“I Chased a UFO, Says Pilot”, 3 December 1973
(The Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Piper pilot Riccardo Marano, 29, chased a spherical shaped UFO over Turin, Italy on 2 December 1973, according to the article:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cN0qAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dn0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4472,3437886
The UFO was first detected by the radar (airport controllers alerted Marano) at Turin Airport (16 kilometres (10 miles) north of Turin) and was also sighted by the passengers and crew of an Alitalia airliner.
NOTE: The article is published by The Straits Times, not New Straits Times.
A mass UFO sighting occurred over Turin on 4 December 1973:
ufo-news-article-excerpt-thousands-tell.html
Turin (Torino) and the Piedmont (Piedmonte) Region, North-Western Italy experienced a lot of UFO activity in November
and December 1973, the UFO DNA website reports:
http://thecid.com/ufo/chrono/chrono/1973.htm
Turin-Caselle Airport, Turin, Italy
(world-guides.com photo)