ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 396 - 23 MAY 2003

by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)


- UFOs and "Magic Piedmont"
- The CISU at CICAP Conference


UFOS AND "MAGIC PIEDMONT"

In bookstores is a new work entitled "Piemonte Magico" ("Magic Piedmont".

Its author is journalist Enrico Bassignana, who dedicates it to "Mysterious
persons and places seen through the eyes of a skeptic". The book is
published by Priuli & Verlucca as part of their collection "Books on
Piedmontese Civilization and Culture" (160 pages, 16.50 Euro).

As you may expect, this one deals with a review spanning from ghosts to
witches, from Nostradamus to Gustavo Rol, from spiritualists to Satanists,
from the Damanhur community to practitioners of magic.

UFOs make their appearance in the last two chapters, with a discussion on
sightings and the ill-famed Mount Musine, featuring interviews with Edoardo
Russo, Gianni Settimo and Danilo Tacchino.

[Communication by Paolo Fiorino]


THE CISU AT CICAP CONFERENCE

UFOs will also have a part, if only incidentally, in the 8th Annual
Conference of the CICAP (Italian Committee for Checking the Claims of
Paranormal), held this year right in Turin from 6 to 8 June with the theme,
"The Return of Magic? A Voyage into the Mystery between Fascination,
Tradition and Risks".

The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CIUS) will indeed contribute a poster
about Ufology in the poster section, at the faculty council room of the
Turin Politecnic School, along with a discussion scheduled for Friday the
6th. Greater details will be forthcoming shortly.

[Collaboration by Stefano Bagnasco and Andrea Ferrero;
www.cicap.org/conference]


Collaborators on this edition were:
Stefano Bagnasco, Andrea Ferrero and Paolo Fiorino.

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This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free
phone/Internet information service on UFOs edited
weekly by Edoardo Russo for the Italian Center for
UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici),
available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294,
or by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website
at http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm

UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di
informazione ufologica", published by the Italian
Center for UFO Studies, registered at Tribunale
di Torino, No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy

Translated from Italian to English by:
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