Sightings of aliens come in many shapes and sizes. Most commonly these take the form of witnesses who see something in the sky that they do not recognize, and such encounters often have rational, well understood explanations.
These UFOs usually turn out to be of terrestrial origin, weather balloons or other unfamiliar airborne objects. Similarly they often can be explained through our understanding of meteorology as naturally occurring phenomena, or in the case of recorded footage turn out to be lens aberrations or other in-camera artifacts, if not outright hoaxes.
However not all encounters are at such a distance, and in the cases where witnesses see something up close almost all of the above explanations fall away. Stranger still are those close encounters of the third kind, where aliens themselves are met face to face.
In such cases, the only explanation usually offered is that the witness is mistaken, or lying. And in the case of multiple witnesses, where a conspiracy of fabrication would be required, such explanations barely hold water at all.
So it was with the Zanfretta UFO Incident, perhaps Italy’s strangest brush with the extraterrestrial.
