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Robert L. Smith

West Virginia University wildlife biology professor who proposed, during the 1966 sightings themselves, that witnesses were most likely seeing a sandhill crane.

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Mothman Misidentification Theory
Robert L. Smith popularised Mothman Misidentification Theory.

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What Is Mothman?

What Mothman is: the 1966-67 Point Pleasant sightings, the Silver Bridge collapse that followed, and the leading bird-misidentification explanation.