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UFO|UAP & ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT

1954: The Sesto Fiorentino Encounter — Florence, Italy

Fourteen-year-old Marco P. was walking his kitten through the fields outside Florence when he found a small disc propped diagonally against a tree, three tall men standing at its base. Paralyzed under their gaze, he watched the sky fill with a mothership seventy meters wide, seventy or eighty smaller discs orbiting it, and two old biplanes drifting past that never seemed to notice any of it. Then the one in charge looked at him, and somehow that was permission enough to board a hovering scooter and rise straight toward the fleet.

Date: Summer 1954 (exact date not recorded)

Sighting Time: 09:00 (9:00 a.m.)

Day/Night: Day

Location: Fields near the witness’s home, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy

Urban or Rural: Rural (open fields)

No. of Entity(‘s): 3 at the initial small craft; 3-4 additional entities on “flying scooters”; approximately 20 more seen working inside the large disc

Entity Type: Humanoid

Entity Description: Approximately 1.85 m (about 6 ft) tall, robust physiques, blond hair, squared facial features; strongly resembled human men, described by the young witness at the time as looking “of the German race”; wore very long coats over military-style trousers and boots

Hynek Classification: CE-IV (Close Encounter, Fourth Kind — boarding of a craft, transport to a larger vessel, extended missing/compressed time)

Duration: Approximately 3 hours, by the witness’s own account, based on church bells heard before and after the experience

No. of Object(s): 1 small disc (initial sighting); 1 large disc approximately 60-70 m wide; 70-80 smaller discs; 3-4 “flying scooters”

Description of the Object(s): The initial object was a disc roughly 1.8 m tall, resting diagonally against a tree with a stepped/staircase-like structure; the large mothership was disc-shaped, 60-70 m wide, with an interior featuring a 2 m wide transparent apparatus filled with flashing lights and a noisy mobile structure running around its inner perimeter; the “flying scooters” were small individual conveyances with handlebar-like controls

Shape/Size/Color of Object(s): Disc-shaped throughout, in varying sizes as described above; specific colors not detailed

Distance to Object(s): The witness approached the initial small disc directly; the large mothership was viewed from the sky after being carried there by scooter

Height & Speed: The scooter carried the witness upward toward the hovering mothership, which “opened and closed” beneath them upon arrival; the mothership departed the scene tilted at an incline

Number of Witnesses: 1 (Marco P., age 14 at the time)

Special Features/Characteristics: The witness experienced temporary paralysis upon approaching the initial three entities, which lifted once they stopped looking directly at him; two old biplanes were visible in the sky during the sighting, and the witness could not determine whether their pilots were aware of the surrounding craft; the entity apparently in charge made deliberate, intense eye contact with the witness before he was permitted to board a “flying scooter”; the interior of the large disc was described as largely empty apart from a transparent, light-filled apparatus and a loud perimeter mechanism, with roughly 20 entities working at individual stations inside; the witness’s memory of events grows notably hazier from the point of paralysis onward; he became aware the experience had ended when he heard nearby church bells marking noon, and calculated the total elapsed time at approximately three hours

Case Status: Unresolved — a single-witness, childhood account with an extended and internally detailed narrative, including several hours of apparent missing or compressed time

Source: Maurizio Verga, “When Saucers Came to Earth”

Summary/Description: Walking through fields near his home in Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy one summer morning in 1954 with his kitten, 14-year-old Marco P. came upon a small disc, about 1.8 m tall, resting diagonally against a tree, with three tall (1.85 m), robust, blond-haired men standing at its base. Approaching, the boy felt paralyzed until the entities stopped looking at him. He then saw a huge disc, 60-70 m wide, hovering in the sky above, surrounded by 70-80 smaller discs, alongside two old biplanes whose pilots seemed unaware of the scene. Three or four entities descended on individual “flying scooters,” and the apparent leader made intense eye contact with the boy before allowing him to board one. The scooter carried him up into the large disc, which briefly opened and closed to admit them. Inside, he saw a mostly empty interior with a transparent, light-filled apparatus and roughly 20 entities working at stations. His memory grows hazy from this point. He was eventually returned to the ground, watched the large disc depart at an incline, and realized from nearby church bells that roughly three hours had passed since the encounter began.

Related Cases: None known

Detailed Report

Marco P. was fourteen years old in the summer of 1954, walking through the fields near his home in Sesto Fiorentino, outside Florence, with his kitten in tow. What began as an entirely ordinary walk turned strange around nine in the morning, when he came upon something resting diagonally against a nearby tree: a small disc, roughly six feet tall, fitted with what looked like a flight of steps. Standing at its base were three men — tall, robustly built, blond-haired, with squared facial features Marco would later describe, in the language of a fourteen-year-old of his time and place, as looking “of the German race.” They wore very long coats over military-style trousers and boots.

As Marco approached, he found himself unable to move — a paralysis that lifted only once the three entities stopped looking directly at him. It was in that moment, freed to move again, that he became aware of something far larger overhead: a huge disc, sixty to seventy meters across, hanging in the sky, with seventy or eighty smaller discs orbiting around it. Two old biplanes were also visible, drifting through the same airspace, though Marco had no way of knowing whether their pilots noticed anything unusual at all.

Then three or four more entities descended from above on what Marco could only describe as “flying scooters” — small conveyances they controlled with handlebar-like grips. One of them, evidently the leader of the group, fixed Marco with an intense stare. Whatever passed between them in that look, it was enough: Marco found himself permitted to board one of the scooters himself.

The scooter carried him upward, toward the enormous hovering disc, which briefly “opened and closed” beneath them as they arrived, admitting them inside. The interior struck Marco as strangely empty — no crowded machinery or dense controls, but a single transparent apparatus, about two meters wide, filled with flashing lights, and a “mobile construction” running around the entire inner perimeter of the disc, producing a loud, continuous noise. Roughly twenty entities were at work throughout the space, each occupied at what looked like individual desks or stations.

It’s from this point that Marco’s own account becomes noticeably less clear. He remained paralyzed, and his recollection of what happened next grows hazy in a way the rest of the narrative isn’t. What he does recall is being brought back down to the ground via the scooter, and watching the great disc depart the scene, tilting to an incline as it left. Only then did he register, hearing the bells of a nearby church marking noon, just how much time had actually passed: roughly three hours, from the moment he first came upon the small disc against the tree.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

Sesto Fiorentino — 1954 and the Point Where a Clear Memory Turns Hazy

• A period-specific phrase, preserved as reported: Marco’s description of the entities as looking “of the German race” reflects the language and framing available to a fourteen-year-old Italian boy in 1954, less than a decade removed from the war. This archive preserves the phrase in quotes, exactly as recorded, without adopting or endorsing it as a meaningful ethnic classification — it’s presented as evidence of how the witness himself made sense of an unfamiliar sight using the reference points available to him.
• A striking self-reported shift in memory clarity: The account is unusually specific and detailed right up until the point of boarding the scooter, after which Marco’s own narrative explicitly becomes hazier. That kind of honest, self-aware gap — rather than a seamlessly complete story — is worth noting as a detail that doesn’t fit a simple fabrication pattern.
• An elapsed-time claim anchored to an external, checkable event: Marco’s three-hour estimate isn’t a vague impression — it’s calculated against the specific, external detail of church bells marking noon, giving the missing-time claim an anchor point independent of his own sense of duration.
• Two unaware biplanes sharing the same sky: The detail of ordinary aircraft apparently oblivious to the surrounding fleet is a small but specific touch that adds an unusual layer of mundane detail to an otherwise extraordinary account.
• No physical trace and no second witness: Despite the scale and duration of the claimed encounter, nothing beyond Marco’s own testimony survives to corroborate any part of it — no photograph, no trace evidence, no other witness to even the initial ground-level sighting.

This is one of the most extensive single-witness accounts in this archive’s 1954 record, distinguished by its self-reported shift from vivid clarity to haziness rather than uniform detail throughout. It remains entirely dependent on one boy’s testimony, offered without any independent corroboration, and this archive presents both its richness and its limitations plainly.

“The interior of the saucer was nearly empty… a ‘mobile construction’ was placed all around the perimeter of the inner part of the disc, and this produced a loud noise.”
— Maurizio Verga, “When Saucers Came to Earth,” on Marco P.’s accountve.