ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH

ISSUE NO. 400 - 5 JULY 2003

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


- A Missile Or A UFO Buzzes A Plane Over Benevento?
- 27 September: CISU Conference In Viterbo
- A New Book On “Close Encounters Of The Fourth Kind”


A MISSILE OR A UFO BUZZES A PLANE
OVER BENEVENTO?

A plane in flight was allegedly buzzed by a missile-shaped
object over the city of Benevento.

This was the report made to authorities by the commander
of a Alpi Eagles Fokker 100 which, at around 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, 25 June, was set to land in Naples with 80
passengers coming from Palermo, when the commander
called the control tower to report having observed a strange
and large, elongated "missile-like" object, coming towards
him from the opposite direction and passing very close
underneath the plane.

The alarm involved ENAV (the National Flight Assistance Agency),
ENAC (Civil Aviation National Agency), ANSV (Flight Security
National Agency), the Ministry of Transportation Services, and the
First Minister Crisis Unit, featuring the activation of the usual
security procedures.

In the report drafted the following day, the commander described
an “unidentified flying object” approaching him at an altitude of
approximately 8000 feet: it was cylindrical in form, 3 to 4 meters
in length, white in color, and reflected the sun rays. The object,
observed by both pilots, was reportedly not detected by radar
systems; for security reasons, however, the state prosecutor in
Naples opened an investigation and confiscated the radar recordings
and the tape recordings of dialogue between the aircraft and the
control tower.

[Il Giornale, 27, 28 and 29 June 2003; UFO-Italia, 27 to 29 June;
collaboration by Renzo Cabassi and Antonio Cuccu]


27 SEPTEMBER:
CISU CONFERENCE IN VITERBO

The last weekend of September in Viterbo will be the setting for
the 18th National Ufology Congress, organized as in every
year by the Italian Center for UFO Studies.

In fact, CISU executive board accepted the Viterbo branch as a
proposed host for this year's edition of the most enduring Italian
UFO conference, which will also be open to the public and
- for the first time - viewable over the Internet in real-time, as well.

This initiative will be part of the local "Viterbo September" manifestations
and its title will be: “On Things Seen in the Sky: the Study of UFO
Phenomena”. More detailed information will be forthcoming.

[Il Messaggero, Viterbo Edition, 18 June; collaboration by Angelo Ferlicca
and Gildo Persone']


A NEW BOOK ON “CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
OF THE FOURTH KIND”

A new Italian book has come out that is devoted to
UFO abduction cases.

It’s entitled "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind - Investigations
of Alien Abductions, 1947-2001 - From the Clones of Higgins to the
Monselice Incident"; it’s penned by Gianfranco Degli Esposti and
it is published by Editioriale Olimpia.

The volume totals 224 pages and costs 16 Euro.

[Enigma mailing list, 23 June; UFO Notiziario, June]


Collaborators on this edition were: Renzo Cabassi,
Antonio Cuccu, Angelo Ferlicca and Gildo Personè.

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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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