Atmospheric Beast

"Those beasts are some of the strangest monsters to ever exist, and this is coming from me. No one truly know about their origins, gods and monsters and demons alike, though numerous theories have been made. Some said it is the natural ether in the air manifesting in the shape of a beast. Some said it is the unholy offspring of the Leviathan and the Ziz. But there is one thing certain: They aren't native to Earth."

- Matt Wright.

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.

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, grey or iridescent jelly that evaporates into nothing within minutes, hours, or, at the longest, a few days. This is supposed to explain a type of anomalous event, pwdre ser, that puzzled scientists for some time before they decided that pwdre ser did not exist.

Appearances
Atmospheric beasts can change their density, becoming smaller, harder masses that are usually metallic in colour, 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.

Personalities
Believers generally consider atmospheric beasts 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.

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.

Notable Atmospheric Beasts

 * Swamp God

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."

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