Other Flying · New Britain, Islands Region · 1989
PAP-1989ID case-43bcd01a21First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- 1989to the year
- Where
- New Britain, Islands Regionto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a large, featherless, soaring bird-like creature with a long beak and crest while walking on a path in Papua New Guinea.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- New Britain, Islands Region, Papua Niugini
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1989
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 21, 2026
- Case id
- case-43bcd01a21
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- LADY FRIGHTEN BY PTERASAUR! (Full interview with Harriet Sconce)
YouTube
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.