Sightings1973

Turin-Caselle airport radar-visual sighting

When: 30 Nov 1973
Where: Turin, Italy
Sources: 1 public source

Turin-Caselle airport, whose radar tracked the 1973 target Paolo Cerutti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Press reports said Turin-Caselle airport radar tracked an unidentified target while a private pilot and an Alitalia crew saw a bright, color-changing sphere. The airport's military commander was quoted confirming the sighting; no official explanation is on record in the loaded sources.

Sources

OtherLe Provencal, 3 December 1973, p. 21 (Turin-Caselle radar sighting) (opens in a new tab)Le Provencal (reprinted by Patrick Gross, ufologie.patrickgross.org) / 1973-12-03

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