WHO'S WHO: Maurizio Verga
He was born in Como, Northern Italy (next to Swiss border) in
1963. He got an education as a textile engineer in fabric
planning and designing, yet he later switched his job to textile
CAD (Computer Aided Design). Now he is one of the European top
experts in such a niche field, including textile archiving
systems and INTERNET-based textile applications.
In 1976
he started his interest in ufology, soon becoming extremely
active in the field. Since then he published a lot of article on
Italian and international UFO or UFO-related magazines, including
leading names such as "Flying Saucer Review", "MUFON
UFO Journal", "Magonia", "Lumieres Dans La
Nuit", "Inforespace", "Perspectivas
Ufologicas" and many others.
As an investigator, he has studied some local cases, including a few close encounters and produced a general catalogue of UFO sightings taken place in the province where he lives.
After a long activity in a national group, he founded in 1985/86 (together with other leading Italian UFO researchers) the Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), soon becoming the best organized and best known Italian UFO association worldwide.
On behalf of CISU he developed previous research projects and started new ones:
He also promoted and is currently supporting other Projects,
including:
Since 1984 he has been one of the pioneers in proposing and
developing computer-based applications to UFO research. Starting
with Commodore 64 micro-computers and the establishment of the
Italian Computer UFO Network (a team of UFO buffs working
together mainly in order to store UFO sightings data on digital
media), he then switched to Personal Computers, where he has
direct knowledges in image processing and management. All of his works
have been produced directly on computer and are currently
available as standard files.
Besides managing his catalogues on computer, he started also analysis of alleged UFO pictures, as well as the very first trials of spreading UFO information through the new online technologies. In 1987 he started the very first European UFO BBS. One year earlier he produced the very first issue of "The Computer UFO Newsletter" the only publication completely devoted to computer applications to UFO research. After some issues, the Newsletter was discountinued, likely because ahead of the times.
He has been a contributor to UFO anthologies such as "UFOs 1947-1987", "Phenomena" and "OVNI: vers une anthropologie d'un mythe contemporain". He also attented several UFO congress in Italy and Europe, usually presenting papers devoted to his research activities.
In early 1995 he has been exploring INTERNET services in order to evaluate their possible use in UFO research. A few months later, he started UFO ONLINE, this site, soon become one of the largest WWW site of its kind available on the Net.
Maurizio Verga, beach-style
Among his UFO-related interests:
Maurizio Verga can be reached at:
(snail mail address)
via Matteotti 85
22072 Cermenate (Como)
ITALY
(telephone)
+39-31-771600
+39-368-3007835
(e-mail) Maurizio Verga