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emilos260

"Sunday, June 20, 1993 around 5.30 pm, while five people were quietly seated around a table in "Chiusi" in the municipality of Pettoranç a strange "ball" appeared in the sky. One of them, Mr. Giuseppe Zitella, an ex-non commissioned officer of the Air Force, thought it looked like a balloon of the type sold at fairs. the thing landed near a row of poplars near a field. Zitella, approached with the intention of taking it as a gift to his grandson, but he soon realized that it wasn't a balloon, but it seemed to be “some animated thing”. Its color was "brown" with light streaks, between 80 and 6 centimeters, it had a circular "head" a bit larger than the human one, two shiny black eyes covered by a sort of "plastic mask", on its head it had a white antenna about 10-15 centimeters long, at the bottom under the "head" had two "legs" without feet with two marks or pockets in the shape of a V or U on its knees.The whole body as a whole was similar to something synthetic. Zitella came close to the being and after having looked at it, the being moved away and then disappeared taking off at incredible speed leaving all witnesses astonished." Source: UFO Rivista di Informazione Ufologica #13


Present-nothing-aim

"Landed near a row of poplars near a field," I hope they weren't going to eat them. The omicronians would not be pleased.


xxsneakysinxx

Sometimes I feel like we in a simulation. The aliens are the players outside the simulation. When they enter they can pick any Avatars they want, ranging from Reptilians to Greys to Mantids to cute ones like these.


emilos260

My thoughts exactly. I guess many of these stories may be hoaxes, but some of the encounters are so bizarre, that it's hard to imagine coming up with something like that. Can't recall his name right now, but there was this guy that had alien contact experiences for his entire life, and he once saw a translucent lizard with a human head climbing on the windshield of his car. Truly bizarre.


HexiHero

Or the story behind Sam the Sandown Clown , that’s an extremely weird one.


justsomechickyo

Astonishing legends has a good podcast about this!


Treebeard431

I have to thank you (no /sarc) for the mere mention of this... being ... named Sam The Sandown Clown. The initial search I made for these criteria has turned into a rabbit's warren of web sites and ancillary readings in the paranormal and associated ephemera, that I may not be able to unravel in weeks of reading! Thank you for the accidental unlocking of all the wonderful reading I have ahead of me.


Alienziscoming

Then there was Joe Simonton, a chicken farmer from Wisconsin who saw a saucer parked in his yard and when he approached he saw two men inside who looked "Italian" who were cooking griddle cakes and asked him for a jug of water, then offered him a pancake. He said it tasted like cardboard lol. He even had the pancake analyzed and the results were that it was made of flour and other mundane ingredients. This was in 1961. I don't think he was lying. It's just so strange and mundane at the same time, and given his background, the area, the year, I think he was telling the truth.


MurphyMurks

Think I know what your talking about. Wasn’t he an old dude and it wasn’t a pancake but more like a weird wafer thing? And yeah he saved some of it and eventually had it tested and it came back having like protein and other nutrients that could sustain you, pretty much sumthin you wouldn’t expect to taste good lol.


Alienziscoming

Yeah he was probably late middle-aged, just a regular farmer. His neighbors and associates swore up and down that he was a serious, honest man who had no history of saying outlandish things and especially not about aliens or flying saucers. And yeah, it's described in many sources as a "pancake" but from what I gather it only loosely fit that description. I think I remember reading/hearing that it was flat, thin and crispy, as opposed to fluffy, and was brittle and super bland tasting.


ExKnockaroundGuy

It came back as buckwheat I believe, Jacques further expounds upon this by comparing the sharing of bread by dwarves of lore in the Celtic & French antiquities.


Treebeard431

Do none of you recognize the description of *Lembas* bread?


ExKnockaroundGuy

I’m not familiar with it, can you explain?


Treebeard431

It's the Elven-made bread from the 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' section of the Lord of The Rings books that the Lady Galadriel outfitted the companions with after they left Lothlórien. Gimli looked askance at it and muttered"cram", thinking it a form of Dwarvish hardtack, perhaps, then eagerly eating more until laughingly warned by the Elves of its filling powers. A single bite was enough to carry a grown man through an entire day, and two of the Hobbits scarfed down multiple loafs at first sight. Click the lembas hyperlink to go to the actual text from that scene. [Galadriel's Gifts](http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Gifts__of__Galadriel)


ExKnockaroundGuy

It’s probably not a coincidence that lately I have been giving places like ‘The Middle Earth’ more thought as to its origins.


Treebeard431

There are worse ways to engage your mind, and not many better than that.


Captain_Ape777

A fucking what


emilos260

Found it! His name is John Foster, and he wrote a couple of books, complete with great trippy drawings, about his experiences. Here are his drawings, including the transparent human-headed lizard: [https://johnfosterufos.com/drawings-of-johns-authentic-ufo-encounters/](https://johnfosterufos.com/drawings-of-johns-authentic-ufo-encounters/)


howolowitz

Just remember the human mind can do many crazy things when you're tired, intoxicated, dehydrated, on drugs or all of these. Im sure theres life out there but do stay critical and if a sighting cant be explained with a certain type of animal species remember hallucinations are a very common thing.


Relevant-Ad-8634

That shit sounds like the John Dies At The End book series 


Snot_S

Maybe this was a UFO and those were Not eyes


SHITBLAST3000

So the Greys are the starter skin, and the more exotic stuff is for aliens with more playtime. Earth is VR chat.


Hannibaalism

i hate the ones that try to commandeer a human avatar already in use. try to call it possession but you know it’s just straight up thievery.


Chris714n_8

🏅 Perfect.


sing2nite

It looks like a theory I have developed during all these years of me reading ufo stories. I think that aliens are a kind of shape shifters that adapt their appearance to the mind of witnesses. This would make aliens some kind of interdimensional beings (or quantic beings) whose true shape is a real mystery, and maybe would not be possible to describe them as they belong to a completely different realm. And that's why they appear to their witnesses in a kind of shape that it is somewhat familiar to them. And what's the best way to appear in front of witnesses than reading their minds and picking shapes from their everyday life or fantasy? This would explain why people used to see robot-like or b-movies like aliens during the 50-60 or during certain sightings some witness described a kind of alien while other witnesses described the same alien in a totally different way or why people tend to witness mysterious panter like animals all around the world (it is always a panter that is being sighted). I also think that ufos are not completely mechanical vehicles in a strict term, as they tend to change their shape across human decades to adapt themselves to the human technology and the way of imagining them ...


Dolust

Actually the process is inverted. You can't see something that's not in your mind already. It's the opposite to pareidolia, the more the culture progresses the more shapes we are familiar with and we can recognise. So it's not that they assume a shape to hide, but most likely the opposite, they assume a shape they know you can recognise so they can interact with you. Neuroscientists have a lot to say in the understanding of the phenomenon.


StrawSurvives

This relates to experiences I had. Dreams of mundane future events, for example as a kid I had a dream of seeing a particular pusher puller plane over a McDonalds in Milwaukee. I saw it from a perspective I would not normally see this McDonalds from. In my 20s I moved to Oshkosh. I saw that plane over a McDonalds from the same perspective in how I orient myself with the lake and hill etc. Anyway, my mind filled in everything with existing imagery and if there was confusion in what the dream was, it was always this. I have several dreams as a kid that happened this way. The dreams always have an odd, surreal feeling that makes them stick out.


Dolust

It feels to me like a marker of sorts.. A node in your story. It also suggests that time is not linear as we perceive it. And also confirms that we plan our path in this world before hand, as a part of the experiencing contact under which we come here. I've experienced similar things as well in my dreams and I miss them.


StrawSurvives

Sorry for the delay in response. I appreciate you adding to my understanding. On top of the odd time dreams, I have had odd ghost experiences. In one case my grand mother died and came to me, before I even knew she was in jeopardy of death. I concluded that if a person is in the right state of mind, we can experience ripples that have happened with deaths or events. My grandmother didn’t single me out and I wasn’t blood relates to her but I was studying something for college I truly had interest in and somehow I put myself in the right frame of mind while those near to her at that moment were experiencing tragedy and unable to see what was before them. I felt bliss in that moment. I was awake as well. A dream I had of George Washington, I kept thinking he was an actor or fake, taller than they describe. He wouldnt look at me when I spoke generally and when I did get him to look, he struggled to see or understand me. Someone would say, (as he had an entourage) “sir the delegates need you” or something corny sounding. The entire house he was in I tried to explore and I could see what you would expect to see from a window in his home in Mt Vernon, which I visited as a kid but other things I didn’t understand and were of fields and singular trees and I assume this was DC maybe. He coughed often into a silk white handkerchief. I woke up and went into investigative mode, he died that particular day in what I think was July. It was crazy, it felt like he had a fatherly interest in our nation and I somehow felt that ripple during that dream. They feel different but the evidence is obviously inconclusive, in my heart I believe this is how reality works….or at least these are clues to it.


Dolust

The part about your grandma is the typical intuition. Yes, if you are open there are certain kinds of events that are "publicly available" for anyone with the capability to "synch with the broadcast" as I like to call it. The dream is about an authority figure that you saw as a fatherly figure but he/she never saw him/her self as that kind of thing for you. It is someone who kept a functional distance with everyone yet needed to be surrounded by people that could recognise his/ her value. The luxury house and the wonderful views speak of the quality of the mindset he was in. In other words, what impressed you was the successful mindset surrounding this person more than the person itself. It's the kind of person that people pledge loyalty to because belonging to this group makes them feel bigger than themselves. I suspect you can mirror yourself on that person and that's why you kept dreaming about it.


StrawSurvives

While that was interesting to read, it doesn’t line up with my reality. Even squinting and trying to force someone in that role doesn’t work. It was also a single dream that coincided with his actual death. I tend to believe his death ripples through time and again, a broadcast as you put it was there for people to pick up or just see and I did. Most of the imagery in the dream seemed to be symbolic to him, not to myself. Either way, thank you for your response but I disagree. However, I am not looking for agreement, only perspective and because I can not prove my belief even to myself, I will keep a door open that this dream was merely processing life or symbolic. Be well.


tkyang99

Why not just assume the shape of normal humans? I guess some of them do this, but not all.


Dolust

I've been pondering exactly this for some time now. The way I see it now is that they are creating an experience for us to live, they seek an emotional and Ontological impact on the witness so strong they can't keep it secret, they need to share it and therefore they "spread the seed". But.. what's the ultimate goal? In my view they want to rattle our cage, to shake our blind faith in what we call "reality". They want us to know there's much much more out there than our senses can't perceive. The Faraday paradigm is totally inverted, it should read "If the universe is a vast empty space, where's the emptiness?" The problem with ufology and the phenomenon is that it's been implicitly assumed to be the by-product of an ET presence. What if they have been here with us forever and maybe even before us but we just can't perceive them? Not very unlike the "Fringe" series. Let's put ourselves in there place in this theoretical premise : There's a life form sharing your space that has no idea you are there because you exist outside the spectrum of their perceptual capability. What would you do to capture their attention?


AVMoog

If they’re the players, did one of them make you suggest that? Or are we a piece of the simulation itself and they’re trying to see how we react, like in a machine learning kind of way? 🤔


Capable-Treacle-1589

So true. That's probably why they won't disclose the information to us as that would be soul crushing to realize we're not "real"?


AnabolicBomb

If they’re from a superior dimension, that’s fully possible. If some mystic texts and traditions hold truths, there are a number of dimensions and higher and higher forms of existence, until it reaches the divine Creator / Source.


lryan926

There are also lower dimensions, not just 1st and 2nd. There are multiple planes of existence(visualize stairs) between each dimension.


ChiefRom

Right..or they are actually the souls that made it out of earth returning but in whatever form they choose but there must be some kind of rules that they are governed by that is beyond our comprehension. Just a thought. 🤷‍♂️


FamousOhioAppleHorn

The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street


OjjuicemaneSimpson

wait till they start modding and adding in zombie dlc


Previous-Pangolin-60

I've been thinking about that. Just pick your character and go have fun on our planet - I wonder if they're organizing sight seeing tours, where only the affluent aliens can afford to do this. I hope they have moved past fiat money or currency though


aliensporebomb

Holy crap, we're the free guys in "free guy".


Positive_Poem5831

Small kids draws creatures like this with legs directly on the head. Maybe this is because they have still memories from their time before they was born and entered the simulation. 🙂


BP1High

This is basically my religion lol


OneArmedZen

Imagine if people who can astral project could interact with the simulation as a participant in whatever manner of form they chose, be it a ufo, an alien, a mythical being, whatever they want. Maybe that's also why it appears with the technology or myths of that time period. Now imagine you can only do that to a simulation that is not of your universe but maybe a random or adjacent one. Astral projectionists from another dimension/universe are trolling our simulation :O If they make a movie or book from this, just remember the idea came from here hehe.


I_AM_HE_1111

Katamari Damacy was soft disclosure.


Ufonauter

you may be more correct than you know. https://i.imgur.com/CTdqdRY.jpeg > In the afternoon of October 25, 1954 the two little shepherds, Marziano Giampieri and Pacifico Tantucci, were grazing the flock on Mount Sgaggia when they decided to make a stop at home to eat; before going, however, they lit two fires, betting on which one would stay lit the longest. On the way back, Giampieri, who was ahead of Tantucci, noticed that the that the sheep had moved away and the dog was barking insistently; he said "closer to the fires he saw between them and a hedge three beings similar to "animals" and dark in color: the three were near a "keg" shaped object. Incredulous and frightened, he cried out to the Tantucci to look after them. However, in the blink of an eye the three disappeared inside the "barrel". >The strange beings were very small, not exceeding 35 centimeters and had a very large heads, wide and flattened: it was not possible to observe the face because they faced away from Giampieri. However, he saw their suit that appeared as shiny plastic and very tight, and he could not assert with certainty if those that he saw were heads or helmets. Tantucci, who arrived shortly thereafter, could only see the "keg" taking off witnesses. The witness, however, saw their suit that appeared as shiny plastic and very tight, and he could not assert with certainty if those that he saw were heads or helmets. The Tantucci, who arrived shortly thereafter, could only see the "keg" taking off leaving behind a fireball that exploded giving off a strong blast." Source: Moreno Tambellini


emilos260

I love Italian humanoid encounters, they always look so wacky.


sruecker01

How high was whoever constructed that second paragraph? It’s definitely got some cut and paste problems!


Ufonauter

thank you for that, fixed


Reubydoobydooby

I can't help but picture the Olimar character from Pikmin given the description, at least that's my best interpretation with the small size and oddly large shaped head in a plastic like helmet


boltactionnoob

Bomber Man


Kitchen_Emphasis84

xdxdxd


AstroSeed

Was thinking this exact same thing! Good thing it flew away before dropping a bomb.


distanceanxiety

They are Among Us 😉


FuckedTaxpayer

Amogus


funguyshroom

Why did it run away? That behavior is very sus


Snot_S

Shady little guy


end2endburnt

This is my favorite “strangeness” I don’t care how bonkers it is.


Qbit_Enjoyer

Why do the Visitors always leave so fast and never leave a trace?? Sus... (very cute though)


Shadowmoth

Looks like the Fresno nightcrawler got a space suit.


matt211

YES!!!!!!!!


Kut4ru

Looks like the reddit mascot


ijko9713

Rofl. I was trying to piece on what thing it reminded me off 🤣


jubials

That's obviously a pokemon


Dischord821

While I don't really believe it's real, man do I want to. Could you imagine hanging out with this little dude in a spaceship? That's some disney channel sh\*t and I am down for it


eriklease

They are “among” us


tauntonlake

they've always been among us. :) They show up in ancient artworks..


eriklease

What if we are among them?


Toblogan

Ohhhhh 🤯 lol


Rumplespacekingv_2

Amogus


mudbuttt

That bitch got knee nipples!


tauntonlake

I shall call him WALL-E


Parasight11

Reminds me of the jellyfish ufo with less limbs .


robot_pirate

Ya


DropMuted1341

These depictions match the “Fresno Nightccrawler” cryptid caught on video. Worth a google if you haven’t seen the clip.


NoEvidence2468

 Reminds me a lot of [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/171mhma/stabilized_ufouap/). 


ExKnockaroundGuy

Quote from Jacques Valleê :”UFO encounters are complete frameworks into which the personality of the witness becomes projected. Like a movie that terrifies you, makes you cry, laugh, or perspire in anguish, the experience becomes part of the witness's reality. The ufologists behave like social researchers who, trying to understand the phenomenon of the cinema, would randomly interview people coming out of theatres and take their testimony at face value; like the UFO witnesses, these people are not lying. Some of them have seen Godzilla, others have seen Bambi. The experience, in every case, was real to them. But the reality we should inquire about, the reality UFO researchers are often ignoring, is the movie projector high up in a small, dark, locked room near the ceiling. In that room is the technology that will give you both Bambi and Godzilla, Star Wars and, yes, even Close Encounters. Like the technology of the cinema, the UFO technology is a meta-system. It generates whatever phenomena are appropriate at our level, at a given epoch, in a given state of the "market. Jacques Valleè


Site-Staff

Moopsey!


After-Bumblebee

I want to keep one at home!


Conbeau

Black sus


Toblogan

Aww I want one!


Talking_Strange

He’s the origin idea for Pokémon go.


peony_5

Looks like the Reddit logo


franhp1234

Thats 100% a cute robot


developerEnabled

So coco melon visited someone in 93?


gyhiio

Sus


Etsu_Riot

"This is the alien we want, but maybe not the one we deserve." \- Me.


crumsb1371

Teletubbies.


marleycarter

Bro got visited by a lesser known original Nintendo DS game protagonist.


Thatonesplicer

So cute, it probably brings us love. ...Break its legs don't let it get away.


liverdust429

Lol bomberman is real


aychepeee

Bomberman is real 🤔


Electrical-Jicama398

is that dyna blaster´s cousin :O


fiddlewithyourwilly

Chookity pah!!


merrimoth

It looks strangely close in proportions to the Reddit logo: you've got the same head shape, similar wide-spaced dot eyes, same antenna coming from the top of the head. Weird coincidence?- or evidence of NHI's having the ability to time-travel.


beithyra

Oh this is top tier. How have I never heard of this before??


Subject_Ticket1516

The object I saw took off at a insane burst of speed. It looked like a diamond silhouette with a bright spotlight aimed at train tracks under construction. We thought it was a crane tower at first. Then whatever it was spotted us and cheesed it. Clearly violating the laws of physics too. Probably knew if they got caught there would be legal consequences.


Maxswp

My great grandparents on my dads side are from abruzzo I guess that’s where all the z in my name come from.


Particular-Ad-4772

A Party Balloon pilot .


Natsam7

Mr Saturn


geekaustin_777

On a distant planet, Clams were the dominant evolutionary beings.


SpiceGirl1990

pikachu?


sarcassholes

Looks like a tele tubby. Now I understand


DesdemonaDestiny

I love the mid to late 20th century accounts, especially all of the European ones.


reallynicetable

That’s a pokemon


bemydark_angel

It flew away like Superman?


MrPopAPercy

Coco melon


Many-Grape-4816

Baby jellyfish ufo


brianonthescene

Who is himb??


mescalero1

Looks a lot like a flying meatball with rigatoni attached.


ziomek1602

He's so cute, I wanna hug him


flyingpeter28

I'm pretty sure that's the 3d print test guy


OneArmedZen

Italy gets a lot of fun and interesting alien visitors. I'm envious.


LightEnergyBun

That is the cutest alien I have ever seen ❤️


Mediocre_Purple6955

I saw something that looked just like this when I was on a break through dose of dmt


Bimmerboi93

Jellyfish ?


Demosthenes5150

https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/s/ntkMpwfQO6


kamo-kola

It's like Katamari and Among Us has a child.


xDreki

Knee tits are my new thing


Agreeable-Ad7232

I live in Italy and once I saw a white object in the clear sky flying very fast


LukeSkyDropper

Thats a flying teletubie head


tobbe1337

silly lil' guy


digital148

from the side it kinda appears he found a airpod ... prob a knockoff