Reaction from other cultures
In third-world countries, it is called by many names. In Papua New Guine, the creature may be called "Seklo-bali" or "indava" or "Kor" or "duwas." On Umboi Island, it is called "ropen." But in those third-world countries, people do not experience the same shock when they see it, for indoctrination into ancient extinctions is absent from their cultures. That doesn't mean they're not shocked. A ropen can be frightening.
Native eyewitness testimony
In 2004, the American cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb interviewed native eyewitnesses on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea. Gideon Koro described many details about the giant ropen that seven boys saw flying over Lake Pung about ten years earlier. Only three of the young men were available when the American arrived at the remote village. (The boys were mostly around their early-to-mid- teenaged years. Pung is a crater lake just north of their villages.)
Sighting from an American ship
The USS Jouett (DLG-29) was a Belknap class cruiser, launched in 1964. She was reclassified as a guided missile cruiser, CG-29, in 1975, decommissioned in 1994. Anyone with information about the sighting of a giant "pterodactyl" reported flying over this ship many years ago, contact Jonathan Whitcomb.Worldwide sightings of ropens
The ropen, a large long-tailed and featherless flying creature, is found in many parts of the world. Americans sometimes call them "pterodactyls" or "flying dinosaurs." Sizes vary a lot, with most of the estimates of wingspan falling in the range of about eight to twenty-five feet.
In the United States, it is called "flying creature" or "pterodactyl"
or "dinosaur bird" or "prehistoric bird." Sometimes it's called
"pterosaur" or "ropen." Whatever the name, it usually shocks
Americans, for our culture has conditioned us to believe that all
pterosaurs became extinct millions of years ago.
The ropen has "no feathers.” Its tail was very long:
"sefan meet-uh" long, according to Gideon (seven
meters = twenty-three feet long). In the above
image, he describes the flight of the huge ropen
above the lake.
Pterosaurs, aka "flying dinosaurs,"
are seen around the world, still living
USS Jouett (DLG-29, later CG-29)
These creatures are not extinct; they still live in a number of countries.
Copyright 2010-2018 Jonathan David Whitcomb
The above photo was taken by Jonathan Whitcomb during his 2004 expedition in Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen Harbor
The above image, called “Ptp,” has at least some degree of hoax origin
Magnified portion of the Ptp “pterodactyl photograph”
Civil War “Pterodactyl
Photograph” Ptp
The photo shown here, given the label of “Ptp,” was in 2017 declared to have a genuine image of a modern pterosaur. The proclamation was given by the physicist Clifford Paiva and the cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb. It now appears, however, that this image has a major problem. Late in 2018, the left wing in Ptp was found to be very similar to a wing in an animated pterosaur in one television episode of Walking with Dinosaurs. This construction may be related to the Haxan Films television series Freakylinks, which was on the air from 2000-2001, on the Fox Network. The other fake photo by Freakylinks (NOT shown here) was definitely done with Civil War reenactors. The nature of the origin of other details in Ptp (besides the wing) was still unknown, as of late 2018.
Reaction from other cultures
In third-world countries, it is called by many names. In Papua New Guine, the creature may be called "Seklo-bali" or "indava" or "Kor" or "duwas." On Umboi Island, it is called "ropen." But in those third-world countries, people do not experience the same shock when they see it, for indoctrination into ancient extinctions is absent from their cultures. That doesn't mean they're not shocked. A ropen can be frightening.
Native eyewitness testimony
In 2004, the American cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb interviewed native eyewitnesses on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea. Gideon Koro described many details about the giant ropen that seven boys saw flying over Lake Pung about ten years earlier. Only three of the young men were available when the American arrived at the remote village. (The boys were mostly around their early-to-mid- teenaged years. Pung is a crater lake just north of their villages.)
Sighting from an American ship
The USS Jouett (DLG-29) was a Belknap class cruiser, launched in 1964. She was reclassified as a guided missile cruiser, CG-29, in 1975, decommissioned in 1994. Anyone with information about the sighting of a giant "pterodactyl" reported flying over this ship many years ago, contact Jonathan Whitcomb.Worldwide sightings of ropens
The ropen, a large long-tailed and featherless flying creature, is found in many parts of the world. Americans sometimes call them "pterodactyls" or "flying dinosaurs." Sizes vary a lot, with most of the estimates of wingspan falling in the range of about eight to twenty-five feet.Civil War “Pterodactyl Photograph”
Ptp
The photo shown here, given the label of “Ptp,” was in 2017 declared to have a genuine image of a modern pterosaur. The proclamation was given by the physicist Clifford Paiva and the cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb. It now appears, however, that this image has a major problem. Late in 2018, the left wing in Ptp was found to be very similar to a wing in an animated pterosaur in one television episode of Walking with Dinosaurs. This construction may be related to the Haxan Films television series Freakylinks, which was on the air from 2000-2001, on the Fox Network. The other fake photo by Freakylinks (NOT shown here) was definitely done with Civil War reenactors. The nature of the origin of other details in Ptp (besides the wing) was still unknown, as of late 2018.
In the United States, it is called "flying creature" or
"pterodactyl" or "dinosaur bird" or "prehistoric bird."
Sometimes it's called "pterosaur" or "ropen." Whatever
the name, it usually shocks Americans, for our culture
has conditioned us to believe that all pterosaurs
became extinct millions of years ago.
The ropen has "no feathers.” Its tail
was very long: "sefan meet-uh"
long, according to Gideon (seven
meters = 23 feet). In the this image,
he describes the flight of the huge
ropen above the lake.
Pterosaurs, aka "flying dinosaurs,"
are seen around the world, still living
USS Jouett (DLG-29, later CG-29)
These creatures are not extinct;
they still live in a number of countries.
The above photo was taken by Jonathan Whitcomb during his 2004 expedition in Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen Harbor
Copyright 2010-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
Reaction from other
cultures
In third-world countries, it is called by many names. In Papua New Guine, the creature may be called "Seklo-bali" or "indava" or "Kor" or "duwas." On Umboi Island, it is called "ropen." But in those third-world countries, people do not experience the same shock when they see it, for indoctrination into ancient extinctions is absent from their cultures. That doesn't mean they're not shocked. A ropen can be frightening.
Native eyewitness testimony
In 2004, the American cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb interviewed native eyewitnesses on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea. Gideon Koro described many details about the giant ropen that seven boys saw flying over Lake Pung about ten years earlier. Only three of the young men were available when the American arrived at the remote village. (The boys were mostly around their early-to-mid-teenaged years. Pung is a crater lake just north of their villages.)
Sighting from an American ship
The USS Jouett (DLG-29) was a Belknap class cruiser, launched in 1964. She was reclassified as a guided missile cruiser, CG-29, in 1975, decommissioned in 1994. Anyone with information about the sighting of a giant "pterodactyl" reported flying over this ship many years ago, contact Jonathan Whitcomb.Worldwide sightings of ropens
The ropen, a large long-tailed and featherless flying creature, is found in many parts of the world. Americans sometimes call them "pterodactyls" or "flying dinosaurs." Sizes vary a lot, with most of the estimates of wingspan falling in the range of about eight to twenty-five feet.Civil War “Pterodactyl Photograph”
Ptp
The photo shown here, given the label of “Ptp,” was in 2017 declared to have a genuine image of a modern pterosaur. The proclamation was given by the physicist Clifford Paiva and the cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb. It now appears, however, that this image has a major problem. Late in 2018, the left wing in Ptp was found to be very similar to a wing in an animated pterosaur in one television episode of Walking with Dinosaurs. This construction may be related to the Haxan Films television series Freakylinks, which was on the air from 2000-2001, on the Fox Network. The other fake photo by Freakylinks (NOT shown here) was definitely done with Civil War reenactors. The nature of the origin of other details in Ptp (besides the wing) was still unknown, as of late 2018.
In the United States, it is called
"flying creature" or "pterodactyl"
or "dinosaur bird" or "prehistoric
bird." Sometimes it's called
"pterosaur" or "ropen." Whatever
the name, it usually shocks
Americans, for our culture has
conditioned us to believe that all
pterosaurs became extinct
millions of years ago.
The ropen has "no feathers.”
Its tail was very long: "sefan
meet-uh" long, according to
Gideon (seven meters = 23
feet). In the this image, he
describes the flight of the
huge ropen above the lake.
Pterosaurs, aka "flying dinosaurs,"
are seen around the world, still living
These creatures are not extinct; they still live in a number of countries
The above photo was taken by Jonathan Whitcomb during his
2004 expedition in Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen Harbor
Copyright 2010-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
