Location. Bordano, Udine, Italy

Date: summer 1946 Time: 1830

On a late summer day 12-year-old Armando Picco was upstairs in his home watching lighting strikes outside. Just as the rain ended, he heard a very piercing hissing noise seemingly originating from above. At first very faint, the hissing became so loud that the boy had to cover his ears with his hands. Soon the hissing sound grew fainter and disappeared. Looking up, the boy saw a transparent object hovering over the roof of a house nearby, about 50 meters away. There was a little man inside the sphere, seated like a “helicopter pilot,” who kept his hands on a kind of “control dashboard” having yellow and red lights. The UFO moved to the left, went behind a roof, and reappeared a little bit lower and closer to the witness. Now the object appeared oval-shaped and the boy saw a second “little man” walking and then stopping next to the one seated. The second being put his right hand on the control dashboard. The entities stood on a dark floor, this overlying a lighter-shaded area filled with “cables” or the like. On the left side of the object, where the second being had his hand, there was a black spot. The beings seemed to talk to each other and to look around. The entities were described as 1.15-1.20 meters tall, with heads larger than normal, narrow shoulders, and thin bodies, wearing “frogman” like overalls and hoods. Their faces were not entirely visible but uncovered and pale in color, similar to their hands. Soon, the object moved erratically as if it were experiencing difficulty. During the sighting, the boy asked himself who the beings could be, and his “subconscious” told him, “They come from other worlds…” The object then moved away slowly over some trees and took off towards the village. There it stopped and started away again, faster, and faster and now looking again like a sphere with a pale pink brightness confined to its interior. The object headed toward Cremona (a nearby village) while the witness saw light beams from elsewhere moving horizontally from right to left at differing altitudes and directed right towards the object. Now at a distance, the object seemed like a white spot of light, then turning yellow, then green-blue and finally a vivid red. At this point, it split into several pieces that shot away quickly in all different directions. The whole sighting lasted about two minutes.

HC addendum
Source: Maurizio Verga “When Saucers came to Earth” Type: A