TRACAT is the Italian catalogue of trace cases, special events where physical traces on ground and/or vegetation have been found usually after a UFO sighting.

The TRACAT Project started up in 1980 and it has been collecting a large documentation about nearly all the trace cases taken place in Italy between the '20s and 1995. Over 240 events have been filed from several sources usually offering a quite low information quality.

About 40% of all collected cases refers to incidents where ground traces have been found without any direct association with a UFO sighting. They are usually called "lonely traces" and are taken into consideration just because of their likeness with traces actually found after a reported UFO sighting. Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (C.I.S.U., Italian Center for UFO Studies) published two different editions of the TRACAT catalogue in its series of monographs called "Documenti UFO". The very last edition (1994) includes a large selection of sketches, pictures and newsclipping images related to each reported case.

Geographical distribution of cases involving "physical evidence" taken place in Italy (updated to 1994):

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