1 December 1973 , Mr. Riccardo Marano , Pilot of 28 years, departed from Genoa, with its small tourist plane (a " Piper ") And is heading to the airport for civilian Boxes (located around Turin ). Suddenly, at about 19 hours The control tower of boxes to the pilot announced that a unidentified flying object is entering its premises in flight: Marano sees the object that has been reported, similar to a huge globe light emitting light and flashes ranging from violet At blue and then to red And the unknown aircraft is approximately 3.5 Km dell'avvistatore the plane, though trying to bridge this gap it sees further and further away.
The subject was then reported from the base of Caselle, by. Marano, but also of two civilian pilots of the airline Alitalia from Paris also claimed to have seen the UFO separately from their DC 9 .
Here are the comments of the radar, reported by Evening Press of December 4 "A luminous object the size of a DC 8 , Which proceeds with disconcerting movements , Deflecting horizontally and vertically With sudden shots speed equal to that of a missile, but with much faster acceleration. "The Press reported the same day, however as stated on the radio to the pilot:" I now fell Shooting from bow to stern. Is going vertically . Fast , Incredible. Forth, forth, disappear. "