Searching for Ropens
• Press Releases •
© 2004 Garth Guessman
(Lake Pung)
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.”
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.”
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