Other Flying · 2019
XX-2019ID case-1b81c6dfb9First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- 2019to the year
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator reports seeing a massive dragonfly flying low near a stream while staying at an Airbnb in Ireland.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other Flying reports with no place (233) - When
- 2019
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-1b81c6dfb9
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Large dragonfly/flying insect
Reddit · 2026-11-07
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Large dragonfly/flying insect
Reddit · 2026-11-07
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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