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Italy · 1997-11-16 · from the AERONAUTICA archive

An account in Italy

DATE TIME SHAPE COLOUR SPEED DIRECTION MOTION ALTITUDE WEATHER REPORTED BY 22 PALERMO 16/11/1997 APPROXIMATELY 17.00 NOT INDICATED NOT INDICATED HIGH VERTICAL LOW NOT INDICATED JOURNALIST FROM THE NEWSPAPER SICILIA FINDINGS: ON THE BASIS OF THE DATA COLLECTED AT THE TIME FROM THE COMPETENT AIR FORCE AUTHORITIES, NO CORRELATIONS EMERGED BETWEEN WHAT WAS REPORTED AND ANY ACTIVITIES OR OTHER KNOWN PHENOMENON, ALTHOUGH THE ANALYSIS OF THE MATERIAL SENT ALLOWED WHAT WAS SIGHTED TO BE ASSIMILATED TO THE SHAPE OF A MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF THE ITALIAN NAVY. THE EVENT IS CATALOGUED AS U.F.O.

 

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Locality: Fiumicino (RM) Date: 06/01/1997 Time: approximately 18:20 Shape: luminous trail Colour: green Speed: high Direction: vertical Motion: not indicated Altitude: not indicated Weather:

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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.