In the News - Hippogriff Sited in Alaska

[Steve]

   The Anchorage Daily News quoted residents in the villages of Togiak
and Manokotak as saying the creature, like something out of the movie
"Jurassic Park," had a wingspan of 14 feet -- making it the size of a
small airplane.

"At first I thought it was one of those old-time Otter planes," the
paper quoted Moses Coupchiak, 43, a heavy equipment operator from
Togiak, as saying. "Instead of continuing toward me, it banked to the
left, and that's when I noticed it wasn't a plane."

The Daily News, the largest daily in Alaska, said scientists had no
doubt that people in the region, west of Dillingham, had seen the
winged creature but they were skeptical about its reported size. 

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