On Sunday, February 14, 1999, a man spotted a UFO over Monte Serra mountain, near Pisa, about 180 miles north of Rome. He described the object as round, "its lights were blinking red and yellow. It was not moving. It was definitely not an aeroplane or an helicopter."

On Friday, February 19, 1999, B.M., a teenaged girl living in Milan "saw a light in the sky flashing many colours. It was moving right and then left, then up and down. I have never before seen anything quite like it."

On Tuesday, February 23, 1999, just after 19:00 hrs, a rash of UFO sightings occured all over northern and central Italy.

The Aviazone Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force) put two air bases, AMI Istrana and AMI Tessera, in Veneto province "on alert" according to Maurizio Baiata, editor of Notizario UFO.

UFOs were sighted in Rome, Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Turin and eleven other cities and towns across the Italian peninsula.

According to Baiata, "Witnesses saw two very bright lights in the sky, at varying altitudes and differing in size, either stationary or slowly passing by, at times touching together or intermittently linking up. While others described them as geometric formations totally different from a planetary phenomenon and mostly hovering at high altitude."

In Novara, a city in Piemonte province located 75 miles northeast of Turin, "two bright lights headed toward Invorio, stopped for about 30 seconds, and right after that they flew toward the horizon and Gozzano."

In San Giovanni Valdarno, a local man, Filippo Bilazzi "in the presence of his relatives, video-filmed two stationary lights which intermittently appeared and disappeared." At 19:20 hrs, in Ravenna, a city in eastern Italy located 90 miles south of Venice, steffano Matteucci "observed with his binoculars a three-light formation" which appeared to be connected to the underside of "a darker, square shaped object."

In Lucca, a city 150 miles north of Rome, witnesses saw "a flying object with the form of a cigar that left a luminous trail like a comet."

In Turin, newspaper offices and the Carabineri (Italian Police) received hundreds of telephone calls from alarmed residents. But "officials said Venus and Jupiter, with Saturn, nearby, launched the psychosis of the 'three UFOs.'"

Also on Tuesday, February 23, a local TV station KIFEY in Perm, a large city in western Siberia located 330 miles northeast of Moscow, shocked viewers by broadcasting an amateur video showinh a UFO hovering over the city. According to Russian UFOlogist Nikolai V. Subbotin, "The object slowly flew above the city for two hours. It looked like two lights flying at some distance from each other."

The following day, Wednesday, February 24, Subbotin himself received a telephone call from a friend in Perm, who "said they had all observed the same object." Grabbing his videocamera, Subbotin went to the spot and shot footage "for ten minutes. The lights danced and then zipped straight up. Sometimes they began to dim and then light up brilliantly at an interval of approxmately thirty seconds."