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Pisa, Italy · 1980-11-11 · from the AERONAUTICA archive

Pilot witness in Pisa, Italy

Date: 21 Locality: Pisa Date: 11/11/1980 Time: 18.36 Shape: Spherical Colour: White, with green and light blue reflections Speed: Not indicated Direction: From east to west Motion: Not specified Altitude: Partly cloudy Weather: Partly cloudy Reported by: Air traffic control personnel at Pisa Airport Findings: The information in the archives shows that the authorities responsible at the time, although unable to ascertain the true nature of the event in question, assessed the sighting as attributable to a meteorological phenomenon.

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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.