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Newspapers talked about it.
People wanted to know.
But nobody could penetrate the mystery.
What was going on?
Strange flying machines were flying the skies of Italy.
It was the '50s.
Some people took incredible photos.
Others were frightened and shouted, they're here.
They're among us.
While still others believed the aliens had come to help.
But who were they?
Where were they from?
Above all, what did they want?
Many knew but kept quiet, a mystery that
has remained as such for decades,
a secret now revealed-- Friendship,
the incredible story of mass contact between humans
and extraterrestrials.
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Until recently, the phenomenon of contactism,
or the deliberate encounter repeated over time between man
and evolved extraterrestrial entities,
was believed to involve only a few chosen individuals
or contactees.
Many of them went down in history-- George Adamski,
Howard Menger, Eugenio Siragusa, just to name a few.
All of them faithfully abided by this cliche.
But in 2007, something happened that would
change the cards on the table.
Stefano Breccia, an engineer from Marche living in Abruzzo,
published some startling papers that
seemed to reveal the story of repeated direct encounters
between more than 100 people and extraterrestrial beings living
in numerous secret bases on our planet.
The main figure of the event told by Breccia is the writer
Bruno Sammaccicia .
The case is said to have taken place mainly
in and around Pescara.
It would all begin in 1956 and would last for many years.
The film clips and photographs that have emerged so far
are of considerable interest.
But even more extraordinary are the testimonies
of the individuals involved.
Everyone called their story Friendship.
And that is the name that has come down to us today.
Thanks to Stefano Breccia's courage,
one of the most awe-inspiring sagas in ufology
has come to light.
It wasn't an easy decision to decide to make it known.
It all started from an idea by Bruno Sammaccicia .
He'd been thinking about writing down his experiences
and then asked me to be the one to do it.
And so I was at his house for a month to record his stories.
Then I put everything together.
Besides granting his dear friend's wishes,
Breccia had set himself another objective.
One reason is to hope that it might
work as bait to encourage other people in the group
to come forward.
Gaspare De Lama and his wife Mirella
are among those still alive today
who were involved in the Friendship events
and who accepted Breccia's invitation to come forward.
They now live on the shores of Lake Como.
Gaspare admired Stefano's courage
to expose himself so directly, despite being
a well-known figure in science and academia.
He had no hesitation about exposing himself,
and I admired him for that.
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And so coming out and talking about my experience becomes
easy for me because it gives me great joy--
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--the joy of being able to tell people something that can
help them understand more or make their doubts grow
or disappear or strengthen their belief.
Gaspare De Lama became a fan of ufology in the late '40s
and, together with his wife, sought a path
to greater awareness.
Even Gaspare's mother took part in the events.
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Gaspare, his mother Zita, and I had--
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--finally achieved our goal, which was to get to know them.
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We were hoping for an experience
with teachers who could help us improve.
In the Friendship story, Sammaccicia called the beings
by the name of W56.
They weren't a single race but a group
of extraterrestrial beings coming from different parts
of the universe.
Although they looked like humans,
there were considerable differences
in height, which ranged from 1 to 6 meters.
The first encounter took place in April 1956.
Bruno Sammaccicia was there, along with his two friends,
Giancarlo and Julio.
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Bruno said that an old friend had given him
this parchment because Bruno collected antiques.
And while looking at it, they noticed
it was a map of the castle above Ascoli Piceno at Rocca Pia.
It seemed to be a kind of treasure map.
So they decided to go and take a look at the area.
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They went there more than once without ever finding anything
in particular until one night when
they came across these people.
At a certain point, these two came out
from a path that runs around the castle,
introduced themselves, and started to talk.
One of them was particularly short, about 1 meter in height,
and the other, extremely tall, 2.5 meters,
something like that.
As for the rest, they looked like normal people.
But what happened in that encounter?
According to the eyewitnesses, the two aliens
spoke perfect Italian.
The thing that immediately struck them
was the strong sense of love that
emanated from these beings.
The information they gave to Bruno, Giancarlo, and Julio
was awesome to say the least.
They said that Earth had been created for a positive purpose
and that man was turning everything into evil,
that the morality level of humans
was much lower than their own.
They explained that this is a very critical moment
in human history.
Atomic weapons are capable of destroying
the planet in a matter of minutes, a tremendous risk that
could come to pass because of our low moral sense.
Their task was to ensure that the situation didn't get out
of hand.
They said they weren't here to conquer, as there was nothing
to conquer, that everything stemmed from the need
for love and respect, and that everything
should be done in accordance.
They knew Earth's history, philosophies, and religions
perfectly.
They said they'd already been on Earth for many centuries,
living at secret bases in various places on the planet.
They preferred not to reveal themselves publicly
because people weren't ready for the contact.
They expected a positive return from their activity.
Their goodness and their truth would be stronger
than human doubts.
When they left, it was almost 3:00 in the morning.
The extraordinary experience of Friendship
began at that very moment.
The meetings between Bruno, Giancarlo, Julio, and the W56,
also known as the Friends, continued for several months.
During frequent long walks on the beach in Pescara,
they gave the humans a good deal of other information.
Dimpietro was the name of the captain
of the extraterrestrial group operating in Italy.
Sigir, Sigis, Itaho, Kenio, Sinas, Saju, Meredir, Romulus
are some of the names that became common
within Friendship.
They were invented by the humans because the W56 had
a different concept for names.
One of the most impressive facts regarded their bases.
They said they had a number of them scattered
around Italy and the world.
Their most important European base was right in Italy.
And one of the entrances was in fact at Rocca Pia.
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The main one was the enormous base
at the depths of the Adriatic, almost
in contact with the continental shelf, which roughly ranged
from Fortuna to Rimini, as the expanse of its longitude,
and in the latitude, went from the middle of the Adriatic
to the Apennines, with an upper limit of 300 meters,
so vast that it was affected by normal weather.
So at times it also rained inside.
Then they had many smaller bases, closer to the surface.
There was one in Pineto, one in Ascoli, three around Pescara,
one near Como, one in the Milan area, and so on.
Many of them were genuine centers of support.
But the aliens also explained how they built their bases.
In the stories told by Bruno, Giancarlo, and Julio,
you're immediately aware of the huge gap
in scientific and technological development between humans
and the Friends.
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They weren't built by digging.
But through a particular mechanism,
they were able to compress material laterally.
The soil would thicken into what would later
become the walls of the place.
And then the outer structure was formed
by extremely dense and therefore extremely strong material.
The funny thing was that it was very unstable.
But it always had to be kept standing.
All you had to do was flip a switch and everything
returned to the initial state.
So for them to open and close a base
was a very commonplace operation.
The same system was used to create the entry corridors.
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Even the bases closer to the surface
didn't have stable entrances.
When they had to enter, they opened a corridor
and then closed it again.
Aside from the facts related to Friendship,
the presence of secret extraterrestrial bases
on our planet is a subject that scholars have long been aware
of, just as there have been numerous cases of contact
throughout the world, like the one the American policeman
named Herbert Schirmer described,
which occurred in Ashland, Nebraska, on December the 3rd,
1967.
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The experience took place in the United States,
to the policeman Schirmer, who had
a close encounter of the third kind with UFO entities
and was allowed on board one of these UFOs.
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In the course of this encounter with these beings,
they told him several things.
He would be told that the pilots of the UFOs on earth
have different bases of support.
And they are both underground and below the seas.
In the case of Friendship, Bruno Sammaccicia
was the leader, the main reference point.
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The story of the W56 had started with him.
He knew the most since he'd been in the bases,
had met them personally, was telepathic.
He was the one who held the strings, the one who decided,
not that he was, I'm the boss--
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The word "boss" isn't nice.
But we saw him as number one.
The relationship that was established
between the W56 and the Friendship group
was not one-way.
Very soon, the Friends started asking for help.
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At the most prosaic level, they
asked for essentially logistical assistance.
Then they requested industrial quantities of fruit.
Then they needed metals in industrial quantities,
as usual, but also strange minerals
like strontium and barium nitrate,
which were very difficult to find since back then they
served no useful purpose at all.
Today it has applications in telecamera, circuits,
like that.
But in those days, we had absolutely no idea
what it might be used for.
To unload the cargo from the trucks, including fruit,
the W56 used teleporting.
They proved they could teleport anything, even people,
without any particular problem.
They took a whole load of fruit and teleported
it, which means that the operation only
lasted a few seconds.
Of course, all this meant that no outsider
could watch the unloading.
This often forced Bruno and Giancarlo to invent excuses
so that truck drivers arriving with a load
wouldn't become suspicious.
They usually explained that a team of professional workers
would be coming soon to transfer the goods by other means.
So while Bruno invited the driver to some nearby bar
to wait for the phantom workers, Giancarlo
stood watch over the truck.
Obviously the places where they met were chosen in advance.
The unloading operation lasted just a few seconds.
So when Bruno and the truck driver came back,
it was already over.
The truck driver was always impressed by the speed
and cleanliness of the work.
Buying such large quantities and so many varieties of materials
was very expensive.
Sometimes it was the Friends who paid part of the cost
or all of it, maybe in their usual way.
But most of the time, it wasn't like that, which created
more than a few problems.
Essentially, the vast majority of the expenses
were paid by Bruno.
In other words, he took the trouble of paying.
The others took part if and when they could.
Throughout their story, definitely out of the ordinary,
it seems even more absurd that despite their astonishing
technological capabilities, the W56
needed help to get food or other materials,
not to mention the money that materialized out of nowhere.
Of course they could get whatever they wanted
without the slightest problem.
As I said, their technology was advanced.
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In my opinion, putting on this little show
served to keep the sense of cohesion tight.
In fact, the Friends explained that to be
able to operate among us, humans had
to express their goodwill in a concrete way, too.
They said, help us to help you.
Lots of people who were part of the Friendship story
saw W56 flying saucers.
These sightings were almost always by appointment.
The W56 indicated the place, date, and time
so the humans were able to get organized with film equipment.
Sometimes the photos were also published.
The series of a flying saucer over Milan,
photographed by Gaspare De Lama, ended up
in "Domenica del Corriere" in the second issue
of April, 1962.
The sighting had taken place at the end
of February of the same year.
The eyewitnesses were Gaspare De Lama, Bruno Sammaccicia ,
and journalist Bruno Ghibaudi, at the time author of numerous
articles on UFOs and one of the first journalists to seriously
address the issue.
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When we were on my balcony in Piazzo Giulio Cesare in Milan,
when that saucer was photographed,
that's why he later wrote the article in the "Domenica del
Corriere."
Besides Bruno, he was present too.
Obviously, only now, after the revelations
of Professor Breccia and Gaspare De Lama,
can we know what really revolved around that seemingly chance
occurrence.
But how much weight should we give to these claims?
Gaspare still remembers one of the sightings perfectly.
It happened in the countryside of Treno near Milan.
There are still excellent quality photos and a film clip,
more deteriorated because of the decades that have passed.
The W56 asked Gaspare himself to choose the place
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I went back to Bruno and said, that's the place I chose.
And then he told me, go buy some film.
Put it in the camera.
And I said, but no, you put it in.
No, no, you have to do everything.
I said, OK.
I put the film in the camera and filmed for a good two minutes.
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He wanted me to take the film out of the camera.
I put it in my pocket and took it
to Ferrania, which was then in Via Matteotti,
to have it developed.
When I went to get it, I took it home
and saw the film clip of this beautiful flying
saucer that was going up and down, almost to the ground.
On top of the saucer, you see a dark area,
which the W56 explained was a particular effect
of condensation caused by the energy of the flying saucer.
Some of the photos of the series taken in the Treno countryside
were lost.
But those that remained would provide evidence
of the incredible sighting experienced by Gaspare De Lama
and Bruno Sammaccicia .
While returning to Milan, the saucer
followed them for a stretch.
And Sammaccicia took one more shot, the last of the 12
exposures on the roll.
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Bruno took a photo of the same flying saucer, which
had apparently reappeared there to follow us
or to give us a last farewell.
The particular phenomenon of condensation
does not appear in this shot.
This important series of documents
was analyzed to evaluate any possible falsification.
Back then, digital technologies didn't exist.
So it was very difficult to produce high quality forgeries.
I accurately and specifically analyzed
the photographic material concerning the Friendship case.
I didn't find any evidence of forgery, such as a small scale
model suspended by cables, superimposed images,
processing with 3D graphics.
From the images of the analyses that were made,
I can confirm that the object was quite large.
We're talking roughly 4 to 5 meters around.
Now, this also agrees with the testimonies
of the people I spoke with.
And the object is precisely inserted into this context
of lights, shadows.
Therefore, it is perfectly placed
in its environmental context.
As part of the Friendship case,
an enormous amount of photographic material and film
clips about flying saucers was produced.
Much has been distributed indiscriminately.
Much has been lost and even stolen.
And much more is still locked in the drawers
of other unknown participants who don't
want to make themselves known.
However, there's enough material available
to give us an idea of just how incredible the events would
have been.
All the material that is known to date
is thanks to Gaspare De Lama and Stefano Breccia.
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In the Friendship case, there were literally
hundreds of photos, videos, audio recordings--
and that's about it since technology ended there
at that time.
Over time, Friendship would involve other people
who took part in this incredible experience in various ways.
Everybody had the opportunity to see the phenomena.
And many had the chance to personally meet the W56.
The number and kinds of individuals involved in Italy
alone would be considerable.
I have a file where there are the names of, I think,
120 people who were involved in this story in some way.
Those are the people I'm aware of.
But who knows how many others there
are that I don't know about?
The people involved in Friendship
came from all walks of life.
There was a cross-section of normal society.
Friendship was also active in other countries,
in France, Switzerland, Germany-- particularly
in Germany-- but also in Siberia,
in Argentina, and who knows how many other
places-- in Australia.
As we've seen, teleportation was
one of the most impressive technological capabilities
the Friends had.
This system was used to materialize and dematerialize
objects of various sorts and even slips
of paper with the written answers to questions
asked by those who were present at the meetings.
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Their technology is infinite.
There were so many things I saw.
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The ones I remember the most were the teleports.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Their film reels or even sometimes written notes
or film clips of flying saucers that we would then we
watch just came from above.
They materialized in mid-air in the room.
Sometimes they came from the floor
and tapped me under the chair.
Sometimes I saw them materialize in the air.
Along with teleportation, some of the most frequent phenomena
were communications between the Friends and the humans
through normal radios.
This was also done their way.
Their technology was virtually indistinguishable from magic.
For example, if I had to have two identical radios tuned
into the same frequency and put them side by side,
awaiting their message, their message
could be heard on one radio while the other radio continued
its normal broadcast as if nothing was happening.
So there was obviously insane amounts of energy involved
and directivity just as crazy.
So I bought myself one of those transistor radios.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Bruno told me to, put it there on the cabinet.
In five minutes, they'll prepare it for you.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
In fact, after five minutes, there was a big crack.
A sort of greenish flame came out.
And Bruno said, there.
Now it's ready.
And they immediately greeted me through the radio-- Sigir.
And I could also change the frequencies.
The broadcast continued.
Some of these communications were also
recorded with the reel-to-reel devices existing then.
Gaspare still owns some of the tapes.
For the first time after so many years, the voice of the W56
is made public.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Radios weren't the only communication tools used.
Sometimes the Friends would also insert themselves
into normal television programs.
I remember once there was a film, and it was interrupted,
and their saucers were seen flying,
while in the background their voices,
maybe only greeting us that time.
A fourth witness of the extraordinary events
of Friendship who accepted Breccia's invitation to speak
is the professor of design, Paolo Di Girolamo.
His experience was very brief.
He met the Friendship group only a couple of times.
Always a ufology enthusiast, Di Girolamo
knew Consul Alberto Perego and journalist Bruno Ghibaudi
personally.
And it was precisely the latter to put him in touch with Bruno
Sammaccicia in Pescara.
Paolo had with him a letter he'd written for the W56.
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And he welcomed me into a kind of a living room, so to speak.
I enter.
I lay this letter on the console.
And I sit down on the sofa.
At one point, Bruno Sammaccicia says,
we should be getting some news.
Let's see.
He takes this radio and turns it on.
The radio was playing music, and then we
hear a piercing whistle, really a very loud hissing sound.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
I hear Sigir here.
Hello, Paolo, be honest with us all.
Be honest with us all.
Three times.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Then another voice says, let's get the goods.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Now, the goods in my opinion had
to be a big parcel Sammaccicia had taken, all lined in black
and placed on top of the television set.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
A very loud crackle, a real blinding purple flash,
just like that.
And then there was nothing.
After this event, which leaves Paolo speechless,
the group goes out into the street.
And when they come back inside, Paolo
realizes that his letter, which he'd left on the table,
was gone.
For a moment, they talk about who might have taken it,
but nobody understands.
Sammaccicia 's wife also denies touching it.
At that point, Bruno urges everyone
to go out into the street again.
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There wasn't a soul in sight at all-- around midnight
or something like that.
At a certain point, I feel--
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--something falls on my head--
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--a little piece of paper, all folded up.
It was a scorched envelope.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Open, and it was the letter I'd left on the console.
To make the phenomena possible or to amplify them,
including telepathy, which they made wide use of,
the W56 used devices that were called "Nuclae."
They could be placed in objects, in rooms, or even
in the bodies of living creatures, including people.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
These nuclae were a necessary thing for them.
Like if I want to receive a phone call from you,
I need to have a phone at my house.
Bruno had a German shepherd named Dick.
The Friends told Bruno that the dog
would play an important role in the contacts
and in certain operations that called
for the help of the humans.
He would become a sort of amplifying antenna.
So they asked Sammaccicia to bring the dog to the seaside.
And at their command, which came by telepathy,
Dick was made to go into the water.
At that point, the Friends would treat the dog placing nuclae
under his balls.
In fact, Dick was almost always with Bruno.
In one of the film clips that have come to light,
we see him looking out of the window
while Bruno is filming a UFO circling
over the palazzos of Milan, where Bruno lived for a while.
It isn't the only ufological document made in Milan.
One of the more controversial pieces of information that
the W56 gave to their human Friends concerned a conflict
with an artificial race called "Wierros(?)",
but which Sammaccicia renamed with the term, CTR,
which was the contraction of the word "contraries."
One of the strange things about the Friendship stories
is the existence of enemies, the famous Contrary, the CTR.
While the W56 were ethical, these others
were materialistic, virtually the opposite
of the W56 in every way.
They didn't speak of war but of conflict
and said one reason they were here
was to keep the CTR in check.
The Friends called them, science worshippers,
saying the CTR were creatures without scruples.
And their greatest fear was that we humans
were following the same path the CTR had already covered.
For the W56, the feelings of Friendship,
affection, love, and harmony that they
were creating between themselves and the human group,
just as it is among human beings,
were not just defining the quality of relationships.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
For them, cohesion, Friendship, loyalty,
and things like that are not abstract concepts but rather
a living entity that they call Uredda.
This living entity's fostered precisely
by the sense of loyalty and was contrasted by an alter ego
that what was called Redda, which was essentially
the opposite.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
And for them, this energy served as a sort of fuel,
let's say--
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
--a driving force for some of their means of defense--
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
--or anyway, for their tools.
The defense instruments Gaspare talks about,
the Friends explained, were also important
for the conflict they had with the CTR.
They explained that Friendship, which Uredda originated from,
was so important that if the group hadn't kept
the harmony high, or if the group was even dismembered,
they themselves would have fallen
victims of the CTR, who might well
have destroyed their bases.
But this wasn't the only reason to be Friends.
The W56 said that love in its most unselfish sense,
as well as ethics, respect, and altruism,
should guide every thought and every action.
They said these values were essential to ensure
a safe and healthy evolutionary progress,
a lesson that humanity had to put into practice if it wanted
to avoid the risk of terrible self-destruction.
The mere thought of doing harm was inconceivable to the W56.
And the sense of ethics, morality
pervaded their every action, their every gesture,
their every thought.
Even their technology, their machines,
were consciously impregnated with it, a concept
that for us is unimaginable.
They said they were incapable of causing harm to anyone.
They said that even their very devices
would refuse to harm anyone.
Ethics permeated everything about them to the point
that they would refuse.
Indeed, they said that if they weren't
able to avoid harming someone, then in that case
they would self-destruct.
It wasn't by chance that the journalist Bruno Ghibaudi
was with De Lama and Sammaccicia during the sighting published
by "Domenica del Corriere."
Ghibaudi was extremely involved in Friendship
and experienced everything there was to be tried,
including the personal encounters with the W56.
Stefano Breccia also knew him.
He remembers very well how he joined the group.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
At the time, Ghibaudi had a program on television
about making model aircraft.
Giancarlo had seen it by chance.
And he liked this person.
He asked for Bruno's permission, and Bruno agreed.
As a result, Ghibaudi was brought to Milan to meet Bruno
and starting from then also became part of the circle.
The presence of the journalist was important
because he could indirectly publicize
a lot of the information that was given by the Friends.
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He was a journalist who could help the case
by writing about it, while we didn't
have any connections like this.
He had acquaintances in the field
of journalism and television that we didn't have.
The pictures that Ghibaudi took of a UFO
over Monte Mario in Rome attracted the attention
of Cesare de Sabatini.
The famous filmmaker interviewed him
and put the piece in a documentary film entitled
"The Mysteries of Rome."
The words of Ghibaudi emphasized what the W56 had said
was one of their main tasks on our planet, the control
of the nuclear armaments belonging
to the superpowers in the fear that men might
make the terrible choice of using them,
unleashing a total war.
In fact, this is one of the key themes of the entire story
of worldwide contactism.
Adamski, Siragusa, Menger, and many other contactees
received the same kind of message from extraterrestrials.
And the W56 actually intervened with their UFOs
and their technology but with previously trained
terrestrial operators to stop a situation that
seemed it might lead to something irreparable.
The incident occurred in 1967.
So an operation, managed by human beings,
was launched, which was designed to disable all nuclear warheads
in the Soviet Union and in the United States
in the face of a situation that seemed risky
that might degenerate from one minute to the next.
There are books written by officers of the US Air Force,
by now retired, which tell the story of how
their battery of Minuteman missiles
had been rendered inactive by flying saucers revolved
in the area.
One of the books referred to by engineer Breccia
was written by Robert Silas and James Klotz.
It contains military documents obtained
through the law on the Freedom of Information,
the so-called Freedom of Information Act.
But there are other clues about the interest these beings had
in nuclear weapons.
The atomic tests have always been filmed and photographed
with special equipment, with technologies
that can capture the very first moments of the thermonuclear
explosion.
In these pictures, we see the explosion
in the first few microseconds, when the terrible mushroom
cloud hasn't yet formed.
In the third snapshot, we note the presence
of an Adamskian flying saucer a few meters from the explosion.
If authentic, this photo would give us
an idea of the incredible technological capabilities
of these creatures.
Another extremely important person
in the history of Italian ufology
was Consul Alberto Perego, who wrote as many as four books
between the '60s and '70s analyzing the world scene
and pointing out policy choices made by governments that
would have been affected by the overt or covert activities
of this sort of alien aviation.
Many exceptionally clear photos of UFOs
appeared in these volumes.
Some of them were even identified
as being the inside of a cockpit of a flying saucer.
Perego cited the dates and locations of the sightings
but never mentioned the name of the authors of the photos.
The places were almost always the classic zones
where the W56 and the Friendship were active-- Milan, Pescara,
Francavilla, Montesilvano.
And in fact, the photos were made precisely
by the people who were part of Friendship.
But we've only learned this today.
For Gaspare De Lama, Alberto Perego
was of paramount importance.
Perego introduced him to the comprehension
of the profound implications of the UFO phenomenon
and contactism at a time when it was
extremely difficult to find material
about these issues in Italian.
And then he told me how things were, according to him.
Naturally, I reeled a bit of the chair
because I didn't expect it.
He really knew.
I mean, he'd understood a lot.
He'd understood-- a man of great valor, an idealist, a pure man.
He too was amazing, very cultured.
Perego also announced to Gaspare
that he intended to publish a book where he would reveal
everything he knew about the presence in our midst of beings
from other worlds, a proposal that never materialized,
however.
Among the correspondence that Gaspare has kept
are letters written by Consul Perego himself.
In one of these, among other things,
he talks about his intention to publish the book
"I'll Tell All."
Other statements made in this excerpt of the letter also
very interesting.
"Dear, I imagine you've guessed my bitter experience
of recent years.
For the revelation of the new reality,
I'd bet on two men who have disappeared from the scene--
John XXIII and Kennedy.
As is well known, Kennedy died five days
before my 'Report' went into circulation.
As you've seen, everyone keeps quiet or pretends not to know.
In 1965, I hope to publish 'I'll Tell All.'
But I believe I've already said a good deal.
I'm sending you with best wishes, a most affectionate
remembrance.
Alberto Perego."
But the alleged tasks of these creatures
would have been others as well.
Another purpose of the presence of the W56
was to help our evolutionary process,
to push us to a higher level of understanding.
That's why they had been on our planet for a very long time
and even shared with us some of our suffering in the matter.
They also revealed that their real name was "Akrij."
Stefano Breccia has done research on this name,
discovering some very interesting aspects.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
The word Akrij is a plural noun in Sanskrit
that means "the sages."
At that point, I tried to see it in Egyptian.
And I discovered that there are two very similar words.
The first term, Akrij, is the name
of these divinities, which usually
means "the wise people."
Then it occurred to me to inquire into other languages.
I discovered that in classical Greek,
Akril means 'Akeo,' or "people in high places."
In classical Arabic, Akrij means "group of friends,"
or something like that.
As a proper noun, the word is fairly common,
fairly widespread.
But this wouldn't be the only trace.
Years ago, Count Richard Jiamfre gave the Italian contactee
Eugenio Siragusa a strange handwritten letter
from Voltaire.
It was addressed to the legendary Count of St. Germain.
The text contains enlightening phrases
that would fit perfectly into the context of an alleged
alien presence in human history.
"6 of June, 1761.
I am answering your letter of April, Lord,
in which the appalling revelations make the old man
that I have become the confidant to your most terrible secrets
the day of his death.
Thank you, Germain.
Your long road through time will be illuminated
by my Friendship for you even at the time of your revelations
about the middle of the 20th century.
Because of time, the talking pictures
will not be able to be stored in memory.
May your wonderful flying machines bring you back to me.
Farewell, my friend.
Voltaire, gentleman of the king."
What were the talking pictures that Voltaire refers to?
And your wonderful flying machines--
what had Voltaire seen?
Who was the legendary Count of St. Germain, really?
The epilogue of Friendship arrived at the end of the '70s
because unfortunately, the people
who revolved around Sammaccicia failed
to deliver on the expectations of the cosmic Friends.
The group gradually and irreversibly fell apart.
The Uredda disappeared.
And the fears of the W56 seemed to come true.
This dramatic moment coincided with the phenomena
of the Adriatic, the great wave of sightings
that occurred between October '78 and January '79.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Officially, the story ended when the CTR
managed to get the better.
The story's quite difficult to believe from many perspectives.
According to me, the adventure of '78 was the surprise ending.
I mean, these people were probably
fed up with Sammaccicia and company
and decided to bow out in a spectacular way.
In my opinion, it continued to go on.
And I have good evidence of this fact in Italy
as well as abroad.
Even if the entire story of Friendship
seems like an incredible science fiction tale rather than
an incident that really happened,
despite the great controversy about its authenticity,
given what has emerged so far, it's
difficult to maintain that it had all been an invention.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
Believe it.
Don't believe it.
In any case, we can't help but take into consideration
the testimonies of the protagonists and the material
that refers to these testimonies.
According to eyewitnesses, the sightings, the teleporting,
and all the other impressive phenomena that
appeared were not, however, the real reason these beings
were on Earth.
The Friends defined themselves as the precursors
of the spirit world.
In the end, the real essence, the soul
of this relationship, which unfortunately ended up badly
because of human shortcomings, is the immense example
of love, dedication, and respect that they
impressed in the heart of the eyewitnesses still living.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
The most valuable teachings that I received from among
them--
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
--is this momentum they gave us and this endeavor,
perhaps gone amiss, that they've made to love each other truly,
to be close-knit, and to be united.
[SPEAKING ITALIAN]
They enriched me.
They put me into contact with an almost impossible world
full of love.
It was also an exciting experience,
very exciting and magnificent.
The feeling that the W56 transmitted
was one of great friendship and love.
There would be much more to say about Friendship.
Before leaving, the Friends promised to come back
and created a bond with the few remaining humans
with an oath of mutual fidelity.
Even today, these people believe that there are indeed
special Friends that could help us all
or who, in all probability, have never stopped doing so.
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