Posted by: Alejandro Rojas March 27, 2014 0 7,473 Views
UFOs-
The Italian Dossier book cover. (Credit: Ugo Mursia Editore)
Two Italian journalists
have scoured newly declassified files of the Italian Air Force in order to find
the juiciest UFO files for their new book, UFO, I dossier
italiani (UFOs
– The Italian Dossier).
Italian journalists Lao
Petrilli and Vincenzo Sinapi say they looked through thousands of documents to
find UFO reports from all over Italy. They say reports came in from all types
of people, including airline pilots, jet fighter pilots, the police, military,
and even priests.
The files were previously
stamped as Secret or Confidential, and have been saved for reference in regards
to flight safety. They say many of the files were previously unpublished.
The records begin in the
70s, although according to the Italian newspaper Il Mattino, the Italian Air Force
began investigating UFOs in the 50s. Another Italian newspaper,Gazzeta Di
Parma,
says the book includes 56 UFO reports from the last 4 years, “with a real boom
in 2010 (22 cases) and a decline in 2011 (17) and 2012 (10).”
Il Mattino summarized some of
the sightings from the Campania region of Southern Italy, whose capital is the
city of Naples. One of these was in the town of Grazzanise, the home of one of
Italy’s most important military airports. On February 8, 2005, a flight
controller registered a UFO on radar. A C130 transport aircraft flying in the
area confirmed the presence of the UFO.
Italian
Air Force C-130. (Credit: Arpingstone/Wikimedia Commons)
Another case in Campania
took place in the town of Cesa on June 15, 2011 at 4:37 pm. A 27 year-old
student and his mother were awoken by a loud noise. The student says they saw a
bright glowing ball outside their window. He went to the balcony to get a close
look.
The ball hovered only a few
feet away, near the ground, illuminating their garden. The object then moved in
a zigzag pattern and shot upwards and vanished. The incident lasted two
minutes. The student described the object as “an electrical discharge like a
lightning bolt.”
The Facebook page for the book also
lists some of the sightings. One of them was seen by passengers of an
Alpieagles airlines aircraft. The pilot says that they were headed from Palermo
to Naples International Airport in a Fokker 100 jet. They were beginning to
descend into the airport when an orange and white UFO flew by going the
opposite direction.
Alpieagle
Fokker 100 commercial airliner. (Credit: Marcell Torre/Planespotters.net)
Gazzeta Di Parma highlighted a few stories
from the book from 2013 reported by the military. The first was in Rome at the
beginning of the year. A medical officer reported seeing several elliptical
lights traveling at “various heights, course and speed.” He watched them for 50
minutes before they disappeared.
In May, two men reported
seeing “an object of diamond-shaped dark-colored, suspended about 50 meters
high.” The sighting took place in St. George Albanian. They say the object
eventually flew into the ground causing a fire. There was no trace of the UFO found.
UFO
seen by military personnel at Campoformido (Udine) August 12, 1974.
This is one of the witness
drawings included in the book.
In 2013, a restaurateur in
Chiesa spotted a bowling pin shaped object in the sky that he was afraid to
report. However, to his surprise, the police station commander said he had seen
the same thing in August, 2012 with two children.
Other sightings in 2013
included triangle shaped objects near Rome and Soncino, as well as a fleet of
UFOs seen by a young man in Cremona. Gazzeta Di Parma listed
other dates with short descriptions of the 56 UFO sightings from the last four
years included in the book.
Petrilli and Sinapi say
they did not evaluate the sightings, they just give the facts. However, the
sightings are of cases that have thus far gone unexplained.
ABOUT ALEJANDRO ROJAS
Alejandro Rojas is a radio
host for Open Minds Radio, editor and contributing writer for Open Minds
magazine as well as OpenMinds.tv. For several years Alejandro was the official
spokesperson for the Mutual UFO Network as the Director of Public Education. As
a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in
the field investigating phenomena up close and personal. Alejandro has been
interviewed by media organizations around the world, including the largest
cable and network news agencies with several appearances on Coast to Coast AM.
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