face like a bat. When they were later show a book containing pictures of prehistoric animals both
sisters identified the creature they had seen as being a Pterodon.
The next month on February 26th 1976, the San Antonio ‘Light’ reported that 2 days
previously on February 24th, three local school teachers had seen an enormous ‘black bird’ while
driving to work. The three said the creature had leathery wings with a span of about 15 to 20 feet.
They observed it swooping in low over several cars commenting that as it did so it appeared to
glide more than fly. The three say that it was large enough, at and times low enough, for its
shadow to cover the entire road. Another similar creature was also seen at the same time by the
group, only further off in the distance that seemed to be circling a herd of cattle. Upon their
arrival at the school where they worked the group immediately began looking through
encyclopaedias for the creature and also identified the beast they had observed as a Pterodon.
Then yet another event occurred on September 14th 1982, when, at 3.55 am in the morning, a
Mr. James Thompson, who was an ambulance technician from Harlington, saw what appeared to
be a huge ‘bird-like object’ fly over highway 100 at a height of around 150 feet. Thompson says
that a first he thought it was a large model plane and expected it to land on the road until he
noticed it flap its wings. In the night sky the creature seemed to have a black or greyish colour
and looked to be covered with hide rather than plumage.
These are just some sightings that have bee reported. There have been quite a number of other
sightings of similar creatures in many other places around the world as well, places as diverse as
Africa, North and South America, Sumatra and even in France, England and New Zealand.
Could it actually be possible that some of these creatures somehow managed to survive, deep
in the swamps or high in the peaks of some of the more remote and inaccessible regions even
until the 20th Century? In actuality, there is absolutely no conclusive evidence at all, to prove that
the chronology of 65 million years is in any way correct for the extinction of the species and
further evidence that even suggests that the event may have in fact occurred a good deal more
recently than any Palaeontologist who values his doctorate would ever care to admit.
The Dragons of St. George
There is an tantalizing footnote to all this talk and rumour of Prehistoric flying creatures and
just ponder this fact for a moment: The first dinosaur ever discovered was an Ornithopod called
the Iguanodon, which was found in England in the early 1800s. As a point of interest the
specimen that was recovered was more than twice the height of a person and belonged to a group
of medium-sized plant eaters that walked on two legs and used its long tail for balance, but that’s
beside the point. The real point is: The species was until that time, completely unheard of. The
actual Dinosaur genus was not even named until 1824 yet many people who lived in our distant
past seemed to have possessed a substantial amount of knowledge in regards to these creatures.
For example, in an incredible discovery in 1928, just northwest of Tucson, Arizona a man
called Charles Manier, came across an ancient lime kiln, apparently of Roman design, which
came as quite a shock in Tucson. When it was opened it was found to contain an assortment of
ancient Roman artefacts made in the most part, from lead. In all more than 30 items were finally
recovered from the site, These included spears, swords, daggers, batons and even a 62 pound
cross. All of the objects were encrusted with a substance known as ‘caliche’ which is a hard
crusty type of material that ‘grows’ with age similar to a terracotta tile, this growth is due to a
chemical reaction that occurs when metals are exposed to desert soil and water. The thick caliche
displayed on these artefacts also aptly testified to the extreme age of the items.
Controversy still rages over the authenticity of the artefacts as no one had ever imagined there
had been a roman settlement in North America in ancient times and many find the idea extremely
difficult to accept. The actual find was quite surprising enough, but archaeologists received yet a
further shock when they examined the motifs displayed on the artefacts themselves. Some
displayed both Hebrew and Latin symbols while one broadsword bore a most unusual engraving
that looks remarkably like a brontosaurus! (fig.105)