Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – TRAUMA
A few days after the experience, Facchini began to have pains in the part of his back where the beam of light had struck him, and the area gradually turned black. The pain lasted for over a month. But it was the psychological trauma that persisted. ‘What is more important is the fact that I never got over the shock that I suffered,’ he said. ‘Even today, years after, from time to time I feel hot flushes on the face, without any signs of fever.’
In an interview in his home in 1981, Facchini — then 71 years old — discussed some further details of the 1950 incident and its aftermath. ‘There seems to be no discrepancy in his fresh account as given to me,’ reported investigator Ezio Bernardini. ‘Talking of the appearance of the crew of the UFO, he described to me vividly his amazement when, on television years later, he saw the American astronauts walking about on the Moon: “They looked just the same!” . . . One thing on which he was adamant was that they were not “little men”. They were of our size and build [and were] just like us, and they could pass anywhere here as men of our Earth.’
Over the past 30 years, said Facchini, many people, including engineers and technicians, had visited him to learn more about his experience. Some military and civilian experts told him that attempts had been made to construct similar craft here, but that for various reasons all had been failures. ‘You must realize that that machine, that UFO, had not only all those tubes everywhere inside and outside, but also two big holes,’ Facchini expounded, ‘and the technical experts have explained to me that, by expelling and compressing the air in the tubes, the UFO could move laterally and, sending the air out through the two big holes, the machine could go up or down.’
Here we have a technical account not as aerodynamically sound nor as advanced as others reviewed in this book. However, just as several propulsive technologies co-exist in various states of sophistication in conventional use by mankind variously, so might unconventional technologies co-exist on a broader planetary basis than just our own.
Among Facchini’s visitors was a high-ranking Italian Navy officer who, after hearing his story, said: ‘You are a lucky man! How much I’d have given to have been in your place and to have observed that marvel of technology!’ ‘What, me a lucky man?’ said Facchini, bitterly. ‘I’d have liked to pass on to him all that I’ve had to put up with!’ He went on to describe the tremendous upheaval in his life caused by the 1950 experience; the long-drawn-out mental trauma inflicted upon him by the authorities with their endless interrogations, by the hordes of curiosity-seekers, by the endless arguments with journalists, and by all the ridicule he had encountered. ‘If I’d have known all that was coming, I’d have kept jolly quiet about it . . .’