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Murray, Utah, Resident Seeks Eyewitnesses
According to the nonfiction author Jonathan Whitcomb, not all stories about large featherless flying creatures in
the Southwest Pacific are from encounters with common flying fox fruit bats: Some of the creatures are too large.
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For Immediate Release
MURRAY, Utah/KnowSomeNews/June 18, 2014 —
Murray, Utah, Resident Seeks Eyewitnesses
American veterans are the focus of an investigation by a nonfiction author
living in Murray, Utah. Jonathan Whitcomb, who moved into Murray this
past March, writes about an animal not yet openly acknowledged by most
Western scientists. It seems to be a nocturnal flying creature reported by
World War II veterans who fought in the Pacific. Unlike the fruit bats that
are common in Papua New Guinea and Australia, this animal has a long
tail and has been described by some eyewitnesses as much larger.
Anyone who knows of any veteran, of any war, who ever reported
anything like a giant bat, is welcome to call the author at 801-590-9692;
ask for Jonathan.
Whitcomb's most recent nonfiction book, Searching for Ropens and Finding
God, includes the following reports:
1) 1944 encounter with a huge "bat," in the general area of Wake Island
2) 1944 sighting of a "pterodactyl" near Finschhafen, New Guinea
3) Sighting from the guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Jouett, CG-29, between
the Southwest Pacific and the Indian Ocean, many years ago
The author led a small expedition on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea,
in 2004, interviewing native eyewitnesses of what they call the "ropen."
Testimonies suggest it is featherless but has a much larger wingspan than
the common flying-fox fruit bat of the Southwest Pacific. Whitcomb
believes the larger nocturnal flying creature was seen by some soldiers
and sailors during World War II.
To anyone with any information, please call Jonathan Whitcomb, even if
the veteran has passed away and has only left a story about a bat-like
flying creature unlike fruit bats. Whitcomb (801-590-9692) can also be
contacted by email: http://www.livepterosaur.com/LP_Blog/contact
The Houston Chronicle, one of the largest newspapers in the United States,
referred to some of Whitcomb’s ideas in a December, 2010, article: “What’s
Going on in Marfa?” But they called the animals “flying dinosaurs,”
which is technically incorrect. Whitcomb encourages American scientific
investigations of the ropen, regardless of the popularity of the idea that
all species of pterosaurs have long been extinct.
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Duane Hodgkinson, more recently a flight
instructor in Montana, was an observer for
the field artillery in 1944, in New Guinea.
He and his army buddy encountered a
huge “pterodactyl” in a jungle clearing.
Jonathan Whitcomb, of Murray, Utah,
interviewed Duane Hodgkinson, a
American World War II veteran, and
found his account of his encounter
highly credible. Hodgkinson, as a
flight instructor, had no reason to
play a hoax for many decades. In
addition, many other eyewitnesses
confirm the flying creatures are real.
This book, nicknamed the “Bible of modern
pterosaurs,” is titled Searching for Ropens
and Finding God, in its fourth edition. This
nonfiction true-life adventure book is for
readers of all faiths and demonstrates how
persons of different religions can work
together in searching for the truth about
an animal not yet acknowledged by most
Western scientists and biology professors.
These two flying creatures were sketched
by the U.S. Marine Eskin Kuhn, within
minutes of his observation of them at
Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo), Cuba, in 1971.
