Italy · 18 June 1979

Between Rovigo and the Colli Euganei, 1979

Reported

A military pilot deliberately flies a camera-equipped G-91R at a stationary object for five minutes and comes home with more than eighty exposures: an air force photographing its own unknown.

Where

Between Rovigo and the Colli Euganei, Veneto; sortie from Treviso-Istrana

When

18 June 1979

Who reported it

1 military pilot plus the reconnaissance camera fit

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED

Evidence class

GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNVERIFIED - best secondary at https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/the-ufo-case-of-maresciallo-cecconi-june-18-1979/

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

The Ministry of Defence's stated conclusion is prosaic and specific: a cylindrical balloon improvised from black plastic bags, which fits the dull-black colour, the size, the immobility and the lack of reaction to a 300-knot pass.

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