Devil's Footprints Fit Shape Of Male Giant Dragonfly Clasper

[learner]

I watched the Brown Hawker video and remain unalarmed. That's no Ariel to the mothership, just a bit of fluff or something.
What did concern me was at 7:30 there is clear sight of caged rocks. Is there some concern that they may shape shift into a menacing beast? Someone is on the Ball and I approve.
Better safe than sorry

 

[Alan Lowey]

I do not think an air-propulsion system of the type you hypothesize is actually possible.

There are many insects which have evolved not to use their wings but still have wings - however, these always turn out to be vestigial, much smaller than wings on related species that still use them. It seems unlikely that, given this other type of propulsion, the giant dragonflies would retain large wings similar in proportion and shape to those of dragonflies that use their wings. It also seems highly unlikely that an insect species would evolve an independent method of flight when it already started out with perfectly functional wings that get the job done.

The notion of the dragonflies storing food-blood in its wing-veins presents a problem I've already explained - no other insect, including those with vestigial wings, stores food outside of their digestive system - nor do blood-feeding insects use the eaten blood for oxygen delivery. Insects, including those that feed on animal blood, have their own special blood-like substance called hemolymph which performs these functions. Hemolymph fills the insect's exoskeleton (and those wing-veins), and is kept circulating slowly through the body using a series of tiny pumps.

There's a first time for everything. The Dragonflies are unique in that they had a hundred million years before any flying competition evolved in the form of birds and bats.

 

[LTC8K6]

I think we're being trolled here...

I'm out.

 

[Slowvehicle]

It's called making a hypothesis. Something that is just about possible which fits all the available evidence.

It's called "asking for evidence to support completely OTW assertions."

So, I ask again: do you have any evidence, even evidence by analogy, if anything resembling a mechanism whereby a predator could isolate blood from prey of a different species, and store it for oxygen transport? Without even the tawdriest hint of a suggestion as to how you think it might work,it is not a hypothesis; it isn't even a SWAG; it isn't even wrong.

The same goes for the super-duper-aero-stealth jet drive...what analogues do you see? How do you propose it might work? By what remotely plausible mechanism might it be wrought?

Not to mention: What is the largest insect currently demonstrated to exist? How does it locomote? Why do you, personally, think that might be? How large would your proposed Anishoptera be, to make the tailprints you claim it, and only it, could make?

Further, you have the fundamental problem of all cryptozooid fanciers: IF there were, in fact, a viable population of giant, butt-pogoing dragonflies out there, where have they been? Where are the egg cases, the discarded exoskeletons, the partially-eaten remains? Why is the only "evidence" for its existence a few widely-scattered tailprint trails (granting them as "tailprints" only arguendo)?

Seriously: a dragonfly big enough to "mutilate cattle" exists, but has never been seen?

I am truly interested in your answers.

 

[Slowvehicle]

Just keep to the topic in hand please. The cattle mutilation phenomenon is very real and in Brazil it has even spread to human beings.

UFO-Related Homicide in Brazil: The Complete Story [from International UFO Magazine]


P.S. Beware very graphic images at bottom of page.

Are you actually claiming that chupacabra is not only real, but is, in fact, a giant butt-pogoing dragonfly?

 

[Checkmite]

There's a first time for everything. The Dragonflies are unique in that they had a hundred million years before any flying competition evolved in the form of birds and bats.

That's true; but the fossil record shows that they didn't change much in all that time, except for getting smaller.

There is a first time for everything; but hypothesis isn't anything-goes speculation. it's informed theorizing.

For example, looking at the "footprints" and saying "those kind of look like they might've been made by the claspers of a giant dragonfly hopping around on its butt" is a fair basis for beginning to create hypotheses. The problem is when you start going in weird directions that aren't justified by the evidence. Starting to speculate about these giant dragonflies not flying using their wings is not justified, because the "footprints" that we're starting with, don't carry any information about whatever wings the creature who made them might have, or even if they have wings or not. Likewise about storing blood in the wings - there's no way to even begin to tell that by looking at the footprints we're trying to decipher - they convey no information in that regard.

The evidence you choose to use to support your hypotheses also don't actually support them. For instance, you relate the story of a man who claims he was attacked by a giant dragonfly. But he did not claim this dragonfly hopped around on its claspers; so there's no especial reason to believe that the creature he described might be related to the one that made the tracks. Further, he seems to claim that creature used its wings like a typical dragonfly, which would seem to preclude the non-functional wings of the giant dragonfly you hypothesize. You also use a video someone took of a dragonfly exhibiting what the video's author believed to be unusual characteristics; however it is a small, regular-sized dragonfly of an identifiable species and thus doesn't seem to have anything to do with your proposed giant dragonfly either.

If your points in using these accounts and videos is to say "look, dragonflies that are abnormally large or have weird body parts aren't that far-fetched", well that's fairly easy to grant; but you haven't quite leapt the boundary from possibility to plausibility yet. It's not enough to say that "well I think it's possible there may be giant dragonflies with ramjet propulsion that store eaten blood in their non-flying wings that hop about on their claspers in the snow and sand"; you've got to give us reason to positively believe these things do exist, especially in the face of evidence that they shouldn't exist.

 

[Slowvehicle]

There's a first time for everything. The Dragonflies are unique in that they had a hundred million years before any flying competition evolved in the form of birds and bats.

Have you the least scintilla,the slightest crumb, the merest hint of ANYTHING that actually supports any of this, outside your Kipplingesque inventiveness?

 

[Alan Lowey]

That's true; but the fossil record shows that they didn't change much in all that time, except for getting smaller.

There is a first time for everything; but hypothesis isn't anything-goes speculation. it's informed theorizing.

As I've said before, Dragonfly cannibalism would mean that giant Dragonflies aren't recorded in the fossil record.

The fossil record is only a hint at what actually occurred during the evolution of life on planet Earth.

 

[Checkmite]

As I've said before, Dragonfly cannibalism would mean that giant Dragonflies aren't recorded in the fossil record.

The fossil record is only a hint at what actually occurred during the evolution of life on planet Earth.

Fine; but that's only an excuse for why the necessary evidence might not exist - it does not have any positive evidentiary value of its own. Because the giant dragonflies not, in fact, having existed at all would also cause none to appear in the fossil record.

 

[Maestro]

I vote for Poe.

 

[Alan Lowey]

A big dragonfly would attack big prey.

I've deduced that they attack big prey intermittently to acquire a blood supply used for their heightened oxygen uptake.

Whether they also use this source for food is questionable. I even have suspicions that they may have evolved the cultivating of a fungus to sustain themselves and that mega-giant-dragonflies have an entourage of smaller ones in a unique multi-symbiosis.

I got the idea from the leaf cutter ant evolution coupled with a UFO eyewitness reporting that glitter-like swarms descended to a particular tree and then ascended afterwards to a large brightly lit UFO.

It would also fit with the 'Angel Hair' phenomenon and "mana from heaven".

 

[Alan Lowey]

Here's more cases of eyewitnesses seeing giant Dragonfly-like entities:

UFO with wings flying like an Insect in the Sky Cordoba Argentina 2012

Interesting UFO sightings from Argentina showing a bright white objects passing by in the light cloudy sky of Cordoba.

I you look carefully during this UFO sighting video you can see the wings of the UFO flipping like a bee or an insect would do.

UFO sightings Report : UFO or strange orb in Cordoba, Argentina (03/03/2012) was on Saturday March 3. I was in my room vectoring an image, leave the yard for a while I was going porq monkey, I sit and watch just above the mandarin tree walk q I have this light in the sky, not thought or two seconds and went running to look for the camera, I have a canon that has a zoo m 48x 12x digital. UFO picture is clear not only by the Q is good but also I think by the time it was when the sun was setting, I think that gave quite more contrast to the object. at minute 1:50 is the figure of a very bright nucleus and q lights give entrecrusan flies and this nucleus at high speed.

 

[Alan Lowey]

Photos of Insect-Looking UFOs

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[Steve001]

I've deduced that they attack big prey intermittently to acquire a blood supply used for their heightened oxygen uptake.

Whether they also use this source for food is questionable. I even have suspicions that they may have evolved the cultivating of a fungus to sustain themselves and that mega-giant-dragonflies have an entourage of smaller ones in a unique multi-symbiosis.

I got the idea from the leaf cutter ant evolution coupled with a UFO eyewitness reporting that glitter-like swarms descended to a particular tree and then ascended afterwards to a large brightly lit UFO.

It would also fit with the 'Angel Hair' phenomenon and "mana from heaven".

Small unicorns walking backwards are just a likely.

 

[Alan Lowey]

Have there been many giant dragonfly sightings?

When I was around nine years old me and my two sisters watched a dragonfly with a body about half a metre long circle around our backyard just above the height of our bungalow (in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). When we told our mom about it, she just said it must've been a toy plane shaped like a dragonfly. It looked quite naturally an insect to me, and it made no sound. Would a dragonfly of that size make or not make noise in flight? Can toy remote controlled planes be soundless?

I have seen a large dragonflys before, I live near a large country park with 2 huge lakes and extensive reed beds so if there were an ideal place for dragonfly and damselfly spotting, thats it (you can tell the difference between the 2 by observing how it holds its wings when resting, if it can flod its wings back along its body it's a damsel).

The largest dragonfly I observed was in Cosmeston Lakes Country park had a wingspan of at least 1/2 a meter skimming over the surface of the lake about 3 metres from the bank. It was brownish yellow in colour and apart from its size quite unremakable. I have also seen a lot of large damselflys, which are now a regular sighting every time we have a hot summer. Was it a paticully long hot summer when you saw your large dragonfly, Laphip?

 

[Alan Lowey]

Giant Dragonfly Encounter in Eastern Kansas

I was driving east on I-35 in eastern Kansas one hot and sticky summer day, my ‘67 Mustang rumbling across the heatwaves, windows down, my hair blowing in wind, when something moving near a billboard on the right side of the highway caught my attention. A giant dragonfly, I mean absolutely breathtakingly huge and just beautiful, perfectly and utterly gorgeous, hovered in the air - rather like a modern dragonfly (most species of which don’t exceed a few inches in span), but much bigger than anything known to exist today. I’ve generally thought of it as having a 3 to 5 feet wingspan.

Whatever its size, surely such a dragonfly either exists in a parallel dimension or lives discreetly on our planet, well hidden from modern prying eyes.

 

[Slowvehicle]

I've deduced that they attack big prey intermittently to acquire a blood supply used for their heightened oxygen uptake.

I'm sorry, but untramelled fantasy is not the same as deduction...Upon what do you base that which you have "deduced"?

Whether they also use this source for food is questionable. I even have suspicions that they may have evolved the cultivating of a fungus to sustain themselves and that mega-giant-dragonflies have an entourage of smaller ones in a unique multi-symbiosis.

Getting harder and harder to hide...

I got the idea from the leaf cutter ant evolution coupled with a UFO eyewitness reporting that glitter-like swarms descended to a particular tree and then ascended afterwards to a large brightly lit UFO.

It would also fit with the 'Angel Hair' phenomenon and "mana from heaven".

This, in your mind, is "evidence"?

 

[Alan Lowey]

The replies to the above eyewitness encounter:

I live near dallas tx. I saw a dragonfly in north dallas that was at least ten to twelve inches in length (body). I was wondering what kind of dragonfly this was.

I saw a giant dragonfly type of creature when I lived in Utah. It was about five years ago. I stood looking out of my living room window that looked out onto the street. I looked up the street first and then down. The sky was very grey that day, it looked like a storm was coming. As I looked down the street for about four seconds, I got a glimpse of this beautiful slow flying (almost as if it was in slow motion) creature that was about 6 feet long with a huge wing span. It was flying just above the height of the roofs of the houses across the street. It had very fine wings that were blues and violet colors like a dragonfly. I did not take my eyes of it, but as I say it vanished in seconds. I had a look every day to try and see it again, but never did.

OK. I’m not very good at this corresponding on the Web. However, after reading your account, (I stumbled upon your site by accident) of seeing a huge dragonfly in Kansas I was reminded of my sighting of the same thing in Georgia several years ago while my wife and I were on vacation there. Here’s how it goes: I was standing on the deck of our motel when I noticed a huge (and I mean huge; probably 4-6 feet long with a 2-3 foot wingspan) moving across my line of sight about 50′ or so from me going from my right to my left toward a bunch of trees. The wings were not at all moving very quickly which at first surprised me. It just gracefully flew over to the left of my vision field and then it was gone. A time span of probably 8-10 seconds. I looked intensely, but could no longer see it. So, I looked around some more thinking maybe there were some more of these. But that was it! Afterwards I asked some of the locals about my sighting, thinking that maybe in that area of the mountains of Georgia there were oversized dragonflies like that flying around. But everyone said they had never seen anything like that. So…whatever it was, I don’t have a clue! All I know is, I saw it plain as day and I’m not some nut or on drugs… or whatever. ......Or maybe, as you say, these huge dragonflies aren’t as extinct as we think they are. But it sure was strange how it seemed to just vanish after it got to the left side of my line of sight.

That sounds like an amazing experience, i too have had interesting encounters with dragonflies. around my house there is a breed of dragon fly that always flies in large groups of 50 or more. me being very interested in talking to animals found that the dragon flies actuially spoke to you in there own language if you give it a chance! What i do is go outside and walk very slowly and calmly to ware you believe the gragon flies are, do not make eye contact as they assume that means you are going to attack and they will stay away from you. unfocus your eyes and stare in the direction of several but never one in particular. after a while you fill find them getting closer and closer to you as they watch your eye movements. when they get just out of arms reach is the most important part, when they fly at or near your face its because they are testing you. almost like asking you if you will attack, do not track them as they cross your vision and soon you will have a whole lot of them diving at your face haha. anyway once you’ve gained there trust then you can attempt to look at them, but only for a moment, then look away to show them you are just watching. Once you get really in tune with what they what you can push your limits a bit and see how much theyll let you do. if you single one out and glance at it for a bit they might even fly to you and dance for you! I have yet to have one trust me enough to land on me, but i dont think that would be impossible with time… they very smart creatures i tell you. coming into contact with a large species would be truely amazing, and it wouldnt at all catch me off gaurd if a species of large dragonfly were indeed alive and just too visuially on top of things to be deticted

This is the first time I’ve seen a collaboration of posts where someone has seen something like I have. I was only about a child, maybe 4 years old (11 years ago). I remember seeing a giant dragonfly on my back porch vividly, it was around 4-6ft long, it was about 10 inches away from me as it landed, I was so terrified that I ran back inside. I told a couple of people but nobody really believed me. After reading these, I know what I saw wasn’t a hallucination. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada if this information is relevant.

I saw a 2 foot dragonfly once, it was blue and I was in Vancouver visiting my grandma, that’s why I found your article, to see if anyone else had seen one.

When I was 10 years old playing at a neighbors yard with friends in the summertime a giant dragonfly came flying between the houses. The children ran into the garage being scared. I stood fascinated as I have always loved insects. The creature seemed at least a wingspan of 2 feet or so. It hovered above me turned and flew away. I had always fished in ponds & lakes. This creature was not normal…beautiful..l was surprised other people have seen this beautiful thing..to this day I remember…

 

[Slowvehicle]

Here's more cases of eyewitnesses seeing giant Dragonfly-like entities:

UFO with wings flying like an Insect in the Sky Cordoba Argentina 2012

There is nothing in that video to suggest how large the bright, fluttery object is, nor how far away it is.

There is nothing that video that resembles a dragonfly.

There is nothing in that video that appears to be a super-efficient wing propulsion technique.

This, for you, passes for "evidence"?

 

[Resume]

http://paranormal.about.com/library/blstory_december04_06.htm

It caught my attention because it didn't look like any kind of bird I have ever seen before. I watched it a bit longer and to my astonishment as it turned it looked exactly like a miniature pterodactyl like you see in the movies like Jurassic Park or on The Flintstones cartoons. The only difference is that it was much smaller, having a wingspan of about four feet. It was gray and did not appear to have any feathers. The wings were an odd shape and flapped much differently than any kind of bird I've seen flying; they looked fleshy like bat wings.

An "eyewitness" credule unfamiliar with birds spots a blue heron and imagines it a pterodactyl. Big deal.