About seventy years in the past, a soccer match in Florence was interrupted when Unidentified Flying Objects hovered over the stadium.
It was October 27, 1954, a typical autumn day in Tuscany and on the Stadio Artemio Franchi, Fiorentina was taking part in in opposition to the native workforce Pistoiese. Ten thousand individuals have been watching the match when all of a sudden, shortly after halftime, silence fell over the stadium. The spectators have been now not watching the sport however have been all pointing in direction of the sky.
The gamers stopped taking part in and the ball remained nonetheless on the grass. The footballer Ardico Magnini, who was considerably of a legend in Italy on the time, taking part in for his nation within the 1954 FIFA World Cup, recollects that day:
“I bear in mind the whole lot, from A to Z. It was one thing like an egg, transferring slowly, very slowly! Everybody was trying up and on the similar time, a silver mist was falling from the sky. We have been amazed, we had by no means seen something prefer it earlier than. We have been shocked.”
The sport was postponed. In response to the referee’s report, as a result of the spectators have been seeing one thing within the sky.
Among the many followers was Gigi Boni, a Fiorentina supporter. His description of a number of objects differs barely from that of Magnini.
I vividly bear in mind witnessing this occasion. They have been transferring very quick after which all of a sudden stopped. All of it lasted a couple of minutes. I might describe them as Cuban cigars. They jogged my memory of Cuban cigars. I feel it was one thing extraterrestrial. That is what i consider. I can not give myself some other clarification.
One other participant, 70-year-old Romolo Tuci, agrees, saying:
“Throughout these years, everybody was speaking about aliens, everybody was speaking about UFOs and we skilled this, we noticed it, we noticed it in actuality.”
The incident on the stadium can’t merely be interpreted as mass hysteria. There have been many UFO sightings in a number of cities past Tuscany that day and within the following days. In response to eyewitnesses, a beam of white gentle appeared within the sky over Prato, north of Florence.
One other one that spoke about this incident is Roberto Pinotti, president of the Italian Nationwide UFO Middle. He has written many books about UFOs and his home within the heart of Florence is filled with memorabilia, posters, previous Italian movies, framed newspaper articles, and black and white images of flying discs. When the incident occurred, he was 10 years previous and witnessed the occasion.
“The gamers and the followers have been impressed seeing these objects above the stadium. Throughout that interval, newspapers have been speaking about aliens from Mars.
After all, now we all know it is not like that, however we will conclude that it was an clever phenomenon, a technological phenomenon and a phenomenon that can not be linked to something we all know on Earth.”
Pinotti additionally talked about the unusual silver mud that Magnini described:
“It’s a incontrovertible fact that on the similar time the UFO was above Florence, an odd, sticky substance fell from the sky. In English, that is referred to as ‘angel hair.’ The one downside is that after a while, it disappeared. I bear in mind seeing the roofs of homes lined with this white substance, like snow, for over an hour after which it merely evaporated. Nobody is aware of what connection this unusual substance had with the UFO.”
Many described this substance as cotton or spider silk. It was tough to gather as a result of it evaporated upon contact. Nonetheless, many individuals have been decided to search out out what it was. One among them was Giorgio Batini, a journalist for the Florence newspaper “La Nazione.” In 2003, he reported on the TV present Voyager how he acquired tons of of calls that day in regards to the sighting. From the workplaces of La Nazione within the metropolis heart, the view in direction of the sky stopped on the Cathedral, so he climbed to the roof of the constructing to see for himself what everybody was describing. At this time, the 81-year-old journalist recollects seeing the ‘shining balls’ flying shortly in direction of the dome of the Cathedral.
Batini was decided to analyze this phenomenon. He discovered a stick within the metropolis lined in white fluff. He collected varied samples of the substance by throwing them right into a matchbox and took them to the Chemical Evaluation Institute of the College of Florence. When he arrived, he noticed that others had finished the identical.
The laboratory, led by scientist Prof. Giovanni Canneri, subjected the fabric to spectral evaluation and concluded that it contained boron, silicon, calcium and magnesium and that it was not radioactive. Sadly, this didn’t present a definitive reply – and the fabric was destroyed within the course of.
This present day stays a thriller and those that have been there are satisfied that what they noticed didn’t resemble something earthly. Romolo Tuci feels fortunate to have been there. Let’s finish with a sentence from him that claims all of it and as quickly as he mentioned it, the footballer’s eyes sparkled with pleasure:
I used to be enchanted and on the similar time so completely happy.
