Pole painting at Kelly Elementary School, Compton, California -- by the Mormon Helping Hands
(Members of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, with their neighbors and Kelly friends)
These web pages are not official LDS church pages
Cryptozoological investigations and opinions of Whitcomb regarding the cryptid called
"ropen"
(and opinions regarding living pterosaurs or apparent pterosaurs) are independent of any views or
opinions of any church leader
or official doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Service Project at Kelly Elementary School, Compton, California
" . . . between Pasadena and Houston, two young men saw something strange flying . . . The creature was leathery
and had a 'long snake-like tail that terminated in a sort of flange or sail.'"
"The 'Live Pterosaur' approach involves comparing divergent points of view: origin philosophies related
to the concept of living pterosaurs in the modern world."