A Psychologist saw a Living Pterosaur, According to American Author Jonathan Whitcomb
A prehistoric-looking creature flies over an island in Papua New Guinea, according to the psychologist
Brian Hennessy, who witnessed the apparent pterosaur in daylight, on Bougainville Island, in 1971
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June 8, 2007, was published by
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revised version is expanded, with
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LONG BEACH, Calif/KSN/June 5, 2012 --- A psychologist who sometimes works
for the Chongqing University of Medical Sciences in Central China has
declared that he saw a prehistoric-looking creature flying in New Guinea.
Brian Hennessy described, to an American cryptozoologist, the strange
flying creature as black or dark brown with a beak "indistinguishable
from the head."
One morning on Bougainville Island, (now part of the nation of Papua
New Guinea), on a dirt road leading down to the coast, Hennessy heard a
slow "flapping" and looked up to see a "very big" creature with a "horn" at
the back of its head. It had a “longish narrow tail,” and there was "not a
feather in sight."
Thirty-five years later, in 2006, a brother-in-law of Hennessy referred him
to Jonathan Whitcomb, author of the nonfiction cryptozoology book
"Searching for Ropens," who interviewed him by email. The account was
thereafter added to the second edition of the book, published the
following year.
Until he had spoken with his brother-in-law, Hennessy knew nothing of
ropen expeditions, searches for living pterosaurs. (Whitcomb's book tells
about Americans explorers who had investigated flying creatures
described like living pterosaurs, commonly called "pterodactyls.") The
psychologist also had known nothing about the many native-names for
giant flying creatures. One of the names is "ropen."
Whitcomb was fascinated by similarities between Hennessy's description
of a “prehistoric looking” creature and a World War II veteran’s
description of a “pterodactyl” reported 500 miles to the west, near
Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea, decades before. In 1944, Duane
Hodgkinson, now a flight instructor in Montana, saw a giant "prehistoric"
creature flying over a jungle clearing where he and his army buddy was
about to walk across.
Two years before interviewing the psychologist, Whitcomb had
interviewed Hodgkinson. After the second interview, the cryptozoologist
realized that both the American veteran and the psychologist had
probably seen the same type of flying creature: a dark winged animal
with a long tail but no sign of feathers. Both men said "prehistoric."
Whitcomb showed Hennessy an organized group of sketches for
determining head shape, including general details about the beak and the
head appendage. A similar questionnaire had been given to Hodgkinson
two years earlier. Whitcomb drew sketches based on Hennessy's and
Hodgkinson’s answers, concluding that they had seen the same type of
creature, very possibly, but not necessarily, the same species.
Whitcomb's books declare that nocturnal Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs
live in Papua New Guinea and that they are larger than
Rhamphorhynchoid fossils so far discovered. Hodgkinson made it clear:
The size was similar to a "Piper Tri-Pacer airplane," which has a twenty-
nine-foot wingspan. Hennessy’s flying creature was above him, with no
reference that would have made it possible to have made an accurate
estimate of size.
Whitcomb believes that the creatures are nocturnal but that they are
sometimes awakened by noise in daylight: In 1944, a wild pig running
through a jungle clearing; and in 1971, a noisy truck driving on a dirt
road, for the daylight sightings by Hodgkinson and Hennessy.
Whitcomb also sometimes writes about the relationship between scientific
and religious axioms and how they relate to the existence of living
pterosaurs. Learn more at: 'http://www.ropens.com/hennessy'
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KSN News Release
Jonathan Whitcomb (left) usually
interviews eyewitnesses, but here
he is being interviewed, in May of
2012, for a Canadian TV talk show
Brian Hennessy---an Australian
psychologist, often working in China
Comparing the heads of the flying
creatures seen by Hodgkinson
(below) and Hennessy (above)
Extinct or not