Comments on: Pterodactyl Causes Car Crash

By: mgrissom810

mgrissom810 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:42:47 +0000

ok well i dont know if anyone will read my reply but the other day as i was headed to my classes…I saw what at first i thought was a bird kite…I live in michigan and its february…anyway….i did a double take and it looked no joke like a pterodactyl….maybe it was a crane as my husband said but i have seen cranes before and if i could see pics of all michigan birds, migrating and not, i could pinpoint the exact one….the bird freaked me out as i was not expecting to see such a sight….

By: CryptoHaus_Press

CryptoHaus_Press — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:25:57 +0000

did the officer in question record what the claimant was drinking prior to his sighting and subsequent accident?

i’m betting it was Thunderbird, the cheap rot-got wine!

By: ChicaBruce

ChicaBruce — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:07:31 +0000

Great story!

I live in an area where there are lots of blue herons flying around. I’ve also spotted one clumsily navigating the chaotic thermals which swirl around the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan–as it was being chased by a peregrine falcon!

I don’t think you could easily confuse the shape of a blue heron with a pterodactyl but in Brazil, huge frigate birds are a common sight, soaring around the mountains. Their boomerang-like shape is eerily similar to that of pterodactyls but I don’t know if frigate birds are common in that part of Washington State.

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:52:18 +0000

You are absolutely right Loren. Just because I have not seen or heard of these reports doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. The reports that is. I still have to say that in my honest opinion, which means absolutely nothing. But for what it’s worth, I say that there are no pterodactyls in Washington State. And I’m sure I’m not alone on that feeling.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:26:49 +0000

Well, just because someone that has lived in the area for almost four decades hasn’t any knowledge of the history of sightings there doesn’t mean that others haven’t seen these flying cryptids or that reports haven’t been filed.

The peak of reports I heard about were in the mid-1970s, which, of course, would have been over 30 years ago. Hardly anyone has paid much attention since then (except a few of us, one driver, a police officer, and apparently a bored reporter).

Cheers.

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:51:11 +0000

Give me a break. I’ve lived here in Washington for 39 years. Not far from the Olympics, about 15-20 mins away. And I have never ever heard of a story like this. I seriously doubt their are pterodactyls in Washington. I have Blue Heron that land in my back yard. In fact one sleeps in the creek or up in the tree. They are big birds. They have eaten my Koi before. But I still don’t think I could mistake one for a pterodactyl, buzzed or not.

Oh, and they do make a breathalizer for THC.

By: Rillo777

Rillo777 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:34:19 +0000

Let’s see: There were witnesses to the crash. Traffic even stopped for the man’s car before he crashed. Never mind the possibility of whether such a creature could live there or not. I would like to know why HE was the only one to see it!

By: Valen

Valen — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:26:40 +0000

Backing up Timebandit, I have seen numerous great blue herons and they look very much like a Pterosaur when they have their neck extended. They pull their neck in once in flight, but with it extended, they do look absolutely prehistoric.

By: Zebster

Zebster — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:18:20 +0000

Could it have been a bat? Bats are more similar visually to pterosaurs(similar wing structure, lack of feathers, etc.), and it’s far more likely that there is a large unknown species of bat in the pacific northwest than a ‘living fossil.’

By: jerrywayne

jerrywayne — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:39:27 +0000

A very, very slim news item redeemed by a nice little lesson in natural history. Thanks, kind host.