The Zanfretta Case: Chronicle of an Incredible True Story

In the night between Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 of December 1978, the security guard Pier Fortunato Zanfretta of the Institute of Private Security Val Bisagno in Genoa, Italy, was found in a state of shock and terror-stricken near the country house Casa Nostra (Our House) placed in Marzano of Torriglia, a village up in the hills of Genoa. When he woke up, Zanfretta told shaking that he saw “a very big alien, three meters (118.11 inches) tall, with a fat and corrugated gray skin, like it was a flabby suit,” who few minutes later fly away “aboard a giant bright light triangular shaped, with small little lights of different colors in the upper side.” During regressive hypnosis, the night adventure was borne out by the man, and he told was dragged inside the “spaceship” where four monstrous aliens examined him in great details. An investigation by Carabinieri, the Italian military police, verified that 52 people saw a very big flying bright saucer at that time in the Torriglia sky. Besides, in the meadow where the others’ security guards found Zanfretta, Carabinieri found out a three meters mark, horseshoe shaped. The people were still thinking to that mysterious encounter of the third kind, that twenty days later it happened again. This time Carabinieri found out footprints 50 centimeters long (19.69 inches) near the security guard’s car. The Zanfretta case was just beginning.