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-8 The drawings below are Theodore McColm's. They illustrate the object's size and movement at 4 minute intervals in relation to the moon. McColm, through calculus, estimated the object to be 12,500 ft. in diameter. 1081 MILES 3 4 L Editor's Note: This incident and Case l4 transcends any notion that"saucer" vehicles are confined to earth's atmosphere, therefore U.S.or Russian origin. 14 and 22 and myriads of othersadd another positive link to the hypothesis that "saucers" are extra-terrestrial and are using the moon as a hopping-off point. C-23,Rome,Italy.9/18/54)A.P.Wire:Startled Romans who saw a strange cigar-shaped object streaking over the capital flooded newspaper offices with calls. Radar operators also reported picking up the missile on instruments. Technicians at Ciampino Airfield described the "half-cigar" as plummeting toward earth for more than looo ft., then rising at tremendous speed before vanishing.Thanks to George Popowitch, Barberton,Ohio.) tention was the strange sound as it passed overhead.It was like thunder with a staccato effect...a series of explosions that grew louder as the object got closer. This was followed by a dead silence as the thing stopped, or appeared to, at a height of about 60o0 ft. Suddenly it shot upward and left an exhaust trail of milky white smoke.It went straight up into the sky.The Defense Dept. described it as a'clipped cone'with a smaller surface on the bottom, or as two semi-circular disks, one bigger than the other, with a bigger one on top. To me it seemed like an inverted sawed-off cone. What was strange was the object's ability to 'park' in mid-air for several minutes. The radar station at Rome which picked up the 'cigar'or 'cone' said it registered for 3 minutes. Thanks to Warren MorsePalo AltoCalif. Editor's Note:Significant here is the AP and INS release. First they break us the news on the Labrador sighting in July, then silence, then the Norwegian space man story in August, now Italy. Foreign sightings all -- a subtle preparation.