There's a number of Italian references on Italian sites, but none appear to be authoritative - unless you count 'official' UFO web sites?
They don't appear to say much and mostly echo one another.
Here's a typical section:
“Study about the Mussolini UFO files is very interesting. This research goes on; according to these secret files, there were many UFO-sightings between 1933 and 1940 in Italy and a special secret Commission, during fascism, studied it. It was founded by Mussolini (with pilot Italo Balbo and Galeazzo Ciano; headed by Guglielmo Marconi and senator Luigi Cozza and astronomer Gino Cecchini). The first UFO-case was in 1931 near Venice; on 13 June 1933 there was a UFO-landing in Lombardy, with UFO-recovery???...
After this episode, Mussolini created the secret UFO-commission 'Gabinetto RS/33' (Cabinet Research and Espionage/33); he believed UFOs were Allied secret weapons, but Marconi was for the ET-hypothesis. We have three telegrams (there are four) about the UFO recovery near Milan in 1933, and a 'protocol' to the Prefect, for the Italian secret services and for newspapers, to cover this news. The Italian MJ-12 was with the Italian teachers (University La Sapienza, Rome) Vallauri, Pirotta, Crocco (founder Italian rockets society), Debbasi o De Blasi, Bottazzi, Giordani and a mysterious "Ruggero Costanti Cavazzani" (an alias).
Gabinetto RS investigated, between 1933 and 1940, many different Italian UFO sightings: in a case, an Italian fighter plane intercepted an UFO between Ravenna and Rome; in August 1936 there was a multiple UFO sighting (ad Adamskyan-cygar and two UFOs like Saturn) over Mestre and Venice. I think the German V-2 were developed after this Italian research about UFOs; in fact Mussolini given all the documents, during war, to the German experts???... “
I know the Aermacchi’s were good, but that good?
Personally I'm more convinced by the guy down the chip shop who swears he's Elvis!
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