DOW-UAP-D157, Air Intelligence Information Report, Italy, 1952

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AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT (UNCL) Report of Unusual Aerial Pheonmenan AREA REPORTED ON f'RON (Ag

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AF FORM 112-P..A RT II AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT FROM (Agt11cv) REPORT NO. Air Attache, Rome, Italy 2 5 PAGE OF PAGES REPORl' AND ILLUST TIO OF A F.LYI?il SPH Ooservation by Pro!. o.B. SIAS - Via Armando Diaz 22, Sassari APP ITION OF A FLnNG SPHERE 'On the 28th of A,u st 1952 the fellewirg article of mine was published in Sassari in the local •Corriere dell'Isola" newSP-aper1 "Yesterday ev ning, 27th of August, at 2145 hours, I was walking - as usual - along the court-yard f Sassari Brigade, below th wind ws of the war orphans dorm:1.­ tory, saying the ros • It was exactly the time :when the.t 1."Wllpet o! Gonzaga. barrack vas playing the lights out signal. I watched now am then the sky" covered with stars, heavy, moonless, till torrid for the temperature which in tmse daya, aa anyone wuld remember, often attained 40 degrees, with a sky which .remained clean and cloudless for three 1t10nths.- Suddenly ll\1 attention was attracted by: a transparent small cleud, c from the st, isolated in the lliddle of the sq, . the ,remaining ky was serene. ?tr eyes were .fixed to that point, fascinated by the view, ,men sudde~ a sphe ot astonishing brightness aDd luminosity se d to depart from the Milky Way. I had th ~ression that it as• very close to the earth: 1t was slightly larger than the .full moon, of green-blue color, silver bright like th mother-of-pearl, with m,tal streaks in the right side; it pr ceeded. at a dizzy speed along East-West diredtion, appearing suddenly as if it c cnit of a thick shadow. It cans out and in a s conc3 disappeared leaVing behind a liile r luminous ribbon, haVi.ng a thickness of on1t-seventh of the sphere; after a econd, the entire sphere appeared again; then again, it disappeared and the line showed and again the sphere returned, always idem.ical. Finally, it disappeared toward the horizon. The apparition lasted in total three to five seconds. "M;,' first idea vaa that such a phenomenon was due to a.n aerolita. Everyam knowa the color and brightness of teoric stonas, 11hile it was evident that the lundnou.si'ty of the sphere originated fro tm sun, like the moon's• !'In regard to motion, I . refiected that such an objec~ suppose it was a human ere tion, could not hav such a dizzy ctual speed to excel the velocity of any- human invention, even if carried to or 60 kilometers aJ.titud • On the supposition that the sphere was colling fro a tral spaces, frc:a oh higher altitudes, its otion could be either partially or emtire}J" apparent, th t is equal to e revolution speed of the earth, Viz. thirty kilometer per seccmd., "Where the lumino ity was cone rned, I thcnght that it could be traced to the locatic>n of the sph~re at hundreds or thou.sams kilometers above the earth while it got out o:f ths cone of ahadov of the earth and proc ded Westward, beii:g ilJ11rni11ated the sun wh~eh had set two hours and a half earlier. The location was the follOldng, approx. LS between the Zenith and the horizon lin3,Southward; direction E1st-West beginning .from the Milky ay. PTb,e doubt that mine may be a mere optical illusion is dissipated by- the testimony of tvo other personsa an orphan, Brau, who had not yet gom1- to bed, sav the lum1.not1s sphere through the window of the dorm.torr; another testimony was offered by Mr. Piccolo, a guardi:an or Valmascheri concern placed approx. 3 kil eters in air line fro Saasart, who observed the phenomenon at the sam3 time: rea.l.ity not illusion, then. MOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED SfATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIQNAGF.ACT, 50 U. S. C.- 31 AN'D 32, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSM ISSION OR THE REVELATION OF LTS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PEflSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW. IT MAY NOT BE REPROOlJCEO IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE. USAF.

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AF FOlfM 112-PART II AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT FROM (Agency) REF'ORT NO. PAGE OF PAGES ALTITUDE AND DIM™SIONS OF THE SPHERE "The observation of the sphere, the peculiar circumstances of its apparition and the logical deductions, inspired me with a pressing desire, rather a stimulating