ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH
ISSUE NO. 362 - 12 JULY 2002
by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)
Contents:
- Italian Sightings 2002: The Statistics So Far
- Countdown for Hessdalen 2002
- New UFO Thesis From The CISU
ITALIAN SIGHTINGS 2002: THE STATISTICS SO FAR
The CISU working group on caselog has released the
summary of data relative to UFO sightings in Italy during
the first half
of this year.
The level of UFO activity remains high, with 225 reports
gathered and catalogued by the Italian Center for UFO Studies.
A fourth of these concern a "flap," i.e., a group of contemporary
sightings. January, March and May turned out to be the richest
months, and May itself represents the actual peak as of
phenomena, with 48 single cases (none of which was part
of a "flap").
As usual, leading the classification of the most visited regions are
Lombardy (with 42 reports) and Emilia-Romagna (with 32), followed
by Piedmont, Tuscany and Lazio (at least 20 cases, respectively).
The northern regions continue to take the lion's share, with more
than half of the sightings.
As far as the sightings went, there were only 15 daytime ones,
15 close encounters, 3 cases of humanoids, as many as 23
reports documented with photos or videos, and 16 cases involving
traces or effects on the environment.
The first half of 2002 proved equal to that same period last year,
thanks to a higher average during the first 5 months: although
this remained constant also in the month of June, without
the peak in reports which, last year, triggered the summer
wave. Meanwhile, it seems that the total number of cases
collected for 2001 has now become stable, reaching the 770 mark.
[Communication by Giorgio Abraini]
COUNTDOWN FOR HESSDALEN 2002
The Italian Committee for Project Hessdalen has announced
the next kickoff for the 2002 summer mission expedition,
entirely organized and financed by the same committee,
in the Norwegian valley where the most systematic worldwide
attempt at the instrumental surveillance of strange, recurring
luminous phenomena has been underway for years.
This is the third year that the CIPH has actively participated
and contributed at the operations level in Project Hessdalen,
led since 1983 by Scandinavian researchers with mixed results.
Once again participating in the Italian expedition this year are
technicians of the CNR (National Research Council) and
university-level researchers who will take turns at Hessdalen
providing updates on technical/computer-informational resources
destined for radio, radar and optic-photographic surveillance (plus
videotaping, stereoscopy, spectroscopic analyses).
There will be among these, for the first time, a ufologist: Matteo
Leone, a graduate in Physics from the University of Turin currently
doing his Ph.D. in History of Physics at the University of Bari,
has been as well a member and an investigator for over 10 years
with the Italian Center for UFO Studies.
[Communication by Renzo Cabassi]
NEW UFO THESIS FROM THE CISU
UPIAR Publications has issued the 29th monograph of the
"Documenti UFO" ("UFO Documents") collection, care of
the Italian Center for UFO Studies.
It is authored by Daniele Parisi and is the publication of his
degree thesis in Sociology of Knowledge
(
http://www.CISUorg/thesis2000.htm), presented in December
2000 before the Faculty of Political Science at the University
of Turin, for which he also received the Alberto Lazzaro Award
from the CISU for best paper on the UFO argument last year.
It is entitled "Il fenomeno UFO come costruzione sociale -
Dai dischi volanti al culto dell'extraterrestre ("The UFO
Phenomenon as a Social Construction - from Flying Saucers
to Extraterrestrial Cult"), totals 76 pages, and sells for 8 Euro
(6.40 for CISU subscribers; free for members of the "In Good
Standing" category).
[Collaboration by Fabrizio Dividi]
Collaborators on this edition were:
Giorgio Abraini, Renzo Cabassi and Fabrizio Dividi.
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This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free
phone/Internet information service on UFOs edited
weekly by Edoardo Russo for the Italian Center for
UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici),
available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294,
or by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website
at
http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm
UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di
informazione ufologica", published by the Italian
Center for UFO Studies, registered at Tribunale
di Torino, No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy
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