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Sighting record / 1973

The Alitalia Rome to Naples Sighting: a Round Object over Latina (1973)

1973 · Over Latina, Lazio (Alitalia flight from Rome to Naples), Italy
20Thinly documented UAP Sphere 17 sources 2 videos

1973. An Alitalia airliner leaves Rome, bound for Naples. Somewhere along the way, the crew reports a round object in the sky. Two Italian Air Force planes take off from Ciampino. Their crews confirm the sighting. That is nearly all that survives. A single sentence by researcher Stefano Innocenti, retold again and again. In the retellings the object turns grey, the sky becomes the sky over Latina, and the military planes become fighters. There is no date, no name, no official explanation. Just a round object over Lazio, seen by trained eyes in three aircraft, and never accounted for.

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Context

Lazio has a crowded file. When journalists Vincenzo Sinapi and Lao Petrilli worked through Italian Air Force records from 1972 to 2013 for their 2014 book, the region led the country with 53 cases.

Sources (17, most influential first)

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