The press release “Unmasking a Flying Predator in Texas,” suggests the mysterious flying lights sometimes seen around Marfa, Texas, may be related to the nocturnal ropen of Papua New Guinea. From a news release by EWorldWire  (August 14, 2006):  “A study by a forensic videographer suggests that the ‘pterodactyl’ described by the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson is a real creature living in many coastal areas of Papua New Guinea. Jonathan Whitcomb analyzed a videotaped testimony of  Hodgkinson in 2005 and maintains that the veteran saw, near Finschhafen, New Guinea, in 1944, what natives of nearby Umboi Island call a ropen.”
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News releases on modern long-tailed pterosaurs
Lake Pung on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, a crater lake
Searching for Ropens • Press Releases •
© 2004 Garth Guessman (Lake Pung)
Press releases about the ropen, a living pterosaur
ropen silhouette with text "Ropen in upstate New York" simple map of California and the head and upper body of a ropen (sketch by Patty Carson)
The following is from the press release “Glowing featherless creature flies in Papua New Guinea.” “The flying light seen one night in 2004, in Papua New Guinea, by a New Hampshire businessman,  was a  living  pterosaur,  according  to the  newly  published  book Searching for Ropens. David Woetzel was watching the sky, for a creature known, by natives of various languages, as duwas, kundua, seklo-bali, and kor, but on the island Woetzel was exploring, it is ropen.”
Lake Pung on Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea, a crater lake
Searching for Ropens • Press Releases •
© 2004 Garth Guessman             (Lake Pung)
ropen silhouette with text "Ropen in upstate New York"
News releases on modern long-tailed pterosaurs
The press release “Unmasking a Flying Predator in Texas,” suggests the mysterious flying lights sometimes seen around Marfa, Texas, may be related to the nocturnal ropen of Papua New Guinea. From a news release by EWorldWire  (August 14, 2006):  “A study by a forensic videographer suggests that the ‘pterodactyl’ described by the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson is a real creature living in many coastal areas of Papua New Guinea. Jonathan Whitcomb analyzed a videotaped testimony of  Hodgkinson in 2005 and maintains that the veteran saw, near Finschhafen, New Guinea, in 1944, what natives of nearby Umboi Island call a ropen.”
simple map of California and the head and upper body of a ropen (sketch by Patty Carson)
Press releases about the ropen, a living pterosaur
The following is from the press release “Glowing featherless creature flies in Papua New Guinea.” “The flying light seen one night in 2004, in Papua New Guinea, by a New Hampshire businessman,  was a  living  pterosaur,  according  to the  newly  published  book Searching for Ropens. David Woetzel was watching the sky, for a creature known, by natives of various languages, as duwas, kundua, seklo-bali, and kor, but on the island Woetzel was exploring, it is ropen.”
Copyright 2008-2019 Jonathan Whitcomb
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