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Treviso Air Force Base, Italy 🇮🇹 | June 18th 1979 at 11.30am Posting this because it’s the first colour representation of this famous black and white photograph. …
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Treviso Air Force Base, Italy 🇮🇹 | June 18th 1979 at 11.30am
Posting this because it’s the first colour representation of this famous black and white photograph I’ve seen. Makes quite a bit of difference seeing it in colour.
Pilot Giancarlo Cecconi was returning to Treviso AFB, Italy, in his G-91R fighter with his G-91R group 14 of the Air Force’s 2nd Fighter Wing, after completing a reconnaissance mission on June 18, 1979 at 11:30 am.
With unused film in the cameras of his aircraft, the pilot activated the cameras and approached the UFO at a distance of 70-80 meters and at a speed estimated at 300 knots (450-500 km).
Airport ground staff watched the event through binoculars. Cecconi was called in by the Treviso control tower to warn him that the object was emitting a strange blue trail.
He pursued the object at an altitude of 7,000 feet, but did not notice its trace. When the pilot approached the object, he moved up and down at an altitude of 1,000 feet at a time, climbing up to 13,000 feet.
Cecconi flew seven to eight flights near the object and each time photographed the UFO with a camera, resulting in 82 frames in which the intruder was captured.
The visible UFO was stationary relative to the G-91, but the radar center confirmed to Sesconi that it was moving, its course and speed were determined.
The pilot saw a matte black cylindrical object and the presence of a small white or transparent “dome” located on the upper side of a slightly flattened object.
The dome was similar in shape to those found on sports cars. While Cecconi was making another call to return to another series of photographs, Istrana’s radar called and reported that the object had suddenly disappeared from their and other radars.
The object was a cylindrical object no less than eight meters (26 feet) long and no more than three in diameter, flying thirteen thousand feet in the sky.
The incident is significant thanks to the camera footage, radar, and visual evidence from several witnesses, including a highly respected fighter pilot.
The Italian TicTac in color… what could be better?
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That is an amazing photo Iggy. It’s funny I was following UFOs very closely back in the 70s but I never came across this case and it’s only your blog that’s brought it to my attention. Is this the only photo that’s ever been released.
Cheers
Anthony
Hey Anthony, thanks! Indeed as spectacular as this is it didn’t get much air time, as it were. It’s one of my favorites.
There are a few posts on here about it, search for cecconi; and my big post with all three on it at https://whatsallthisthen.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/the-remarkable-cecconi-ufo-case-cover-up-italian-style/. I’ve only seen the 3 pictures from the Italian newspaper from back then, but like it says above there are 82 in all.
He was circling the thing but it would not let him get a side view and it stayed in that same spot relative to his plane. I think that’s pretty neat!
https://whatsallthisthen.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/the-remarkable-cecconi-ufo-case-cover-up-italian-style/
Thanks Iggy. Wow!! Talk about a backhander to the pilot. They concluded it was a plastic balloon. So this pilot (an Air Marshal no less) is flying around the skies with an expensive aircraft chasing and photographing a balloon??
It’s a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it. I definitely want to get one of those balloons.
Yes, could be a lot of fun. Especially if you can send the air force on a wild goose chase. LOL 🙂