Italy UFO Sightings
??-1590; Italy
The daily rituals of Italian monks were upset by the flight of many glowing discs that they felt were harbingers of Armageddon.
12-09-1731; Floernce, Italy
Italians watched the night sky in anticipation of many strange points of light that had danced around above them on previous nights. They were not disappointed.
??-1845; Florence, Italy
Slowly, at first, then quickly, a blazing red UFO flies across the skies of Florence from horizon to horizon.
??-1845; Naples, Italy
Flying in fleet formation, many large, strangely shaped UFOs cross over the city of Naples. An unidentified Italian astronomer witnessed the flyby and catalogued the craft, some of which were star shaped with luminous tails.
01-08-1888; Ragusa, Italy
According to the memoirs of the Minor Brothers, several lines of bright spheres were observed flying through the night sky.
03-23-1948; Florence, Italy
Trails of smoke were the only physical evidence left by several high flying metallic saucers. Witnesses claimed that the UFOs made loud roaring sounds even while flying at high altitudes.
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11-15-1997
TWO BOYS PHOTOGRAPH UFO OVER SIRACUSA
On November 15, 1997, at about 4 p.m., two teenaged boys spotted a UFO over their hometown of Siracusa, a port city in Sicily on the Golfo di Augusta, 224 kilometers (140 miles) southeast of Palermo.
Grabbing a 35mm camera, the boys shot several photos "of an object of discoidal form" as it "moved about in an erratic manner through the skies above Siracusa." The UFO also "periodically halted in mid-air" from time to time. They described the object as having the shiny reflective surface "of the glass of a window."
(See the Italian newspaper Giornale di Sicilia for November 30, 1997. Grazie a Edoardo Russo e Antonio Rapulla per questo rapporto.)
3-8-1998
UFO AND ALIEN SIGHTED IN NORTHERN ITALY
Early Sunday morning, March 8, 1998, an Italian farmer spotted a UFO hovering above
his field. The incident took place in Lombardia, just outside the small city of Rho, 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of Milano (Milan). The farmer described the UFO as "a white object in the form of an upside-down pear" that "hovered over a field of grain." Since he was within shouting distance of his farmhouse, he called for his wife. She joined him at once, and the couple observed the UFO "for nearly a half hour." Midway through the sighting, the couple reported, a hatch slid open, and an occupant emerged. The witnesses described "the alien" as "a being about 60 to 80 centimeters (30 to 40 inches) high, with two huge black eyes." The occupant "floated" in the air close to the object for about ten minutes. The occupant then reentered the UFO, and the object "suddenly rose vertically as it illuminated itself." The case is being investigated by Italian ufologist Giancarlo D'Alessandro of Centro Italiano di Studi Ufologici (CISU). (See the Italian newspaper La Padania for March 15, 1998.) The previous night, Saturday, March 7, 1998, Carabineri (Italian police--J.T.), port authorities and local police watched a UFO "plunge headlong" through the sky in Termoli, a port on the Adriatic Sea. The alert sounded at 6:30 p.m. Police described the UFO as "a luminous object that plunged headlong into the sea with a smoky luminous trail." Termoli is in Campobasso province approximately 232 kilometers (145 miles) east of Rome. (See the newspaper Il Resto del Carlino for March 9, 1998. Grazie a Eduardo Russo, Renzo Cabassi, Gian Paulo Grassino, Goffredo Pierpaoli, Marcelo Pupillie Giancarlo D'Alessandro di CISU per questo rapporto.)
(Editor's Note: Sibenik, Croatia, just across the Adriatic Sea from Termoli, was the site of a UFO landing earlier this year.)