ITALIAN UFO SIGHTINGS

"Throughout the last ten years country's largest UFO organization Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (CISU) has collected over 13,000 alleged UFO sightings ranging from 1900 to 1996. Such an outstanding amount of material is definitely the most complete documentation currently available about the UFO phenomenon presence in Italy: that is a real proof of a huge mass of witnesses about the sighting of seemingly unusual aerial phenomena.

Most of such cases have been stored on computer, thanks to a regular work accomplished by CISU members. An early database of sightings taken place between 1900 and 1994 (in excess of 10,000 entries) is now available. Each case features its main identification data, including a by-the-kind classification. As an example, you may have access to the listings of the Italian sightings recorded in the years 1990 e nel 1991.

Cases come from a large selection of sources, most of them featuring a quite low information quality (mainly related to press). As pointed out in several serious studies from different countries, a percentage around 90% refers to cases having a conventional explanation or, anyway, has no enough data to be efficiently evaluated.

Some early statistical analyses have been already carried out in order to have some results about time and geographical distribution of Italian UFO sightings, even though available data are often inaccurate and poor or even very poor in quality.

Here following the geographical distribution of an over-9,000 entry sample of Italian alleged UFO sightings (updated to 1992). Clicking on several cities you get a listing of all collected UFO sightings for that province.

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