Reported by Jonathan Whitcomb

May 10, 2021

We welcome our first English-language representative: Candace Worman, for the state of Kentucky in the United States. She has had her own remarkable sighting in 2020, a long-tailed ropen in KY.

Candace Worman

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Late-July of 2021:

We now have our first worldwide representative for a non-English language: Gladys Whitcomb for Spanish. She had a sighting of a possible large pterosaur near the Columbia River, between Oregon and Washington state, in 2019.

Gladys Whitcomb

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Jonathan Archer, in July of 2021, became the first representative in California, and he’ll be available for eyewitnesses and news media in northern California. He saw two ropens in western Minnesota a few years ago, in clear daylight.

Jonathan Archer

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Laura Dean now represents the state of Arkansas, USA. She had a remarkable close encounter with a huge ropen a number of years ago. It seems to have been an unusual species or type of ropen.

Laura Dean

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By Jonathan Whitcomb

Here is the specific purpose of Animal Discovery (AD) in the Bylaws, as of May 4, 2021:

One aspect of the mission of AD is to inform the public about the existence, or potential existence, of apparent living animals or birds that to many Western scientists were unknown, or unacknowledged as extant species, at the end of the twentieth century. Such apparent or potential animals and birds are hereafter referred to in these Bylaws as “cryptids”.

Another part of the mission of AD is to promote the public’s open-minded consideration of reports from eyewitnesses, or possible eyewitnesses, of cryptids, and to analyze and publicize what we have learned from both eyewitness reports of cryptids and other sources.

Another purpose of AD is to promote expeditions and other searches that may result in photographing or videotaping cryptids or may result in learning about cryptids, especially through interviewing eyewitnesses or possible eyewitnesses.

Another part of the mission of AD is to protect people, farm animals, and pets from individual cryptids that are dangerous or may be dangerous and to protect cryptids that are not dangerous or that may not be dangerous.

At least at the beginning of the existence of AD, the principal cryptids of interest will be apparent non-extinct pterosaurs, flying creatures that are often called, in many Western countries, “pterodactyls”.

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