The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Liberté du Morbihan, Lorient, France, pages 1 and 10, on October 20, 1954.
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Rome. The flying disks continue their dance across the skies of the peninsula, and in Capri, one of these craft landed on the terrace of the villa belonging to the writer Vurzio [sic] Malaparte. It was a painter, Mr. Raffaƫle Castello, who during a nighttime walk near Cap Massulo spotted a large disk about 5 meters in diameter flying at an altitude of approximately 100 meters. The craft slowly descended and landed on the terrace of the writer's villa.
Mr. Castello, who initially thought it was a helicopter, approached the villa and was greatly surprised to see four small men emerging from the disk; the occupants, who were dressed in jumpsuits, remained around the craft for about half an hour.
"I had the impression," said the witness to this landing, "that they were not speaking - or if they were, then very
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low, because from where I was standing, I couldn't hear any sound; what is certain is that bluish glows were constantly emanating from the disk, like tiny flashes as fast as lightning shooting out in all directions."
After some time - about half an hour - the four men returned into the disk, which rose gently and then fled at very high speed.