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((Short description|UFO writer))
'''Trevor James Constable''' (17 September 1925 − 31 March 2016) was an early [[UFO]] writer who believed that the UFO phenomenon was best explained by the presence of enormous [[amoeba]]-like animals inhabiting Earth's [[atmosphere]].<ref name="book">((cite news | last = Pilkington | first = Mark | title = Life: Letters: Phantom flyers: Far out | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | location = London | pages = 10 | date = June 23, 2005))</ref> A native of [[Wellington (New Zealand)|Wellington, New Zealand]], he served 31 years at sea, 26 of them as a radio officer in the U.S. merchant marine. He authored several books on the aerial warfare of [[World War II]], together with co-author Raymond Toliver. These works have been described as uncritical and not grounded in historical realities by several historians((who|date=July 2018)).

==Authorship on World War II==
Constable was an author who produced 10 non-fiction books, many well known to aficionados of famous fighter aces.<ref>((cite journal | last1 = Parkinson | first1 = Russell J. | title = Fighter Aces. by Raymond F. Toliver; Trevor Constable | journal = Military Affairs | volume = 30 | issue = 1 | pages = 51 | publisher = [[Society for Military History]] | date = Spring 1966 | jstor = 1985471 | doi = 10.2307/1985471| last2 = Toliver | first2 = Raymond F. | last3 = Constable | first3 = Trevor ))</ref> His co-author on these works was Raymond Toliver, a former U.S. Air Force pilot and official historian of the American Fighter Aces Association. Their work on German fighter ace [[Erich Hartmann]], ''[[The Blond Knight of Germany]]'', was described by historians [[Ronald Smelser]] and [[Edward J. Davies]] in their work ''[[The Myth of the Eastern Front]]'' as a "hallmark of romanization", with its "insidious" title suggesting medieval chivalry that "not only fails to characterize the conduct of the Wehrmacht during the Soviet-German war, but, indeed, marks its opposite".((sfn|Smelser|Davies|2008|pp=170–173))

The historian Jens Wehner notes that the 1971 book by Constable and Toliver on Hartmann, published in German as ''Holt Hartmann vom Himmel! Die Geschichte des erfolgreichsten Jagdfliegers der Welt'', was immensely popular in Germany, but contained serious flaws in terms of presentation of historical realities. These included the uncritical borrowing from the Nazi propaganda elements of the ''Fliegerassen'' ("[[ace (military)|aces]]") and stereotypes about the Soviet Union. According to Wehner, the latter could be traced to the prevailing attitudes during the [[Cold War]]. Further, the political and social consequences of World War II were completely ignored.((sfn|Notheisen|2017))

==UFO hypothesis==
After reading about [[radionics]] and [[Wilhelm Reich]]'s [[orgone]], Constable became convinced that supposed UFOs were in fact living organisms. He set out to prove his theory by taking a camera with him, fitted with an ultra-violet lens and high-speed film. The processed pictured showed signs of discolouration, which Constable insisted were proof of [[amoeba]]-like animals inhabiting the sky.<ref name="book"/>

Reviewing his new found 'evidence', Constable was moved to write in two books that the creatures, though not existing outside of the "infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum", had been on this Earth since it was more gaseous than solid. He claimed that the creatures belonged to a new offshoot of evolution, and that the species should be classified under macrobacteria.<ref name="book"/> According to Constable, the creatures could be the size of a coin or as large as half-a-mile across.<ref name="Reece" />

The biology of the creatures supposedly meant that they were visible to radar, even when not to the naked eye.<ref name="Reece" /> To explain supposed [[Cattle mutilation|cattle (and occasionally human) mutilations]], Constable theorised that the use of radar angered the organisms, who would become predatory when provoked.<ref name="Reece">((cite book | last = Reece | first = Gregory L. | title = UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture | publisher = I.B.Tauris | date = 20 Aug 2007 | pages = 17 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s4MAAwAAQBAJ&q=UFO+Religion%3A+Inside+Flying+Saucer+Cults+and+Culture+%22trevor+james+constable%22&pg=PA17 | isbn = 9780857717634))</ref> At a later date a crypto-zoologist officially classified these supposed creatures as ''Amoebae constablea'', named after their discoverer.<ref name="book"/> Constable wrote a book entitled ''The Cosmic Pulse of Life'' in 1975 that outlined his ideas.<ref name="book"/>

==Work with TJC/Atmos Engineers==

In 1991 Constable worked with the local [[Malacca]]n government on a project to fill the [[Durian Tunggal Dam]].<ref name="clean"/>

He and the company promoted the idea that they had created a 'rain-making' technology, which employed "metal cylinders placed in cones and modified gadgets", which would then alter the ether or [[Qi|'chi']] of the atmosphere.<ref name="first">((cite news | title = Theory has no scientific basis, says don | newspaper = [[New Straits Times]] | pages = 29 | date = August 14, 1991 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y5VUAAAAIBAJ&pg=3502%2C5826834))</ref> The benefits of using such a device were touted as avoiding [[electromagnetism]] or [[radioactive]] substances being placed into the country's air.<ref name="clean">((cite news | last = Nadzri | first = Syed | title = Rain-making firm tells how it's done | newspaper = New Straits Times - Aug 14, 1991 | date = August 14, 1991 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y5VUAAAAIBAJ&pg=5886%2C5538988))</ref> Constable did express concern at having to use the devices for a localised area, saying that "it's like trying to put rain in a small container".<ref name="clean"/>

Constable claimed that his technology and methods had already been used to fill the [[Gibraltar Dam]] in [[California]].<ref name="clean"/>

In the earlier stages of the operation there were apparently not yet any notable results in filling the reservoir, and some Malacca residents blamed evil spirits, which were fighting against the attempts to align the atmosphere. Constable said he believed "there could be some truth in the rumours", but he was confident that his technology could overcome the obstacle.<ref>((cite news | title = Official: Technology will overcome local beliefs | newspaper = New Straits Times | pages = 5 | date = August 14, 1991 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y5VUAAAAIBAJ&pg=3652%2C5539018))</ref>

The Malaysian government eventually began a probe into TJC/Atmos Engineers to look into whether there was any evidence that the State government had been cheated.<ref>((cite news | title = Malacca orders probe into rain pact | newspaper = New Straits Times | date = September 15, 1991 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=965UAAAAIBAJ&pg=6760%2C181395))</ref> In total the local government had paid them $3.2 million. However, the following was reported on Aug 14, 1991 in the New Straits Times, "TJC Atmos Engineers was hired by the Malacca Government to solve the State's water problems by filling up the 28-metre Durian Tunggal dam which dried up in January. They will be paid $3.2 Million if they succeed and half if the dam is half full by the end of next month. The operation started on July 1. Mr. Constable described the contract to undertake the operation in Malacca as totally contingent - no result, no pay."  It would appear then that if the Malacca Government paid out the full amount of $3.2 Million to TJC/Atmos Engineers, that they would have been deemed to have fulfilled the full contractual obligations for receiving that sum of money.<ref name="clean"/><ref name="first"/>

==Bibliography==
* Raymond F. Toliver and Trevor J. Constable. ''Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe.'' London: Arthur Barker, 1968. Reissued: Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1996 ((ISBN|978-0887409097))
* Raymond F. Toliver and Trevor J. Constable. ''The Blond Knight of Germany: A biography of Erich Hartmann.'' Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Aero, 1970. ((ISBN|978-0830681891))
* Trevor James [Constable]. ''They Live in the Sky!'' Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Co., 1958.
* Trevor James [Constable]. ''The cosmic pulse of life: the revolutionary biological power behind UFOs.'' Santa Ana, CA: Merlin Press, 1976.

==References==
((reflist|2))

==Sources==
* ((cite web
 | website= H-Soz-Kult
 | url = http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-6959?language=en
 | author = Laura Notheisen
 | title = So war der deutsche Landser. Die populäre und populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung der Wehrmacht
 |trans-title=So was the German ''Landser'': The popular culture and popular science representation of the Wehrmacht
 | date = 31 January 2017
 | access-date = 12 March 2016 
 | language = German
 | ref = ((harvid|Notheisen|2017))
 )) ''[[H-Soz-Kult]]''
* ((Cite book
  |last1=Smelser
  |first1=Ronald
  |last2=Davies
  |first2=Edward J.
  |year=2008
  |title=[[The Myth of the Eastern Front]]: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture
  |language =
  |location= New York
  |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]
  |isbn=978-0-521-83365-3
  ))
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