* In a meeting about the flying menace, Shepard's superior Captain Fletcher speculates that the thing might nest as far away as New Jersey, and only come to New York to feed. "And it ''would'' do that, you know," he says, "because New York is known for its good eating!"
* A window-washer is beheaded by the monster in the very beginning. The investigators' theory on what happened? "Maybe his head came loose and fell off."
* The design of Quetzalcoatl may also count, looking somewhat like a shell-less, flying turtle.
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