MYSTERIOUS FLYING CREATURES SIGHTED IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Source: wildlifeextra.com.

By Gundhramns Hammer

April 7, 2014

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If someone ever captures a specimen and takes it to the experts in a museum, many skeptics would then have to shut up their damn mouths. Obviously, this would be one of the biggest findings and news in mankind´s recorded history.

But there is one big problem. How in the heck could any cryptid chaser ever get a chance to catch one live specimen when these animals died out a long time ago?

These flying monsters are supposed to have disappeared from the face of the Earth during the Cretaceous Period, some 65 million years ago. This is a heck of a long time ago.

So long ago that most people do not have any fucking idea what this really means. Notwithstanding, these vast spans of time have seeped  through and enter the people´s language reservoir, enough so that they can repeat these amounts of time like parrots in those occasions when they want to impress one another when talking bullshit.

No missing links have been found yet. They appeared in the fossil record already adapted to flying.

When did this happen? The oldest fossils are known from the Triassic Period, around 300 million years ago.

Given that these animals were already expert fliers, capable of soaring, gliding and scaring the shit out of their prey when they popped into the registered fossil beds, their lineage must be older than this. 

Nobody knows how these creatures achieved such a feat.

As far as we know, they were the first group of vertebrates to take to the air. And they did it in marvelous ways.

They came in all sorts of sizes and shapes. Perhaps colours too. Their bodies were covered with a fur like mammals, although their hairs seemed to have had another embryological origin.

Some of these flying creatures were true monsters, for example some species of Pteranodon (Fig. 1), which had wingspans between seven and nine metres. 

Figure 1. Pteranodon strenbergi. Source: Melbourne Museum.

On the other hand, on a lower scale, there are species such as Anurognathus (Fig. 2) whose wings reached a wingspan of 40 cm, making it one of the smallest members of the group.

Figure 2. Anurognathus hunting butterflies. Source: Wikipedia.

Surprinsingly, after a long time of species radiation and taking advantage of many available ecological niches all over the planet, these flying monsters or dragons now known as pterosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago.

Or did they really?

Surprising sightings of mysterious creatures in a surprising land

Papua New Guinea is still one of those places on Earth that can give you a sensation that you are still immersed a different age, in a primaeval time. 

There are still vast tracts of unexplored lands on this massive island, filled with lush vegetation, steep mountains some of which are capped with snow (Maoke Mountains), and powerful rivers, all of which without any doubt contain countless new species of animals and plants waiting to enter the annals of science.

As a matter of fact, a tube-nosed fruit bat or Yoda bat (Pteropodidae: Nyctimene sp.) (Fig. 3) and other 200 new plants and animals have recently been discovered by researchers working in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. 

Figure 3. New species of tube-nosed or Yoda bat (Nyctimene sp.). Source: The Epoch Times.

Papua New Guinea is an authentic "treasure trove" of unknown species of plants and animals.

Humans have been living on this island for thousands of years. It is fair to say that the world owes New Guinean farmers the cultivation of sugar cane (Saccharum edule and S. officinarum), a crop domesticated by the islanders around 6000 B.C.

Until recently, those humans that made this island their home lived in isolation from the outside world. Each group of people having developed its own language (there are over 850 today) and occupying a specific territory on the island. 

In the olden days, almost nobody dared to cross the borderlands unless he risked his own neck, for people practiced cannibalism as part of their lives.

Intertribal warfare was nearly an everyday event. To cope with the intergroup troubles, the natives had come up with different solutions such as paying offended families with dozens of live pigs or throwing a big party in which pork meat was at the centre for everybody to enjoy.

Soon European, Australians and “Americans” (U.S. people) came to the island as missionaries, explorers, businessmen or warmongers and little by little the local people left out some of their ancient traditions. In other words, Papuan natives were “civilised”.

Of course, today everything “civilised” has been allowed by the white conquerers and their allies with the exception of the practice of cannibalism, one thing that was forbidden and has become a tourist attraction nowadays.

Stories of headhunting and cannibalism have become a legend to be told to the curious and dumbfounded visiting tourists (Video 1).

                  Video 1. Cannibalism and head hunting in Papua New Guinea.

But old habits are hard to leave behind or get rid of for good. Once in a while there are reports of cannibals chewing on people´s meat as part of a secret cult (Video 2).

                         Video 2. Cannibals arrested in Papua New Guinea.

Culturally speaking, the overall result is that Papuans have ingeniously made a mixed cultural bag of the old with the new, living with one foot in the jungle and the other one in the “civilised world”.

Papuans are not stupid people. On the contrary, they are smart folks with clear inquisitive and exquisite minds, with an unusual sense of penetrating into the secret world of intentions of anyone who crosses their way.

In short, Papuans are good natural human psychologists. They might look dumb to outsiders, especially to Europeans or their descendants, but deep inside these islanders have the upper hand.

If you travel on the island with an open mind and heart, you will soon realise that Papuans with X-ray eyes that can explore people´s inner workings with one look at them abound on this beautiful land.

However, there are dumb and numb Papuans too, a common feature found anywhere in a globalised world.

But these Papuans have become city zombies under the effect of the powerful bites from the “civilised” vampire which has a firm grip on humans worldwide.

In the Papuan hinterland, with the imposed changes and adaptations, life goes on. Islanders plant their old and new crops, have parties and swine feasts, fuck one another and some young men still start their sexual life tampering animals (pigs, dogs, hens), have and settle their quarrels by “peaceful” talks following “democratic” foreign laws, sell their produce, shop at the local stores or travel afar to get what they need or can pay for and if needed, they can also entertain zombied tourists with their ancient lore.

And some of their lore is surprising. Indeed.

Part of this lore might turn out not to be so much lore but something belonging to the “real” world, something that we could grasp by our limited senses.

It turns out that there are numerous reports of sightings of nocturnal and bioluminescent flying creatures whose descriptions given by the islanders who have seen them match closely those of the ancient flying reptiles, the pterosaurs.

By now, Papuans are not the only ones who have recently seen these unknown flying creatures that look like pterosaurs but also by some Westerners´ eyes.

And some people still think that if something is not seen by “white” people´s eyes, this still needs to be “discovered”, does not get much credit or is not worth to be looked into except by the daring folks who do not give a shit what others might think.

Anyway, these reports have aroused the interest of some cryptozoologists a great deal. So much so that there have been a few expeditions to confirm these sightings (Video 3).

                 Video 3. The quest for flying monsters in Papua New Guinea.

So far, nobody has had any luck at capturing or has been able to settle this matter of the extant pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea once and for all. We must keep in mind that this island is quite large and difficult to explore.

The best thing there is up till now on the possibility that pterosaurs are still with us, much like the surprising fact that birds that are the direct descendants of dinosaurs or are really dinosaurs by all means, is the recent book written by Witcomb (2012): Live Pterosaurs in Australia and Papua New Guinea. 

Obviously, this book is based solely on sightings. But it is worth reading, from the cryptozoological point of view.

Therefore, it would not be surprising that one of these days the monster chasers get lucky and show the world a surprise. 

But monster hunters had better hurry before the world´s third-largest tropical rain forest disappears! 

It is estimated that at the present rate of man´s fucking up and devouring (logging, mining, fires, oil palm plantations and farming) (Fig. 4) this wonderful and unique forest, there will not be anything left by 2021.

Figure 4. Destruction of the rain forest in Papua New Guinea's Western Province. Source: MailOnline.

For the time being, there are still many creatures new to science roaming somewhere on the Papua New Guinea mountains. And may they live on!

Surprising sightings of mysterious creatures in a surprising land are a common thing amongst the local people.

On the other hand, these pterosaur sightings in Papua New Guinea could be the result of various factors:

• Unknown species of flying foxes (Chiroptera) that feed on luminescent insects or perhaps fungi,
• Geomagnetic bolts shot out and up into the sky along fault lines,
• Electromagnetic fields playing in the sky,
• Soil radiations or rock magnetic fields affecting people´s brains to see visions,
• Visions caused by the effect sof an unknown gas in the area,
• Visions under the effect of psychotropic drugs,
• Sophisticated man-made holographic imaging in the sky using satellites to keep people tethered along convenient lines of thinking, i.e., for social engineering, or for scaring the shit out of people to push them away from an area rich in strategic minerals,
• Interactions of real UFOs or their probes as they enter or leave the visible electromagnetic spectrum, or
• They are simply jokes played by djinns, those extra- or interdimensional creatures who enjoy living in isolated places such as the many spots offered by Papua New Guinea and performing high tech monstruous tricks to scare the shit out of people.

Whatever the sightings are or whatever their origin might be, we cannot rule out any possibility of encountering real life pterosaurs or any unknown flying creature living in the isolated and unexplored areas of Papua New Guinea.

After all, we live in a mysterious universe. We could be contained in a simple drop of water without knowing it that we are being observed by an unknown much bigger entity.

We must keep our minds open, for the universe is open. We cannot close our eyes because someone says so.

Our limiting and blind cultures certainly give us an edge at survival on this world so far but they can also push and put us down in the hole if we are not careful with any assessment of our blind touchings with our limited senses done on the reality elephant within which we are trapped.

Question but also know that you are part of this question that questions the question to find an answer to your question and all of the questions.


References

Buffetaut E. & Mazin J.-M. (Eds.) (2003). Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 217: 1-347.

Veldmeijer A. J., Witton M. & Nieuwland I. (2012). Pterosaurs: Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs. Sidestone Press, Leiden, The Netherlands. 133 p.

Witcomb J. (2012). Live Pterosaurs in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Amazon Digital Services, Inc. 76 p.