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a ufo photographed in the italian alps

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by charles lear in the hunt for proof

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that strange vehicles are flying through

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our atmosphere possibly under the

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guidance of alien pilots researchers

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have long looked to photographs there

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are some such as the mcminnville

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photographs that have become classics

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that continue to spark debate many have

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been passed through time by newspaper

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articles books magazines documentaries

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and websites of course along with the

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photo there is also the story of the

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photographer though getting that story

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straight might prove difficult in

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october of 1952 a story went across the

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newswires that a man in italy had

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claimed to have taken pictures of a

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flying saucer and its occupant while

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climbing in the bernina section of the

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italian alps he told reporters that he

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saw a flying saucer land on a glacier

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according to him a human shape wearing

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some sort of diving suit got out walked

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around the ship and then got back in the

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saucer rose up and it took off without a

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sound at breathtaking speed he said he

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sold the photos to a french magazine the

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man was 29 year old italian engineer jim

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pietro mongoozi his story is told in

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detail and his pictures are presented in

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the september-october 1958 issue of

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flying saucer review according to the

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article monguzi takes saucer photos of

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the century written by lou zinstag

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mongozzi first name given as giampiero

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by zinstag worked as an engineer in

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monson near milan and was a member of

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the edison society of italy on july 31st

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1952 he was hiking in the bernina

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mountains with his wife when they came

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across an object shaped like a flying

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saucer sitting on a glacier mongoose

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wanted to get closer but his wife was

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frightened and insisted he stay with her

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he did so and took a series of pictures

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showing the saucer on the ground a

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humanoid walking around it and two

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excellent photos of the ship's departure

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ponguzi ended up with a total of seven

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photos at the top of the article in a

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photo with the number two written on it

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the saucer and the humanoid are both

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seen to have antennas according to the

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article monguzi and his wife returned to

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milan excited by the prospect of selling

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the pictures for a good price manguzi

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showed the pictures to friends his

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managers and some newspapers but he

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wasn't believed his manager was a

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leading figure in the edison society a

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violent controversy erupted at the

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society and mongozzi was not only ousted

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from the edison society but lost his job

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as well a newspaper article from 1953

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tells the story differently the march

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3rd 1953 perth western australia sunday

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times carries this headline on the front

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page of its magazine section real story

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of the flying saucer and the man from

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mars underneath is the sub-headline

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worldwide pictorial hoax in this version

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of the tale where monguzi's age is given

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as 26 an agent in milan believe

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monguzi's story cables were sent to

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agents in other countries and offers for

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the photos started coming in going up to

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fifteen thousand pounds and higher the

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bidding stopped when monguzi and his

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wife panuccia burst out laughing the

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story came out that gm petro had bought

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a camera and had taken a picture of some

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mountain peaks he then stayed late at

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work for a week and crafted a nine inch

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diameter flying saucer out of cardboard

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and a two and a half inch humanoid

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figure out of metal that he covered with

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twill to create the photos he spread

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crushed chalk on the ground placed the

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models on it presumably in front of the

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photo of the peaks though not described

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in the article dug a hole presumably he

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got in it but again not described in the

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article and took the pictures a photo of

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the models is shown underneath one of

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the photos mongozzi claimed was of a

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flying saucer and a humanoid and the

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models look very much like what appear

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in the photo john keel wrote about

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monguzi's photographic adventure in his

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article never mind the saucer did you

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see the guys who were driving in the

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february 1967 issue of true magazine in

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the section covering mongoozi's story

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kiel gives monguzi's age as 30 and

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presents monguzi's account of the

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initial sighting after the account which

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includes the information that the object

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was 75 to 100 feet away from mungusi

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keel gives monguzzi's description of his

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camera lens and settings kiel tells the

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reader that anything closer than 25 feet

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would be blurry with that type of camera

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set as described in kiel's version of

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the events that followed mongusi was

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inundated with reporters according to

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kiel manguzi claimed he was visited by

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an american secret agent disguised as a

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bersagliero military ski trooper who

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interrogated him for an entire night and

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tried to get him to contradict his story

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in this version monguzi sold the

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pictures to the italian magazine ipoca

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where they were published and identified

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to manguzi's horror as fakes this

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outraged the edison society of which his

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boss was the director and manguzi was

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ousted from the society and fired from

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his job kiel ends the monguzi portion of

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his article with this quote from monguzi

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they cheated me he told one ufo

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investigator this bad joke of the

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journalists has made me lose my job as

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well as my membership in the edison

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society i was in fact out of work for a

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year and a half

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the pictures turned up later in the 1976

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documentary overlords of the ufo just

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before the eight minute mark a newspaper

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with one of monguzi's photos fills the

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screen and then the photos are shown

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while a narrator describes the events

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that they supposedly recorded in lou

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zenstock's account in flying saucer

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review mongoose and his wife came upon

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the saucer already landed and he

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photographed it while it was on the

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ground and got two pictures of it taking

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off in the film the two pictures of it

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in the air are shown first and the

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viewer is told that monguzi took

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pictures of the ufo landing on the ice

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the viewer is then assured that the

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verification of these photographs was

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made for the producers by a swiss

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researcher and carl gustav young's niece

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lose and stog

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so french magazine italian magazine

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seeing the ufo landing seeing it lying

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on the ice and then taking off mongoosey

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admitting to a hoax and showing models

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mongoosey being betrayed by ipoca what

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do a few facts matter when you've got

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pictures to add some zing to your ufo