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From: Edoardo Russo <edoardo.russo@torino.ALPcom.it>
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 23:01:29 +0100
Fwd Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 17:47:01 -0500
Subject: Re: Filer's Files #1--2000 The Great Awakening

UFO watching the Pope at New Year?


 >From: George A. Filer <Majorstar@aol.com>
 >Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:53:40 EST
 >Subject: Filer's Files #1--2000 The Great Awakening
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@sympatico.ca>

 >Filer's Files #01--2000,  MUFON Skywatch Investigations
 >George A. Filer, Director, Mutual UFO Network Eastern

<snip>

 >ITALY NEW YEAR'S UFO

 >ROME -- Francis Paliekara writes, "I was watching CNN and MSNBC
 >on New Year's Eve when they showed celebrations from around the
 >world.  They were showing footage from the Vatican during the
 >pope's New Year's blessing.  As they panned around St. Peter's
 >Square There was an object in plain sight which hovered
 >completely still in the sky on the right.  It was gray and disk
 >shaped and had no light coming from it or around it.  I don't
 >know what it was.  I was curious if others saw it?  Thanks to
 >Francis Paliekara paliekara@powerweb.net

You don't mean the Goodyear blimp, which has been hovering over
Rome (precisely above St. Peter's square) since Christmas and
sometime mistaken for a UFO by casual observers, do you?

(That might explain why nobody gave it a thought, here in Italy,
and no TV station worried about such apparition, BTW.)

Best regards


Edoardo Russo                             Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici
CISU, Casella postale 82, 10100 Torino - tel 011-3290279 - fax 011-545033
http://www.arpnet.it/~ufo          e-mail: edoardo.russo@torino.alpcom.it