Global Mothman Sightings

The following have been compiled from numerous sources.  We make no assertions about the accuracy or validity of anything presented in this list.

The Mothman Sightings

Individual Mothman Sightings

1837 - London, England, UK

Starting in 1837 a creature with glowing red eyes appeared in London known as Springheeled Jack.  Click here to learn more www.Springheeled-Jack.com.

1877 - Brooklyn, NY, USA

Over 100 years ago, a man named W. H. Smith told the New York Sun that he saw a "winged human form" flying over Brooklyn, New York on September 18, 1877. Just about three years later, there were multiple reports from Coney Island, Brooklyn, of a man with bat-like wings and improved frog-legs flying overhead at approximately 1,000 feet. The man was flying toward the New Jersey coast, witnesses told the New York Times, and that he bore a "cruel and determined expression" on his face. Mothman is known to have powerful looking, weight lifter like legs. Since it is not a "man" at all but insect like in the facial region yes it could very well look "cruel and determined" in its expression.

1900 - Galveston Island, Texas, USA

In a strangely familiar tale, with the benefit of hind-sight, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane sounds very similar to what has befallen the Gulf States with Hurricane Katrina. Let us hope that Katrina's death toll never approaches that of the 1900 killer of Galveston!  In the days leading up to the "Unnamed" hurricane of 1900, local residents report dozens of strange manifestations.  Unfortunately, the original reports were all lost with the destruction of the city by a 30 foot storm surge wall of water that swept through the city killing up to 12,000 souls.  Per survivors, dark spectral figures (described as "Black Men") were seen across the island in the months leading up to the storm.  None were seen after.  Source:  www.deadlystorms.com/storms/1900/1900 Galveston/index.htm »

1908 - Vladivostok, Russia

This is not the only legend of a flying man in the Soviet Union, but not quite like the one described above. Hunters around the Sikhote Mountains near Vladivostok said that they came across prints of a barefoot human that ended abruptly, as if he had taken off into the air. Such a creature was actually seen by writer V.K. Arsenyev on July, 11th, 1908 in those same Sikhote Mountains near Vladivostok in the far eastern region of what would be the USSR: "The rain stopped, the temperature of the air remained low and a mist appeared over the water. It was then that I saw the mark on the path that was very similar to a man's footprint. My dog Alpha bristled up, snarled, and then something rushed about nearby trampling among the bushes, then something rushed about nearby trampling among the bushes. However, it didn't go away, but stopped nearby, standing stock-still. We had been standing like that for some minutes.... Then I stooped, picked up a stone and threw it towards the unknown animal.  Then something happened that was quite unexpected: I heard the beating of wings. Something large and dark emerged from the fog and flew over the river. A moment later it disappeared in the dense mist. My dog, badly frightened, pressed itself to my feet."

1926 - Xiaon Te, China

The events surrounding this creature's first appearance began in 1926, somewhere in the south-eastern foothills of China, near the region where one of the largest dams the world had ever known (second largest in China), the Xiaon Te Dam was located. Almost overnight rumors began to spread in the farming communities beneath the Xiaon Te regarding a huge, black, "Man-Dragon", which had frightened several people, and was seen hovering above the dam.  On the afternoon of January 19, 1926, the Xiaon Te Dam collapsed sending over 40 billion gallons of water rushing onto the unwitting farmers below. Entire villages were destroyed beneath the impact of the torrential, man-made deluge, which resulted in a horrific death toll of over 15,000. Although most records of the disaster were destroyed by the incumbent communist regime, many survivors of the calamity confirmed that the Man-Dragon showed itself not only at the doomed structure, but to many of it's so-called "victims" as well.

1947 - Texas City, Texas, USA

In February and March 1947, the town of Texas City saw a rash of odd reports.  Dark figures lurking at night.  Red eyed owls flying at night.  Yet a month later, saw one of the largest disasters in Texas history.  The Texas City Disaster. A large cargo ship being loaded with tons of ammonium nitrate caught fire and exploded, setting fire to other nearby ships, one of which exploded, and devastating much of the town. In all, 576 people died in Texas City on April 16 and 17, 1947.  The entire Texas City fire department was wiped out, 28 firefighters in all.  It was a creeping disaster, starting with fire aboard the Grandchamp as it was being loaded, including fires aboard at least four vessels by day’s end, two massive explosions, a tsunami, and fires across the city as a result of raining debris.

	Firefighters spraying water on Grandcamps deck
AS SEEN FROM ACROSS THE BAY IN GALVESTON	CARS PILED UP ON ONE ANOTHER
DESTROYED PARKING LOT AT MONSANTO CHEMICAL COMPANY

1948 - Selma, Alabama, USA

Location. Selma Alabama Date: Summer 1948 Time: evening - One of the largest families in town was having their annual reunion when one family member looked up and saw a giant bird-like creature land next to a tree. Looking closer he saw that the bird had human form. Others gathered around and watched the creature. It appeared more human than animal and just stared at the group with gleaming red eyes. As more people gathered around it suddenly flew off without flapping its wings. Source: Ron Schaffner Mothman – In 1948, a severe hurricane ripped through Alabama.

1948 - Grassy Butte, Oregon, USA

Location. Near Grassy Butte Oregon  - Date: September 18 1948 Time: before dawn - Fred Scott, 63, walking from Antelope to Rome Oregon, was walking around Grassy Mountain just before dawn when he looked up and saw 2 "flying persons" to the south of him. They were 150-250 ft up, one following the other at a distance of 8-10 ft, flying west to east. Their wings, which were narrow & rounded at the tip, did not flap. Their legs were unusually short, almost as if cut off at the knees. They were moving quite slowly, & remained visible while Scott walked for ½-1 mile.  Source: Kenneth Arnold, Jerome Clark & Ted Bloecher Two young Mothmen.

1950 - Pelotas, Brazil

In the early 1950s, a couple was taking an evening stroll near their home by the sea at Pelotas, Brazil. When two fast-moving shadows crossed their path, they looked up to see what they at first thought were two enormous birds flying about 30 feet above the ground. It was soon evident to the couple that these were not birds at all when the two flying creatures descended vertically and landed not far away. It was then clear that they looked like men, standing about six feet tall. Discovering they were being watched by the couple, the two "birdmen" squatted close to the ground, as if trying to hide. The female half of the couple convinced her husband they should leave - and quickly. Mothman ~ The couple doesn't mention in the report we have here whether or not they ever saw feathers, faces or beaks (if they were "bird" men) nor does it say if they were ever seen to fly away. The "birdmen" descended vertically and landed near the couple yet the couple does not mention hearing flapping of wings.

1952 - Kyoto, Japan

In 1952 U.S. Air Force Pvt. Sinclair Taylor, on guard duty at Camp Okubo, Kyoto, Japan, said he heard a loud flapping noise. Looking up, he saw an enormous "bird" in the moonlight. When it approached, he got frightened and put a round into the chamber of his carbine. The "bird" now stopped its flight and was hovering not far away, staring at the soldier. "The thing, which now had started slowly to descend again, had the body of a man," Taylor recalled. "It was well over seven feet from head to feet, and its wingspread was almost equal to its height. I started to fire and emptied my carbine where the thing hit the ground. But when I looked up to see if my bullets had found home there was nothing there." When the sergeant of the guard came to investigate and heard the story, he told Taylor that he believed him because a year earlier another guard had seen the same thing.

1953 - Houston, Texas, USA

On June 18, 1953 in Houston, Texas, three people were enjoying a hot summer night on their front porch. The night turned unbelievably strange when they saw a winged creature alight in a nearby pecan tree. It was, they said, "the figure of a man with wings like a bat. He was dressed in gray or black tight-fitting clothes. He stood there for about thirty seconds, swaying on the branch of the old pecan tree." They further described him as wearing a cape and quarter-length boots. Most oddly, one witness claimed he was enveloped in a "halo of light."   Location. Houston Texas Date: June 18 1953 Time: 0230A - A huge shadow crossed the lawn; looking up into a pecan tree, Mrs. Hilda Walker and Judy Mayer, 14, saw a man 6.5 ft tall with wings like a bat, dressed in gray or black tight fitting clothes and surrounded by a glow of yellow light. After 30 seconds, the light died out, and Judy screamed. There was a loud "swoosh," and a white flash like a torpedo shaped object over the housetops across the street. Howard Phillips, 33, also saw the "batman." Source: Fate October 1953 Mothman in a highly developing industrial area.

1960 - West Virginia, USA

This takes place in 1960 or 61. Standing in the middle of the road, ahead of a woman driving her father along Route 2 in the Chief Cornstalk Hunting Grounds of West Virginia (USA), was a definite man shaped figure. As they got closer, the driver slowed the car. The two apprehensive witnesses saw that this grey figure was much larger than a man. The driver reported that what happened next was that a pair of wings unfolded from its back and as they did so they nearly filled the whole road. Then it took off straight up, disappearing out of sight in seconds. "We were both. terrified. I stepped on the gas and raced out of there. We talked it over and decided not to tell anybody about it. Who would believe us anyway?"

1966 - Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA

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1967 - San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Location. San Luis Potosi Mexico Date: August 30 1967 Time: 0100A - Night watchman Jose Padron was on duty when he saw an enormous shape heading towards him, taking prodigious strides. The huge being had wings that Padron compared to that of a small airplane. The creature's claws apparently made an unusual sound as it tried to take flight. Terrified, Padron ran back to the shack, cowering fearfully inside until daybreak. Huge footprints were found the next day next to the shack. This creature returned the next night along with a similar creature. The guard thought the creatures were headed toward the nearby San Miguelito Mountains. The ground appeared to tremble as the creatures flew off. Inspection of the area did not yield any samples of hair nor feathers. Source : Scott Corrales, Fate October 1998 Mothman tried to make contact with him but the man's fear kept that from happening.

1968 - Ellenview, New York, USA

Location. Near Ellenview New York Date: May 1968 Time: night - Looking out his rearview mirror Art Finkelstein noticed a bizarre creature that appeared to be flying at a low altitude above the lonely and deserted road. It was apparently following the witness's truck. Stunned, Finkelstein almost lost control of his truck. He described the creature as about 5 ft tall, with wings that had about a 5 ft span on each side. According to witness the creature seemed intelligent and menacing. It had large bright penetrating eyes. It followed its truck for about a mile and then disappeared into the darkness. Source: Jorge Martin, Conspiracion

1968 - Galesburg, Illinois, USA

Location. Galesburg Illinois Date: October 1968 Time: night - The same couple of a previous encounter saw a "giant winged being" that flew directly over them. The couple noticed that this particular creature appeared to have some sort of difficulty with its right wing, which was kept rigid and several degrees below the left one. (It had a 15 to 20 foot wingspan). The flying creature appeared to take notice of the two humans, and fixed its gaze on them as it flew away. The frightened witnesses went inside the house for the rest of the evening. Source: Scott Corrales, Unsolved UFO Sightings Fall 1995 An injured Mothman

1968 - Barrio del Carmen, Valencia, Spain

Location. Barrio del Carmen, Valencia Spain  - Date: November 1968 Time: morning - The six-year old witness was playing up on the roof in a terrace when he noticed perched very close to him on a ledge, a strange winged creature that seemed to be looking around for something. Curious the witness slowly approached the creature, and noticed that it was large, larger than an eagle, with bat like wings; with its back turned to the witness it appeared to lack any type of feathers. Apparently hearing the approach of the witness, the creature suddenly turned to look at him. Stunned the witness noticed that the creature had a semi human face, and its body was human like also and it was perched on a pair of feet that ended in claws. In a second the creature jumped up into the sky slowly spread its wings and flew away in a slow graceful manner quickly disappearing from sight. Source: Bitacora

1969 - Haymarket, Virginia, USA

Location. Near Haymarket Virginia Date: January 1969 Time: night - Four men were in a farm when they heard a peculiar rushing sound coming from near a small lake. Grabbing flashlights they set out to investigate taking a couple of dogs with them. Suddenly the dogs howled and ran away. The men then noticed standing by a tree a huge dark man like figure with wing like protrusions and large red orange eyes. The men fled the area in their vehicle.  Source : John Keel, Fate November 1992

1969 - Da Nang, Viet Nam

Another soldier's tale of a flying humanoid came to ufologist Don Worley from Earl Morrison, who served with the First Marine Division in Vietnam. While stationed near Da Nang in August 1969, he and two other guards reportedly saw an extraordinary sight just after 1 am in the morning. They were sitting atop a bunker talking when they noticed something approaching them in the sky. Morrison told Worley: "We saw what looked like wings, like a bat's, only it was gigantic compared to what a regular bat would be.  After it got close enough so we could see what it was, it looked like a woman. A naked woman. She was black. Her skin was black, her body was black, the wings were black, everything was black but, it glowed. It glowed in the night and had a kind of greenish cast to it.... She started going over us, and we still didn't hear anything. She was right above us, and when she got over the top of our heads, she was maybe six or seven feet up.... We watched her go straight over the top of us, and still she didn't make any noise flapping her wings. She blotted out the moon once, that's how close she was to us.  It was dark and pitch black out, but we could still define her because she just glowed. Real bright like. She started going past us straight towards our encampment. As we watched her she had gotten about 10 feet or so away from us when we started hearing her wings flap. It sounded, you know, like regular wings flapping. She just started flying off and we watched her for quite a while. Morrison thought the covering on her skin was more like fur than feathers. "The skin of her wings looked like it was molded on to her hands," he said, and the movement of her arms suggested they had no bones in them.

1975 - Walnut Creek, California, USA

In October 1975 at night - Independent witnesses encountered what was described as a fearsome winged gargoyle-like creature that at one time was seen perched on a tree and was later seen perched on a roof of a house. It had huge gray wings and was able to glide silently without flapping its wings. It was taller than a man and had a very wide upper torso. It also has a 15 ft wingspan and dwarfed a nearby eucalyptus tree as it flew over it. Source : Peter Guttilla, The Bigfoot File Mothman just checking out the area.

1976 - Houston, Texas, USA

In January, 1976 I was 10. I lived in Houston Texas (still do), and it had just gotten dark. A large storm was blowing in, but it was not raining yet. I was striking a match and a very large bird-like creature landed silently about six feet from me. It was at least eight feet tall, had large, glowing red eyes, and a wingspan of about 20 feet. I was incredibly scared. I seemed frozen for a second that seemed an eternity. Just then, my dog Mutt ran at the thing barking furiously. That broke the spell and I screamed and jumped on top of my father's car right behind me. The giant bird (I think it had feathers) then flew off as silently as it had arrived. I continued to scream until my father came out. He found strange prints in the ground, but found my story hard to believe. The rain had partially obscured the tracks by then. I certainly wasn't going to try to report this as no one would believe it. But it happened just as have put down here, and I really don't care if others believe. I just had to tell someone. Source : UFOs About.com, Paranormal story archive.

1976 - Panguitch, Utah, USA

In Summer 1976 at 2300 - Driving north on State Road 89 through within the Dixie National Forest in a lightly forested area the witnesses were driving with their high beams on when they partially picked up what they described as a half-man-half-bird creature standing in the middle of a clearing containing no visible trees. The creature stood about 70 feet away. They described it as about 5-½ ft tall to 6 ft tall, it had large eyes that did not glow or produce any color, a large head and no visible neck. It had wings that were either folded or attached to the front itself. There were visible feathers and the skin looked liked weathered human looking skin with dark or dirty spots on it. It had a wide body that seemed to accommodate its wings. The driver slowed the car as they drove by the creature. They turned around but failed to see the creature again. Source: Utah UFO Hunters.

1976 - Harpers Ferry , West Virginia, USA

November 1976 in the afternoon - The 15-year old witness (involved in a previous bizarre encounter in 1967) was on his way home riding his school bus. The bus was moving on a steep road at a slow pace and he was gazing out the window when he saw what at first he thought was a man sitting on a large branch of a tree. As the bus got closer, he realized that it was not human. He was seeing a figure with wings on its back, sitting on a horizontal branch, with its back against the trunk, and its legs resting on the branch. It was the size of a man, but was very dark in appearance; the wings were folded back behind it. The witness pointed it out to several others on the bus and they also saw it. Source: UFO HBCCUFO.org

1978 - Freiburg, Germany

On September 10th 1978, at a coal mine in Freiburg Germany. Employees of a coal mine were astounded to find the entrance to the mine shaft blocked by a mysterious terrifying black figure with huge outstretched wings.

Several of the men thinking it might just be an apparition tried to approach the creature and enter the mine, they were however, forced to beat a hasty retreat when the creature let out a series of unbearable piercing shrieks "like 50 people screaming" or "the brakes of a train."  After an hour or so of waiting, the befuddled men began busying themselves with cleanup outside the mine, all the while hoping that the creature would go away. Then at approximately 8 a.m., the ground beneath them shuddered with the tremendous force of a gigantic, subterranean explosion.  When the men returned to the mine shaft they discovered that the Shrieker was gone, replaced by a huge column of smoke and flame, which spewed from the entrance of the mine. Such conflagration, had the men been in the mine, would have killed them all. Two of the twenty-one miners dedicated themselves to revealing what happened, to the rest of the world.

1980 - St Louis, Missouri, USA

On July 1980, at about 11pm - Hearing his old Border collie barking and whining at something in the melon patch behind the barn, Joe Pierce set out with a flashlight to investigate the disturbance. As he turned the corner of the barn, he nearly stumbled over his dog, which was cowering and shivering next to the building. Thinking that the dog had been hurt, he knelt briefly beside his dog, checked quickly for any injury then stood up and directed the beam of the flashlight toward the sounds of movement in the melon patch. At fist he saw a figure that he thought was a man with a blanked wrapped around him, bending over and chomping into a melon. Pierce yelled at the figure and it suddenly stood up revealing itself to be a tall man-like creature with dark wings that had been folded around his torso. As he stretched itself to his full height of well over six feet, each wing unfolded to a width of what appeared to be seven to eight ft---at least fourteen feet from one wing tip to the other. The terrified witness dropped the flashlight and slid down to the ground. The humanoid then emitted a terrible screeching sound, then lifted off into the night sky. "Its wings made a sharp leathery slapping sound as it flew away." Source: Brad Steiger, Out of The Dark

1986 - Chernobyl, Ukraine

Beginning in April of 1986, a rumor tore through the ranks of what was then a little known nuclear power plant located in Chernobyl in the southern part of the Ukraine. In the days preceding the tragic meltdown, four Chernobyl employees had reported seeing what they claimed was a large, dark, headless man with gigantic wings and fiery-red eyes.

These Chernobyl employees began to share unsettling and strangely similar experiences from horrifying nightmares to threatening phone calls. Some of these employees even mentioned their bizarre experiences to their superiors at the facility. With no "evidence" or clear indication of what may be going on those officials could do nothing.  During a routine test of Reactor 4 on April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a massive explosion. Thirty people died that morning. Ten more died due to radiation exposure. The reactors graphite continued to burn for the next 9 days and this resulted in tremendous environmental damage and an untold number of radiation casualties over the next two decades.  Some of the surviving workers claimed to have witnessed what they described as a "20-foot bird" gliding through the undulating tentacles of irradiated smoke, which continued to rise from the reactor.

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union. It was the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever and the only level 7 instance on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity into the environment following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor. Two people died in the initial steam explosion, but most deaths from the accident were attributed to nuclear fallout.

On 26 April 1986 at 01:23:45 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Pripyat in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

The plume drifted over extensive parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to official post-Soviet data, about 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

The accident raised concerns about the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry, slowing its expansion for a number of years, while forcing the Soviet government to become less secretive. The now-independent countries of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care costs of the Chernobyl accident. It is difficult to accurately tell the number of deaths caused by the events at Chernobyl, as the Soviet-era cover-up made it difficult to track down victims. Lists were incomplete, and Soviet authorities later forbade doctors to cite "radiation" on death certificates.

The overall cost of the disaster is estimated at $200 billion USD, taking inflation into account. This places the Chernobyl disaster as the costliest disaster in modern history.

The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organization (WHO), attributed 56 direct deaths (47 accident workers, and nine children with thyroid cancer), and estimated that there may be 4,000 extra cancer deaths among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed people.[5] Although the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and certain limited areas remain off limits, the majority of affected areas are now considered safe for settlement and economic activity.

1986 - Asteroussia Mountains Crete, Greece

On an afternoon, during the summer of 1986 - In a remote area, three young men out hunting saw a giant dark gray winged man-like creature flying towards them at a low altitude, it had bat-like wings with finger like projections, sharp claws and a long beak resembling a cross between a man and a pterodactyl. It quickly left the area. Source: Janet & Colin Bord, Unexplained Mysteries Of the 20th Century

1998 - Lajas, Puerto Rico, USA

Lajas, Puerto Rico 5:30 am. - An employee of a cattle ranch belonging to the University of Puerto Rico, Carlos David Vargas Montalvo, was setting about his usual morning chores of rounding up the cows from the feeding lot. As usual usual and without any apparent fright, the animals responded to his call and lined up except, for what he thought was one white cow that remained back in the field without moving.  Curious he called the "cow" again but there was no response, he decided to walk over thinking that the animal could be hurt or sick. As he approached the white form on the ground he kept calling it. Suddenly the supposed cow began to twist and turn on the ground and took out two huge white wings, at this point the stunned Montalvo realized that it was not a cow but a bizarre winged bird-like creature, totally white in color. Stunned, the witness watched the creature rise up on its wings and disappear quickly towards nearby Laguna Cartagena. A heart patient, Montalvo was in shock for the next several hours.

1998 - Fort Gay, West Virginia, USA

In Nov. 1998 at about 11:00 pm - You will never believe what I saw one very cold, dry November night. My family and I moved into a new house upon a hill on a little back road, in the very small town of Fort Gay West Virginia. Fort Gay sits right on the east side of Kentucky. The population of my town then was probably just a couple thousand. My family and I were unpacking. We had not yet put the furniture in its rightful places and everything was still in boxes. Overwhelmed with working all day, I retired around 11:00 p.m. I put my little brother on the couch and I took his bed, since my bed wasn't put together yet. His room faces the front of the house; his window is around 20 to 25 feet or so off the ground.

I was looking out the window when I saw "it." It stood about 7 feet tall. I had no idea what it was, but I was frozen. I had never been that scared in all my life. All I could do was lay there and just stare at this thing. It was sitting in a tree about 50 feet or so off the ground, about 50 feet from the house across the yard. It felt like an eternity. I couldn't breath; I couldn't even blink. It had big, red, bright glowing eyes looking dead into my face. I finally worked up enough courage to close my eyes and put my head under the covers, when all of a sudden this thing smacked the window.
I went through the house screaming, "There's something outside!" I was crying. My mom and dad looked at me and said, "What's wrong with you? It looks like you have seen a ghost!" My face was snow white. I said, "I don't know what it was, but please, daddy, don't go outside." I begged and I begged. He came back in and said they was nothing out there. I kept screaming saying, "Yes, there is! Yes, there is."  When I explained to them what I saw and how I felt, they said I was crazy, but to this day I will not go outside by myself, and even in the day someone still has to watch me to my car. I have heard of some pretty crazy things going on up on that road, but I never expected to experience anything myself. My husband and I went to the theatres and watched Mothman Prophecies. I was reliving that night all over again. The way they described feeling and what saw was remarkable. My husband looked over at me and said, "Isn't that what you described to me when we first started dating?" I couldn't say a word. After that moment I knew what I saw. I believe in all heart of hearts I saw the Mothman. It's just a little weird. I only live about 80 miles south of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. where all that took place 37 years ago. It was exactly 32 years to the month when I saw "It." Source: From About.Com's February 2004 report by one of its readers: Scarlett Mothman revisiting the area.

2001 - Sedalia, Missouri, USA

February 19 2001 at 9:30 pm - The witness was parked at a rest area northeast of town watching an airplane performing touch and go exercises. After awhile he spotted a dark object moving from the southeast towards the northwest rapidly. The object seemed to be a dark winged form or entity and appeared to be less than 1000 feet high, it quickly disappeared from sight. The witness states that he had seen a similar winged figure a couple of years ago over the same city. Source: NUFORC

2001 - Mawnan, Cornwall, England, UK

In the summer of 2001, on day at 8:30 pm - The witness was collecting brass rubbings from churches in the area when his work on a particular brass rubbing took him past the sunset. To his surprise around 8:30 pm he saw a large feathered creature of owl type shape and proportions. But this "owl" which was a tawny brown color, was standing almost 5 ft tall. He grabbed for his camera but by the time he had taken it out of his rucksack the "owl" had fled into a heavily wooded area. The "owl-man" made no audible sounds, but was no more than 20 ft away and plainly visible. Source: Cryptozoology.com

2001 - New York City, New York, USA

On September 11th, at approximately 9am - a winged figure was seen flying from the World Trade Center Towers in New York City.

2001 - Camden, Maine, USA

October 2001, one evening - Stevenson Fisher was walking along a deserted street when suddenly he heard a squeaking noise. Thinking it had been a mouse he looked down and around for one but did not see any. He started to walk again and then heard to sound again. Looking up, past the electrical wires he saw a large winged flying creature, with leathery wings. It swooped across the street and flew over an apartment building, turning to fly parallel past the roof. The astounded witness calculated that the creature must have had a wingspan of 24 ft, perhaps more. It then swooped into the woods behind the buildings and vanished from sight. Source: Cryptozoology.com

2002 - San Diego, California, USA

August 21 2002 at night - A local resident, Mr. Santiago Perez & his mother reported seeing two huge "gargoyle" like creatures flying over an alley adjacent to their home. The creatures had huge bat-like wings with a wingspan that almost covered the whole alley and their bodies were muscular and gray in color. The creatures glided slowly over the alley and then disappeared into the darkness. No other information. Source: Ovnis

2003 - Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

Early January 2003 at about 2:30 am - Delfino Garcia Zarate was at his post as security guard at the Technical Secondary school # 98 Mariano Escobedo and was making the rounds in the patio area when he heard a strong sound resembling a bird moving its wings at a very high rate of speed. Curious he looked up in the direction from which the sound originated and was able to see a hairy man-like figure with two huge dark wings. Terrified he ran into the school and hid in one of the schoolrooms until the morning.  Around the same time a woman living in the Unidad Puerta Grande suburb was out in her back patio washing some dishes when she also heard a loud thrashing sound overhead, at first she thought it could had been an eagle and looked up but was surprised to see a hairy man-like figure floating overhead on a pair of huge wings, terrified she also ran into the house. Also around the same time in Cocolapam suburb a man and his son were repairing the TV antenna on their roof when they noticed a winged creature, gray and hairy in appearance that was approaching their location from a northerly direction, the winged humanoid glided on a pair of huge wings and quickly disappeared from sight.  Another woman reported being awake around 3:00 am taking a shower when she looked out the bathroom window in the direction of nearby Cerro De Escamela was surprised to see a huge winged dark creature resembling some type of prehistoric being gliding slowly over the area. Others in nearby Cerro del Borrego have seen a similar winged creature. Source: El Durmiente de Orizaba, El Hombre Alado

2004 - Valles de la Silla, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

January 16 2004 at 3:15 am - 21-year old police officer Leonardo Samaniego Gallegos was patrolling a section of Alamo Street when he observed what appeared to be the figure of a woman totally dressed in a black cloak-like outfit descends from a 6 meter high nearby tree towards his patrol car. She appeared to float towards the car at very high speed. She had large black eyes without any pupils. Terrified he drove away from the area but was chased by the flying apparition. He called for assistance over his police radio. The strange flying creature approached the police car and impacted onto the front windshield pushing it inward, apparently trying to get in using what appeared to be large pointy claws at this point Gallegos lost consciousness. In the videotaped interview officer Gallegos describes the eyes and black gown as in the news article but adds the description of a "helmet" or headpiece it was wearing that curved downward to a point at the back of the creature's head. Source: John Velez, Abduction Information Center quoting Newspaper sources and Santiago Yturria.

2004 - Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Ziebach County, South Dakota, USA

Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which is a Dakota and Lakota Indian reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States. Specifically, there may be some additional activity in Ziebach County, South Dakota, and/or among the Hunkpapa Lakota.  For the last two years, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation has been overwhelmed with many cases of youth suicides, and there is a sense of a link between the two - the “Mothman” sightings and, as it was said to me, the increasing “death toll.” This First Nation has experienced a high rate of youth suicide. In just two months in late 2004-early 2005, three teenagers and two young people took their lives. During the same time, 30 young people attempted suicide or made a suicide threat. The deaths by suicide continued in 2006, and may have for 2007, as well, for access to data is lacking.

2004 - Newport, Tennessee, USA

April 5 2004 at 11:00 am. - The witness spotted a bizarre flying creature somewhat resembling an arrowhead flying backwards, with what looked to a head or knob on the front. It didn't look mechanical; it was more like some type of animal. It did not have extended wings like a bird of any kind, but seemed to have some sort of stubby wings, which were part of the body, like a flying squirrel or some type of bat. They protruded out near the end & tapered back to a point at the rear. The creature appeared to be around 3 ft from to tail & a little over 2 ft wide at the shoulders. It was moving very fast in a straight line at an altitude of approximate 150 ft. The witness did not see a method of propulsion such as wing movement. It just seemed to be gliding, but at a high rate of speed. It maintained level flight moving west where the witness eventually lost sight of it. Other details were a light brown color along the sides of the wings, like skin, with a dark body color, possibly dark brown or black. Source: NUFORC.

2004 - Martinez, California, USA  (near Walnut Creek)

May 16 2004 at Sunset - Layla Wingate, in her early twenties, was looking out of her window, her view taking in the southern sky, also giving her a view toward San Francisco. Over a Shell Oil Company refinery she watched a rusty red colored creature with bat-like wings flying in circles over the facility. She watched it for an estimated five minutes. It glided quite a bit, occasionally flapping its wings. At the end it flew off toward San Francisco. Layla said it felt evil to her, and that she hadn't seen this creature since some 13 years ago with her family in Bristol Tennessee Source: Brent Raynes, http://www.mysterious-america.net

2005 - Cache, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA

On  January 10th 2005 at about 8:30 pm. - Near Quanah Road two witnesses were leaving their house when they decided to check out a tree in the yard which they thought they had seen something about 2 weeks prior. The tree is located about 60 yards from the house and close to the road.  They drove down to the tree with the bright lights on the car. As they neared the tree they saw something huge and white sitting on a branch of the tree, one witness saw the head and shoulders. The shoulders were broad and it didn't look like it had a neck. The other witness saw 2 legs dangling down. The legs were hairy and were moving. The head and shoulders were moving slightly back and forth like it was getting ready to jump down.  One of the witnesses screamed while the other was in shock but managed to put the car in reverse and backed out of the area as fast as possible. According to the witnesses there had been other reports of people seeing something run across the road and people have heard screams coming from a nearby creek.

2005 - Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA

February 2nd 2005 at 4:40 pm. - The driver of a car traveling in the vicinity of the toll booth entrance had her attention drawn to something huge and black in the sky. The witness watched as the object made a left turn swoop, and realized that she wasn't observing an aircraft, but instead a huge bird. The creature was all black, and the wings were estimated to be the length of a small aircraft. The witness pulled off the road and watched the strange sight for a few minutes. Source: http://www.westol.com/~paufo/news [defunct].

2005 - San Marcos, California, USA

July 6th 2005 at 11:30 pm. - After a long day the witness had gone outside to his covered driveway for a smoke and look at the night sky. The witness looked towards the north and thought about his recent (saucer) sighting wondering what it was all about.  In the near distance, at no more than a couple of hundred feet he saw a faintly visible moving object that flitted from side to side. Whatever it was it reflected light from the streetlights. Its side to side movement was so quick initially he couldn't tell if it was one object or two. The object then zipped directly over his neighbor's house across the street. It continued to move side to side in a space of approximately 50 feet. It then stopped and the witness was able to observe it more clearly.  The object was a humanoid with large eyes and wing-like appendages. It was probably 2 to 3 feet in width. It remained still and he could see wavering reflections from its "wings". They were not beating like a bird, but showed shimmering reflections from the streetlights. The witness felt the hair on his head rise all the way down his back to his ankles.  It appeared to be watching the witness as he smoked his cigarette. The witness felt threatened and then said out loud, "I see you!" Then the flying figure went from stationary to out of sight right over the witness head in an instant. He then came out from under his covered carport and turned to follow its movement. Immediately it zipped into view directly above his head, obviously studying the witness who could see really large and intensely dark "eyes".

It seemed surprised by the witness looking right at it. It did not appear to like being seen. The witnesses apprehension rose even higher. The creature then turned away and disappeared like a shot. It had a birdlike shape, but was thicker. The witness insists that it wasn't a bird, bat or any familiar nocturnal creature and has never seen anything like that before.

2006 - Santa Catarina, Monterrey, Mexico

On the evening of March 2006 - A policeman, Gerardo Garza Carbajal was on guard duty on a road near the Panteon Municipal (Municipal Pantheon) when suddenly someone started pelting him stones. He then saw two "people" with wings and "wrinkled faces". Terrified he ran into his squad car. In the meantime he could hear the entities laughing in "a weird way" as they flew a short distance from him. "I thought they were witches---I saw them very close," said the veteran police officer. Gerardo immediately requested back up and in a matter of minutes was surrounded by several municipal police cars and even some from the Ministerial police. "The witches flew off, but the police officers who came to my aid saw what I saw." Said the terrified officer, who swears he had never seen anything like it in his life. He was subsequently taken to a medical center as his blood pressure had dropped excessively. He did soon recover from the shocking experience.

2006 - San Nicolas de los Garza, Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

In Mid Nov. 2006  at about 3:15 pm. - A local, resident after hearing noises outside, saw a bizarre entity floating above the branch of a nearby tree. At first it resembled a man standing on top of the branch; however the witness soon noticed that it was actually hovering in midair. It resembled a very tall man-like figure, dark in color. He did not see any wings on the figure, which appeared thin and seemed to be covered in a "dark cape" he didn't see any arms on the figure. Afraid, he ran inside the house and woke his wife telling her what he had seen. However when he went out again the figure had disappeared.

 

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