Live Pterosaurs in America: Not extinct, flying creatures of cryptozoology that some call pterodactyls or flying dinosaurs or prehistoric birds

One of a kind book, about an unknown subject.

Live Pterosaurs in America is a collection of alleged eyewitness accounts as well a personal history of the authors journey into the question of whether flying reptiles heretofore believed long extinct, are still flying around. The book is full of accounts of everyday people who believe they've seen one or something that looks an awful lot like one, flying overhead. The book also chronicles the authors and several of his close associates journeys to Papua New Guinea where they hunt for the ever elusive Ropen. Seemingly a type of still living and glowing, Pterosaur or Pterodacty. (Yes, according to the authors beliefs, these creatures glow like a firefly at night) I give the author credit for researching as many of these eyewitness accounts as he can and not just reprinting accounts from other books or the internet. Where he can, he has called or emailed as many witnesses as he can in an attempt to glean as much information as he can about what exactly they may have seen. Strewn throughout the book is the authors belief that animals like the Pterosaur did not go extinct millions of years ago like mainstream science believes. Rather, he posits a more creationist belief that the earth is not as old as science claims and thus, these animals are not prehistoric survivors. They've been with us all along according to him. The sightings are ....interesting although I felt the author went too far trying to shoe-horn his own beliefs in long tailed Pterosaurs into almost each and every sighting rather than just accepting them for what the witness describes. He has a strong or rather strict belief to guide him and if something the eyewitness describes doesn't tally with his belief he labors to explain what he thinks the eyewitness "really" saw. If you can stand to read the authors attacks on modern science and his personal animosity for the producers of a certain television series about "Monsters" then the stories of eyewitness accounts are at least interesting if not wholly believable. If you already have an interest in Cryptids the book is worthwhile but I don't recommend it for someone not already familiar with the subject. The authors own personal religious dogma may turn you off.

Interesting and fun read! However, I don't think there is a strong case made in this book for the credibility of it's topic! I hope the author proves us skeptics wrong and makes ten million dollars by doing so! I'd suggest reading it for fun and fantasy, and perhaps to pick up a good "campfire story" or two!

This is one of those that most would just glance at then move on.We all know that Pterosaurs died out 70 some million years ago, that's what Science says, but I have seen with my own eyes on a Mexican Pyramid the carving of an almost perfect replica of the largest of these flying creatures. This leads to the question, How could these people have seen such a creature? Mr.Whitcomb and others may just have answered this question. Here is their findings submitted for you approval. Read it, it's fascinating! These creatures could still be around!

The author's arguments rely almost entirely on anecdotal sightings, without any convincing photos or other hard evidence. Studies have shown that witnesses are often unreliable, and that memories fade and change significantly with time. The author seems heavily influenced and motivated by his young-Earth, anti-evolutionary views, and fosters serious misconceptions about science and scientists. For example, he apparently believes that the confirmation of a living pterosaur would refute conventional geology and evolution, when it would do no such thing--any more than did the finding of living Coelacanth's or Dawn Redwoods did. Likewise, his claim that scientists are closed to the idea of modern pterosaurs due to assumptions and a "dogma" of dinosaur and pterosaur extinction is also unfounded. Whenever members of ancient groups are found still living today, as long as the evidence is well documented, scientists welcome and celebrate the finds. Furthermore, virtually all scientists already accept that some dinosaurs are still with us --they are called birds. Most scientists are highly skeptical of extant pterosaurs, not because of dogma or assumptions, but because of the preponderance of evidence (no pterosaur fossil remains are found past the late Cretaceous), and the lack of any compelling modern evidence to the contrary. While bashing mainstream scientists for not accepting his claims, he has no explanation for why they are not even supported by any major creationsist or cryptozoology groups.As evidence of the highly flawed approach of this author, he devoted most of a book called Modern Pterosaurs to a supposed Civil War photo of a giant pterosaur carcass, despite extensive evidence showing it was a fake photo, and a recent one at that. In Nov 2018 he finally admitted this, and stop selling the book. He claimed originally that he and others had seen the photo in old books from the 1070's, which clearly could not be true, so at best their memories were highly flawed. Yet he expects readers to accept these "sightings" as convincing evidence even tho they too rely on memories, and even though we know herons and other larges birds can resemble and have been mistaken for "pterodactyls", especially from a distance.. If millions of these things were flying all over the earth as the author implies, with some as large as small planes, it makes no sense that we have no physical or credible photographic evidence.

This book contains very selective and cherry picked information based upon the eyewitness accounts of very few people. One can get the very same information off the internet. The author does however, do a good job of following up with these witnesses. Unfortunetly, some are decades after the fact. What I found interesting, is there's photographs and videos of these alleged creatures on the internet and none of them were included. Is it because the author knows these are fakes or taken from movie sets? I think a brief mention of these would add a little credibility to the book as research involves examining all evidence and dismissing the fakes. This book only reviews the alleged personal sitings of just a few witneeses.