possessing such craft.

For some time after this, there were few authentic reports. Then in
1934, Nicholas Roerich, head of the American-Roerich expedition into
Tibet, had a remarkable experience that bears on the saucer riddle.

On pages 361 and 362 of his book Altai Himalaya, Roerich describes the
incident. The expedition party was in the wilds of Tibet one morning
when a porter noticed the peculiar actions of a buzzard overhead. He
called Roerich's attention to it; then they all saw something high in
the sky, moving at great speed from north to south. Watching it
through binoculars, Roerich saw it was oval-shaped, obviously of huge
size, and reflecting the sun's rays like brightly polished metal.
While he trailed it with his glasses, the object suddenly changed
direction, from south to southwest. It was gone in a few moments.

This was the last sighting listed before World War II.

When I had finished, I stared out the plane window, curiously
disturbed. Like most people, I had grown up believing the earth was
the center of everything--life, intelligence, and religion. Now, for
the first time in my life, that belief was shaken.

It was a curious thing. I could accept the idea that we would
eventually explore space, land on the moon, and go on to distant
planets. I had read of the plans, and I knew our engineers and
scientists would somehow find a way. It did not disturb my belief in
our superiority.

But faced with this evidence of a superior race in the universe, my