San Giorgio di Nogaro, Italy: Angler sees landed domed disc with small figure, imprints

At 3:30 p.m. on September 18, 1978, Giorgio Filiputti was fishing in the Corno river where the Zumiel irrigation canal runs into it, south of San Giorgio di Nogaro, Udine, Italy, when he heard a whistling sound, saw vegetation rustling and felt a blast of air. Climbing the riverbank, he saw a brassy or yellowish metallic domed disc about 13 to 16 feet in diameter resting on a mudflat 66 feet away, with telescopic legs ending in flat pads. A figure about 3.5 feet tall in tight-fitting coveralls of scaly, silvery material, boots and white gloves, with a dark bronze face and almond-shaped eyes, walked around the rim, stared at Filiputti, and worked on a horseshoe-shaped protrusion on the dome. With a rumbling sound and a piercing whistle the object rose, withdrew its landing gear, showed a grid-patterned underside with a bluish glow, and at about 33 feet turned on edge and sped away to the southwest; he had watched it for about 6 minutes. Three circular imprints about 20 inches in diameter were found in the dry mud and sand. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.