UFO News Article: “UFO FOLLOWED ITALIAN JET”

10 January 1980

(The Telegraph)

Source: theufochronicles.com

The whole article:

“The Italian Defense Ministry has declassified an Air Force pilot’s report that his F104 was followed for 23 minutes by an unidentified flying object in February 1977. The pilot said the object glowed brighter in the night sky than the moon and stars and stayed 800-900 yards away.

He added: ‘I alerted the nearest base and was authorized to intercept it (the UFO). When I began to show my intentions, climbing to 12,000 feet, the object kept its distance unchanged, then disappeared.’ ”

https://www.theufochronicles.com/2018/10/ufo-followed-italian-jet-ufo-chronicle.html

Wikipedia article: “Italian Armed Forces”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Armed_Forces

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Coat of Arms of the Italian Defence Staff (text by Wikipedia)

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Italian Government UFO Book Review Article: “UFO – I DOSSIER ITALIANI” (“UFO – The Italian Dossiers”)

By Pier Vittorio Romano, 28 March 2014

(Italian Air Force, Rome, Italy)

The whole translated article (by Google Translate):

“Of this universe we are not alone. This is the fact that emerges from the archive consultation ‘declassified’ the Air Force, the Armed Forces that is responsible for collecting all reports of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), better known as UFOs – Unidentified Flying Object or Unknown Flying Object. The journalists Lao Petrilli and Vincenzo Sinapi had access to this archive, allowing them to reveal, with this book as ‘the Italian UFO dossiers,’ a phenomenon for many still unknown which places the public on the existence of a dilemma of other forms of intelligent life in the Universe. They have been seven sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects registered on Italian skies, in 2013, Air Force: 56 reports from each region and of all kinds over the past four years, with a boom in 2010 (22) and progressive decline in 2011 (17) and 2012 (10). In the Air Force's secret archives end up the most qualified sightings, usually those from witnesses who have complained to the police and filled out a very detailed form. This is forwarded to the Air Force, through its various departments – from the weather service to the operational commands – start technical investigation. If the mysterious object is not a weather balloon, a track plane by radar or at least a well-known phenomenon, then for all practical purposes it is classified as UFO, Unidentified Flying Object. A UFO, in fact. Which is not to say, of course, that the aliens are among us, but it just means that it was not possible to identify a natural or technical justification of that fact. Lao Petrilli, a journalist, working for RDS, for the Press and the Australian broadcaster SBS. Author Sinapi, of ‘Nasiriyah, the real story.’ He won the City of Salerno Journalism Award and the Antonio Russo Prize for Reportage. Vincenzo Sinapi, journalist, managing editor added the ANSA news. Since 1998 began to take an interest of the Armed Forces also ‘embedded’ alongside the Italian military in the main theaters of operations ‘outside the box.’ ”

http://www.difesa.it/InformazioniDellaDifesa/Pagine/ufo-petrilli-sinapi.aspx

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UFO News Article: “Ufo a Milano: il racconto di un ex pilota militare” (“Ufo in Milan: the story of a former military pilot”)

3 October 2018

(MeteoWeb, Italy)

The article reports on the 20 October 2018 UFO conference, Sons of the Stars.

The Sons of the Stars will present a video interview with the Italian military pilot Dante Golinelli.

Golinelli encountered a UFO over the Piacenza-San Damiano Air Base in 1966, according to the article.

http://www.meteoweb.eu/2018/10/ufo-milano/1159321/

English translation (by Google Translate):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meteoweb.eu%2F2018%2F10%2Fufo-milano%2F1159321%2F

Wikipedia article: “Piacenza Air Base”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piacenza_Air_Base

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Satellite photo of Piacenza, Italy (tageo.com)

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UFO TV News Report:
Interview with the Chief of the General
Security Department of the Italian Air Force,
15 March 2010 (TG5, Canale 5, Milan, Italy)

This is a TV news interview with Colonel Marco Picciau, Chief of the General Security Department (R.G.S.) of the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) that investigates UFO sightings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpAZ2RUbZn4

Official Italian Air Force article:
“UFO in Italia: RGS al TG2 e TG5”:

http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/News/Pagine/RepartoGeneraleSicurezza.aspx

English translation:
“UFO in Italy: RGS on TG2 and TG5

Monday, March 15 the UFO investigation work of the General Security Department was presented on TG2 (Rai 2) and TG5 (Canale 5), and Col. Picciau, Chief of the General Security Department of the Air Force was interviewed.

Since 1978, the Air Force is the Italian Government organisation that collects, verifies and audits reports concerning UFOs, which are then made available on the portal of the Armed Forces (For more information and forms for reporting, click here).

Multimedia:

Video: TG2 on Monday 15 March at 13.00 (http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/News/Documents/Video/Avvistamenti_Ufo_150310/Tg2_150310_1300_Avvistamenti_Ufo.wmv)

Video: TG5 on Monday 15 March at 20.00
(http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/News/Documents/Video/Avvistamenti_Ufo_150310/Tg5_150310_2000_Avvistamenti_Ufo.wmv)”

Canale 5 is a Mediaset TV channel and Rai is Italy’s state broadcaster.







Colonel Marco Picciau, Chief of the General Security Department,
Italian Air Force

UFO Article (Blog): “UAP Observations Reporting Scheme’s interview with Vincenzo Sinapi: The Italian Military Files”

By Philippe Ailleris, 29 October 2014

(UAP Observations Reporting Scheme)

Quote from the article:

“1. Background

Similarly to other countries around the world, Italy represents an historical rich country with respect of the number of UFO observations and the different UFO researches undertaken. As a result of a wave of UFO sightings in 1978 and some questions raised by members of the Italian Parliament, the then Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti designated the Air Force as the institutional Body to collect, verify and monitor the UFOs. As a result, the Minister of Defense ordered a specific office within Air Staff Headquarters to centralize all UFO data, and all armed forces were asked to forward their data to this office. Nowadays, this activity is carried out by the General Security Department of the Air Force. Anyone wishing to submit an event pertaining to a UFO sighting can do this by using the specific questionnaires available on the Air Force’ website. After the form has been submitted on line, it will be delivered to the nearest “Carabinieri” station (the national military police of Italy, policing both military and civilian populations). This will result in launching an investigation for trying to identify the nature of the phenomena observed, i.e. attempting to find an explanation in terms of human-made events and/or natural phenomena. If necessary, this research will also involve the participation of some other Italian competent bodies. Overall, such investigation will aim at ensuring that there is no potential defense of national security issue associated with the UFO sighting. If it is eventually not possible to identify the nature of the phenomena, the event will be classified as an observation of an Unidentified Flying Object. Obviously this will not mean that an alien vehicle was flying above Italy, but simply will indicate that it was not possible to identify the origin of the phenomena observed.”

http://www.uapreporting.org/?p=2081
















Coat of Arms of the Italian Air Force
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Italian Government UFO Article: “L’ A.M. PARTECIPA AL MEETING SUGLI OVNI” (“THE A.M. (Italian Air Force) PARTICIPATES IN THE UFO MEETING”)

26 September 2015

(Italian Air Force, Rome, Italy)

The whole article (translation by Google Translate):

“The 3rd International Meeting of Exobiology took place in Milan with the participation of Colonel Arturo Cattel

Saturday, September 26th, the 3rd international meeting of Exobiology took place in the historic headquarters of Palazzo Cusani in Milan, where there was talk of OVNI (unidentified flying objects) which was attended by Colonel Arturo Cattel, Head of Department Security Office General Safety of the Air Force General Staff.

The meeting, which saw the participation of various experts on the subject, was organized and directed by the expert journalist of exobiology Sabrina Pieragostini.

In his opening, Colonel Cattel clarified to the audience the support provided by the Air Force in the matter of UFOs, through the recording of all the reports received by citizens through Carabinieri (military police) stations present on the national territory, in order to to correlate the information received to known events. These reports are collected in an archive that the Air Force has declassified to give the opportunity to anyone interested to be able to view the documents contained therein.

Colonel Cattel has also specified that the Air Force has among its main tasks to defend the Italian airspace, ensuring the operational effectiveness and the use of the air forces in the framework of the national and international security system. This takes place for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to give security to the citizen and safeguard the integrity of the state. Colonel Cattel has also declared that the Armed Force makes available its documentary material to the agencies and authorities that operate in the scientific technical field for any studies and in-depth analysis.”

http://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/comunicazione/notizie/archivio/2015/Pagine/20151310_L-AM--partecipa-al-meeting-sugli-UFO-OVNI.aspx

English translation (by Google Translate):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aeronautica.difesa.it%2Fcomunicazione%2Fnotizie%2Farchivio%2F2015%2FPagine%2F20151310_L-AM--partecipa-al-meeting-sugli-UFO-OVNI.aspx

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