Is there a Mothman in Kansas City Again?

I have a question mark after the title of this article title because I honestly don't know what the heck I saw last night. I was meditating while sitting in my hot tub last night at 10:30 pm August 9, 2021 some very strange things occurred. There are two streetlights which sit diagonally from the corners of my house about 75 feet away. I had my eyes closed, but heard a noise which made me open my eyes. I sensed that something was nearby. Then I saw a shadow on my deck, and a very clear outline of a wing, which then closed. I immediately looked in the direction of the streetlight but there was nothing there. The shadow was about 3.5' in height so whatever made it was big, but I did not get a look at it. 

Next, I heard a car move into my gravel driveway, except there was no engine sound. I

assumed it must have been an electric vehicle. Then a car door shut. At that point, I jumped up and went to the end of my deck to see who the heck was in my driveway at that time of night - only to see nothing there. No car, no person, nothing. Since we have the only gravel driveway nearby, it had to be my driveway and no one else's.  I wondered several things then - was this a car in another dimension? And were was the person who got out of the vehicle? 

I then went inside the house and texted Jean Walker (another investigator) about this and she and I were discussing it when something flew by the second streetlight, blocking it out completely. Whatever it was had to be big. I opened the front door and looked around and saw nothing, but again, sensed that something was there. And it "felt" like a Mothman. Whatever that means. Its difficult to describe but that is what I got. 

Then Jean told me that she saw a huge winged shadow on the road in front of her as she was driving from North Kansas City to Raytown earlier the same day. At first she thought it was a plane, but she could seen no plane and nothing else. She wonders if it was a Mothman.

Its very odd but since Jean and I have been working together on UFO and cryptid cases, the same things seem to happen to both of us at or around the same time - even when we are not together. 

I've taken over 100 case reports of winged creatures to date, and placed them on Google Maps under Winged Cryptid Sightings, and many are in my book Winged Aliens. Most of the Mothman reports are from the Greater Kansas City area. 

So is there a Mothman once again flying around the Kansas City area?  Only time will tell. Keep your eyes peeled and your camera ready!

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Margie Kay is a veteran UFO and paranormal investigator. She is the publisher of UnX News Magazine, and editor at UnX Media. She hosts UnX News Podcast. www.unxmedia.com

Winged Creature Captured by Donna Wilder - FAST MOVER!

Man Bitten in Face by a Large Bat/Alien Creature

On March 16, 2020 in a rural area near Seneca, Missouri a man I know was camping overnight and saw a large winged creature with humanoid legs and bat-like face and ears sitting 15 feet away from him. 

The witness said that the creature had large bat-like wings that were unextended. It was approximately three to four feet tall. The man was sitting on a large log in front of a fire. The creature seemed to be shocked that the man was able to see it and approached him menacingly, then bit the man on the face. The witness said it had a small mouth. He believes that the creature may have been an alien rather than a bird/man. He has seen other types of alien-like creatures at the same location.

I investigated this site in 2018 and found evidence of something anomalous happening to a tree that
was examined by a tree expert. The tree had been exposed to unknown energy which caused damage to the interior of the tree. I also examined video footage which shows strange creatures that are possibly extraterrestrials. The film footage has not yet been released to the public. 

50 Mothman/Giant Bird Reports in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois

Gigantic bird or Mothman sightings are on the increase in Missouri, Kansas and other states. To date, Un-X News has received 49 reports. Some reports were few and far between, but in 2019 we took at least 19 reports from witnesses who saw bird-like creatures with wing-spans of 10' to 36' and 2020 has been a busy year so far. 

Descriptions of these creatures include: 

• Mothman
• Humanoid
• Ptetrosaour
• Pterodactyl
• Bat-Man
• Thunderbird
• Winged-Creature

It is possible that people are seeing the same type of creature, but call it by different names. Some people have asked if the creature being seen is the Mothman and if it is a portent of a coming disaster. Of course, we don't know the answer to that question, but people still remember the Point Pleasant bridge disaster in West Virginia in the 1960's and the Mothman sightings for several months prior to that event. Since there have been so many sightings in Missouri and Illinois and other states, with no disasters, I'd say it is safe to assume that it doesn't have anything to do with a portent of doom.  

Photos by Tony Degn

One man was able to capture a couple of photos of one of these Mothman type beings in flight in 2014. It had the body of a man and gigantic black bat-like

wings. Tony Degn is an ex-police officer. He walked outside his home in Lee's Summit, Missouri one day when he noticed a helicopter flying and took some photos of a helicopter. When he looked at the photos later, he noticed a large humanoid type creature with legs and large wings flying next to the helicopter. This is the only photograph by a witness that I've been able to obtain to date.

Shortly after this encounter, Tony was out walking in the same neighborhood off of Woods Chapel Road and 291 Highway one day when he noticed a single low-level cloud measuring 30' feet in width at approximately 300 feet in altitude in the sky. He stopped to look at this unusual cloud when a humanoid with large wings emerged from the base of the cloud, flapping its wings. The creature, who was all black in color with bat-like wings with a 15-foot or larger wingspan, stared at Tony, then re-entered the cloud and did not re-emerge.

 In December of 2019, the same witness saw a humanoid creature with bat-like wings fly down near his vehicle as he drove on 291 Highway and 24 Highway in Independence. The creature stared menacingly at Tony, then flew off. It seemed to have trouble keeping its heavy body airborne and struggled under the weight (see my prior article about this encounter).  

A Compilation of Reports Taken by Un-X News and Other Investigators: 

• 1919: Camden, MO. A local radio producer reports that his 8th-grade teacher told him that when she was a child in the 1930's she and her family saw a gigantic bird with a human face circle them very close, scream at them, then fly off towards the hills. 
  
• 1955-56: Kansas City, Missouri near 47th & Denver close to the limestone quarry and KC Zoo/Swope Park. Giant birds: Multiple sightings of a very large winged creature: James Bair and his family and neighbors saw very large winged creatures over a two-year span. James was 8 and 9 years old at the time. In one instance his father called him outside and said excitedly, "Take a looks at that great big eagle on top of the garage!" Then, he thought better of it and said it was a huge owl. But neither of them knew what it actually was. James said that he saw several of these creatures standing next to the banks of Brush Creek, too. "They stood about 5' 8" tall, and they never made a sound," James said. The neighbors and other family members saw these unknown creatures on multiple occasions, sometimes flying in the air, sitting in trees, or standing on the ground on two legs. They seemed to make appearances after dusk and not during the day. James surmises that they may have been hiding out in the caves at the quarry during the day, and came out at night to eat, presumably fish from the creek or chickens and other animals that many people had in those days. 
• 1984:  Bat-Like Creature Sighted at Monkey Mountain near Blue Springs, MO (East of KC). A man and woman were hiking in the area at dusk and were shocked to see a 7' tall black humanoid creature standing next to a tree. It fluttered its wings but did not extend them. (See a previous article for details)
• 1985: Pterosaur. St. Louis MO -  as reported by Jonathan David Witcomb in his book and blog "Live Pterosaurs in America," a witness and her father were at a family barbeque when they heard a horrific screech and looked up to see a real live Pterosaur that was the size of a small aircraft. The wings were line bat wings, and it had a long beak with razor-line white teeth. They got a good look at the creature because it was only about 50 feet above them.  See the full article here: https://www.livepterosaurs.com/inamerica/blog/?p=1543
• Early 1990's: Thunderbird, Maryville, Missouri.  From thecryptocrew.com:  A family saw a huge, monstrous dark gray bird apparently stuck in the mud on a river bank with its wings flailing violently.  The witnesses said that the bird had a least a 20-foot wingspan. 
• 1996: St. Louis, MO. Pterodactyl. A man and his brother and cousin were fishing in a river west of St. Louis, Missouri when they looked up to see a huge dark brown pterodactyl-like creature fly 300' overhead. They all dropped their fishing poles. The witness said that the creature was gigantic, and it never flapped its wings but seemed to be gliding on air currents. They could not identify it as anything other than a pterodactyl.
  
• 2000: Kansas City, MO Humanoid with wings near Swope Park. A couple saw a gigantic black humanoid bird with a human face and a beak near Swope Park in Kansas City. They were so stunned that they ran inside the house, dropping their groceries on the way. 
• 2000: Independence, MO. Frank K. from NE Independence, Missouri suddenly had an inexplicable feeling to look up, and when he did he saw a gigantic pterodactyl-like dark brown creature flying high overhead. It floated on the currents and never flapped its wings during the duration of the sighting which lasted for two to three minutes. 
• 2004: St. Louis, Missouri:  As reported by Jonathan David Witcomb in his book and blog "Live Pterosaurs in America," "A man and his grandmother saw a large apparently smooth-skinned creature, on July 15, 2004, flying about a hundred feet above an Arby’s restaurant in St. Louis . . .  it did have the diamond-shaped tail end and its wings were at least 20 feet wide."
• August 2005: Kansas City, MO. As reported by Ken Gerhard in his book "Encounters With Flying Humanoids," Investigator Lon Strickler reported that two sisters in the Swope Park area of Kansas City heard a loud noise and looked up to see a gigantic bird with a 12' -18' wingspan hopping from tree branch to tree branch. It had leathery skin and batlike wings, a curved beak, with dark eyes. The two women ran inside the house and one of them fainted. 
• 2011: KC MO near Swope Park (continued from the above report from the year 2000) The same creature returned in the evening and made a sound like a dog being choked, then cavorted among the street lights. 
• 2011: KC MO near Swope Park. (continued from the above report) A cousin saw the same creature when he left their house one evening. It hopped behind the taillights of his car. It had gigantic wings and a fat body. 
• May, 2011: Independence, MO. Huge Strange Bird: A woman and her two children saw a gigantic dark brown bird with a long tail and a puff at the end of it fly over their house in Independence, MO during the afternoon. It was the size of a small plane and made no sound. (Note: this is the only report I've received of its kind)
• September, 2012: Independence, MO. Unknown Giant Bird. Three people were standing in a yard in Independence, Missouri during the day when they saw a very large black bird with a large beak fly at approximately 800 feet overhead. They got three photos photo and tried to identify it comparing it to known birds, but could find nothing that matched. the witnesses estimated the wing span to be at least 12' in width. See the photo below:
  

• 2012: Lake Jacomo. Humanoid with wings: A woman and her husband were driving near Lake Jacomo in the evening when they saw a black or dark 7' tall +  humanoid creature standing 25' feet from their vehicle. It appeared to have wings and a human-type male body. 
• 2014: Lee's Summit, MO. Mothman: Tony Degn captured a photo of a humanoid creature with bat-like wings in Lee's Summit, MO. (see description above)
• June 28, 2015: Eminence, MO Bat-like creature: As reported to Missouri MUFON:  A woman witnessed a strange bat-like tall creature while driving on a road near Eminence, MO, near Blue Springs on June 28, 2015. According to the witness the creature had leather-like wings which were folded at its side and large cat-like eyes. She was unable to go back to get a better look at the creature.
• Nov. 2016: West Alton, MO. Mothman: A woman and her son saw a strange giant bird/man-creature with legs on a river bank then watched it dive into the river as if it were catching fish. (See my article in this blog: Mothman Sighting in West Alton, MO in 2016) 
• November 2017: Salem, MO: Three giant bird sightings: Investigator Emmett Reary from Salem, Missouri said that he has had a number of giant bird sightings reported to him from the Dent County area.  Two witnesses saw birds with the wingspan of the house it flew over.  Several other witnesses east of Salem, MO saw a giant black bird that swept down on them while they were having a barbecue at dusk. 
• May 2018: Independence, MO: Supernatural creature? A woman left work one evening in Independence, MO and heard footsteps coming after her from behind, so she quickly jumped into her car. Gigantic black wings encircled her Dodge Charger and covered all the windows from the back forward, including the windshield, then it dissipated and disappeared. She thought it must have been something supernatural. 
• May 2018: Independence, MO. My own giant bird sighting: I was outside on my side deck when movement caught my eye - I saw a gigantic set of dark grey wings approximately 25-30 feet in width and stretched out in the trees approximately 150 feet away. As my eyes adjusted to the dark, I could see a central figure standing on a big branch. Something made a noise in a tree near me and I looked in that direction to see three smaller (24" tall) gray birds in the tree, then looked back at the large creature but it was no longer there. I can't explain it. 
• Summer, 2018: West of St. Louis: Creature with a human head. Michael R. was driving near his rural property 50 miles west of St. Louis when he saw a giant winged creature with a human head flying on the highway in front of him. It was being chased and attacked by drones. (Video is being analyzed). This was reported in January of 2020. 
• November 2018: Blue Springs, MO. A woman saw a gigantic black, winged creature swoop down over her car in Blue Springs, Missouri. Its wingspan was as big as the length of the car. 
• July 29, 2019: Independence, MO. Giant Bird. A man by the name of Alex was driving on 291 Highway in Independence, Missouri on Monday at 5:00 pm when he noticed a very large bird circling high overhead. He pulled over to get a better look at the dark-colored creature because the size was so amazing. Alex said that it was similar to the shape of an Eagle, but way too large to be a bird of that type and that it must have been something else. He was unable to get a photograph. 291 Highway is located on the east side of Independence, Missouri and crosses the Missouri River. 
• 2019: Overland Park, KS (near KCMO) Giant Bird. A woman and her husband were driving in Overland Park, Kansas when they saw a huge black bird with a 15' - 18' wingspan fly down to the ground and into some brush. The couple could not identify the type of bird and were unable to stop due to traffic. 
• 2019: KC MO. Giant Bird. A man and his son were driving near the downtown airport (near the Missouri River) during the day when they noticed a large black bird with huge wings flying overhead. They stopped the car in a parking lot and got out to watch the creature floating on the air currents. They both thought it looked like a pterodactyl with a huge wingspan. It had no feathers and very large beak. 
• June 20, 2019: Thunderbird? Sugar Creek, MO. Valerie H. saw a huge black bird with bat-like wings flying above a small aircraft over her house in Sugar Creek, MO near the Missouri River. It never flapped its wings or made a sound. She said that the creature was the size of the small-engine plane (approx 36' wingspan). It was flying too high to see details. Note: this location is the site of multiple UFO sightings.  
• June 20, 2019: Blue Springs, MO. Huge Bird. Terri T. heard birds screeching outside her house in Blue Springs, Missouri and thought a hawk was after them. She ran outside and was astonished to see a huge unidentifiable black bird with a 10'-12' wingspan flying away. She could not identify the bird even though she is an outdoorswoman. The other birds kept squawking for a couple of minutes. 
• November, 2019:Independence, MO. Hawk drone? I saw a hawk-like creature with a normal wingspan fly down over my car, and swoop close over my windshield and hood. Oddly, it had a humming mechanical sound like a drone.Could this have been a UFO?  
• December 2019: Independence, MO. Mothman. While driving south on 291 Highway in Independence, MO Tony Degn saw a humanoid with gigantic bat-like wings fly towards his vehicle, stare at him, then fly away. (see above description)
• December 2019: Trucker sees a seven foot tall humanoid with wings at O'Hare Airport: https://alien-ufo-sightings.com/2019/12/trucker-reports-seven-foot-tall-person-with-wings-near-ohare-international-airport/
• December 31, 2019: Kansas City, Missouri. Giant Bird: As she was driving north on Wornall Road in Kansas City, Missouri at 7:50 pm Marlene A. saw a gigantic dark flying bird that looked similar to a pterodactyl. It had a huge beak, long legs with feet, and a wingspan that would have been as wide as the street. The creature flapped its wings several times, then Marlene lost sight of it as she drove.
• December 31, 2019 4:30 pm. Overland Park, Kansas. Huge Bird. Pat D. Saw an all black winged bird flying overhead as she drove on College at 119^th Street in Overland Park, Kansas. The bird was at treetop level and it was gliding. Pat said that it did not flap its wings and that it looked similar to a raven except much larger. She could not estimate the size, except to say that it was the largest bird she's ever seen. 
• January 2020: East Jackson County. FOUR Sightings at an Undisclosed lake area in Jackson County. Pterodactyl: R.H. and her sisters have seen a giant bird four times since 2016. The first time it was sitting out on the ice and never moved. The next two times they saw it in flight and it looked like it was the size of a small plane but it flapped its wings like a Pterodactyl. The fourth time was in January of 2020 when the women were looking for eagles with binoculars and saw what they think is the same creature flying so high they couldn't see it with the naked eye. 
• February 11, 2020: Sugar Creek, MO. UFO/Bird. Valerie H. saw a hawk-like bird morph into a UFO and take off at incredible speed. See my article dated 2/16/2020 for more information.  
• February 1, 2020: A woman in Lee's Summit, Missouri reported seeing a very large black bird clinging to the top portion of a light pole near her house. It was a foggy night and she does not recall seeing details about the creature, only that it was unusually large and had wings that were not extended. 
• March 16, 2020: Seneca, MO.Alien/bat/bird: A man was camping in a rural area when he had the feeling that something was watching him. He looked up and saw a huge transparent winged creature with humanoid legs and bat-like face and ears standing on the ground just ten feet away from him. The creature seemed to be shocked that the man was able to see it and approached menacingly, then bit the man on the face, drawing blood. It then ran off and disappeared into the woods. The witness believes that the creature may have been an alien rather than a bird/man. 
  
• May 14, 2020: South Kansas City Giant Bat: R.L. was lying in bed and looking out his window at approximately 10:30 pm when he saw a huge black bat-like creature with bat-shaped wings and a 3' wingspan fly towards his window, then swoop away. The next night he saw a string of lights outside which broke into multiple colored lights. (Note: A check with MO Conservation indicates there are no bats that size in Missouri)
• May 14, 2020: South Kansas City, MO: Lerone P. was visiting a friend at 81st. near 71 Hwy when he noticed a strange shadow on the ground. He looked up and saw a man-sized humanoid creature with huge wings and a 3' long tail flying silently overhead and heading away from him. Lerone did not notice any features as the face and front were not visible. The creature was gliding and did not flap its wings. It flew low (approximately 80 feet or less from the ground) and out of sight. The witness stated that this area is known for UFO sightings and strange events.
• July 3, 2020: Waldo area of Kansas City, MO: A man and his friend spotted multiple bright white lights in the sky, then saw a gigantic bird the size of a Cessna airplane fly overhead from southwest to northeast.  See the article I posted on Jul 8, 2020 for more information. 
• August 5, 2020: Oak Grove, MO: A man driving for Uber saw a gigantic humanoid creature with wings fly across Interstate 70 at 2:00 pm as he drove west on the highway. The shadow on the road was at least 20' across.
  

Note that the June 20, 2019 sightings of winged creatures occurred on the same day as a mass UFO sighting over Kansas City. Perhaps the two events are connected (See my earlier article about the UFO sighting). During the Mothman scare in Point Pleasant, New Jersey people also saw UFOs, and were visited by Men in Black, and some speculate that there is a relationship. One has to wonder if these humanoid flying creatures are in fact from Earth or elsewhere. 

In doing research I've found that there are many reports of humanoid flying creatures and gigantic birds in Kansas City and Chicago, and a few in St. Louis. What is it about these two cities that the creature is attracted to? Perhaps it is water, which both cities have plenty of, but there is something else to consider. Most of the sightings have occurred in the Chicago area over the years. It may be possible that there is a larger colony of these creatures in the Chicago area, and they followed the Illinois River to the Mississippi River and the St. Louis area, then followed the Missouri River to the Kansas City area. This is just speculation of course, but large creatures such as these would certainly need a water source. Food sources nearby and in the rivers would be abundant as well. 

If you've seen any type of cryptid please contact us at 


Margie Kay is a paranormal researcher living in Independence, Missouri. She is the author of Gateway to the Dead, The Kansas City UFO Flap, Haunted Independence, The Sonoma County Phenomenon, and other books. 

Mothman Sighting in West Alton, MO in 2016

Another report from Missouri. This article is from Singluar Fortean- https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2018/5/30/large-dark-flying-humanoid-seen-in-2016-near-west-alton-missouri

Lon Strickler of Phantoms and Monsters received an emailed report last Monday from a man who said that he and his son encountered a strange flying creature while hunting ducks near West Alton, Missouri in 2016.

Hello Mr. Strickler - in mid-November 2016, my son and I had been duck hunting from a blind in the Upper Mississippi Waterfowl Area, not far from West Alton, Missouri. It was about 5:15 pm and we were walking back to my truck. I had parked in a small lot off of Harbor Point Rd. and we had to walk about 500 yards.

As we walked along the road, my son noticed a huge black thing descending towards the water's edge. I had never seen anything that large flying anywhere. It definitely wasn't a Bald Eagle or a crane, and as it got closer to the ground we were both shocked that it looked like a human!

It wasn't flapping its wings, but was gliding on a slow downward angle. It was about 50 yards from us, but there was enough light that we could clearly see it.

The wings were outstretched and were very wide. The wing shape was similar to that of a bat, but huge! The color was dark, almost black. The body was tapered like a well-built man with long legs. The head was small compared to the body, so I definitely knew it was not human. We were both caught off-guard and were mesmerized by what we were seeing. It landed in the thick weeds by the water and was obscured from our sight.

 At that point, we both wanted to get out of there because we had no idea what this thing was. As we quickly walked along the road, we saw this thing crawling out of the weeds and into a small clearing. It was literally pushing itself forward on the ground with its legs and wings in the direction of the water. We could hear the sound it was making as it 'crawled' on the damp ground and mud. It didn't look like it was struggling, but it was an awkward way to move around. Though it had legs, I could not make out what we would think were feet. I assumed this was the way it actually moved on the ground. It slide into the water, then raised up a few times; like a swimmer doing a breast stroke. Then it disappeared into the murky water.

My son will not go to that location anymore, but I'd really like to know what we saw. I told a co-worker, who is also a duck hunter, about the incident. He seemed interested at the time, but I'm sure he doesn't believe me. I've never heard of anything similar to this thing, either around here or anywhere else. Do you have any idea of what this was? I saw your Google ad for humanoid sightings, so I looked you up. We can talk if you'd like. Thanks.

Strickler was able to speak to the witness by telephone the following day; Tuesday, May 29th.

"I asked the witness why he waited so long to contact anyone," Strickler said. "He said that it took him a while to actually believe what he and his son had seen was real."

The witness described the creature's wingspan as approximately 12-15', and the structure of the wings as very wide and bat-like.

"[The witness] also said that the head was small and kind of shaped like a football with a slight point on the top. He did not see detached arms, but by the way it moved along the ground, the arms were most likely part of the wings," said Strickler.

The creature reportedly made no sounds other than those caused by its crawling.

"I also asked if they had a cell phone with them and why they hadn't taken photos," Strickler added. "[The witness] said he didn't even realize that until they got back to the car."

The witness's son has so far refused to discuss the incident.

West Alton is on the Missouri/Illinois border, across the Mississippi River, and is just under 300 miles from Lake Michigan.  The area is bordered to the north, east, and south by the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and several natural areas.

This report bears a strong resemblance to many other sighting reports featuring an unidentified winged being in Illinois and its neighboring states--it describes a large, winged creature with long legs that trail behind it as it flies, and no discernible arms separate from its wings.  However, the creature's crawling and the way it slid into the water are unique to this sighting.

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To file a sighting report contact Margie Kay at margiekay06@yahoo.com

7-Foot Bat-like Creature Spotted near Blue Springs, Missouri

A woman witnessed a strange bat-like tall creature while driving on a road near Eminence, MO, near Blue Springs on June 28, 2015. According to the witness the creature had leather-like wings which were folded at its side and large cat-like eyes. She was unable to go back to get a better look at the creature. In her words: 

"We were driving along the gravel path towards Blue Springs near Eminence, MO. We were on the path off the highway leading towards the spring. I was in the backseat with my two young children and my husband driving the car. I was gazing out the window at the passing trees into the woods when I saw a large, 7 ft black creature with its leather wings folded up at its side and large cat like ears also black and triangular. It's eyes were yellow and also cat like. Immediately within a few moments I told my husband to stop the car and reverse because I had seen a large cat or bat in the woods and I wanted confirmation. My brain was confused and I couldn't quickly explain what I had meant. He reversed, but a car was coming up behind us and there wasn't room on the road for both of us and he didn't immediately realize the enormity of what I had seen. It was not a tree log, I am sure. We have drove by there since and I assure you I have tried to explain it away. But that is what I was witness to that day, and I needed to share. Thank you."

According to Wikipedia Eminence is a city in Shannon County, Missouri, United States. The
population was 600 at the time of the 2010 census. Eminence is located in the center of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri's largest national park and the nation's first protected river system. Popular activities in the Eminence area include canoeing, hunting, fishing, and horseback riding.

Thank you to Missouri MUFON for this report. A MUFON investigator has been assigned to the case.