Atmospheric Beast

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**Atmospheric Beasts** are among the strangest of aerial monsters from cryptozoology.

## Overview

According to eyewitness reports, they are things that seem like living creatures, but they break all the usual rules that we apply to living things. They fly without the need for wings and their bodies are only semi-solid, often partially invisible to boot. They inhabit an ecosystem that resides atop of the atmosphere which one MTF soldier described as an "air-jungle". Their origins are unknown but it is often theorized that they bear a connection to Ziz who lords over the skies itself.

Atmospheric beasts are very fragile and lightweight creatures who are either native to Earth or are aliens that came from elsewhere. If the latter view is taken, then atmospheric beasts are sometimes thought to have originated in the atmosphere of some other planet, but they can also be thought of as originating in interstellar gas clouds so that they are, in effect, aliens without a native planet, able to "swim" through space.

It is said that when atmospheric beasts die, they fall to earth as a gelatinous mass that may resemble a green, purple, gray or iridescent jelly that evaporate into nothing within minutes, hours, or, at the longest, a few days. This is supposed to explain a type of anomalous event, pwdre ser (also known as Star Jelly), that puzzled scientists for some time before they decided that pwdre ser did not exist.

## Description

Believers think that the atmospheric beasts' normal habitat is high in the air, and they might die if they ever touch the ground. Atmospheric beasts that resemble clouds may engage in behavior that is thought to be impossible for a real cloud, such as squirting a stream of horizontal water at people through "lips" or being far too mobile and animate for witnesses to believe it was just a patch of fog.

Though some of these creatures were harmless most were mischievous or downright dangerous to where one that was a more solid-looking but amorphous creature with a beak and tentacles pursued and attacked the Bell Boeing MV22B Osprey.

## Appearances

Atmospheric beasts can change their density, becoming smaller, harder masses that are usually metallic in color, or they can become larger and cloudlike, even to the point of invisibility. In some reports, they may glow. Atmospheric beasts may roughly resemble whales and are sometimes called air whales or cloud beasts. Others resembled huge, gelatinous, semi-solid creatures. One encounter from an a troop MTFs involved them witnessing a flock of animals superficially resembling jellyfish and snakes.

## Personalities

Atmospheric beasts are generally considered to be non-intelligent, so that even if these creatures did originate somewhere other than earth, they still do not count as sentient extra-terrestrials, merely animals.

## Atmospheric Beast Sub-Species

* Atmospheric Jellyfish
* Sky Serpent

## Quotes

* *"When you think of the planet Jupiter, you should think of this monsters mouth size. It can eat planets twice the size of Jupiter!"*

* *"This is the galactic leviathan. It can devour entire solar systems!! Imagine encountering that on your space journey to find another home."*

* *"The plasma core of these behemoths is about the size of earth. Just think about that."*

## Gallery

*Two Atmospheric Beasts**An Atmospheric Beast journeying through the clouds**An Atmospheric Beast snacking in a petrified forest*
## Trivia

* Pwdre ser is Welsh for *"rot from the stars."*

## Images Sources

* (Planet eater.jpg) Planet eater by Draco Vortex
* (Yohan-haash-huhner-baleines04.jpg) flying whales by yohan "haash" huhner
* (Ben-redekop-golden-levias-v04a.jpg) Levias The Sky Whale - Journeying through the clouds by Ben Redekop
* (Ben-redekop-leviasblu4.jpg) Levias The Sky Whale - Snacking in a petrified forest by Ben Redekop
* (Yongsub-noh-yong-51.jpg) Sky Whales by Yongsub Noh (YONG)
* (Sampo-jumisko-flying-whales-final.jpg) Flying Whales by Sampo Jumisko
* (Seaguardian.jpg) Seaguardian by free4fireYouTube