that the ropen may be only one of two general types of modern pterosaur, both of which may have bioluminescent capabilities, at least in some species. Much scientific research needs to be done on this, even thought it now lives within cryptozoology, not yet acknowledged commonly by many scientists.

What one Book Reports About the Ropen Light

Two chapters of Searching for Ropens and Finding God cover this strange attribute of at least some ropens, this ability to glow with a bright light:

From page 41: How radical is the glow of a modern dragon or non-extinct pterosaur! Yet a fire-breathing dragon, to people in old times, was thought to be a real animal. Why should old stories all be completely fictional?

As I reviewed the videotaped interviews of natives on Umboi Island, early in 2004, my imagination was fired by a conviction: Old stories may contain truth. The fiction of Bilbo’s encounter with Smaug, the great dragon who burned up a town with his fiery breath, left an impression (like dieing embers) too dim to fire up my resolve to fly away to Papua New Guinea; but older ideas about dragons let in just enough light to spark my imagination: I believed native testimonies of a glowing creature flying over a remote tropical island.

Bioluminescence is more common than most Americans would imagine, as I would see for myself later that year. Could old stories of fiery dragons include some truth? Could that kind of glow have lead away our early ancestors into imaginative fiction: dragons burning down towns with fiery breath? . . .

From page 277: The sighting of a glowing “dragon” in England, around 1987, could be dismissed, for it was just a ten-year-old girl watching the stars, and that’s just one story. The two sightings of huge glowing flying creatures in the San Fernando Valley could be dismissed, for they were near Hollywood (the land of fictional creations), and that’s just two stories. The glowing creatures flying in the Caribbean could be dismissed, for they appear like nothing in any biology textbook, and that’s just two sightings. But scan the landscape of sighting reports and see what few other humans have seen for the past two centuries: Trees connected by underground roots, revealing the edge of a forest. How many eyewitnesses there must be who never contacted me about appearances of glowing flying creatures!

Searching for Ropens and Finding God, fourth edition, by Whitcomb

This religious/spiritual cryptozoology book should be published in the fourth edition before the end of October, 2014. Please see the latest posts of this blog.

From the title page of this nonfiction book:

This overshadows common true-life adventures, revealing the early stages of what may become the most unsettling scientific discovery since Galileo and Copernicus. It soars above disputes about religion, revealing why an official discovery of an extraordinary animal was delayed for so long. Above all, this explores human experiences—of eyewitnesses and those who interviewed them. People have become connected by common encounters: Persons of various faiths, with various levels of education, from various countries and cultures, have seen a living pterosaur.

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May 7, 2010July 10, 2010

Missionary-pilot Jim Blume

Late in 2006, deep in the mainland interior of Papua New Guinea, Paul Nation (of Texas) and Jacob Kepas (of PNG) observed the indavas repeatedly. The nocturnal flying creatures appeared to be like the ropen of Umboi Island, glowing at night with apparent intrinsic bioluminescence. Paul recorded two of the lights with his video camcorder and the footage was later analyzed by a physicist, confirming that the lights were not from any car headlights, flashlights, meteors, airplanes, camp fires, or paste-on hoax. It was the first physical evidence (for modern living pterosaurs) brought back to the United States from Papua New Guinea.

But this remote mountainous area around Tawa village is inaccessible by road. How did the two cryptozoologists get there? They were flown there by the Baptist missionary James Blume. It was not the first time, however, that Blume had assisted Christian cryptozoologists.

Two years earlier, as Americans David Woetzel and Garth Guessman were in Lae (Papua New Guinea) preparing to explore Umboi Island, Jim and Mary Blume (along with Pastor Jacob Kepas) met with them. Mary and Garth interviewed Kepas, who had witnessed, as a child, a glowing seklo-bali that had flown over his village. Jim arranged for the flight that Woetzel, Guessman and Kepas later took to Umboi.

Jim Blume had previously helped Carl Baugh and Paul Nation, with expeditions on Umboi Island. This missionary and plane pilot has made major contributions, from 1994 (or earlier) to at least 2007, to the investigations of living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea. Thank you, Jim, for your wonderful help.

Strange Flying Creatures and Bulverism (a reply to the critic Glen Kuban)

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April 24, 2010October 3, 2017

Jacob Kepas, minister, explorer, and living-pterosaur eyewitness

Late in 2006, Pastor Jacob Kepas (a Baptist minister) was interviewed by Paul Nation, in a hut in Tawa Village, deep in the mountainous interior of the mainland of Papua New Guinea. Kepas had recently climbed up a hill adjacent to a cliff where some of the nocturnal flying creatures sleep during the day. He was accompanied by a local villager who confirmed that what was on that cliff was indeed an indava, the creature that glows at night.

During the videotaped interview, Kepas and his guide described how they had observed the sleeping winged creature. They had tried to videotape it from the hill they had climbed, but the resulting footage was poor, perhaps from a combination of inexperience of the camera operators and the distance involved (Kepas was observing it through binoculars). But even with binoculars, Kepas had been uncertain that it was the creature that they sought until his guide climbed up higher for a better view, confirming that it was an indava.

But that was not the first time that Kepas had observed a strange flying creature. When he was a boy, in another area of the mainland of Papua New Guinea, he had seen a seklo-bali as the glowing creature had flown overhead. Researchers believe that the seklo-bali, ropen, and indava may be closely related or even the same species of bioluminescent flying creature, apparently living pterosaurs.

Regarding the objectiveness of Kepas, in his 2006 sighting of what was identified as an indava, consider this: Kepas himself voiced his uncertainty that what he was observing was the creature that they had sought; the distance and viewing angle made identification difficult. After the other man had climbed higher, obtaining a better viewing angle, it was confirmed to be an indava. This confirms that Kepas is capable of objectiveness in his observations, for he did not force a conclusion when the conditions were inadequate for certainty.

In this 2006 expedition, Nation and Kepas were flown into the remote mountainous area by missionary pilot Jim Blume, who has been a great help, for many years, in living-pterosaur investigations.

See also “Fight With a Kor in Northern Papua New Guinea”

This Baptist minister has worked with the Baptist missionary James Blume, in assisting American ropen searchers and in helping the living-pterosaur investigations in general.

April 15, 2010June 29, 2010

Objectiveness in the investigations

How easy it is to snatch at anything that seems to support ones view! Galileo snatched hold of a tidal hypothesis that he hoped would be evidence for the Copernican model (sun-centered solar system); it was wrong. More recently, one living-pterosaur investigator tried to shore up the story of what I call the “Tunnel Pterodactyl.” It now seems obvious that signs of a hoax outweigh anything that may be said in favor of that story. But tunnel vision can be seen in the investigations and research of scientists and cryptozoologists of all fields and philosophies. Galileo’s mistake about tides does not mean that the sun revolves around the earth.

I recently came to the conclusion that the Naga Fireballs of the Mekong River (Southeast Asia) are probably the bioluminescent glow of large insects. I briefly researched a few reports of these glowing orbs with hope that they may be related to the kor of Northern Papua New Guinea or the ropen of Umboi Island. It now appears to be no close connection except that there is another not-yet-classified bioluminescent creature, a cryptid awaiting to graduate from cryptozoology into zoology.

Maintaining the quality of objectiveness in our investigations requires constant vigilance, regardless of how deeply we believe in the foundation of our work.

Strange Flying Creatures and Bulverism

“Objective Ministries” seems to be a parody, and there is no such organization: “objectiveministries”