About Jonathan Whitcomb

Jonathan Whitcomb was a forensic videographer when he explored, in 2004, the remote tropical island of Umboi in Papua New Guinea. He hoped to videotape the ropen, but the nocturnal flying creature turned out to be much too elusive.

Whitcomb was able to interview many native eyewitnesses of the apparently-bioluminescent flying creature and returned to the United States convinced that the ropen is a living pterosaur.

After writing two nonfiction books about modern living pterosaurs, he proposed, in 2010, an astonishing conjecture about the Marfa Lights of southwest Texas: They are probably made by a group of bioluminescent flying predators, perhaps similar to the ropen of Papua New Guinea.

For seven years, eyewitnesses of living pterosaurs have contacted this American cryptozoologist, describing their incredible encounters. Whitcomb has written web pages (in several languages), books, and a scientific paper (published in a peer-reviewed journal of science) on this astonishing new field of cryptozoology: living pterosaurs.