Speaker 1: Rat Faced Creatures from a UFO by UFO history buff
and author Charles Lear As anyone who has looked into
the subject of UFO related humanoids knows reported creatures come
in all shapes and sizes, some are more unusual than others,
and a pair of creatures said to be seen in
Italy in nineteen seventy eight definitely stand out. In the
volume twenty eight, number six, issue, page fifteen of the
PDF of Flying Saucer Review, there is an article by
Antonio Chiomiento headlined an Encounter with rat Faces in Italy.
The article was translated from Italian and Chiomiento is described
as an investigator and member of the board of directors
of cun Italian National UFO Research Center Turin. According to
Chio Miiento, on the morning of November twenty fourth, nineteen
seventy eight, sixty one year old Gallio resident Angelo di
Ambrose went to get some firewood in nearby gastag At
about a quarter before noon. He turned to put down
a branch he had been chopping up when he was
gripped with horror upon seeing two creatures looking at him
that were extremely close. They were hovering about forty centimeters
above the ground, and Diambros estimated that one of them
was one meter twenty centimeters tall, while the other was
one meter. They were extremely thin and had yellowish skin
that was tight to where Diambros could see large veins
on the head and hands of the larger creature that
was closest to him. Their heads were bald, smooth, large
and pear shaped, and they had enormous pointed ears that
stuck straight up. They had no eyelids and large, sunken
white eyes. Their noses were long and almost went below
their lower lips, and they had large mouths with a long,
pointed tusk at each end. They seemed to be wearing dark,
tight overalls, and sticking out of the sleeves and leggings
were huge hands and feet that were out of proportion
to the rest of their bodies. Their ring fingers were
bigger than the others, and their nails were long. As
Diambrose stood frozen in terror, the smaller creature began moving
back and forth in rapid leaps between Diambrose's left and
right side, as though gliding, and without moving its feet.
As it did so, there was the sound of air
displacement and the rusting of vegetation due to its ears
brushing the lowest branches of the trees nearby. Diambrose managed
to overcome his terror enough to shout help as loud
as he could. He then got the strength to ask
the creatures who they were and what they wanted with him.
It was of no use, as he only got incomprehensible
mumblings from the smaller creature. Suddenly, Diambrose's attention shifted to
the larger creature that had remained almost motionless about a
meter away from him. The creature grabbed the bill hook,
also known as a sling blade Diambrose was carrying at
a spot that had no cutting edge, and attempted to
take it from him. D Ambrose became determined not to
let the creature have it, as it was his only
defense should they should prove hostile. D Ambrose tightened his
grip and the creature grabbed onto the tool further down,
at which point Diambrose felt what seemed to be a
slight electrical shock. The creature made one more attempt, using
both hands, and Diambrose felt what was clearly another shock
go up his arm. Dambrose became furious as the creature
refused to give up, and he used his free hand
to grab a large branch he had cut and was
ready to hit the creature. Both creatures, seeming to recognize
the threat Diambro's pose to them, fled instantly. Dambrose recovered
his normal calm and then, compelled by curiosity regarding the
origin of the creatures, ran after them as fast as
he could along the mule track along which they had come. Finally,
in a clearing, he saw a disc shaped metallic object
with a dome on top, standing on four legs. The
upper part was red and the lower part, separated by
a white band around the middle was blue, while the
legs were aluminum gray. Without the legs, it was about
two meters high and four meters wide. As soon as
Diambros spotted the craft, he saw the hand of one
of the creatures closing from inside the dome a sort
of trap door, by drawing it backwards. The craft then
took off silently at an angle at great speed, while
putting out a burst of red flame. It quickly went
out of sight behind some fir trees. When Diambros Got home,
He kept his story to himself, but was so disturbed
that he skipped his lunch. He then decided to confide
in his son in law, Luciano Munari. The next day,
Unari got someone to go with him and went to
the spot where Diambros said he'd seen the craft. At
the site, Unari saw a three point five meter circular
area of grass that was blackened more from oil than burning,
and swirled flat in an anti clockwise direction. When he
touched the grass, his hands stayed clean. He also saw
two impressions that were U shaped twenty centimeters long, three
centimeters wide and three centimeters deep, and some bushes that
had been uprooted, this being the result of the displacement
of air as the object departed. Many of the local
townsfolk didn't believe the story, and Munari decided to photograph
the site as proof. Unfortunately, it snowed and he wasn't
able to get back there until December third. He went
with some of the non believers who helped him clear
away the snow, and he took some black and white
photos that didn't show the details of the impressions very well.
He tried again with color film on the tenth and
circled the marks with yellow paper to make sure they'd
show up. The photos are not included in the article.
Thanks to an initiative of Munari, the story made the
local paper Giornale di Vicenza under the headline I was
attacked by two Martians. They wanted my bill hook. After
it appeared, Diambros was swarmed with curiosity seekers and local
UFO enthusiasts. The bill hook's blade reportedly had an imprint
about the size of a pinky, and the cutting edge
had turned red. Local UFO students took it for testing,
but brought it back when they found that the lab
work would be too expensive. Unari told Chiomientho that Diambros
started using it again and that the imprint and discolouration
were no longer visible. According to Chiomientho, he he uses
what I assume is the royal We found out about
the case when a fellow investigator sent him the article.
He went to Gallio in the fall of nineteen seventy
nine and was told by the Diambros family that the
site was still blackened, but he wasn't able to see
it for himself because it had He went there again
in February nineteen eighty and got a statement from Munari,
who said he believed his father in law's story and
that he had read UFO report by J. Allen Heinik.
He said he saw there was a resemblance between the
marks he saw and the marks pictured in photos in
the book, which Chiomiento identifies as photos of the Secoro
landing site. Chiomiento made several visits and established that Diambros
And Munari had good reputations. He compares the creatures reported
by Diambros To the ones reported in the nineteen fifty
five Kelly Hopkinsville case. He then includes descriptions of five
more sightings in the area around the same time, including
one where a witness gave photos he'd taken along with
the negatives, to a man identifying himself as an Air
Force officer who was never seen again. Demiento predicts that
the Gallio case will become as well known as the
Kelly Hopkinsville case, and argues that it supports the theory
which asserts the presence here of UFO occupants of unknown
but in any case, non terrestrial origin. Charles Lear is,
the author of the Flying Saucer Investigators, available in its
second edition on Amazon dot com. Yah