Scott Norman: Pterosaur Eyewitness

People are remembering Scott Norman in their own ways.

Reopn researcher J. D. Whitcomb has sent along the following contribution to Cryptomundo:

I too was shocked to learn of Scott’s passing. To those who knew nothing about Scott except for his apparent failure to find a living dinosaur, we can correct a misunderstanding: Scott did see, in the Southwest Pacific, at 2:00 a.m., July 19, 2007, from a distance of twenty feet, an apparent pterosaur.

Whitcomb points to these two sources, here and here.

The exact quotes from Scott are:

“Scott described a flying organism with a wingspan of 8-10 feet, bat-like wings, and a crested head.”

“Two nights ago our fellow researcher, Scott Norman, saw a creature glide over him only 20 feet up. He said it had a classic pteranodon shape: large head crest, no tail and a 10 foot wing span. Scott was the most skeptical of all of us, but not any more.”

Whitcomb continues:

Some of the leaders of the expedition excursions (many searches in mid-2007) were so secretive that I still do not know what country they were in. What little they told me I agreed to keep secret so that they would be able to capture a creature first, before any newcomers could jump in. After many months, I feel that I must now speak out.

With Scott’s passing, it seems inappropriate, at least, to keep quiet about these successful sightings of many flying lights and pterosaur-forms flying over some area in the Southwest Pacific. I believe that the explorers are running out of funds, which strengthens the reasoning for opening up: Let others see for themselves; let wildlife photographers photograph; let non-creationists experience this wonderful non-extinct life. Let those who have captured non-cryptids alive capture one of these cryptids alive.

I think that this is what Scott would have wanted.

And let us remember Scott not only for his kindness and humility, but for his final success: witnessing with his own eyes what textbooks declare has been extinct for millions of years. Scott was a successful cryptozoologist.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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