Reports of living pterosaurs in the United States of America are
no longer confined to reports from cowboys in ninteenth-century
Arizona or a police officer in twentieth-century San Bernito,
Texas. According to one cryptozoologist, Jonathan Whitcomb,
there may be 1400 eyewitnesses of living pterosaurs seen in the
United States, during the past three decades. The problem is
this: He does not actually have 1400 reports, but only a tiny
fraction of that. He estimates “1400″ from the statistics that
show that the great majority of eyewitnesses never tell any
cryptozoologist about what they have seen. Where Whitcomb got
into trouble was in the possibility of circular reasoning, for
other cryptozoologists seem to have taken him into account for
his “1400″ eyewitnesses. On the other hand, what if he
exaggerated, getting ten times too many? Then we would have 140
eyewitnesses of living pterosaurs in the United States. If
Whitcomb is correct in his belief that these are nocturnal
creatures, then 140 sightings would me