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In the Continental United States, most sightings of apparent live pterosaurs include a description of a long tail. Fossils of the long-tailed pterosaurs are classified "Rhamphorhynchoid." The modern name for the large featherless flying creature with a long tail is "ropen." This name comes from the island of Umboi in Papua New Guinea, where investigations of living pterosaurs began.

One of the most remarkable and well-documented eyewitness reports of an apparent live pterosaur in the United States is that of Susan Wooten of South Carolina. “It looked as big as any car, and had NO feathers . . .” She estimated the wingspan at 12-20 feet and said that the creature glided over the highway, coming to as close to “twenty feet” high and “twenty-five feet” in front of her car.

Another report is of a teenager riding his bicycle on a dirt road in Washington State, years ago. He stopped when he saw, by the side of the road, the two huge flying creatures with wings that had no feathers but looked like "black rubber." The wingspan estimate was twenty feet.
 
In Wisconsin, in the late 1970's or early 1980's, a farm boy saw "a strange looking bird in the sky. . . . straight out of the Dinosaurs Era." He knew it was no sand hill crane, for he had seen hundreds of those. This creature had "a very long tail between the legs and with a ball shaped on the end of it."
 
Apparent live pterosaurs have also been reported in California and Ohio.

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