Sassari, Sardinia: Professor reports luminous green-blue sphere crossing the sky

The U.S. Air Force file, an Air Intelligence Information Report by the acting Air Attaché in Rome dated December 15, 1953, transmits the translated account of a professor that first appeared in the local newspaper “Corriere dell’Isola” on August 28, 1952. He describes a sphere of astonishing brightness, green-blue and silver bright with metal streaks on its right side, that moved east to west at great speed, disappeared and reappeared several times leaving a thin luminous ribbon, and vanished toward the horizon after three to five seconds in total; according to him, two other persons also saw it. He cites the director of the Vatican observatory at Castel Gandolfo as calculating a distance of about 1,681 or 1,091 kilometers and an actual diameter of 14.67 or 9.25 kilometers, too big for a terrestrial “flying saucer,” before his account turns to religious and political reflections. The attaché, who interviewed him, found him intelligent, pleasant and very eager to tell his story, but also a very intense individual whom the label fanatic came close to fitting. The records are not consistent on the dates: the report’s summary places the sighting on August 28, 1952, while the newspaper text gives the evening of August 27, and the official description says the account was relayed in November 1953, which is the date of the professor’s cover letter, whereas the report itself is dated December 1953. The details are taken from records released by the U.S. Department of War in PURSUE Release 07 (record code DOW-UAP-D157) and do not represent an independent determination by From Beyond Space.