UFO sightings in Italy
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This is a list of alleged sightings ofunidentified flying objectsor UFOs inItaly.
100 BC
[edit]- Iulius Obsequens reports:When C. Murius and L. Valerius were consuls, in Tarquinia towards sunset, a round object, like a globe, a round or circular shield, took its path in the sky from west to east.[1]
91 BC
[edit]- Iulius Obsequens reports:At Aenariae, while Livius Troso was promulgating the laws at the beginning of the Italian war, at sunrise, there came a terrific noise in the sky, and a globe of fire appeared burning in the north. In the territory of Spoletum, a globe of fire, of golden color, fell to the earth gyrating. It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the sun with its brilliance. It revolved toward the eastern quadrant of the sky.[1]
43 BC
[edit]- Iulius Obsequens reports:something like a sort of weapon, or missile, rose with a great noise from the earth and soared into the sky.[1]
1933
[edit]- In 2000,Roberto Pinottipublished material regarding the so-called "Fascist UFO Files", which dealt with a flying saucer that had crashed nearMilanin 1933 (some 14 years before theRoswell, New Mexico crash), and of the subsequent investigation by a never mentioned before Cabinet RS/33, that allegedly was authorized byBenito Mussolini,and headed by the Nobel scientistGuglielmo Marconi.A spaceship was allegedly stored in the hangars of theSIAI-MarchettiinVergiatenear Milan.[2][3]
1942
[edit]1950
[edit]- A factory worker who was working nearVaresesighted three humanoids near a craft. One of the entities saw him and shot him with a beam, although it did not do any harm to the man. Afterwards, the humanoids went into the craft and started up to the sky.[5]
1954
[edit]- A UFO sighting inFlorence,October 28, 1954, followed by a fall ofangel hair.[6]
- Two UFOs were seen in the air aboveTaormina,Sicily.[7]Images taken by photographer Giuseppe Grasso were published by United Press Newspictures on November 30, 1954.[7]
1973
[edit]- In 1973, anAlitaliaairplane leftRomeforNaplessighted a mysterious round object. TwoItalian Air Forceplanes fromCiampinoconfirmed the sighting.[8]In the same year there was another sighting at Caselle airport nearTurin.[9]
1978
[edit]- Two young hikers while walking onMonte MusinènearTorinosaw a bright light; one of them temporarily disappeared and after a while was found in a state of shock and with a noticeablescaldon one leg. After regaining consciousness he reported having seen an elongated vehicle and that some strangely shaped beings descended from it. Both the young hikers suffered fromconjunctivitisfor some time.[10]
- Aclose encounterreported in September 1978 inTorrita di Sienain theProvince of Siena.A young motorist saw in front of him a bright object, two beings of small stature who wore suits and helmets, the two approached the car, and after watching it carefully went back and rose again to the UFO. A boy who lived with his family in a country house not far from there said he had seen at the same time "a kind of small reddish sun".[11]
- Yet again in 1978, there has been also the story ofPier Fortunato Zanfretta,the best known and most controversial case of an Italian allegedalien abduction.Zanfretta said to have been kidnapped on the night of 6 December and 7 December while he was performing his job atMarzano,in the municipality ofTorrigliain theProvince of Genoa.[12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abcStothers, Richard (2007)."Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity".The Classical Journal.103(1): 79–92.ISSN0009-8353.
- ^Roberto Pinotti, Alfredo Lissoni.Mussolini e gli UFO.Idea Libri, Bologna, 2001
- ^Lombardia: il primo UFO è italiano - Freedom - Oltre il confine Video | Mediaset Infinity,retrieved2024-02-04
- ^Keith Chester,Strange Company,Anomalist Books, 2007
- ^1950-Alien Encounter at Varese, Italy
- ^Pirro, Deirdre (June 17, 2010)."Unexpected fans".The Florentine.No. 125/2010. Florence: The Florentine Group.Retrieved2013-07-13.
- ^abWritten at Sicily."Cups Next?".The Austin American.Austin, Texas. December 11, 1954.RetrievedMarch 28,2023.
- ^Innocenti, Stefano."Gli UFO nel Lazio".UFO.it(in Italian). Cermenate: Maurizio Verga.Retrieved2013-07-13.
- ^Fiorino, Paolo."Caselle, 1973".UFO.it(in Italian). Cermenate: Maurizio Verga.Retrieved2013-05-16.
- ^Nattero, Rosalba (2011-06-14)."Il Monte Musiné tra storia, tradizione, UFO e viaggi nel tempo".Shan Newspaper.Retrieved2014-02-03.
- ^Viberti 2010
- ^Francesco Castagna:Il caso Zanfretta[incomplete short citation]
