Apr 06 2007

Golden Age Italian UFOs

Check out the newly-published book from Italian UFO researcher, Maurizio Verga titled When Saucers Came to Earth: The Story of the Italian UFO Landings in the Golden Age of the Flying Saucers. The title alone (for me, at least) suggests this is definitely going to be worth reading, as it’s an English language work on little-known Italian UFO encounters, and specifically harks back to the halcyon, long-gone days of early ufology. And knowing Greg as I do, he will doubtless be literally foaming at the mouth to get his hands on this one.

As the website for the book states: “When Saucers Came to Earth is the very first book in the English language entirely devoted to the story of UFO sightings that have occurred in Italy. Sightings of a special kind. The landings of ‘flying saucers’ in the 1940s and â€˜50s - and even earlier, during the nineteenth century! These were extraordinary encounters involving ordinary people, in a world that has ceased to exist. Begin a fascinating journey back to distant 1912, when an Italian farmer met up with a ghostly light on a foggy night in the northern Italian flatlands; and travel to the early morning of New Yearâ€™s Eve 1954, when an odd-looking flying saucer with two ‘pilots’ observed an old bell-ringer. Over 100 amazing saucer landings are described in detail, all featuring sources and critiquing comments aimed at a better understanding of the follow-ups to - and the possible explanations for - every incident. Hundreds of maps, sketches, pieces of artwork, and newsclippings make this book a visual tour of the early years of the ‘flying saucer’ phenomenon and myth.”

You’re gonna have to hurry if you want a copy, though: it’s limited to a print-run of just 100 copies. So get it now!

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