On December 6, 2022, the board of directors had a meeting, mainly for organizational purposes but also with discussions on potential expeditions. Nocturnal flying lights in eastern Washington state came up, and I [J. D. Whitcomb] mentioned the possibility that many of these lights may be from related flying creatures across North American. Maybe these animals might even be of the same species or at least closely related species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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. . . the expedition led by Peter Beach and Milt Marcy in 2015 resulted in what may have been the first video footage of a living pterosaur being recorded in a remote jungle and carried back to the United States for distribution on Youtube and elsewhere.
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The word ropen comes from the Kovai language of Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea, although over the past fourteen years it has become known around the world as a word that refers to any modern flying creature that appears to an eyewitness to be a featherless long-tailed pterosaur . . .
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- The photo at the top of this post shows a tree on the bank of a river in eastern Washington state. On this tree one night, Milt Marcy and Peter Beach witnessed a flying light take off from this tree; apparently it had been perched there. On a different day, at near sunrise, a different eyewitness saw on this same tree, a “pterodactyl”.
