1. DUE TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION Hilit a zy 4. NUIIlBER OF OBJECTS 10. CONCLUSION TI~SUFF'ICIENT DATA FCR SVAWATION Dbjectmoving ''lest ruling out Satellites. Possible A/C observatic n, however duration other essential data missing for evaluation. C. s e ~5-.-L-EH_G_T_H_O_F_O_I_S~!~.-V-A~T~IO~N--~11~: R E~, U MM~A~R~YANOANALYSIS ~ Not Rpeotted 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Object at 30 deg elevation moving on Un.l<no"ll speed and unlmo'..n altitude. to a Satellite. a course of 270 degrees Described as bright si.m h~ Gramd-V:i3 ual 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 'Ite .)"Ga -.pta ror :,wr letter. I.t,. cma 'be ur ~ pJ..-ae lab U kZJOW AFDASCA/110 [Translator' s note: Below is a complete but rather free translation of original letter in Italian. Due to the pressure of work, ,.,e have been unable to review or edit tlte English text. ] ~tessrs. Project Blue Book Information Office, HQ USAF (SAF-OIPB) Washington, DC I obtained your address from Rome' s daily newspaper, IL TEMPO. The under- signed is not addicted to either alcohol or to drugs nor do I claim to have any physical or psychic powers. I have a family of two children who are 13 and 10 years of age and who attend the Father Scolopi School in Savona. There is no record of mental inbalance or of alcoholism in my family history. am about to relate in this letter is the result of continuous study I and great patience. I was one of that majority [of people] that are indifferent to the "UFO" I problem and gave little importance to newspaper accounts or talk about sightings of space people and had no precise thoughts on the matter one way 1 or another . The first time occurred in June of 1962 at the Vilanova I d ' Albenga airfield (45 kilometers from Savona) where many people had gathered to to~a tch the aerial acrobatics performance by Italian Air Force F84 fighter aircraft. While waiting for the squadron to appear for the start of their demonstration, I saw a UFO pass silently behind the clouds. It was a matter of a fraction of a second. It was saucer shaped and silver-gray in color. matter progressed until the month of July 1963 when an innumerable series of sight:J.ngs, which still continue, commenced. In that month, aL"'lost every (and always during the evening) evening we were able to ~bserve luminous objects of the apparent magnitude of a star passing over my city. These "stars" moved in every direction, always singly and once two together but not close to each other and they moved in different direc~ions. The heigh~ was probably between JO and 40, 000 meters. lfndou~teCly the atmosphere is not perfect and they do not have a constant speec. TI1ey can move and can stop and then start again, sometimes at a great attitude, sometimes at a lower one. At times I have seen the light dL~ to such an extent that it disappeared and became one with the dark of the night -it would then light up, and so on repetatively. Once this summer (August 1964) one of these "stars" was visible for a few seconds because of the great light it emitted: it was low over the city and its size 'T'\S aooro:x::imately that of half the moon These night apparitions, strange to say, stopped during the vnnter season, exc~pt for rare occasions (for instance t ho night of 4 February 1965 - 20 hour s ) . The d aytime apparitions ,.,ero more nu."'lerous, starting 11 July 1964. I ldll not list them all but will just mention the main ones. Thus, beyond the type described above, the daytime ones assumed different 1) Spherical. They revolve around themselves showing a silvery side and the other side is of a dark color. They do not exceed 4 to 6 meters in 2) Lens-like and flat. On 11 July 1964, 1300 hours, a spherical UFO descended over the sea in front of Bergeggi (sea-side resort 6 kilometers from Savona) on the road to Nice, France, noiselessly, rotating, made a rapid plunge to about 100 meters above sea level and to about 500- 600 meters from where I was standing. Unfor- tunately my family and I were the only ones present, because of it being dinner time the beach was deserted. On 22 September 1964 a large silvery object at an approximate height of 1500 meters hovered above the city from 9 to 11 p . m. Quite a crowd witnessed this including some policemen on duty from the Piazza della Prefettura [translator' s note: probably one of the msin squares of the city]. The same incident occurred on 19 November between 1815-1845 hours, and other times too. During September, I do not remember the exact date, from 0700- 1500 hours, we counted at least 10 UFOs (including a couple flying in formation), resembling absorbent cotton which dissolved as soon as one touched it. have a small, incomplete list of UFO sightings above Savona and as already mentioned I will not list them all. I can st~te that I have seen UFOs hovering over the city and then disappear as though made out of glass. Clouds would suddenly form in a clear sky and I in them one sees a perfect round shape then they disolve to later reshape themselves into a new round shape. But there is more to this, the UFO sightings per se Are "old ha.t" now and no l onger create great sensation. During the night one can see over the city s mall luminous "rays" which appear and c!isappear. These "lights" are not very large (10- 20 centimeters?). Now I then, this summer f rom a window of my house (the first time on Jl October I 19~4 :me! the second time about a week later) at exactly 21 hours on both occasions, one of these "lights" penetrated our house and passed in front of us, leaving us astonished, to say the least. I Once before while I was looking out a window one of these lights had passed in front of me in a diagonal direction from the roof to the street making strange noise. However, the lights seen in October were silent. But this is not all: from that time (and this is happening rig~t now) strange, ........ J .,oid "shado.o~s" move 'lround the rooms o:: my housa. They move i n til directions and around persons like very rapid "fireflies" and even the television screen reflects them by small dots and lines, as often happens due to some interference caused by household electric gadgets. Well now, I am getting to the end of my letter. You can either disbelieve everything I have told you or send someone to see these things personally. will be ve~ happy to act as a guide. You may wonder why all of these UFO sightings occur in Savona. These unidentified aircraft seem extremely interested in the activities of large bombers which fly day and night over our area. In all probability your SAC boys who fly over our heads will already have reported something along these l ines . regards (please do not give out mlf name. I do not want to become a subject of discussion by the general public. ) TnF, nf!. PI'),JTSt.F(~4P-nTPR) .:..v,o '-lo r.n1'1o~cj, ,rn ie:.ri. il v/c:. i ti.r''ir:i.??.n Vnr~r->i'nrPm~trerP r.hR-il ~otro~r~ittn n0~ P c1Pni to r\11 '.::ll r.ooJnf:> <=lgli sT.n:pe:.~.qro"'!ti, r-> n~l nio~n ~ Pllo 7.P p;~; P o n~ir.~irhP, fin c ,IT'.;.,, i~ r-> r'lnp Pi n l i r'li 1 ~ a 1 n ;)Yil"i r-ho ' ~rr)l nni :in v'ir~. Ne:-11'=-T"'li?. 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