Location: Populonia, Piombino, Livorno, Italy

Date: 1944 Time: early afternoon

The 7 year old witness at the time attended elementary school in a small country town about 2.5km away from the house where he still lives today. At that time in the rural area there were no cars or public transportation to reach the school; so if the weather permitted, they would have to go there by bicycle or on foot. The witness has never told anyone about the event until recently.

One early afternoon, on his return home after school he saw in the sky, at a low altitude and over a field, an object in the shape of an inverted cone, of unspecified dimensions but sufficient to contain four humanoid figures which he glimpsed through the transparent material with which that part of the strange aircraft was made from. These unusual figures were standing with their arms stretched downwards as if they were leaning on some sort of steering wheel or, in any case, something circular. They were human like, but short and apparently bald with normal sized heads. After a few minutes of observation the object rose vertically without producing any type of noise and disappeared. At the time he was used of seeing essentially only warplanes flying over the area given that the Second World War had not yet ended. He was left in amazement and confusion.

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Source: Antonio Chiumiento, “UFO ed Enigmatiche Presenze” Type: A