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Gideon saw a giant ropen flying over a crater lake (Pung).

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Composite sketch of the ropen of Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea

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Moke saw the five-second flash of light over a reef one night.

Finschhafen Harbor, mainland of Papua

New Guinea, Southwest Pacific

Gideon said the ropen

had “no feathers.”

Gomlongon Village, near

Mount Bel, Umboi Island

The part of Mount Bel where the ropen was seen by Luke Kenda (interpreter) and Mark Kau (government official)

First page of the question-naire form for eyewitness Duane Hodgkinson

Old lady who saw the glow of the distant ropen one night

Pterosaur silhouette compared with the sketch that was supervised by an eyewitness (Jonah Jim)

Wesley Koro, another eyewitness of the (Lake Pung) giant ropen

Young guide and inter-preter (banana boat off coast of Umboi Island)

Duane Hodgkinson, a World War II veteran who saw a giant “pterodactyl.”

A large fruit bat is compared to the creature seen by Hodgkinson (Papua New Guinea).

Jonathan Whitcomb, author (Searching for Ropens)

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