Sky Creatures: Living UFOS by Trevor James Constable

Back in the magical, mystical 60s & 70s–before people just threw their craziness out here on the internets–there was a whole publishing niche devoted to weird paranormal shit.  Among other things, books on UFOs were hot stuff.  To me, Erick von Däniken, with Chariots of the Gods and his other books on ancient astronauts, was king of the hill.  I always found his comprehensive theories about the extra-terrestrial origins of life on earth fascinating, even if the science was, well, a bit shaky.  I always appreciate imagination more than scientific rigor, anyway.   

Trevor Constable’s Sky Creatures is nothing so grand as Däniken's cosmology.  Still, this seemingly modest effort has surprising range.  It presents the author's theory that much of the recorded phenomena around UFOs are due to large organisms living in the earth’s atmosphere that are not visible to the unaided eye.  Constable claims to be able to photograph these buggers using specialized camera techniques.   He not only provides numerous photos, (think giant flying  amoebas) but also a detailed theory of the nature of the creatures and their existence.  If he sees further than other men, it is because he had stood on the shoulders of giants—especially, in this case, Wilhelm Reic, whose his theories about Orgone energy get a good airing here. 

It's not exactly science, but it’s damned entertaining.

Like many of my weird science texts from the era, I dug this one out of the old dormer closet of my late Great Aunt Catharine. 

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