Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: FLYING SUBMARINES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
It was 06.35 on 3 June 1961. Giacomo Barra and three friends were in a motorboat off Savona in the Gulf of Genoa. The men had shut down the engine and were enjoying the early-morning breeze when suddenly the rocking motion of the waves increased and the boat began to roll badly. As Barra reported: We looked around, thinking it must be due to the proximity of one of the many tankers that put into our port. But nothing of the sort.
At a distance of a kilometre from us, the surface of the sea was bulging like an enormous ball, with long billows going out from it on all sides. Dumbfounded, we were still wondering what it was when, suddenly, a strange contraption rose up from the bulge of the water. Perhaps it was one of the celebrated ‘flying saucers‘, for the lower part of it looked like a plate upside down, and the upper part ended in a cone. While it was emerging from the sea, the water was thrust away all round it, as by a cushion of air. After it had emerged completely from the sea, it stopped still for a few seconds, at a height of 10 metres or so, and then rocked slightly a few times. Then a halo formed round the base of it, and the thing shot away very fast across the sea and vanished towards the northwest.
A REPORT FROM THREE MEN IN Two BOATS
The following is one of a number of reports of unknown ‘flying submarines’ collected from fishermen at the French fishing port of Le Brusc, between Marseilles and Nice. None of the fishermen was prepared to have his name revealed. This incident took place on 1 August 1962, between 23.00 and 23.30, on a warm, clear night. Here follows a report by the first witness: Suddenly, at about 300 metres from me, I saw a large metallic body, elongated in shape, and with a sort of chimney or turret in the middle. It seemed to be moving along slowly on the surface of the sea. Then finally it stopped. I said to my companions in the other boat: ‘A submarine has surfaced over there quite close to us. It doesn’t seem to worry them!’
One of the others replied: ‘It must be a foreign sub. It’s a model that I don’t know.’ Then there was some disturbance and waves coming around the submarine, and I was able to make out some frogmen coming out of the sea and climbing up on to the craft. We shouted to them. But at first they didn’t even turn round to look at us. My two companions, who had also seen them, and had heard me hailing them, also called to them with their loud-speaker . . .
There was no reply from their side. I had a good view of them. I counted about a dozen of them getting up onto the submarine. Then three or four of them did look around, and hesitated for a few moments, before vanishing into the ship. Finally, before rejoining the rest, the last man turned towards us and raised his right arm above his head and waved it for a few seconds in greeting, to say he had seen us, and then he disappeared into the craft like the rest.
Up to this point, the three men had been convinced that the craft was merely a foreign submarine engaged in manoeuvres; that is, until it began to rise into the air. We saw the machine rise right up out of the water and hang there just above the waves. Then we saw lights go on; red, green, and a beam of white light shot out and reached as far as our boats. This beam was from a searchlight, and gave off no heat or anything unpleasant. Then [it] went out . . . the craft was lit up with an orange-sort of glow, and the red and green lights went out.
The machine started to rotate very slowly, from left to right, and rose to about 20 metres above the sea.
Its appearance was, as we now saw, like an oval or almost round dish, and of the dimensions of a medium-sized submarine. It hung there stationary for a few minutes. Then it began to rotate faster, its light grew brighter, and suddenly it shot off horizontally at high speed over the sea, amid a vast silence. Its light now took on the colour of red flame and it flattened out and came back right round over us in a beautiful curve while climbing all the while and increasing speed, and then it vanished as a tiny dot among the stars . . . Apart from the sound of the waves, we had heard no sound from it, and you can well imagine that we asked ourselves what it could possibly have
been.