Other flying creature reports map
Reports of strange winged things that are neither Mothman-style figures nor giant birds. This is a catch-all bucket and what it contains depends on how each source described the creature.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
By the numbers
558 cases on the map, 268 of them first-hand (the witness telling it). A case may stand on several documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations.
Best-documented cases
Ranked by independent sources first, then documents, then first-hand accounts. This says how well a claim is documented, not whether it is true.
Other Flying · Whetstone Mountains, Arizona · 1890
Two ranchers report finding and killing a large winged creature resembling an alligator with elongated tail and massive wings on the desert between the Whetstone and Huachuca mountains.
Other Flying · Darlington County, South Carolina · 1888
Witnesses report seeing a large serpent flying through the air without visible means of propulsion and emitting hissing noises.
Other Flying · Tucson, Arizona · 1889
Captain Putt reports that an enormous bird attempted to carry away a boy thrown overboard from the British ship Talisman, while its mate attacked a sailor named Banning.
Other Flying · Padang, Sumatera Barat · 1834
The author witnessed a serpent fly from an immense tree at a height of fifty or sixty feet and alight upon another at the distance of forty fathoms.
Other Flying · Padang, Sumatera Barat · 1833
Witness reports that natives claimed to have seen and killed a serpent that flew by making its belly concave, and the author later witnessed a similar creature flying between trees.
Other Flying · Glendo, Wyoming · 1920
Witness reports that a giant eagle with an eight-foot wingspan attacked 8-year-old Walter Spaulding in his yard, requiring the combined efforts of his family to save him.
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.