RADCAT Case Directory Category 9, RADAR Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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Richard
Hall: Pilot Riccardo Marano was about to land at Caselle Airport,
Turin Italy, in a Piper Navajo, when the controller notified him that
there was a UFO about 400 meters (1,320 feet) above the runway. He
looked and saw a luminous, multicolored ball of light changing from
violet to blue to dark red. "When I got closer and had a better view,"
he said, "the object at once made off, flying in a most irregular
fashion, maneuvering in a way I have seen no plane do, making fantastic
lateral deviations, and sudden vast jumps to and fro, as if it enjoyed
playing hide-and-seek. Its speed was as high as 900 km per
hour [540 mph]." Col. Rustichelli, commandant of the Caselle military
airfield, said he had seen the UFO on his own radar screen. "It was
something solid, lit up, like a plane on my radar." Commander
Tranquillo, pilot of an Alitalia Air Line DC-9 en
route from Turin to Rome, called to the control tower: "I see a shining
thing giving out intermittent flashes of light, four miles from me. I
dare not approach. I give way." Commander Mezzalami in another Alitalia
DC-9 said: "I was
able to observe the object - - - notified by the control tower just as
I was about to touch down. I had a good view of it....I can offer no
theories as to its significance, and can only say that it was something
very strange indeed. (66)
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