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The drawings below are Theodore McColm' s.
They illustrate the object's size
and movement at 4 minute intervals in relation to the moon. McColm, through
calculus, estimated the object to be 12, 5 0 0 ft. in diameter.
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Editor's Note: This incident and Case 14 transcends any notion that "saucer"
vehicles are confined to earth's atmosphere, therefore U.S. or R 1s sian origin.
Unless these governments are secretly conducting interplanetar :.· 'l;ravel, Cases
14 and 22 and myriads of others, add another positive link to the hypothesis
that "saucers" are extra-terrestrial and are using the moon as a hopping-off
point.
C-23, Rome, Italy ... 9/18/54) A. P. Wire: Startled Romans who saw a strange
cigar-shaped object streaking over the capital flooded newspaper offices with
calls. Radar operators also reported picking up the missile on instruments.
Technicians at Ciampino Airfield described the "half-cigar'' as plummeting
toward earth for more than 1000 ft. , then rising at tremendous speed before
vanishing.
( Thanks to George Popowitch, Barberton, Ohio.)
An INS release by eyewitness Michael Chinigo states:
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tention was the strange sound as it passed overhead . It was like thunder with
a staccato effect ... a series of explosions that grew lo'l,lder as the object got
closer. This was followed by a dead silence as the thing stopped, or appeared
to, at a height of about 6000 ft. Suddenly it shot upward and left an exhaust
trail of milky white smoke . It went straight up into the sky.
The Defense
Dept. described it as a 'clipped cone' with a smaller surface on the bottom, or
as two semi-circular disks, one bigger than the other, with a bigger one on
top.
To me it seemed like an inverted sawed-off cone. What was strange was
the object's ability to 'park' in mid-air for several minutes .
The radar station
at Rome which picked up the 'cigar' or 'cone 1 said it registered for 3 S minutes. 11
( Thanks to Warren Morse, Palo Alto, Calif.)
Editor's Note: Significant here is the AP and INS release. First they break
us the news on the Labrador sighting in July, then silence, then the Norwegian
space man story in August, now Italy. Foreign sightings all -- a subtle
preparation.