Griffith Park Pterosaurs
Three “dragons” and a “pterosaur” were observed within ten weeks, just east of Griffith Park in Los Angeles
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Giant Pterodactyl in California
For Immediate Release
LONG BEACH, Calif/KSN/May 25, 2013 ---
Devin Rhodriquez was driving north on Interstate-5, near Griffith Park in
Los Angeles, when she was startled to see something strange gliding over
the freeway, unlike any bird, more like a “pterosaur.”
At 4:00 p.m. on Monday, May 13, 2013, the northbound freeway traffic near
the Los Feliz exit was at about 30 m.p.h., allowing the eyewitness to observe
a few details on what flew overhead. It appeared to fly 75-100 feet high,
heading northeast slowly, towards Glendale.
Rhodriquez reported her encounter to the nonfiction-cryptozoology author
Jonathan Whitcomb: “I’m almost positive what I saw fly over the freeway in
Los Angeles WAS NOT a bird of any kind. . . . I'd love to find out if what I
saw could be a pterosaur.”
She also said, “I did see its head crest and the membranous charcoal gray/
teal undertone skin. No feathers, & the wings were pointed and never
flapped. It glided through the air with its wings in an arched position. . . .
The first thing that caused me to double take at it was its unusual shape &
the positioning of its wing (arched). Quickly after that, I noticed its head
crest and its skin. Not a feather in sight.”
Whitcomb, of *Long Beach, California, has published reports of many
sightings of apparent pterosaurs, including encounters in Los Angeles
County. The May 13th sighting near Griffith Park reminded him of a similar
report: three “dragons” above that same stretch of freeway two months
earlier, flying in a different direction at a different time of day. The woman
who had observed those three creatures, on March 3, 2013, chose to be
anonymous in Whitcomb’s publications; he calls her “CGP.”
The three flying creatures seen on March 3rd, according to CGP, were
“several feet long, with a head:body:tail ratio that was certainly not that
of a bird. Their wings were long, angular and pointed and their tails had
triangular points.” That earlier sighting was near the Colorado Street
offramp from the northbound I-5.
Whitcomb concluded that the two sightings, less than two miles apart, were
of the same species, a flying creature that he calls the “California ropen.” He
has documented other reports of similar apparent pterosaurs observed near
some storm channels in Los Angeles County.
In a backyard in Lakewood, just a few feet from a storm channel, at about
noon, on June 19, 2012, a lady saw a “dragon-pterodactyl” perched on a
telephone line. The lady had a good view of the tail, before the creature flew
away. That tail was about four feet long, ending in a triangular point, which
was about eighteen feet from the end of that lady’s nose. In her report to
Whitcomb, she was sure the creature had no feathers.
Whitcomb believes the apparent pterosaurs in Southern California are
uncommon, mostly nocturnal, and related to the ropen of Papua New
Guinea, where he interviewed native eyewitnesses in 2004. He speculates
they fly through storm channels in Los Angeles County at night, feeding on
rats and possums and whatever they can find around those channels.
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U.S. Marine Eskin C. Kuhn drew a
sketch within minutes of his 1971
sighting of the two “pterodactyls”
that he reportedly encountered
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The
head crest is clearly visible here.
Although Jonathan Whitcomb prefers to
interview eyewitness by emails and
phone calls, in 2004 he explored Umboi
Island, Papua New Guinea, interviewing
native eyewitnesses of a flying creature
called, in the Kovai language, “ropen”
Patty Carson, of Riverside, California, drew
this sketch of the flying creature she had
observed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in
1965, an image similar to the sketch
drawn by the eyewitness Eskin C. Kuhn,
who saw two of them while he was a
Marine at Gitmo in 1971. Both sightings
were in clear daylight.
The Los Angeles River, just south
of where Devin Rhodriquez saw
the “pterosaur” flying over the
I-5 on May 13, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.
