The Moth Man. South Africa

The man who told this story, he calls himself a great lover of birds. He especially likes birds and he is watching them and photographing them in the wild. He also participated in several major expeditions in order to see rare birds. All this information was communicated to them with one goal, to make people understand what is before them a person who is versed in his field and hardly saw a normal bird, take her for a monster or other creature. So, the story itself.

It was there where the author lives, in Pretoria, South Africa in 2010 in the area of Doornpoort. It was now July, and in South Africa at this time was winter (the weather at this time there approximately +14 Celsius). Once the author of the story and his wife came to visit his brother with his wife while the women talked, the author and his brother from time to time went outside to smoke.

Before you go to bed, they went out to smoke again. Was already midnight, it was quiet and serene, in the sky the Moon is shining. Suddenly something very bright caught the attention of the author. It flew in the sky and was so white, like the shining. This creature had wings like the wings of a bat and it the size was very large. It was flying at a distance of about 20 meters above the ground and its wingspan was about 3 meters, but perhaps even more. This creature is simultaneously observed by the author of the story and his brother. It slowly flew right over them and disappeared into the distance. Then both men looked at each other in silence, put out the cigarette and quickly left the house.

First, the author thought it was just a big fruit Pteropus, but when he began to look for information, it appeared that the only species of bats that could have bright color, and dwell in the field, was a Palm Pteropus (Eidolon helvum). But on the Pteropus was only 14 to 21 cm with a wingspan of up to 76 cm

In addition, after watching the video of a flight of Pteropus, the author is convinced that the creature was flapping its wings more slowly. After that the author started to review the list of all species of flying foxes and bats, but in the end never found anything to fit what he saw with his brother.

Since that night it has been seven years, but he still remembers this case and remember being very frightened because of how huge was the creature.

The largest of bats is flying foxes, the scope of their wings can reach 1.7 m. They live in Southeast Asia, Oceania, Australia and Madagascar.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»