1952: San Pietro a Vico Italy Encounter

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THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: July 25 1952

Sighting Time: 0300A

Day/Night: before dawn

Location: San Pietro a Vico Italy

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.

Duration:

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s):

Distance to Object(s):

Shape of Object(s): circular

Color of Object(s): black

Number of Witnesses: 1

Special Features/Characteristics: a human face looked out, and stretched out an arm

Source: Siro Menicucci for the research group for the Study Of UFO Phenomena, Prato Italy

Summary/Description: Going to the river Serchio before dawn to fish, Carlo Rossi saw hovering over it a circular object, apparently drawing up water through a long tube. It was black, with oval openings around the edge, and in the center a transparent tower 6 meters in diameter and extending 3 meters below the disc. In this were 4 thin tubes attached to a central cylinder, and a bluish flame was passing between these tubes.

Under the disc were 5 equidistant propellers, and on top 3 concentric cones. The only sound was “like silk rustling.” From a porthole in the turret a human face looked out, and stretched out an arm toward Rossi, who threw himself over the ridge of the bank. He saw a green ray projected above him, and felt an electric like shock. Then he saw the UFO depart “at frightful speed.”

2 months later, he encountered there a very thin & tall angler with a peculiar accent, who asked him if he had ever seen any sort of aircraft over the river, and gave him a peculiar cigarette that immediately made him feel faint. The stranger grabbed the cigarette from him, threw it in the river, & hastened away.