Most alarming was a fact kept secret until now— inside the disc, there was a very earthly hallmark: Russian writing. Block letters from the Cyrillic alphabet had been stamped, or embossed, in a ring running around the inside of the craft. In a critical moment, the American military had its worst fears realized. The Russian army must have gotten its hands on German aerospace engineers more capable than Ernst Steinhoff and Wer-nher Von Braun—engineers who must have developed this flying craft years before for the German air force, or Luftwaffe.
