Mr-X Posted November 2, 2002 #1 Share Posted November 2, 2002 The one below has been proven to be a fake A super-sized bird in Alaska By PETER PORCO Anchorage Daily News October 15, 2002 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A giant winged creature, like something out of Jurassic Park, has reportedly been sighted several times in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks. Villagers in Togiak and Manokotak say they have seen a huge bird that's much bigger than anything they have seen before. A pilot says he spotted the creature while flying passengers to Manokotak last week. He calculated that its wingspan matched the length of a wing on his Cessna 207. That's about 14 feet. Other people have put the wingspan in a similar range. Scientists aren't sure what to make of the reports. No one doubts that people in the region west of Dillingham have seen a very large rapto-like bird. But biologists and other people familiar with big Alaska birds say they're skeptical it's that big. A recent sighting of the mystery bird occurred Oct. 10 when Moses Coupchiak, a 43-year-old heavy equipment operator from Togiak, 40 miles west of Manokotak, saw the bird flying toward him from about two miles away as he worked his tractor. "At first I thought it was one of those old-time Otter planes," Coupchiak said. "Instead of continuing toward me, it banked to the left, and that's when I noticed it wasn't a plane." The bird was "something huge," he said. "The wing looks a little wider than the Otter's, maybe as long as the Otter plane." The bird flew behind a hill and disappeared. Coupchiak got on the radio and warned people in Togiak to tell their children to stay away. Pilot John Bouker said he was highly skeptical of reports of "this great big eagle" that is two or three times the size of a bald eagle. "I didn't put any thought into it." But early this week while flying into Manokotak, Bouker, owner of Bristol Bay Air Service, looked out his left window and 1,000 feet away, "there's this big ... . bird," he said. "The people in the plane all saw him," Bouker said. "He's huge, he's huge, he's really, really big. You wouldn't want to have your children out." Nicolai Alakayak, a freight and passenger driver from Manokotak who was flying with Bouker, said the creature looked like an eagle and was as large as "a little Super Cub." Comparison to an eagle, certainly. Super Cub? Probably not, scientists said. "I'm certainly not aware of anything with a 14-foot wingspan that's been alive for the last 100,000 years" said federal raptor specialist Phil Schemf in Juneau. Schemf, other biologists, a village police officer and teachers at the Manokotak School said the sightings could be of a Steller's sea eagle, a species native to northeast Asia and one of the world's largest eagles. It's about 50 percent bigger than a bald eagle. <span style='font-size:29'>X</span> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althalus Posted November 2, 2002 #2 Share Posted November 2, 2002 I thought that all the photo's had been proven to be a fake recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted November 2, 2002 #3 Share Posted November 2, 2002 The Ford Motor Co. actually built thunderbirds. Lots of them too. But I think it was type of vehicle or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted November 4, 2002 #4 Share Posted November 4, 2002 Interesting pictures. The one at the top is quite hard to make out - there isn't really enough detail in the thing on the ground to discern whether or not it is actually a large bird. They could have easily posed next to an assortment of cloth and other material that was arranged in a bird-like shape on the ground. The one on the bottom looks somewhat like a model of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarro Posted November 5, 2002 #5 Share Posted November 5, 2002 i think this could be real. i find it unlikely that someone would construct a giant fake bird as a hoax in alaska. its just too remote to be effective. i think the old pics are fakes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleStuart Posted November 7, 2002 #6 Share Posted November 7, 2002 I think that the Sea Eagle explanation is most likely - with a wing span of nearly 8m thats plenty big and it very difficult to judge size when the distances are unknown to flying objects with only sky as a back drop. A lost dinosaur would be very unlikely if not only due to the northerly longditude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test_Bear Posted November 22, 2002 #7 Share Posted November 22, 2002 The top civil war picture has a smaller creature then the bottom civil war one. I know the bottom picture was a fake, produced for a FOX television program. I'm willing to think, however, that the bottom one is based on the top one. The very bottom one looks like something from that Lovecraft story, "The Mountains of Madness." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted February 10, 2003 #8 Share Posted February 10, 2003 i think the pics are awsome i don't care if there real or not but i love thunder birds they are so cool!!!!!!! what should my avatar be this or the one i have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test_Bear Posted February 10, 2003 #9 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Shorty... umm... I can't see your avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaCeMonKeY03 Posted March 9, 2003 #10 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Looks completly fake. The "Wings" appear to be made out of leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest King Pillow Posted May 3, 2003 #11 Share Posted May 3, 2003 I'd like to see more photos of thunderbirds, im working on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillghast Posted May 10, 2003 #12 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Can you say BIG BIRD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted June 14, 2003 #13 Share Posted June 14, 2003 They say there aren't aware of anything with that wingspan living for the past 100,000 years, but if its a hoax it would be pointless saying it had a wingspan of 20cm wouldnt it. If it isn't a hoax, then we must come to the conclusion that it would probably beat us at a game of hide and seek... So what, its a large piegeon. A...very...large...piegeon... Jak x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdodo Posted June 28, 2003 #14 Share Posted June 28, 2003 I can't see them ... I can only see a box with a small red X .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezil936 Posted June 29, 2003 #15 Share Posted June 29, 2003 I've seen thunderbird before. either that or some ufo. it was shaped like a giants bird, it was black, and quite high up in the sky, it did some gently loops a couple of times, disappeared, then reappearded for a little while, and disappeared just as i was getting the binoculars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdodo Posted July 4, 2003 #16 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Finally ... I can see then now Hmm ... it looks like a huge dinosaur ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count dracula Posted July 5, 2003 #17 Share Posted July 5, 2003 is it real or is it fake who knows but cool pic hey you never know i mean we jut opened the path to science as technology grows i hope within my life time some new answers occur for my questions like the discovery of dinasours again true many people think that these are beliefs have no fundemental but what about the real ones or the ones that get brushed under the door for example one of my workers who has been around in his years told me of being in class -one time when he was young-during show and tell some kid in his class brung a small creature that was a liltle man he said that the kid was explaining that they had shot it will hunting in the desert with his dad out in california what about the thing that was found in - think mexico- a lil man or what about the exavation of the lizard people of los angeles with todays technology i mean come on no where to explore or dig as a matter of fact there is an empty lot in dowtown l.a. what about the large birds of texas or the amazing caves and amazing underground cities hopefully we can answer one or two of these weird curiosities it would not be a nightmare like our lovely goverment wants us to think but a amazment that we can all share hey if anybody has any weird pics i have some ive found in the net wanna trade strange pics look cool when i show my friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEADWALKER1 Posted July 5, 2003 #18 Share Posted July 5, 2003 big ass bird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezil936 Posted July 6, 2003 #19 Share Posted July 6, 2003 most of the thunderbird stories i've heard involve big black birds. birds with feathers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent_L Posted July 6, 2003 #20 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Theres a wider angle picture of that first pic on google which makes the "thunderbird" look more like just a rag on the floor. i would of added the picture but it wouldnt let me? Can anyone explain what the rulez are 2 adding pics plz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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