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Elmas (CA), Italy · 1977-10-27 · from the AERONAUTICA archive

An orange orb in Elmas (CA), Italy

Locality: Elmas (CA) Date: 27/10/1977 Time: from 17:35 to 18:50 Shape: Spherical Colour: Orange light source Speed: High Direction: from north-west to south-east Motion: — Altitude: between 300 and 1200 m Weather: clear sky Reported by: 3 Army Aviation pilots and 2 Air Force military personnel Findings: Based on the examination of the data in the archives, the event has been catalogued as U.F.O.

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This is an entry from the official sighting registers of the Italian Air Force, which has collected and investigated public reports under a government mandate since 1978, machine translated from Italian with the original preserved. The registers are published at aeronautica.difesa.it. Entries the Air Force could not associate with any known activity or phenomenon are formally catalogued O.V.N.I.