Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: A CRYPTIC ENCOUNTER NEAR FLORENCE
Mario Zuccala had just returned home by bus to San Casciano, Val di Pesa, Italy, from Florence (20 kilometres away), where he worked as a tailor. It was 10 April 1962, a clear, starry night. Shortly before 21.30, as he was walking through some open ground in the district of Cidinella where he lived, the 26- year-old man felt himself ‘struck and lifted up slightly by a sharp gust of wind.
An object, resembling two plates joined together with a diameter of about 8.5 metres, could be seen hovering some six metres above the ground. A cylinder of about 1.5 metres in width came down from the lower side of the machine until it touched the ground. Zuccala later conjectured that the cylinder, once it had touched the ground, re-entered the machine again, leaving exposed one side of the cylinder in which a door opened slowly, while two small doors were gliding towards the outside, therefore they may have been two cylinders moving, one within the other (see Fig.16). In any event, from the opened door appeared an empty space, illuminated by a diffused, brilliant white light. Three steps, about 40 centimetres high, could also be seen. Then, as investigator Ceccarelli Silvano relates, two beings, about 1.5 metres tall, came out of the opening.
Their bodies resembled ours in so far as they could be seen, i.e., as to exterior form, because as for the rest they were completely covered by an ‘armour’ of shining metal. Two antennae came out from their heads . . . These two little men took hold of him gently under his armpits and took him inside the object.
Signor Zuccala went up the three steps and went inside. The interior was empty and shining all over with the same light which he had seen from outside. [He] did not notice any detail in the interior of the object. The two beings left hold of him and Signor Zuccala remembers that he asked where that light came from but he does not remember having had a reply. He then heard a voice which did not come from the two beings with him but from the inner part of the object; according to Signor Zuccala this voice was like one amplified by a microphone and as if resounding in a vast space.
The voice, speaking in Italian, gave Zuccala the following cryptic and rather silly message:
At the fourth moon we shall come at one o’clock in the morning to bring you a message for humanity. We shall give notice of this to another person in order to confirm that that which you have seen is true. Whether the ‘fourth moon’ was supposed to have meant the fourth from the beginning of the year, which would have been the full moon of 20 April 1962, or whether it meant four moons reckoning from the day of the sighting, was not clear. In any case, there was no return visit.
The two beings escorted Zuccala from the craft. Suddenly he found himself at home at about 21.45, with no recollection as to how he had arrived there. His wife heard four strong knocks at the door and went to open it, rather alarmed because her husband usually knocked only once, and then lightly, and Zuccala himself could not remember having knocked four times. He looked dazed and frightened, and at first seemed unable to make up his mind whether to stay outside or go into the house. He told his wife about what had happened then went to bed, sleeping fitfully.
The next morning, Zuccala spoke to a colleague at work who telephoned a newspaper. The story appeared in all the papers that evening and on ensuing days. Journalists pointed out that there was not the slightest evidence on the ground where the strange object had been, but by all accounts Zuccalà, the father of four children, was an honest man. ‘He speaks with calm assurance of what he has seen,’ reported Silvano. ‘I asked him whether in his life he has had any hallucinations — to which he replied in the negative.