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From: Maurizio Baiata <mbalien@tin.it>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:42:39 +0100
Fwd Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:34:57 -0500
Subject: Major UFO Flap in Italy 02-23-99


Dear Sirs,

The magazine "Notiziario UFO" is the leading italian magazine of
UFO research and investigation.

I'm submitting below information regarding the wave of UFO
sightings occurring on the evening of 23 February in Italy.


Best regards,

Maurizio Baiata
Editor of "Notiziario UFO"

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PRESS RELEASE

The objects were UFOs, not Venus and Jupiter

Further to the consistent wave of UFO sightings in several
central northern Italian regions that were reported on 23
February to the editorial staff of "Notiziario UFO", the editor
of the monthly magazine of UFO research and investigation states
as follows:

The outbreak of sightings, which occurred around 7 PM in two
different towns of the Venetian area and were noticed
simultaneously in Bologna, Turin, San Giovanni Valdarno, Cuneo,
Turin, Venice, Genoa, Ravenna, Novara, Pescara, Gualdo Tadino,
Lucca and Rome, came to a halt just before 9 PM. It has been a
significant and long lasting phenomenon.

Most of the eye-witnesses saw two very bright lights in the sky,
at varying altitudes and different in size, stationary or slowly
passing by, at times coupled together and intermitently lit up,
while others described them as geometric formations totally
different from a planetary phenomenon and mainly hovering at low
altitude. In Novara, two lights headed towards Invorio, stopped
for about 30 minutes and, right after, flew in the direction of
Gozzano.

As the switchboards of police stations were jammed by thousands
of alarmed phone calls, several astronomical observations
explained the phenomenon as an unusual conjunction between
Jupiter and Venus and some even mentioned Saturn.

Among the sightings reported to "Notiziario UFO", primarily
contradicting the statement is Mr. Filippo Bigazzi's, from San
Giovanni Valdarno, who noticed and videoed, in the presence of
his relatives, two stationary lights which intermittently
appeared and disappeared. Meanwhile at 7.20 PM in Ravenna, Mr.
Stefano Matteucci, observed by telescope a three lights
formation, with atop a darker square shaped object. Another
video was shot in Venice by Mr. Federico Provoleri who caught a
bright moving object. Interestingly enough, the editorial staff
here was informed that the military bases of Istrana and
Tessera, Veneto, were kept on the alert.

Many reports were confirmed by video-tapes which will later be
analyzed by the technical experts of our magazine. The UFO flap
of 23 February takes its place within a context of a sudden
intense series of sightings all over Italy, occurring first in
October '98 and reported again and again through the month of
February, characterized by constant weekly phone calls.

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