ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH
ISSUE NO. 401 - 18 JULY 2003
by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)
- Italian Sightings: The First Half Of This Year
- An Italian College Thesis On UFOs
- The Transfer of the Clypeus Archives
ITALIAN SIGHTINGS:
THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR
The coordinated efforts of the informatic working group
on the Italian case files, developed by the Italian Center
for UFO Studies, have produced a new update of the
statistics concerning the reports of sightings of UFO
and para-UFO phenomena in Italy, the end result being
an in-depth recap of the last six months, as well as a
comparison with the last few years.
The month of June featured the bursting onto the scene
of numerous findings of "circular traces" in crop fields,
some of these directly correlated with UFO reports.
Thanks also to these cases (16 out of 47), the month
of June indicates a further increase, if compared with
previous months; thus, the initial half of 2003 is shaping
up to be on a level comparable with 2000 (224 reports)
even if it still trails behind the corresponding six-month
periods for the years 2001 and 2002.
The regional statistics have also been influenced by the
"crop circles": the region with the greatest contribution for
June is Tuscany (10 cases, 4 of which involved circles),
followed by Piedmont and Marche (6 cases each, 2 and
3 involving the circles, respectively).
The "wave" of circles has also had an obvious bearing on
the "para-ufological" category (28 cases out of 51, i.e. 55%)
and on other statistics for the six-month period.
Among the strictly ufological cases of major interest during
this last month: a disc-shaped object observed at close-range
in Florence on 7 June; a triangular object seen on the same
day in the province of Verbania; and a sort of "missile"
observed by a pilot who was flying over the area of Benevento
on 24 June.
Complete lists of the cases and detailed statistics will be made
available (as always) on the Website of the Italian Center for
UFO Studies over the next few days.
[Communication by Giorgio Abraini]
AN ITALIAN COLLEGE THESIS ON UFOS
In the wake of theses at the graduate level, we now also have
got an Italian college thesis on UFOs.
"The UFO Phenomenon" is the title of the interdisciplinary
thesis CISU junior member Dario Giacometto was put to the
test by the Enzo Ferrari Technological & Scientific Institute
in Turin.
The challenge consisted in the drawing up, based on our
argument, of a multimedia text that would touch upon the
various subjects of study over the last year of high school:
Italian and English languages, as well as the areas of philosophy,
computer technology, physics and chemistry were brilliantly
incorporated by Dario, thanks to the documentation given to
him by CISU and the assistance of senior CISU member
Matteo Leone (Ph.D. and a high school physics teacher himself).
[Collaboration by Dario Giacometto and Matteo Leone]
THE TRANSFER OF THE CLYPEUS ARCHIVES
One year to the date following the relocation of the "Vesco
Archives" to the site of the new headquarters of the Italian
Center for UFO Studies, on 10 July the transfer to the central
CISU archives of an additional piece of Italian ufological history
was concluded.
Seven people, 1 van and 2 cars loaded onto racks have, in fact,
finally relocated the "Clypeus Archives": the huge collection of
press clippings, letters, books, and specialized journals and
magazines (for the most part from overseas) which Gianni
Settimo and the collaborators of the Centro Studi Clipeologici
(later the "Clypeus Group") had accumulated over a forty-year
period going back to the year 1949.
Over the course of this summer, once again, this
documentation will continue to be reorganized and added
to our central files.
Collaborators on this edition were:
Giorgio Abraini, Dario Giacometto and Matteo Leone.
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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
Translated from Italian to English by:
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