Book Description

The second volume of UFO CONTACTS IN ITALY includes a complete round up of UFO sightings and events from 1979 to 2020.After the incredible 1978-1979 Italian UFO wave with more than 2,000 reports, the Italian Government decided to face the UFO phenomena officially, and since then the Italian Air Force was charged to take care of the subject, as shown by official military documents obtained by Centro Ufologico Nazionale (CUN), who had a public primary role in all this. In 1979 a UFO photographed by an Italian Air Force jet fighter pilot over Treviso and a gigantic USO observed in the Tyrrhenian Seawere the most important cases investigated by CUN.In the 1980's, after the author's requested UFO presentation in the House of Lords in London and the death of Italian UFO pioneer Consul Alberto Perego, several sightings, landings and close encounters were reported all over the peninsula. In this decade we also had a division in Centro Ufologico Nazionale with the creation of the skeptical Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU), and Pinotti's successful academic papers mentioning UFOs officially presented in Brighton (UK) and Bangalore (India), respectively during the International astronauitical Federation's congresses in 1987 and 1988.The 1990's started with an Alitalia near missover Kent and Soviet astronaut Gennady Strekhalov's admissions about his UFO space sighting during a congress in Italy, and then developed with landings, traces, near-crashes,flying humanoids,the Italian action of Tullio Regge in the European Parliament and the World UFO Symposium in San Marino, a frame in which events such as the Soviet KGB UFO dossier, the Santilli footage and Europe's first UFO postage stamp manifested themselves. In this decade we had also important genuine UFO photographs, secret UFO documents, UFOs monitoring NATO bases in Italy, a huge UFO encyclopaedia made in Italy, important statements from the Vatican and even an Intelligence attempt to destabilize CUN in order to stop its positive international action.The first ten years of the new millennium began with the official Italian Air Force UFO data and the unexpected Mussolini's Fascist UFO files, more sightings everywhere and the incredible endless saga with mysterious fires, UFOs and USOs at Caronia in Sicily, where at last authorities preferred to deny the evidence of the UFO presence behind these phenomena. Then we had a new Italian proposal about UFOs in the European Union Parliament and the University of Calabria's 1st International Symposium on Exobiology, Ufology and Exopolitics with speakers from all over the world co-ordinated by the author.The second decade of this century started with a new Italian call for an end to UFO secrecy in the European Parliament, CUN's requested lecture about UFOs and E.T. in the Vatican City, Italy represented by the author at the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure in Washington D.C. organized by political activist Steven Bassett, a new postage stamp issued to commemorate 20 years of the world UFO Symposium in San Marino and the sighting of an alien light probe. Besides this, we had Pope Francis 'speech about aliens, Pinotti's unexpected trip to Moscow and Gen. Savin's purported Russian ET contacts, the author's speeches in Brazil and at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Conference in Sofia, Luis Elizondo and Tom Delonge were welcome CUN's guests in Rome, the collapse of the Chinese United Nations initiative for UFO and alien disclosure from Chongqing to Moscow and CUN's UN perspective after the author's contacts in Hong Kong, Barcelona, Roswell and Russia again. Last but not least, in 2020 also a huge cylindrical "mothership" and a "daylight disc" hovering over the Etna volcano in Sicily and the 28th edition of CUN's World UFO Symposium from San Marino on the internet in spite of the international COVID 19 contagion.