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In this book Mr Lethbridge, the author of several books on parapsychology, advances the now familiar theory that various legends and ancient structures are connected with prehistoric visits by extraterrestrials. However this book is different from most others in this field in that the author is a trained archaeologist and so avoids the many inaccuracies and misstatements often found in books of this nature.
While this is certainly a welcome change, unfortunately, once these inaccuracies are abandoned what is left of the case for extraterrestrial colonists is pretty inconclusive.
A new element is added by Mr Lethbridge's belief that the alien beings built the megalithic circles of Britain and charged then with a mysterious force which guided their craft and which Mr Lethbridge claims can still be detected with a dowser's pendulum. (This seems to be rather similar to the ideas of John Michell and the ley hunters, of whom Mr Lethbridge seems to be unaware.) While I am not competent to judge the reality or otherwise of dowsing one should think that an obvious experiment would be for another dowser with no knowledge of Lethbridge's results to survey the same monuments and see if he responded in the same spots. However, no controlled experiment of this type is recorded and so there seems to be no real evidence that Mr Lethbridge' s pendulum is responding to anything but his own subconscious muscular impulses.
- Roger Sandell, from Merseyside UFO Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1972.
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