06-03-1961 Professional
Translation
Note: I have included two texts of this event since it portrays
several effects of the UFO on water that are only mentioned as single events
in other cases. What I considered important is highlighted in yellow– CF-
CISU Case: 019
Location: Savona
Category C: Objects that come out of the water (it does not matter
if they subsequently go
back into the water)
Evaluation: Insufficient
information
Original Source:
"Settimana Incom" del 06/01/1963; R. Pinotti "Ufo: missione
uomo" ed. Armenia, pp. 137-138; "ItaCat" caso n. 6101; R.
Pinotti "Ufo: scacchiere Italia" ed. Oscar Mondadori, pag. 102;
AAVV "Ufo in Italia", vol. 3, ed. Upiar, pag. 72; R. Pinotti
“Oggetti Volanti non Identificati” ed. Oscar Mondadori, pp. 97-98; R. Pinotti
“Oggetti Sommersi non Identificati” ed. Olimpia, pag. 69.
Sighting
Description: Quattro persone che stavano
facendo una gita in barca su di un piccolo motoscafo, mentre erano fermi al
largo con il motore spento, videro improvvisamente che stava aumentando il
moto ondoso. Temendo che si trattasse di una petroliera, si alzarono e
notarono a circa un chilometro da loro il mare che si rigonfiava come una
grossa bolla, mentre lunghe ondate si allargavano a cerchio. Dopo pochi
secondi i quattro testimoni videro che dal centro della bolla stava emergendo
un oggetto con la parte inferiore simile ad un piatto rovesciato e quella
superiore che terminava a cono. Nell’uscire dall’acqua l’oggetto sembrava
respingere l’acqua stessa come se vi fosse un cuscino d’aria. Subito dopo
essere emerso completamente, l’oggetto si fermò per alcuni secondi nell’aria
a circa 10 metri di quota e, dopo alcuni ondeggiamenti, si formò un alone
attorno alla base e si allontanò velocemente e con traiettoria obliqua rispetto
alla superficie del mare, scomparendo a nord-est.
Sighting Description:
While they were stopped offshore, four people who were taking a ride on a small motorboat
noticed that suddenly the waves were getting bigger. Fearing that it was an
oil tanker, they stood up and noticed that about a kilometer away, the sea was swelling like a
big bubble, while large waves were widening in a circle. A few seconds later,
the four witnesses saw that from the center of the bubble was emerging an
object whose lower part was similar to an upside-down plate and the
upper part was shaped like a cone. As it was emerging from the water, the object seemed to push back
the water as if there was a cushion of air. After it had emerged
completely, the object stopped for a few seconds in the air at about 10
meters above the surface. After some swaying, a halo formed around the base, and the
object rapidly departed following a trajectory oblique to the sea surface,
disappearing towards the north-east.
This reference: USOCAT by
The Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), © 1996 by Marco Bianchini. http://www.cisu.org/
ALSO
The Italian Scene-Part 4 by
Gordon W. Creighton
The literature of our subject is full
of references to UFOs that are seen to enter the sea or to emerge from it. An
Italian paper recently published a photograph of a huge disc above the sea
off the coast of Brazil. The Brazilian doctor who had taken the picture said
that a moment later the disc slipped silently into the sea. Similarly,
passengers on a ship crossing the North Sea two or three years ago saw a
large "submarine" type of craft plunge into the water. Here, then,
is the third report, which was sent to the Turin Study Centre by a Signor Giacomo Barra, of 9
Via Fratelli Canepa, Savona:
"I went out in a motorboat
with Giuseppe Pordoi,
businessman, Filippo Marin, office employee, and Silvano Guardinfante,
owner of the boat. When quite a good distance out to sea, we shut off the
engine and sat there chatting and enjoying the morning breeze. It was 6:35
a.m. on June 3, 1961.
"Suddenly the rocking motion of the
waves increased, and the boat began to roll badly. We looked around, thinking
it must be due to the proximity of one of the many tankers that put into our
port. But nothing of the sort. At a distance of a kilometre from us, the surface of the sea was
bulging like an enormous ball, with long billows going out from it on all
sides. Dumbfounded, we were still wondering what it was when, suddenly, a strange contraption rose
up from the bulge of water. Perhaps it was one of the celebrated 'flying
saucers,' for the lower part of it looked like a plate upside down, and the
upper part ended in a cone. While it was emerging from the sea, the water was thrust away all
round it, as by a cushion of air. After it had emerged completely from
the sea, it stopped still for a few seconds, at a height of 10 metres or so,
and then rocked slightly a few times. Then a halo formed round the base of it,
and the thing shot away very fast across the sea and vanished towards the north-west."
This reference: Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 9, No. 4,
pp. 11-12, July/August 1963
Original Ref: Settimana Incom. Jan. 6, 1963
UFOCAT PRN 34356
UFOCAT URN – NONE Settimana Incom. Jan. 6, 1963
UFOCAT URN – NONE R. Pinotti,
Ufo: missione uomo, ed. 5 Armenia, pp. 137-138
UFOCAT URN – NONE ItaCat, caso
n. 6101
UFOCAT URN – NONE R. Pinotti, Ufo:
scacchiere Italia, ed. Oscar Mondadori, pag. 102
UFOCAT URN – NONE AAVV, Ufo in Italia,
vol. 3, ed. Upiar, pag. 72
UFOCAT URN –
NONE Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 9,
No. 4, pp. 11-12, July/August 1963
UFOCAT URN – 034356 The Reference for Outstanding UFO
Sighting Reports by
Thomas Olsen, #122, © UFOIRC 1966
UFOCAT URN –
077595 What We Really Know About Flying Saucers by Otto Binder, p. 153,
© 1967
UFOCAT URN – 034357 A
Century of Landings (N=923) by J. Vallee # 519, © 1969
UFOCAT URN – NONE Official UFO Magazine, May 1977, Vol. 2,
No. 3, Mysteries of the
Deep by Lucius Farish and Dale Titler,
pp. 41 & 52, 1977
UFOCAT URN –
034358 Computerized Catalog (N=3173), #1433 by L. Schoenherr, no © date
UFOCAT URN –
125644 Italian UFO Catalog by Maurizio Verga, # 167, no © date
UFOCAT URN – 175198 *U* UFO Computer Database by Larry Hatch, # XXXXXX, ©
2002
Europe – Italy. Body of
water is the Ligurian Sea
Savona Latitude 44-17 N, Longitude 8-30 E (D-M)
Ligurian Sea Latitude-43.30 N, Longitude 9-00 E
This reference: Italy
Gazetteer, United States Board on Geographical Names, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D.C., August 1956.
UFO Location (UFOCAT) -
Latitude 44.30 N, Longitude 8.47 E (D.%)
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