As I assume the answer to the posted question is a stout "no." I will follow that with, "WHY NOT?" What is that is so hard to believe? There is enough anecdotal evidence surrounding the Sasquatch mystery that there is an entire community of millions of people who take that particular search seriously; then why is there not someone who takes seriously the notion of a living dragon? There is plentiful anecdotal evidence to support a reasonable investigation beyond medieval history, but I'm not here to present that evidence.
Is it truly a wonderful world we live in when the sense of wonder that comes along with things that aren't entirely mundane is instantly suppressed and punished even as children? For the past hundred or so years there has been a deep worship of what we call "Science" that has evolved to a sickening strength and devotion that pummels to a beaten and bruised state the things that we COULD know about if we actually pursued the proper definition of the word "science" and tried to truly figure the why of things; "why did they believe in fearies" and "why did they think this or that?" In my honest and sincere opinion I think it is terrifyingly ignorant and crimson to think that the entirety of the human population, until now, has been suffering from some mass delusion that has spawned entirely from irrational fears and superstitions and subconscious psychological processes--terrifyingly. Simply because the math works out in a number of instances does not mean we really know what is going on in this world, and simply because we cannot see things anymore with our own eyes does not mean that it never existed in the first place. People in times past, and in certain parts of the world today, saw, and see, things that the modern paradigm would exceedingly quickly dismiss as imagined nonsense or the effect of a chemical imbalance in the brain.
I am very skeptical. I am skeptical towards the modern scientific paradigm as much as I am towards the paranormal--or what have you--and this is exactly why I do not, and cannot, discount the things like giants, dragons, gargoyles, Sasquatch, faeries, elves, and gnomes. To me, mathematical evidence is moot when it still utterly fails to provide a simple (or even complex, for that matter) explanation for, or even an understanding of the basic mechanics of things like gravity, the week force, electromagnetism, and so on. If you, dear reader, can explain these things to me then shoot; I've read my share of theoretical physics and quantum mechanics books and have concluded an inconclusive answer to my questions. Because of this I have to still take into account the anecdotal evidence--things people have seen and experienced with first-hand accounts--and I have to take it seriously, and I think much of the world needs to start doing the same before things really hit the proverbial fan and the realization the world was wrong comes too late for redemption.
On that note, let me share a story with you.
I was out near Oak Creek, Arizona, mountain biking with a friend of mine just below Chicken point as the sun of a November morning was shining its early rays over the tall rocks and the edge of the Colorado Plateau. Stopping to take a breather, happenstance had it that I would glance towards the freshly illuminated spires at Cathedral Rock exactly as a large winged something glided to directly behind the spires and disappear. The point that it disappeared is very important--from my vantage point not too far below and to the west of Chicken point (perhaps a hundred feet) I could distinguish the two sections of the spires and between them, very clearly, the sky beyond. This thing glided from the north-northeast to what appeared to be just exactly behind the first (northernmost) cluster of spires but I did not see it continue past the first (northernmost) cluster to where I would have seen it between the two sections of spires and to the south of the spires. It was well above the base rock and its trajectory was such that it would have been very clearly visible had it continued it's path to the south-southwest. It's speed was that of a small plane very similar to the ones often taking flight from the Sedona Airport directly north of Cathedral Rock but were it a plane, there is no possibility, based on its very clear trajectory, that it could have either turned or dove before being seen between the two sets of spires. That, combined with the appearance of translucent wings and central figure likely too small for a plane, ruled out the option that it was a plane (and let me be very specific that my initial thought was an airplane and that I did carefully rule it out based on the evidence mentioned).
After ruling out an airplane, my immediate and second thought was that is was a hang-glider. This second option was very quickly debunked as I took into account the evidence mentioned above as well as the the extreme unlikelihood that a hang glider would have been able to maintain the observed altitude from any landmark with in a reasonable range. One final note that would quickly rule out the hang glider is the size of the object. I will say that it definitely flew behind the spires from my vantage point (to the west) and, given a reasonable judgement of distance as well as the spires being used as a reference point, I deduced the wingspan to be close to fifty-five or sixty feet and the main body to be about the same in length. Not only is this inconsistent with a typical hang-glider but it is consistent with recorded reports of not only the dragons of old, but only the lesser-mentioned Thunderbird of the American southwest. Having carefully narrowed the options down to the latter two mentioned possibilities, I took into account the apparently translucent wings of the object and am left with one, hardly believable (even for me) option.
Know that I did not come to the conclusion that I did just over night, but over the course of about a week's time. I believe I saw a Draconian creature gliding from the north-northeast to the spires at Cathedral Rock and bringing itself to an immediate halt and landing on the western side of either the spires or the rocks below at Cathedral Rock, Sedona, Arizona. I witnessed the creature, or object, for the time span of about an entire second before loosing visual. You, dear reader, may make of it what you will, but I have done my best and have came to the most unbiased conclusion I could given my knowledge and what I had seen.
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