ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 397 - 30 MAY 2003

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


- First Course on Ufology at Popular University Ends
- UFO Films Make Their TV Debut


FIRST COURSE ON UFOLOGY AT
POPULAR UNIVERSITY ENDS

May 30 marks the end of what in all probability
was the first actual course on Ufology to take place
at a Popular University in Italy, held in Turin.

The course was led, for the whole 2002-03 Academic
Year, by Danilo Tacchino, who along with his class
was hosted in the rooms of the Physical Sciences
and Mathematics Faculty of the University of Turin,
for a run of approximately 30 lessons on "The True
History of Flying Saucers."

The last lesson in the course was led by Edoardo Russo
on "Techniques and Methodology for Interviewing Witnesses".

[Collaboration by Danilo Tacchino]


UFO FILMS MAKE THEIR TV DEBUT

Coinciding with the return to TV of Roberto Giacobbo, who
transferred to Raidue the old format of "Stargate" with his
new program "Voyager", the pay-TV platform of Tele+
Bianco is airing, beginning in the second half of May, the
first TV broadcasts of some recent movie pictures having
a UFO theme.

Debuting on the 18th was "K-Pax" (focusing on a psychiatric
patient who maintains that he is an alien); next up on the
25th is "The Mothman Prophecies" (from with the same-titled
UFO "cult"-diary of the ufologist John Keel); and waiting now
in the wings is "Signs" (which connects the appearances of
crop circles in fields with the beginning of an extraterrestrial
invasion), the latter also debuting on video.

[Collaboration by Dario Giacometto]


Collaborators on this edition were:
Dario Giacometto, Roberto Labanti,
Gildo Persone' and Danilo Tacchino.


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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

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