(7/21/07)
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Adventures LOG
Sat 7/21/2007 10:38 AM
Greetings in Christ,
God has given us favor and we thank him for that. Two nights ago our
fellow researcher, Scott Norman, saw a creature glide over him only 20 feet
up. He said it had a classic pteranodon shape: large head crest, no tail
and a 10 foot wing span. Scott was the most skeptical of all of us, but
not any more.
Scott and I left yesterday and left David Woetzel there alone. Ben Rawls
showed up hours later to continue our tag-team research. Last night David
saw a giant 4 foot bat-like creature. It came so close to him that he
pepper-sprayed it. Some spray came back and blinded Dave. He went
and washed his eyes and came back, but could not find anything.
The locals are describing seeing 4 things, a pterosaur-like creature with a
head crest, a bat-like creature (not sure if it is really a bat), small
shooting stars that can go up or turn, and giant firework-like displays that
are spectacular. We have verified all these with our own eyes.
Tonight David and Ben will be setting out a tethered rodent for bate. We
should have the generation 3 night vision camcorder running to capture it all
on tape.
Please pray for their safety and success. We are amazingly close.
God bless you,
Garth Guessman
South Bay Creation Science Association, VP
PNG Pterosaur Research Team, Member
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7/17/2007 12:12 AM
Exciting Greeting in Christ,
Scott Norman, David Woetzel, and I will be departing tomorrow for the new target
area. We are excited to investigate this brand new area. If this man is
not pulling our leg, the frequency of sightings surpass all other target areas.
Pray for us to have a safe expedition and success in getting quality stills and
video footage.
God bless,
Garth Guessman
South Bay Creation Science Association, VP
PNG Pterosaur Research Team, Member
Ps. Below is an edited e-mail from John, the man reporting the sightings.
Garth
Tonight (Monday) we went out to see the ropen light show.
Wow! It was like the 4th of July in the United States. They come
near a river by my home. 4 of us watched the river light up like someone
was using fireworks. The flash was brilliant, and it was concentrated in the
same area. We heard plenty of screeches as well. The light show started
in earnest about 10:30 p.m. I hope when you arrive it will be as brilliant.
John
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Thu 7/12/2007 2:18 AM
Greetings in Christ,
I am writing to you with trembling fingers. A recent series of events has
created an opportunity for two members of the Papua New Guinea Pterosaur
Research Team (David Woetzel and I) and another veteran researcher,
Scott Norman, to go on another pterosaur expedition. We will be
leaving early next week for a very short stay: a preliminary
reconnaissance trip. If it turns out to be valid we will plan more trips in
the future.
It all started after hearing that a man in one of the target
areas is having an extraordinary amount of sightings every
night: some less than 20 feet away. These sighting have been going
on consistently for many many years. The man thought they were
shooting stars, but he was confused as to why they sometimes moved
upward or made turns. After he was recently educated
about glowing pterosaurs, he began to pay closer attention to
them. Three years ago he saw one in plain sight at dusk with a 6 to
8 foot wingspan, claws on it's wings, a head crest like a Pteranodon, and
a tale ending with a diamond shape. He never associated the sighting 3
years ago with the "shooting stars" until now. He now watches
the flashing creatures dart around with a new
enlightenment. Interesting to note that one of the names of these
creatures on the south part of Umboi Island is "duas" which means
shooting star.
Two nights ago he saw one in plain sight at dusk flying above
him less than 30 feet up. He saw it had pointed wing tips
spanning about four feet, and a long tale. Earlier he noticed
that he could hear them make a noise when they are close. Last night,
when he heard that same noise, he grabbed his camcorder, ran out, and
captured one on video (possibly the same one with the 4 foot wingspan and
long tale) about 60 feet over his head .
He has never worked with e-mailing videos before, so understandably, he is
having a hard time getting us the footage. We plan to bring
back the video footage and have it
photographically analyzed. The man's name is John, and he is an
elder in the local church. He comes across as very credible to
us. He said to me that he wants us to come and see
them for ourselves. He personally promised me that we will
see them or else he will to pay for my trip (and in his case, he has
enough money to do that).
It is our prayer...
1. that Born-Again, Young-Earth Creation
Scientists can formally show the world that pterosaurs and
dinosaurs have survived as predicted by the Creation Model, and
2. to expose the false evolutionary
prediction of man and dinosaurs separated by millions of years as bad
science
3. that ultimately people are
encouraged take the Bible literally. And may it be used of
God to break the chains off of millions bound by the lies of evolution.
We are franticly trying to get all the necessary equipment and preparations for
the trip. Big promises have been made toward supplying the expedition. Please pray for the following:
1. For a vender, named Chuck, to come through with
a promised thermal imager with a video transmitter on lone at no
coast (a $10,000 piece of
equipment)
2. For an optics vender, named Steve, to come
through with promised night vision binoculars that can couple to our video
cameras for a rental fee of less than $300 (generation 4 quality,
worth about $7,000)
3. For us to be prepared for all possible contingencies,
including possible live capture.
4. Favor with the locals and any governmental agencies we
may have to work with
5. For God to help us be innovative, & aggressive, yet safe
& efficient
6. For us to get all the other specialized equipment and
materials for research.
7. For John and his wife to be in agreement together in helping
us with the research
8. Focus, and discipline for us to prepare properly
9. Team harmony and synergy
God bless you all for praying,
In Christ,
Garth Guessman
South Bay Creation Science Association, VP
PNG Pterosaur Research Team, Member
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Glorious Pulsating Greetings,
The following is a response to my friend, Mark Armitage, about the Sci Fi Ropen
Program. Mark is an ICR graduate and professional microscopist (a scientist
that specializes in the use of microscopes).
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To Garth:
I watched the Sci-Fi ropen coverage....they were visibly
affected by the pulsating of the light weren't they?
In Jesus,
Mark
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Dear Mark,
I have not seen it yet, but that is exactly what I have been told: that the
pulsations of the ropen light really impressed by the Sci Fi crew.
After he saw a ropen in 2004, our New Hampshire team member, David Woetzel,
described the pulsations to me as "shimmering" . In his Fiery
Flying Serpent article he described the light and said that it "twinkled
around the edges..." Paul Nation's 2007 video sighting shows the lights of
two ropens (indavas) in the same frame pulsating at different rates. And
now the Sci Fi footage gives further corroborative evidence that these fiery
flying serpents have a pulsating glow as they streak through the night
sky.
These creatures will be, by far, greatest biological discovery in modern times.
I pray we are able find and display them for the glory of God, and I believe we
will as we delight ourselves in Him.
Blessings,
Garth
Psalms 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires
of thine heart.
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e-mail from Garth Guessman, Sun 4/22/2007 5:25 PM
Research Greetings,
Just wanted to get you up to date on the latest pterosaur research. As
you know, Paul Nation performed research earlier this year in Papua New Guinea,
but what you may not be aware of is that he turned around only few
weeks later and went back to the target area again. Last
month in March Paul's follow up trip brought to light more intriguing facts.
He has falsified one of the 7 sightings that He made. The very
first bright light he saw on the first trip: the one that he thought
was a distant indava (possible pterosaur) was actually from truck head
lights on a distant road that everyone thought was too far away to be
seen. He falsified it by three means. First, he
actually saw the "white Coleman lantern" variety with his own eyes
for the first time on this latest trip, and they were not as bright at the
yellow kind of indavas. Evidently the yellow is the
brightest variety. The truck head lights compared to the white indava
lights are brighter. The second means of falsification was with high
powered optics. Unlike the indava lights which shine in all directions,
the vehicle light (low/high beams) were directional. When the vehicles
would turn he could make out the beams of the head lights shining forward in
front of the vehicle. Again this in not like the indavas omni-directional
glow. Thirdly, the vehicles on the road were basically coming from one
direction about 20 miles away, whereas the dimmer white indavas were much
closer and did not keep showing up in the same
general location. According to Paul, the
overall activity of the indavas appear to be random
flight paths over the jungle mountains.
This last point about randomly flying around is not good news for our
research. It means that we may have a harder time finding a specific
location to photograph and study them. A nesting location after a
mating period may be our only hope of finding such a place.
Another falsified sighting was from the natives. They thought a high
altitude commercial jet was an indava. Paul ensured them that, no, it was
not an indava, but only a jet with its lights on at night. They were confused
because jets make noise but these do not. Paul explained that these
jets are so high and far away that the sound can not be heard from
the ground. The indavas observed on these last two trips WERE silent, but
they were much lower and much closer. The closest was about a 1/2 mile
away.
Because Toyota's are the most common vehicle in PNG, and the airliner was
probably a Quanta jet heading to Australia, Jim Blume and Paul Nation jokingly
called the vehicle head lights and the high altitude airliner that
were confused for indava lights pseudo names: Toyadactylus, and
Quantadactylus respectively (ha ha ha).
This last trip produced no good videos. He aimed at the creatures in the
distance, but the video equipment he had was not powerful enough to get any
resolution this time.
Prayer needs:
1. that we get powerful night
vision video capability in our research
2. that researchers (myself
included) can get funds for upcoming trips
3. the spiritual integrity,
and wisdom for researchers
4. that researchers' families
will be prepared, protected and provided for during their absences.
In Christ,
Garth Guessman
South Bay Creation Science
Association, VP
PNG Pterosaur Research Team, Member
Jan 17, 2007
Jacob just called me on the phone with a report that
he did take that SiFi group to area S, and that they did film a night sighting of a ropen there as it took off
and headed toward the mountain between my place and the coast.
So, these critters are getting closer to home all the time, whada ye know about
that! I do not know just what those guys will do with the film that they
got. (by the way, still no word on what the Sci Fi guys are going
to do with the footage. If any one hears about a speacial on the Sci Fi
Channel about Mysteries or Cryptozoology, let me know.
Jim tells us about another lead in the following:
PS. Jan. 16 Yesterday I was talking to one of our preachers who is near a group of
islands called "L Islands" . He said that they see the ropens all the time there while fishing but
thought they were some kind of evil spirits, and were afraid of them.
So, that is another area that we be able to check out.
When Paul Nation was there in November 2007, a land owner was hindering him from
researching a particular mountain where Jacob Kepas and a team associate, Pastor
Joseph, both saw from a great distance what appeared to be a possible pterosaur
(indava/ropen) perched on a cliff asleep with it's head tucked under its
wing. It appeared to be the right color, shape and size closely matching
the creature's description. If they really saw an indava (possible
pterosaur) that makes another first. We
may well have our first team member to have seen a living pterosaur with his
own eyes IN BROAD DAY LIGHT! I am sure I speak for everyone on the
prayer team when I say, "Great job Jacob and Joseph! Keep up the
good work."
Speaking of the land owner, Jim writes the following:
Jan. 30, 2007
I went to the Target area again today and took the fellow who owns
that part of the mountain with me. Maybe he will be more cooperative the
next trip.
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In a message dated 11/13/06 4:55:26 PM,
Paul Nation writes:
Garth
Well, I am waiting in
After several days of rain Saturday cleared off and we were able to hike higher
up the mountain to the "high garden site." There the national pastor
from the village had his garden huts and we were able to set up an observation
post and look into two valleys for a long distance.
The nationals had given descriptions for years of three types of glow. First
a) "bright white Coleman lantern" glow, b) a "bright yellow
kerosene lantern glow," c) a "red hot rock red glow." I
saw two out of the three reports "glow"
We still do not know or have a verified field observation of the description of
this flying creature. That will be for another time. However just to
see and know that this Information received from nationals was true and accurate
is a great step
Sunday morning around 4:15 am due east of our site I observed a single white glow.
It appeared coming over a distance ridge line and progressed down coming toward
my location. The glow was just as the nationals on
Another couple days of rain and then we moved on to another village, and at 7:20pm
we saw one yellow glow start from a small glow to a bright glow and then a
second appearance start and increased in intensity. The second glow that
was higher up the mountain, flew up and over the ridge and out of sight. While
the first glow went out. At 10 PM we saw a single yellow glow flying
along the mountain ridge to the east of our location following the terrain up
and down going south to north.
After hearing for over 12 years about the glowing "Ropen" I have finally
seen the light. (haha).
Thanks for all your prayers and support.
In Christ
Paul
Sat 11/11/2006 5:02 PM
From: Garth at Gguessman@aol.com
Praise Report on PNG Pterosaur Research
Outstanding positive trip Greetings,
Paul Nation saw ropens!!! He is on his way back after a successful
trip. I am not sure, but I don't believe he got any photos. We will
see when he returns this Tuesday. Paul has now personally seen ropens multiple
times glowing across the night sky, officially making him the first Westerner
to see the creatures on the mainland. That is ground breaking in and of
itself.
There was a major answer to prayer. It rained before and after the team was
inserted into the target area. Paul sprained his knee, but God gave grace
for him to continue. They had a really tough hike through miserable wet &
muddy conditions with clouds and rain blocking their view, and then God stepped
in. The rain stopped, the clouds separated, and the team saw ropens!
We may very well have found the Ropen Hotspot we have been praying for. This
is good news for future expeditions. We are honing in on them!
God willing, I will let you know more details soon, but for now Praise
God for an outstanding research expedition!
By the way, note that yet another name has been added to list of names that the
creature is known by (due to the 800+ mother tongues of PNG): In the local language
the name is Indava.
The following e-mail is from Paul Nation this morning. I typed in the blue
letters.
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Subject: research verified
Saturday
Just to let everyone know we are safe back in Wau. Quickly, we had
multiple sightings (of the glow
of the creatures) on
multiple days. A very hot spot for "Indava" activity. More
later after I am cleaned and packed. Going to Lae Tomorrow then
In Christ
Paul Nation
following came today (11/3/06) from Missionary Jim Blume
in PNG with our other team member Paul Nation as they attempt to locate living
pterosaurs in the target area.
God bless you,
Garth Guessman
Dear Garth and Ben,
I got (Paul Nation and) the guys into Tawa this morning. We
tried unsuccessfully yesterday. There were a few good days of dry earlier
in the week which helped. But the cloud is back. I will try
to get the guys out on Friday or Saturday. Pray about that.
Also pray the Lord will put a hedge of protection around our people
here. The family of one of my workers was attacked last night and
cut up and his wife. One of the five thugs was also seriously cut in the
elbow and we captured his home made shot gun. I took them all to the hospital
in the middle of the night and got a policeman to go along. He probably
would have beat the thug to death if I had not stepped in to cool him down a
little. I was tempted to stand back and let him since the thug was one of
the guys who had recently stole all the medications in the hospital. Four
of the gang are still on the lose and will be back for vengeance.
10/21/2006
Exciting news. Our Ropen
Research Team Leader, Paul Nation, has been given generous contributions and
plans to leave for Papua New Guinea in just a couple of weeks, on October 24,
2006. God willing, he will check out
leads in the target area. Pray that
he can make progress toward finding a location of consistent ropen activity. In order to get quality videos and photos, we
need to locate places where the creatures spend a lot of time.
Our Team-Leader, Paul
Nation of
(pterosaurs) have been seen as often as every day and as many as
five at a time, and he also plans to go to a new target area not far
from the main target area. The terrain is jungle covered volcanic
mountains. It is difficult traveling on foot. There may very well be a
significant amount of backpacking from the air strip to the target
areas.
Paul Nation
with is family Sharalyn, Nathanael, Ethan (right)
He will be there for at least 2 weaks. I will keep you
informed with any breaking news as he calls me from the field with his
satellite phone.
Ben Rawls, our newest team member, is presently looking into going to PNG after
Paul Nation gets there and maybe meeting up with him, God willing. Ben wants to
1) deliver hymnals for Pastor
Jacob Kepas's Church in Lae,
2) drop off an expensive and elaborate
lap top computer with which Jacob can e-mail us pictures from the field!,
3 and drop off motion sensor
cameras to be planted in target areas.
Work is being done now toward preparing for this next expedition.
9/27/06
For those of you new to the Papua New
1. Dr. Carl Baugh (Director of the Creation
Evidence Museum, Bible & Creation Science Teacher, and Team Founder; will
work to reactivate permits to capture & export 4 ropens when we get good
photographic evidence and verify a frequented location where ropens live)
2. Paul Nation (Team Leader: ostrich
keeper, knows how to handle 300 pound lethal birds, Bible & Creation
Science Teacher)
3. Missionary Jim Blume (Pilot,
Bible School Teacher: a key logistical
help for expeditions in PNG)
4. Pastor Jacob Kepas (Trained
in Blume's Bible school, translator, liaison, & has given us many good
leads)
5. David Woetzel (Veteran cryptozoological
researcher, Bible & Creation Science Teacher, and creator of www.genesispark.com)
6. Ben Rawls (Newest member in training, has a
rare combination of enthusiasm, hunting & outdoor skills, rope & climbing
expert, & access to high end equipment & technology)
7. Garth Guessman (cheer leader (just
kidding), cryptozoological researcher, Bible & Creation Science Teacher)
Much more could be listed for each member, but to save space I only
listed a few things. In addition to what
is listed, each member is a Born Again Believer, and a Young-Earth Creationist
with a passion for people to be free from the lie of evolution by the literal
truth in God's precious Word.
David Woetzel and I both want to go to PNG this time next year, God
willing. Ben Rawls and Paul Nation may
go sooner, God willing, but no firm date is set yet. If we are successful in these endeavors, it
will be because of godly praying people are clearing the way before us. It won't be because of one or two men, but
because of an army of prayer warriors of which you are an important part.