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UFO Magazine
UFO, the official Magazine of the Italian Center for UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici - C.I.S.U.)

UFO magazine Collection
Complete Collection of issues through 30 of the "UFO" Magazine (# 1 available as a xeroxed copy only). Any UFO collector needs it !

UFO Forum
"UFO Forum": quarterly forum of technical articles by Italian and international authors and debates [19 issues between 1995 and 2001]

The quarterly Bulletin of the Italian center for UFO Studies (CISU), loaded with Italian and international UFO sighting news, events, and all about UFOs in Italy!

1947: Come tutto comincio'
A survey about the birth of the "flying saucers" phenomenon and the 1947 American UFO Wave

Nos. 26 (august 2001) & 32 (december 2004)
AIRCAT
Italian catalogue of UFO sightings by pilots and UFO-aircraft interactions
by Marco Orlandi

Antologia 94 - Annuario Internazionale
A collection of the most interesting articles published by the best international UFO Magazines in 1994

Area 51 tra Mito e Realta'

Il caso Arnold

The most comprehensive Bibliography of Italian books and booklets devoted to UFOs and related subjects, with annual updates

CARS
Catalogue of more than 1500 UFO reports from Sicily (1911-2005) with full details, sources and statistics (215 pages)

BLITA - Italian Ball Lightining Database
Numero 28 - Ottobre 2001
BLITA
(Italian Ball Lightning Database)
Catalogo italiano delle osservazioni di fulmini globulari
di Paolo Toselli
108 pagine

Catalogue of Calabrian UFO sighting reports
Catalogue of more than 450 UFO reports from Calabria region (1415-2007) with full details, sources and statistics (80 pages)

Catalogue of UFO reports in Campania  region in 2010:  588 case histories with full abstracts, sources, evalutations and statistics (208 pages + CD-ROM)

Cum grano salis
by Margherita Campaniolo
Traveling in the world of crop circles: a "natural history" of the phenomenon in an unprecedented monograph, both as of documentation and as of arguments, which will surely cause controversy among true believers (101 pages, fully illustrated).

La Commissione Condon 30 Anni dopo

Il Mistero delle

ITACAT (Catalog of Italian Close Encounters)
All the Close Encounter cases taken place in Italy between 1912 and 1985, featuring summaries, sources and extensive comments. A real reference work for any serious UFO buff.

Now available the latest 2.1 version (see below)!

UFO-IFO : Il Punto sulla Situazione
A critical assesment about Ufology and UFO research in the mid '80s, before the outbreak of abductions, alien conspiracies and Roswell !

I M.I.B. - Gli Uomini in Nero tra Mito e Fenomeno
A collection of four different papers devoted to a serious evaluation of the "Men in Black" myth

La mitopoiesi ufologica
Numero 24 - Dicembre 2000
LA MITOPOIESI UFOLOGICA
di Stefania Genovese
Tesi di laurea in filosofia (Università di Milano)
56 pagine

Numero 29 - Giugno 2002
Il fenomeno UFO come costruzione sociale
Dai dischi volanti al culto dell'extraterrestre
di Daniele Parisi
Tesi di laurea in sociologia della conoscenza (Università di Torino)
76 pagine

Quale Ufologia ?
An interesting Monograph (in Italian langauge, translated from French) about the priorities of the UFO Research, by one of the leaders of the French "new ufology" in the early '80s

Strange Lights in Italian History
PreUfoCat, by Pietro Torre: a catalogue of unusual aerial phenomena over Italian peninsula, from ancient Rome up to 1899, with full abstracts, sources and evaluation (3 different editions on paper + 2 digital editions, in Italian).

Il Naufragio dell'Ufologia ?

EQL
Numero 27 - Settembre 2001
EQL
(Earth-Quake Light)
Introduzione alle luci sismiche
di Massimo Silvestri
52 pagine

Luci Lontane
An in-depth study about the "Ball of Light" (BoL) phenomenon, with a special focus on the mysterious lights sighted in Italy between the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century

Effetti Fisiologici degli UFO

TRACAT - Catalogo dei Casi Italiani con Tracce
Catalog of all Italian trace cases (close encounters of the second kind)

Confronto UFO/IFO Italia/Francia

I Miti UFO-Nazismo
A collection of articles about the rumours and legends related to the purported "Nazi" origin of UFOs. Germans would have built ervolutionary "flying saucers" in the late months of WWII

USOCAT: national catalogue of Italian USOs
by Marco Bianchini
The first and only national catalogue of Italian reports of USO (unidentified submerged objects): more than 250 cases with full report, sources and evalutation, from CISU files (160 pages).

collaboratore CISU

UFO and Fortean Phenomena
A good magazine, edited by Edoardo Russo, published in the second half of the '70s.

Pascagoula
The well-known 1973 Pascagoula abduction case now told in a comics album designed by Edoardo Morricone. A must to have!

Notiziario UFO (Magazine)
Back issues from the Seventies of the "Notiziario UFO" Magazine

Notiziario UFO (late 70s edition)
The "Notiziario UFO" Magazine was published between November 1978 and May 1980 and sold in all Italian newstands. For the first time in Italy, a UFO Magazine was avilable to a very large audience, thanks also to the huge 1978 Italian UFO Wave. Rare item, some issues being very rare

UFOLOGIA (Magazine)
The "Ufologia" Magazine was published between 1979 and 1984, featuring articles from a group of young ufologists who then established and lead the Italian Center for UFO Studies. An early example of serious approach to the study of the UFO Phenomenon

AIRCAT
E-Book version of the "AIRCAT" Monography (Catalog of UFO Sightings involving Pilots)

UFO Magazine - PDF
Latest issues of the leading "UFO - Rivista di Informazione Ufologica" magazine now available in PDF format

UFOs 1947-1997
An important anthology of articles by international UFO researchers covering most aspects of the complex UFO Phenomenon. An important book

A Vallee's book devoted to many intriguing UFO sightings and contacts all around the world, especially from Brazil

The Gulf Breeze Sightings
the book by the "witnesses" of the highly controversial UFO photo case of Gulf Breeze, Florida

Retour sur l'
A new look at the huge Belgian wave of 1990: the author claims many cases are still unexplained so far. In French language

Vallee's book devoted to the "whistle-blowers" of the second hald of the eighties, about incredible alliances between the US Goverment and aliens!

UFO Crash at Roswell
One of the reference books for the Roswell saga

The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell
Another Randle's book about the Roswell "UFO Crash"

The UFO Cover-Up

A History of UFO Crashes
A collection of stories about alleged "UFO Crashes"

UFO Encounters & Beyond
A richly-illustrated overview of the UFO Phenomenon

Enquete sur des Extraterrestres
French book devoted to the so-called "UMMO Mystery"

URIP Vol II n° 2-3
"UPIAR Research in Progress", a large book-size magazine with scientific-style articles about the study of the UFO Phenomenon

The Hopkins' book about the famous Linda Cortile's abduction

Coming on February 25th (it may be pre-ordered here):

Gli UFO in visita a Siena
A Catalog of alleged UFO sightings in the province of Siena, Central Italy

The Alien She
Messages from the Galaxy: "very close" encounters of an Italian contactee with a female alien [158 pages]

L'Enigma delle Tracce Circolari
Italian translation of the first Delgado & Andrews' book about Crop Circles

Dissection of an alien

Luci nella Notte
An intriguing story of the Italian abductee Fortunato Zanfretta, covering some of his early abductions in detail. A strange case, even though many doubts still remains

Hitler, flying saucers and other super-weapons of the Third Reich
Flying saucers as experimental flying weapons by Nazi Germany [215 pages, in Italian].

Mariolino e gli extraterrestri…
A fairy-tale for kids, who can easily fill many drawings with colors. Artworks by Bianca Enrico

Delta Sierra Juliet Rispondi ...
Italian translation of R.Haines' book about the famous 1978 Valentich case

INTRUSI
Italian translation of Budd Hopkins' second book "Intruders"

Flying Saucers Are Real
Donald Keyhoe's firs book (Flying Saucers Are Real, 1950) in its first Italian translation (272 pages, 2018)

Flying Saucers from Outer Space
Donald Keyhoe's second book (Flying Saucers from Outer Space, 1953) in a new edition of the Italian translation (380 pages, 2018)

UFO: forbidden codex
by Alfredo Lissoni
UFOs and aliens in more or less official sacred writings (gnostical, apocriphals, different versions of the Bible, etc.) [174 pages].

UFO: Cosmic Impact
by Alfredo Lissoni
Atomic wars in the Indus valley, secret kowlodge of ancient India, contemporary Ufo sightings in India
[222 pages]

UFO: the Italian X-Files
Part 1: investigations and research on UFOs in Italy, by Alfredo Lissoni;
part 2: Ufo abductions (by psyhoterapist Giulia D'Ambrosio);
part 3: 70 years of sightings in Milan
[110 pages].

From Alfa to Omega
History of the worldwide conspiracy from ancient civilizations to nowadays UFOs [318 pages].

Gli UFO e la Scienza
Italian translation of the late James McDonald book, one of the earliest scientific-style approaches to the UFO phenomenology

UFO Impact!
by Pino Morelli
When aliens invaded mass media: from cinema to TV, from fiction to reality [374 pages]

Sociological Reflections on the UFO Mystery

The UFO Mystery as seen by a sociologist: causes for the public interest, consequences of the belief, effects from a contact with aliens [78 pages].

UFO Revisited
Fifteen interviews with worldwide classic UFO stories witnesses, traced back and listened to after years [302 pages].

UFO on the road
Following the previous book "UFO Revisited": 18 more interviews with classic international close encounters witnesses, found and listened to after years, in order to understand what happened to them [405 pages].

UFO: si farà la Guerra dei Mondi?
A generic overview of the UFO Phenomenon, with some classic UFO sihtings from the fifties and sixties

UFO Anthology
A comprehensive anthology of articles originally published in the "UFO" magazine. An interesting estimation of the situation after 50 years of Ufology. A must-have book for any serious UFO buff

Luminous phenomena
by Massimo Teodorani
Investigation of anomalous light phenomena in the atmosphere: an Italian astrophysicist reports on the recurrent lights at Hessdalen (Norway) and in other places all around the world [160 pages].

Balls of light
by Massimo Teodorani (2008).
Lumionous phenomena in the atmosphere: a planetary mystery on the edge of physics, presented by an Italian astrophysicist  [190 pages, in Italian].

Incontri Ravvicinati
A short yet interesting anthology about the reality and the myths of UFOs, from Roswell to the "alien autopsy", from contactees to the UFO abductions. Chapters by M. Leone, M. Moroni, M. Teso. Preface by Tullio Regge

Ufo: light and shadow on the Faralli case

by Marco Bianchini (2008)

A classic Italian CE-III in Torrita di Siena, 1978. A sudden car stopped, a black-out of the town, a saucer landing and two little green men, ground traces, then investigations by the military, the NASA, M.D.'s, reporters and ufologists.

A local ufologist gives a detailed and complete overview after 30 years, based upon an in-depth investigation and documentation never released before.

[in Italian, 120 pages, with several b/w and colour pictures]

FBI Dossier UFO
A critic and annotated introduction to the FBI files devoted to some of the most important UFO cases ever, as well as to the UFO movement

Misteriosi Fenomeni nel Cielo della Provincia di M
An interesting booklet about the UFO sightings taken place in the Italian province of Messina (Sicily) till 1974

Misteriosi Fenomeni nel Cielo della Provincia di M
An interesting booklet about the UFO sightings taken place in the Italian province of Messina (Sicily) since 1974 through 1999

UFO in ITALIA Vol. 2
A must-have rare volume fully devoted to the huge 1954 Italian UFO wave, with detailed descriptions of 407 sightings

UFO in ITALIA Vol. 3
An analysis of the Italian UFO cases and major events happened between 1955 and 1972. A must-have book for any UFO buff!

A Colazione con gli UFO
An original approach to UFO sightings through the work of a field UFO investigator

Gli UFO
A book for kids, enriched by many artworks

UFO Top Secret
A survey about how the government and the military deal with the UFO sightings and its research, in all over the world. Contributions from other authors.
Good conditions.

Science, mystics and alchemy of crop circles
by Alberto Forgione
Crop circles as a contact attempt by energies from a universal mind, through messages having a symbolic content (more than 100 color pictures, collaboration by Alfredo Di Prinzio) [300 pages, hundreds of color pictures].

Les chirurgiens furtifs
A comprehensive survey of an American myth: the animal mutilations scare. French language

Antichi Astronauti
A professor of History and Archeology at the New Orleans University deals skeptically with the most popular examples of "ancient astronauts". Italian translation of the original US book

La fantastica invasione delle vipere volanti
Urban legends of today's Italy

11 settembre - Leggende di guerra
Rumours and urban legends about the Twin Towers attack and the Afghanistan war

Narrano Antiche Cronache ...
An Italian archeologist discusses the alleged presence of extraterrestrial contacts and sightings in ancient texts, paints and artifacts. There are also some suggestions about how to run some analysis by using a regular Personal Computer

The UFOs by Giorgio Giorgi
A set of 12 Cards with UFO motifs designed by the Italian painter Giorgio Giorgi

Giuseppe Stilo, "The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse - vol. 2"
1954: the great wave of UFO sightings, landings and humanoid reports in Italy and worldwide. Second volume: the Italian scene from November to December [504 pages with 38 illustrations]. In Italian.

Alessandria 1978: UFO Alert!

by Paolo Toselli (2008). 

The 1978 great Italian UFO wave of sightings began in the first half of September, with two full weeks of "UFO invasion"  in the Alessandria province:  landings and low-level sightings, pictures, ground traces, physical effects. Tha book reports the whole story from the viewpoint of the local ufologist who was there at that time, following UFO reports day by day.
 
[in Italian; 108 pages plus 30 pictures and an attached DVD 35 minutes video documentary and bonus contents (pictures, newsclipping, articles)].

 

UFO in Calabria
UFOs in Calabria - Regional Catalogue of UFO and para-UFO Phenomena by Pietro Torre - second updated edition (1164 case histories, 300 pages, in Italian).

Musiné: a Mountain of Folklore
by Paolo Fiorino
50 years of research and  painstacking documentation about the “Magical Mount” Musiné, near Torino: not just hundreds of UFO sightings, close encounters, abductions but a whole lot of stories about crashed saucers, alien underground bases,ancient astronauts traces, crypto-zoological creatures, contactees, black magic and satanic cults, esotericism, legends, folklore… a wide interest for mass media, and a stimulus for pop culture: literature, art, music, cineama, toys and estreme political issues. Mount Musiné is the real-life “Magonia”.  (large A4 format, 464 pages, 217 colour pictures, in Italian)

UFOs and ufology - The CISU Guide

UFOs and ufology after 60 years: the UFO guide by the Italian Center for UFO Studies.

[96 pages, 100 pictures]

Italian translation of R.Haines' book about the famous 1978 Valentich case

UFO: destination Earth: a collection of Peter Kolosimo's articles about flying saucers and UFOs (1957-1983), with critical notes and bbliography (180 pages, in Italian)

Misteriosi fenomeni nel cielo della provincia di Messina

Ufo: I Want to Believe
A graphic novel and some chose interviews, giving an original overview of ufology from different viewpoints (106 pages).

Spiritual Walking on MOunt Musinè

by Mariano Tomatis (2014).

An illustrated anthology of stories and legends, as a guidebook to the "UFO mountain" near Torino  [36 pages]

 

Cristian Vitali, "UFO over Parma"
450 detailed UFO/IFO reports from Parma and its province since 1947 through 2014. 196 pages, in Italian.

UFOs over Puglia - Chronicle of 1,907 sightings since 216 b.C through 2019, by Arcangelo Cassano (374 pages, in Italian).

Roswell, New Mexico
by Nico Sgarlato
An aeronautical journalist's view of the crashed saucer case history and other events of the early years, concentrating on cold war technical, military
and expecially intelligence issues (93 pages + xvi pictures, in Italian.)

UFOs: perceptions, beliefs, stereotypes

by Chiara Russotto (2013). 

Graduation thesis in applied psychology at Palermo University about psycho-social issues of the UFO phenomena.
 [98 pagine]

 

UFOs visiting Siena
A Catalog of alleged UFO sightings in the province of Siena, Central Italy

A Dark Red Sky
1947-1949: flying saucers arrive above Italy and the whole world (400 pages + 16 illustrations, in Italian).

Mysteries Around Us
UFOs in Calabria - Regional Catalogue of UFO and para-UFO Phenomena by Pietro Torre - second updated edition (1164 case histories, 300 pages, in Italian).

A History of Ufology in Tuscany

by Marco Bianchini (2008). 
A complete guide to UFO researchers, organizations and publications in the Italian region of Tuscany (Toscana) since the early years up to 2007.

[90 pages, illustrated]

UFOs in Italy - vol. 3
An analysis of the Italian UFO cases and major events happened between 1955 and 1972. A must-have book for any UFO buff!

Ufo ludico
by Paolo Toselli
Spaceships, aliens and space invaders have been occupying our toys world for more than 70 years. This a widely illustrated catalogue showing flying saucers and extra-terrestrals are among us, whatever we may think about their reality. (132 pages, 150 colour pictures, in Italian)

Belgium in UFO Photographs
by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Wim van Utrecht (2017)

An exhaustive, fully referenced catalogue of alleged UFO pictures taken in Belgium during the years 1950 to 1988, with detailed case histories and sources,  reproductions of all available photographs and extensive evaluations for as many as 84 individual case histories. An unprecedented work issued from a fruitful cooperation between the Spanish FOTOCAT project and the Belgian research initiative CAELESTIA.

[in English; 400+xii  large-format pages, 366 pictures].

The Marfa Lights

THE MARFA LIGHTS - Examining the Photographic Evidence (2003-2007)
by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Manuel Borraz Aymerich (2020)

[in  English; 179 large-format pages in full colour, 102 illustrations, 70 references].

 

When Saucers Came to Earth
The Story of the Italian UFO Landings in the Golden Age of the Flying Saucers: a detailed presentation of the Italian close encounter reports in the early years (between 1912 and 1954). The book features more than 100 fascinating saucer cases extensively commented, and with a comprehensive source listing, plus nearly 200 illustrations, including original newsclippings, sketches, maps, magazine covers and much more! 
Shipping: + 6 Euro to Europe, + 9 Euro to USA & Canada
 [260 pages, in English].

Avistamientos Ovni en la Antartida en 1965

 

 

 

by V.-J. Ballester Olmos & M. Borraz & H. Janosch  & J. C. Victorio (2013)

Fotocat Report #3: A team of four researchers from Spain and Argentina has devoted six years to analyze the famous rush of UFO sightings occurred in the Antarctica between June and August 1965. An unprecedented documentation has been collected, even contacting with surviving witnesses, and it has undergone profound examination, based on a rigorous scientific appraisal and using the best available supporting technology.  

[in Spanish with English abstract and conclusions; 183 large-format pages, including the full text and colour illustrations on a CD-ROM]. 

 

Hypotheses on the UFO Origin
A discussion about the possible (extraterrestrial) origin of the UFO Phenomenon

L.T.P.A. - An International Bibliography On Some Luminous Transient Phenomena in the Atmosphere
A detailed catalogue of 2,955 sources on Earth Lights (EL), Saint’Elmo’s Fires (SEF), Ignes Fatui (IF), Hessdalen Phenomena (HP), Earthquake Lights (EQL), Seismic Precursors, Atmospheric Electricity, Tectonic Strain Theory (TST), by Renzo Cabassi, Roberto Labanti, Edoardo Russo, Massimo Silvestri, Giuseppe Stilo [125 pages, in English].

Norway in UFO Photographs
by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos & Ole Jonny Braenne (2008)

The full catalogue of alleged UFO pictures in Norway, from 1909 through 2005 with a detailed summary, reproduction of all available pictures, an evaluation and full source reference for as many as 744 individual case histories (479 from the Hessdalen valley alone). An unprecedented  work issued from the international "Fotocat" project. 

[in English; 206 large-format pages, including the full database in Excel format on a CD-ROM].

Mi correspondencia con José-Tomàs Ramìrez y Barberò

por Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (2025)
ISBN 979-12-81441-095

Este libro compendia la correspondencia con el investigador y militar Capitán de Infantería José Tomás Ramírez y Barberó,  pionero en el estudio científico del fenómeno OVNI en España, aplicando primordialmente las herramientas estadísticas al análisis de los datos. El volume include su extensa bibliografía al completo, la correspondencia cruzada  con tres  ufologos espanoles (Miguel Guasp, Pedro Redón y Alberto Adell), y  siete apéndices (en espanol, formato A4, 422 paginas, fotografias)

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My correspondence with José-Tomàs Ramìrez y Barberò

by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (2025)
ISBN 979-12-81441-095

This  book compiles the correspondence  with researcher and military officer, Captain of Infantry José Tomás Ramírez y Barberó, a pioneer in the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon in Spain, primarily applying statistical tools to data analysis. This volume is also including of his extensive bibliography, his extensive correspondence  with Spanish ufologists Miguel Guasp, Pedro Redón and Alberto Adell), and  seven appendices (in Spanish language, A4 format , 422 pages, photos).

 



 

The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony

Edited by Vicente Juan Ballester-Olmos & Richard W. Heiden (2023)
ISBN 979-12-81441-002
 

 

Mi correspondencia con Antonio Ribera

Mi correspondencia con Antonio Ribera

por Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (2024)
ISBN 979-12-81441-057

El volumen recoge el extenso intercambio epistolar entre Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos con el destacado escritor y ufologo Antonio Ribera desde 1966 hasta su muerte en 2001, ilustrado con fotografì­as de encuentros nacionales e internacionales, reuniones con los "mandarines" Aimé Michel o Jacques Vallée, viajes o simposios compartidos, asì­ como otros documentos que sin duda reflejan una porciòn de la historia de la investigaciòn OVNI en Espana en el siglo XX (formato A4, 692 paginas, fotografias a color).

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My correspondence with Antonio Ribera

by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (2024)

ISBN 979-12-81441-057

The book  collects the large mail exchange between Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos with the prominent writer and ufologist Antonio Ribera from 1966 until his death in 2001, illustrated with photographs of national and international get togethers, meetings with "mandarins" like Aimé Michel or Jacques Vallée, shared trips or symposia, as well as other documents that undoubtedly portray a portion of the history of UFO research in Spain in the 20th century (in Spanish language, A4 format , 692 pages, colour photos).

 



 

Human Sciences & UFO Phenomena
by Roberto Farabone (editor). Proceedings of the First UPIAR Colloquium (Salzburg, Austria, 1982) on Human Sciences and the UFO Phenomena [in English].

UFO/IFO Comparison - The Year 1977 in France
by Marcel Delaval & Jean Bourdon (1990). A comparison between alleged UFO and IFO sightings taken place in France in 1977 [in English].

UPIAR Vol. 1
The first Volume of the "UFO Phenomena" annual Magazine (actually a real book!), loaded with many scientific articles about the study of the UFO Phenomenon. Very rare

UPIAR Vol. 3
The third Volume of the "UFO Phenomena" annual Magazine (actually a real book!), loaded with many scientific articles about the study of the UFO Phenomenon

UPIAR Vol. 4
The fourth Volume of the "UFO Phenomena" annual Magazine (actually a real book!), loaded with many scientific articles about the study of the UFO Phenomenon