Thunderbird · Wyoming County, Pennsylvania · 2002
PA-2002ID case-d8ede31e11Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- Jun 2002to the month
- Where
- Wyoming County, Pennsylvaniato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A man on his porch in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, reported seeing two huge birds with wingspans matching the base of a tree, which he identified as not being herons or any known bird.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 2002
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-d8ede31e11
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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.
- New & Definitive Thunderbird Documentary
YouTube
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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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