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solid in structure. Much more ambitious than the kidnapping of an 11-year-old boy or the celestial rustling of a little fresh beef was the snatching of an entire British regiment in August of 1915. The incident was witnessed by 22 men of No. 3 Section of the 1st Division Field Company N.Z.E.F. from their position in the trenches on Rhododendron Spur near Suvla Bay, Anzac. The survivors of this particular campaign recently signed an affidavit testifying to the mass kidnapping at their Fiftieth Jubilee of the Anzac Landing. In World War I, a British regiment consisted of anywhere from 800 to 4,000 men. Surely, this large-scale saucer-snatch must set the record for an UFO kidnapping. According to Mr. F. Reichart of New Zealand, one of the eye-witnesses to the mysterious disappearance, the troops in the trenches had noticed six to eight large "loaf of bread-shaped clouds of a light-grey color" at dawn that morning. The soldiers had commented on the fact that the light breeze that was blowing that morning did nothing to alter the position of these particular clouds, which appeared to be As the strange clouds hovered above a dry creek bed, the One-Fourth Norfolk Regiment were seen to be marching up the creek bed, ostensibly to reinforce the men in the trenches on Hill 60. One of the large clouds lowered itself into the path of the marching troops, and the soldiers on the hill watched in amazement as their reinforcements walked into the cloud but never emerged from it! After the last of the Norfolk Regiment had marched "into the cloud," the large, grey "loaf of bread" rose into the air, rejoined the clouds that had remained hovering above it, and, while the soldiers in the trenches watched in horror, the eight clouds moved off against the wind. Officially, the One-Fourth Norfolk Regiment was listed as having been destroyed by the Turkish Army, its men either captured, killed, or missing in action. Ex-trooper F. Reichart, quoted in the March, 1966 issue of Flying Saucers magazine, says: "On Turkey's surrender in 1918, the first thing the British authorities demanded of the Turks was the return of the Regiment, supposing them captured. Turkey replied that she had neither captured this regiment nor made contact with it and did not know that the Regiment existed." Reichart goes on to state that such incidents are not unique in the files of the British Army. According to Reichart, the official histories record a similar disappearance of a British platoon in the Sudan in 1898. Search parties in the Khyber Pass area, also in 1898, reported the mysterious disappearance of a