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From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 14:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
Fwd Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 19:43:13 -0400
Subject: Re: The disappearing regiment in WWI

> Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 12:30:41 -0400 (EDT)
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> From: werd@interlog.com (Drew Williamson)
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: The disappearing regiment in WWI

> >Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 20:03:08 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Jim Deardorff <deardorj@ucs.orst.edu>
> >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> >Subject: The disappearing regiment in WWI

> >A friend was asking me if I knew where this large-scale abduction event
> >is written up within the UFO literature.  I came across it years ago and
> >can't remember now where I saw it.  Can someone on the List?

> Jim,

> I don't know where you saw it, but here is the account as related in Peter
> Brookesmith's, UFO: The Complete Sightings, which includes a possible
> (Earthly) explaination.

Thanks very much for this, Drew, and thanks to two others who mentioned
the event as being connected with deployment of forces near Galliopi,
Turkey.

The event interests me, with an atmospheric sciences background, as the
"cloud" in question is said to have been an "absolutely dense,
solid-looking structure."  In another account I ran across, it was called
"a strange formation of lenticular clouds."  In Peter Brookesmith's
account the cloud is said to have been resting on the ground across a
creek near Hill 60.  However, lenticular clouds, when not high in the sky
above irregular terrain, frequently cap mountain peaks, but not hills, and
certainly do not engulf a creek, which is lower down yet.

A fog doesn't fit the descriptions, but if it had been a fog, perhaps a
marine fog in August, one wouldn't see such a packet of fog rise and then
move off; and one could not then explain why the witnesses themselves
weren't enshrouded in fog then too when it had risen to their level.  And
one report in Brookesmith's account placed the event in the afternoon, by
which time any fog over land in August would have burned off.  But the
date of the event is sufficiently uncertain and the time too long ago for
us probably to ever know what really happened.  Due to this and the
bizarreness of the event, what various non-witnesses conclude overrules
what the witnesses reported.

Jim Deardorff