October 26 2018 (football-italia.net)
• On October 26, 1954, a football match (e.g.: American soccer) between the Florence Italy and the Pistoia Italy football clubs was in progress in the Florence sports stadium (pictured above) with 10,000 fans in attendance. At about 2:20 pm, just after half-time in the match, the crowd was stunned to see a large egg-shaped object slowly move into position over the playing field and stop there, hovering in the air. The sky itself seemed to shimmer and glow with random flashes of light and glitter, and silvery filaments fell from the sky. This continued for a half hour as the crowd gawked at the spectacle.
• Another similar object was sighted above the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, travelling south-east toward Rovezzano. “In those years everybody was talking about aliens,” witness Romolo Tuci told the BBC in 2014. “Everybody was talking UFOs and we had the experience, we saw them, we saw them directly, for real.”
• The Italian government’s explanation was that the crowd had actually seen flares dropped by the Italian Air Force conducting military exercises, and the silvery filaments falling from the sky were spiders riding their webs.
• It is rumored that the British rock star, David Bowie, who had a fascination with space and extraterrestrials, knew of the Florence incident and based the title of his 1972 album “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars” and his Ziggy Stardust alien persona, on this incident.
On this day in 1954, a friendly match between Fiorentina and Pistoiese ground to a halt, and may just have invented glam rock in the process.
Around 10,000 fans were inside the Stadio Comunale, later to be known as the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
At around 14.20 local time, just after half-time, a roar went up from the crowd.
No goal had been scored, no foul committed, and the players on the pitch must have looked to each other in bewilderment.
Soon though they too would see what had caused the disruption.
In the sky above the stadium, a large oblong object moved slowly into view, before appearing to stop above the playing surface.
Silvery filaments descended from the heavens, while the sky itself seemed to shimmer and glow with random flashes of light.
“It was something that looked like an egg that was moving slowly, slowly, slowly,” Ardico Magnini later told the BBC.
“Everyone was looking up and also there was some glitter coming down from the sky, silver glitter.
“We were astonished we had never seen anything like it before. We were absolutely shocked.”
Play ground completely to a halt as all those in attendance gawped up at the object above them.
For around half an hour the mysterious flying object simply hovered, showering down its strange filaments. Many who were there that day were convinced they had seen visitors from another world.
“In those years everybody was talking about aliens,” Romolo Tuci told the BBC in 2014. “Everybody was talking UFOs and we had the experience, we saw them, we saw them directly, for real.”
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