MYSTERIOUS VISITORS by Brinsley Le Poer Trench

Is there proof? Brinsley Le Poer Trench says "Yes!" All will be revealed, as the Sky People are coming to usher us into a New Age of enlightenment. The children of today, with their long hair and freaky clothes, are the Homo superior, and after their ascension we'll be plugged in to the Cosmic Lattice giving us access to all time and space! All this and much, much more!

Trench is no light weight, anyways, and gives us plenty to chew on. His Biblical section for example doesn't just trot out Ezekiel's wheel but assures us that Elijah, Enoch, and Moses also all had UFO experiences, and that Christ our Lord Himself was brought to heaven via flying saucer! This blockbuster Bible study is followed by a series of chapters focused on the weird behavior of modern day UFOs, with many references from the always dependable Flying Saucer Review. Next we get an abbreviated history of the modern UFO era, from the mystery airships to UMMO, and finally Trench buckles us in for his astounding revelations of our "tremendous tomorrow" among the Space Brothers.

There's some nice illustrations by one Kiril Tirzier and two appendices: a list of UFO shapes and a directory for Trench's organization Contact International.

Available to read and download at archive dot org.

Day Books, 1978 (original pub. 1971)

OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE by Maurice Chatelain

Chatelain uses astrology and pyramid power to prove OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE! Our ex-NASA author also marshals prehistoric polar shifts, the Maltese Cross, and a host of other numerological jibber jabber including the now-ubiquitous Mayan Calendar to fill out his argument. Available to read and download at archive dot org.

Dell Publishing, 1979 (original pub. 1974)

EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITATIONS FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT by Jacques Bergier

What's packaged as a straightforward Ancient Astronaut piece is really far more outre. Every strange humanoid, hairy beast, and whats-it that populate the paperbacks are in fact Creatures from the Inner Sphere, dispatched by the ultra-terrestrials as inscrutable experiments on humankind. The out-of-place artifacts and impossible ancient wonders listed on the cover are evidence of more of the same. Jacques Bergier previously coauthored The Morning of the Magicians, the Ancient Astronaut ur-text from which all the Chariots sprang, von Daniken's included.

The very French text for Extraterrestrial Visitations was translated into English in 1973 by the famous conservative publisher the Henry Regnery Company.

Signet Books, 1974 (original pub. 1970)