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Hoax Explanations for Living Pterosaurs |
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In 1856, according to The Illustrated London News at the time, men working on a tunnel in France discovered a living pterosaur; in 1890, according to the Tombstone Epitaph at the time, two Arizona ranchers shot a giant flying creature. What do these two accounts have in common? Each is now declared to be a hoax. But not all accounts of living pterosaurs can be easily dismissed as hoaxes. Consider each of the following reports: See if a hoax can adequately explain the details. Can some pterosaurs be still living? |
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Scott Norman: Pterosaur Eyewitness
“I don’t think for a moment that Scott or his companions were pulling a hoax. I would just like to read Scott’s own impressions recorded first hand. Is there such a record available?” . . . . .
“We can put the “hoax” question to rest regarding veteran ropen hunters like Paul Nation, Garth Guessman, and David Woetzel. . . .”
“Some critics have suggested that living-pterosaur investigators are dishonest: that they are engaged in a hoax. Perhaps the best rebuttal to that is in the reports of what the investigators have personally seen.”
Whitcomb's Book, Searching For Ropens, Asserts Pterodactyl Reported In Papua New Guinea
“A study by a forensic videographer suggests that the "pterodactyl" described by the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson is a real creature that lives in coastal areas of Papua New Guinea.”
Eyewitnesses: Hodgkinson and Hennessy compared
“Hodgkinson is a professional flight instructor whose profession requires high credibility. He would not per-petrate a hoax that would damage his credibility.” |
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Introduction to the Indava-Light Video Recording
. . . “the physicist Cliff Paiva, who analyzed the lights and found them to be anything but ordinary: Not meteors, airplanes, car headlights, lanterns, or campfires. And a hoax it was not.”
Other pages on the Indava-Light video recording analysis by Cliff Paiva, physicist:
“After sophisticated image-processing and analysis, the video does not appear to be anything produced by a hoax.”
“Mr. Paiva also found that Plate 24-B shows that no image-pasting hoax created the two lights. In other words, Paul Nation videotaped these two lights; they were not created separately and then inserted onto the background.”
“This image processing showed what seemed to be air turbulence between the camera and the two lights (as would be expected of authentic video footage). This Plate 26 shows that there was no cutting and pasting as in a hoax: The video is genuine.”
“Image processing also eliminates the ‘cut-and-paste’ hoax possibility.”
See the Table of Contents for the online version of the scientific report. |