Comments on: Argentine Pterodactyl?

By: XDisk

XDisk — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:08:09 +0000

@Insanity,

Thank you for the clarification.

By: Insanity

Insanity — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:58:28 +0000

@XDisk – Dinosaurs are restricted to terrestrial vertebrates with an upright stance. Pterosaurs belong to their own group, Pterosauria. Ichthyosaur, plesiosaurs do not belong in the same as dinosaurs either. Despite all of them being considered large reptiles, they are classified differently.

By: XDisk

XDisk — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:39:01 +0000

Definitely a windshield crack. Nice try though.

I do have one question though. Loren states that Pterodactyls were not “flying dinosaurs.”

Why wouldn’t a pterodactyl be considered a flying dinosaur?

By: Labyrinth_13

Labyrinth_13 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:46:29 +0000

I will add myself to those who are voting for a windshield crack. (Most synchronically and quite annoyingly, I just had a well-timed acorn do the exact same thing to my own windshield yesterday, grrrrr!).

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:40:00 +0000

LordBalto- He could have been taking pictures of the ocean or the sky, the landscape in general. Why would he have to be taking a picture of any specific object? Why must we assume that he saw some object and decided to photograph it? There is something there! The sea, the sky, maybe something else cropped out. Why could he not have been sitting or riding in a car and decided to take a snap of the scenery? There is no reason why he had to have intentionally taken the picture of a chipped windshield.

I think he took a photo of scenery through a windshield that happened to be chipped. The reason the object seems to move is because the car moved, so perhaps it was the passenger that took the shot. Maybe he knew that the chip was ther, maybe he didn’t. Who knows? I know I have taken many photos that had a finger or reflection or whatnot in them and didn’t realize it at the time. He also might not have even been thinking about the chip in the windshield when he took the photo of the scenery beyond. I know if I saw a beautiful ocean view, I wouldn’t be focusing on chips and splattered insects on the glass. He may have known the chip was there, but took the photo of the ocean anyway, possibly because it was the only window the view could be seen out of and it was worth taking the photo even with the chip. There are a wide range of scenarios.

I will say that assumptions about the motives behind the photograph are a fairly flimsy reason to accept this as photographic proof of surviving pterosaurs or interstellar travelers compared to the fact that it does look exactly like a cracked windshield which are quite known to exist. That is really hard to ignore. It’s a question of burden of proof here. Those who think it is a crack in the windshield are making a perfectly rational observation. There would have to be pretty solid evidence to demonstrate that it could not be a crack in the windshield, not the other way around.

In the end, this one would be fairly easy to check up on. Just find the car in question and see if there is a crack in the windshield. End of story. I’d be more than happy to be wrong on this, but it is what it is.

I have to say, I’m pretty suspicious of this one and think it should be viewed critically. The story we are being fed does not really fit into what is being seen in the photograph.

By: YourPTR!

YourPTR! — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:58:03 +0000

From the eyewitness description, sounds to be either a UFO or some type of radio controlled (not sure how big this thing was?) or experimental aircraft. Doesn’t sound like a living animal, cryptid or otherwise.

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:17:15 +0000

If that’s a pterodactyl…

a) no wonder they went extinct…

b) I’m joining the Skeptical Inquirer

c) it’s time to have the crack in my windshield fixed…

…take your pick…

By: elroyjetsn

elroyjetsn — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:30 +0000

If it’s not a crack in the windshield, it’s unfurtunate that it looks exactly like one.

By: norman-uk

norman-uk — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:45:33 +0000

Probably a small unmanned surveillance craft. Probably experimental. These are now becoming relatively commonplace and bound to raise questions. Used by the police and military.
That is probably, but could be part of a UFO’s tool kit!
Doesnt look much like a kite!

By: LordBalto

LordBalto — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:56:50 +0000

The chipped windshield theory implies that the guy either intentionally photographed a chipped windshield (why?) or only discovered the object *after* he had taken the images. But why would he be photographing in that direction if he didn’t see something to begin with? There’s nothing there! So we have to assume he saw something and then photographed it, as he says. Keep in mind that it was seen by more than one person. All in the same car with the chipped windshield??? Come on you skeptics, you can do better than this. What’s peculiar is that he didn’t head off in the direction of the object and try to determine what it was.