1952: Bernina Mountains, Italy

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Photos of hoaxer Giampiero Monguzzi holding his camera and small models trash this story. These appeared in Reynolds News (UK, no date) which were saved by Murray Bott, who kindly passed them to Loren Gross. (see /r136 #11 pg 61-63) Case closed.

Date: July 31 1952

Sighting Time: 0925A

Day/Night: Day

Location: Bernina Mountains, Italy

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.

Duration:

No. of Object(s):  1

Size of Object(s): gigantic

Distance to Object(s): 200 meters

Shape of Object(s): lens-shaped, with a red antenna on top

Color of Object(s):

Number of Witnesses: 2

Special Features/Characteristics: man in a metallic “diver’s suit”

Source: UFO in Italia

Summary/Description: Giampiero Monguzzi and his wife, on the Scerscen glacier, noticed with alarm that all sounds had ceased; even their voices became inaudible.

Then they noticed, 200 meters away, “a gigantic object” on the ice—lens-shaped, with a red antenna on top. Monguzzi took a photograph; then he saw a man in a metallic “diver’s suit” approach and circle the craft, as if inspecting it.

The suit “almost looked hairy.” He carried something like a flashlight. Monguzzi photographed him. He disappeared behind the disc, then part of its surface began to rotate, and the craft rose like an elevator, showing many portholes in the upper half. After its departure, sounds returned. No trace was left on the ice.