Comments on: LA Quake Prediction: Are Giant Butterfly Sightings Mothman-Like Precursors?

By: organelle

organelle — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:43:45 +0000

On October 28th, at ~1:20 pm, I witnessed what appeared to be a crow-or-larger sized orange animal, flying like a butterfly, past Sutro mount behind my flat in SF. There was another person there, but by the time she could get to the door the creature was behind a tree from which we did not see it emerge. I estimated its distance at ~1500 yards. Size: small to large raven. Colors: Bright orange and black, appeared somewhat reminiscent of a monarch and it’s flight was -not- like a bird’s (exactly like a butterfly).

By: alpha 1

alpha 1 — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:22:04 +0000

It was a partly cloudy-partly sunny day in Montrose California where I live in Los Angeles County just north of Glendale/Burbank area. The sky was clear. It was aprrox. between 2:30 and 3:00 pm on October 15, 2010 that I walked in the back of our apartment complex to feed our small group of squirrels and birds. I also went back there to check on one small baby squirrel that was always in the tall Eldeberry tree.
I just stood back there quietly scanning the tree with my eyes for ‘little Sam’ the squirrel when I noticed above the tree line coming from my right way out in the sky, a sizable object that was moving at a steady moderate pace. Not soaring fast. Just passing from right to left in the sky. It was a clear sky. Partly cloudy-partly sunny.
It didn’t take long to realize that this object was something quite unique. It is hard to deduce the distance that this object had been out in the sky but it was too large to have been a regular bird and did not look like an airplane or anything mechanical. The reason why it was so odd is that although seeing this from my angle looking up at it, I could not make out any real definition but I did see what looked like wings above this mass that flapped like the wings of a butterfly.
It looked like what a gigantic butterfly would appear to be at a great distance in the sky. It was not streamlined or had wings open like a bird soaring. This is what really knocked me over. As it kept passing over I looked at this object that I then considered to be some kind of very large ‘bird’ because of the ‘wings’ that I saw flapping but in the motion that a butterfly would flap its wings. So in my mind my first thought was a huge ‘bird’ because of the many sightings of enormous ‘birds’ and the thought of a gigantic butterfly was to me, outlandish.
Lastly, I do remember some ‘color’ in this mass and to the best of my memory, shades of red-orange, possibly reddish-yellow but I did see a hint of color in it. It passed and it was gone. It flew like it was in no rush at all. I went around the building to see if I could see more of it but couldn’t. I could not see any real definition like a head or tail but the ‘butterfly’ type wings and motion were standout in my memory.

By: Tacos_with_Chili

Tacos_with_Chili — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:39:49 +0000

I recall seeing a giant caterpillar on the web while searching for unknown animals. I don’t know if it was a youtube video or a google image. Of course some pictures I saw was probably fake/hoaxed.
But I did ran into a greenish caterpillar that was very large. Well from the picture it looked extremely large. I think it was the head that stood out. The head didn’t look like you were able to kill it by stepping on it.
It looked like you can kill it by hitting it with a baseball bat! It looked like no caterpillar I seen before. Someone stated that it was most likely a caterpillar. Either from youtube video comment or yahoo answers.
I tend to make a question on yahoo answers about what animals are these. I put a link of the picture by uploading it on photobucket and pasting the URL link on the question. I can’t remember because It was a few years ago. And I’m using a different computer tower so I don’t have the picture no more.

By: z63Chris

z63Chris — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:52:58 +0000

Sorry Loren, your post reminded me so much of this ominous California earthquake warning from June of this year:

By: Blue Steel

Blue Steel — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:36:22 +0000

Nifty site for tracking earthquakes.

By: BoyintheMachine

BoyintheMachine — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:50:13 +0000

Yeah, I don’t buy it. That last 2 years where I live has been record setting for number of earthquakes and still no sign of the winged-thing.

By: Cass_of_MPLS

Cass_of_MPLS — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:45:17 +0000

Well, once we open the Church of Saint Mothman and install you as its prophet….

By: Dr Kaco

Dr Kaco — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:07:03 +0000

I live out here in Santa Clarita which is considered North Los Angeles and over the past month I have spotted several large Moths on my balcony wall. Not to mention the biggest Praying Mantis I have ever seen and a few Monarch butterflies that I haven’t seen around these parts in years. They don’t go away.

Only the recent rains have flushed them out. Hmmm Curious??

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:30 +0000

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico’s Gulf of California on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The quake, which registered at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers), was centered between southern Baja California and the Mexican state of Sinaloa, about 65 miles from the city of Los Mochis in Sinaloa, the USGS said.

There were no immediate reports of major damage, though residents in the area were shaken up.

Frightened people streamed out of their buildings, local journalist Julio Cesar Martinez told CNN en Español.

Schools in the area let out for the day, he said.

“It was very strong,” Los Mochis fire department Cmdr. Victor Manuel Ledezma said. Weaker earthquakes had been felt in the area in the past few days, he said.

By: mefine

mefine — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:36:31 +0000

OK, I am a believer in Loren’s powers. was that it or is an even bigger one coming?