The Vanishing Battalion
Over in the UK, Dave Clarke has written an excellent article on one of the more controversial alleged UFO-related cases that continues to resurface from time to time (it even made into the pages of the so-called MJ12 1st Annual Report…)
The article is titled UFOs and the Battalion That Vanished and here’s the introduction from Dave:
“The fog of war is an ideal breeding ground for stories and rumours of mysterious or miraculous events and the cataclysmic circumstances of the First World War are no exception.
“Wartime legends such as the Angel of Mons - visions which are said to have appeared in the sky to protect British soldiers from the Germans in 1914 - were widely circulated and believed during the conflict and have become part of folklore in its aftermath.
“The subject of this article is a story that is second only to the Angel of Mons in its popularity and longevity, particularly in the literature of UFOlogy. It concerns an entire regiment of British troops which it has been claimed were spirited away by a ‘mysterious cloud’ from the middle of one of the fiercest battles of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915.
“Even today questions and queries about the ‘mysterious disappearance’ of the soldiers are frequently encountered on Internet newsgroup discussions dedicated to UFOs and alien abductions. Few of the questioners appear to be aware that the fate of the soldiers was the subject of a Government investigation that involved a real cover-up, not of alien visitations but of a wartime atrocity.
“The link between the disappearance of the soldiers and UFOs emerged not - as many believe - during the war itself but in 1965, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Allied assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
“It was during a reunion of veterans who took part in the campaign that three former sappers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force described a ’strange incident’ they observed during the most severe fighting at Suvla Bay. Also in attendance was a UFOlogist, Gordon Tuckey, who felt the story was so interesting it should be recorded for posterity.”
Here’s the link to the rest of Dave’s article.
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Feb 08 2008 
February 8th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Hmmm… seems the troops is not the only vanishing mystery. I can’t open the *%&$ing link
February 8th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
As a German solider marching through the Belgium forest with a bolt-action rifle the last thing I want to be facing is a well hidden enemy shooting silent arrows at me. At close range, an arrow is deadlier than any bullet when it strikes a vital area. I’ve hunted with bows before and can tell you even thin skinned deer is backed with lots tougher muscle than any human and an arrow from a 55 lb draw bow will drive a broad head arrow complete through a whitetail deer’s torso. If a German soldier thought he saw an English bowman in that forest, it would have given them much doubt as to advancing past supporting fire. There’s an old infantryman’s adage, that you can’t hit what you can’t see. It would have played hell on the minds on the German soldiers mind. Was this a British psy-ops?
February 8th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Ah yes, Gallipoli… What a bloody waste. Personally, I’ve always considered the ‘vanishing battalion’ to be yet another prime example of the senseless slaughter that the generals sent their men into. No need for UFO abductions in that battle.
February 9th, 2008 at 5:00 am
can anyone tell me how to contact the site managers? It asks for feedback but provides no means of giving it besides blog comments
February 9th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Aeolus:
The comments section is the place to post feedback. The site managers will read your comments there.
February 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Seriously, I still can’t open the link
February 13th, 2008 at 7:39 am
At least they didn’t march out of the mothership in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS…
This is a new one to me-though I have
seen an account of a similar mass diasppearance in China during the late ‘thirties.