Other Aquatic · Nokon, Islands Region · 1983
PAP-1983ID case-ca8c5dbf60Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Jul 5, 1983to the day
- Where
- Nokon, Islands Regionto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Dr. [name] observed a rapid, finless aquatic predator in shallow water at Nokon, while others saw it surfacing every 10 minutes further out.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Nokon, Namatanai District, New Ireland, Islands Region, Papua Niugini
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 5, 1983
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-ca8c5dbf60
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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.
- The ISC Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1983 (p. n1)
ISC Newsletter · 1983
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
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