Clarke’s Mysterious World entitled “Dragons, Dinosaurs and Giant Snakes”, Van Lierde claimed, "It could have easily eaten up a man." Watch the clip. His depiction is very realistic and familiar to snake experts. Van Lierde is considered a reliable eyewitness and his testimony is convincing. The Colonel has a wiki page that touches upon the account. He later described the giant snake as having a dark shade of green and brown with a white coloured belly and claimed the snake’s head was 3 feet wide, and that the jaws were of a triangular shape. “I feel and I’m convinced if I had been in its range it would have struck at me”, Col.
Van Lierde claims that as he flew lower for a closer inspection, the snake rose up approximately 10 feet, giving the impression it would have attacked the helicopter if it had been within striking range.
Upon the incredible discovery, he then turned around and made several passes over the snake at a lower altitude in order to allow another person on board to photograph the creature. While there, in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while returning from a mission by helicopter, he encountered a Giant Congo Snake emerging from a hole as he flew over the forests, describing the snake as being close to 50 feet (about 15 meters) in length, earning its place among the largest snakes ever reported.
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In 1959, as full Colonel, he commanded the air base at Kamina in the Belgian Congo. Van Lierde is considered a hero of World War II and a flying ace. Colonel Van Lierde he was made Deputy Chief of Staff to the Ministre of Defense in 1954. In 1958 he became one of the first Belgians to break the sound barrier while test flying a Hawker Hunter at Dunsfold Aerodrome in England. Remy van Lierde (14 August 1915–8 June 1990) was a Belgian pilot who served during World War II in the Belgian and British Air Forces, shooting down six enemy aircraft and 44 V-1 flying bombs, and achieving the RAF rank of Squadron Leader. These assertions, however, aren’t viable in an encounter chronicled in 1959 by a helicopter pilot flying in the Congo region.Ĭol. Sensationalist news, sometimes anchored on dubious witnesses and unclear photos, appear frequently in South American and African newspapers. Tales about enormous snakes are very frequent throughout the tropical regions of the world. Although there is no way to tell the size due to not being anything of significance to compare it to.
This image has surfaced on a few websites over the years and was taken by a passenger on a plane flown by a WWII pilot upon returning back to their Congo base from a mission. IUCN Conservation Status: Not Evaluated The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake – The Heaviest Venomous Snake The Eastern diamondback rattlesnake.Alleged encounter with a giant snake in Katanga 1959: They are found in the continent of South America, to the east of the Andes Mountains, in the countries of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, the Guianas, and also in Trinidad and northern Paraguay. Habitat And Range: This snake species inhabits swamps, marshes, slow-moving streams, and rivers in the tropical rainforests. This non-venomous solitary boa feeds on a varied diet that ranges from fishes, turtles, birds, deer, wild pigs, caimans and capybaras to even jaguars. The heaviest verified specimen measures 5.2 m (17.09ft) and weighs 97.5 kg (215 lb). The anacondas are bulky and the adult snake weighs averagely between 66-154 lb. The snake has an estimated length of about 5.21m (17.1ft ), with the females being larger than the males. The green anaconda ( Eunectes murinus) is the world’s heaviest and one of the longest snake species.
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