Aeronautica Militare OVNI Annual Report 2020

Brief

Aeronautica Militare's Stato Maggiore issued this summary as Allegato D of its 2020 annual OVNI report, listing two UAP sightings evaluated against military flight and radiosonde records. The first, on 18 July 2020 near Cerchiate di Pero (Milan), described an irregular spherical object — intense white fading to reddish — executing continuous direction changes in a clear night sky. The second, on 2 August 2020 at Milano Marittima (Ravenna), described a high-speed yellow sphere observed during a severe thunderstorm with intense lightning, initially tracking NE-to-S before departing north. In both cases the Air Force found no association with any known military or meteorological activity and issued formal O.V.N.I. classifications.

Metadata

Agency

Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) — Stato Maggiore

Release

2022-11-15

Type

PDF • .pdf

Length

3 pages

Classification

UNCLASSIFIED

Programs

OVNI — Aeronautica Militare annual Allegato D registry

Tags

spherical, direction-change, Italy, 2020, civilian-report, Allegato-D, OVNI-registry, thunderstorm-context, color-change

Key points

• Event 1, Cerchiate di Pero (MI), 18 July 2020 at 21:57 local: object described as irregular spherical, intense white transitioning to reddish, constant speed with continuous direction changes; altitude not definable.p.2
• Event 1 weather was clear night sky with stars clearly visible, eliminating atmospheric ambiguity as a confounding factor.p.2
• Event 1 finding: after querying all relevant Air Force bodies, the event was not associated with flight or radiosonde activity and was catalogued O.V.N.I.p.2
• Event 2, Milano Marittima (RA), 2 August 2020 at 05:45 local: object described as spherical, yellow, high speed; altitude not definable.p.3
• Event 2 direction: initially NE toward S, then departing north — a bearing reversal inconsistent with balloon drift or conventional aircraft.p.3
• Event 2 occurred during a severe thunderstorm with intense lightning; despite a plasma-rich environment potentially suggestive of ball lightning, the Air Force classification was still O.V.N.I.p.3
• Both reports came from private citizens; the table applies twelve standardized fields per entry (shape, color, speed, direction, motion, altitude, weather, source), indicating a recurring institutional registry.p.2

Verbatim

• FORMA SFERICA IRREGOLARE BIANCO INTENSO E SUL FINIRE ROSSASTRO COSTANTE CONTINUI CAMBI DI DIREZIONE

  p.2

• CIELO NOTTURNO LIMPIDO CON STELLE BEN VISIBILI

  p.2

• SULLA BASE DEI DATI RACCOLTI PRESSO GLI ENTI PREPOSTI DELLA FORZA ARMATA, L'EVENTO NON È STATO ASSOCIATO AD ATTIV ITÀ DI VOLO O DI RADIOSONDAGGIO ED È STATO PERTANTO CATALOGATO COME O.V.N.I.

  p.2

• INIZIALMENTE DA NORD – EST VERSO SUD, SI ALLONTANAVA IN DIREZIONE NORD

  p.3

• FORTE TEMPORELE CON INTE N SA ATTIVITA' DI FULMINI

  p.3

• SULLA BASE DEI DATI RACCOLTI PRESSO GLI ENTI PREPOSTI DELLA FORZA ARMATA, L'EVENTO NON È STATO ASSOCIATO AD ATTIVITÀ DI VOLO O DI RADIOSONDAGGIO ED È STATO PERTANTO CATALOGATO COME O.V.N.I.

  p.3

Most interesting

• Event 2 occurred during a severe thunderstorm with intense lightning — conditions classically invoked to explain UAP as atmospheric plasma or ball lightning — yet the Aeronautica Militare issued its standard O.V.N.I. classification after exhausting all known-activity checks.
• Altitude was recorded as NON DEFINIBILE (not definable) for both events, a recurring data gap in civilian-reported UAP that makes triangulation and trajectory reconstruction impossible.
• The evaluation language is word-for-word identical across both entries, indicating the Stato Maggiore uses a fixed classification formula rather than case-specific analytical prose — the institutional bar for O.V.N.I. is purely eliminative: rule out flight and radiosonde, stamp the form.
• The twelve-column table structure (NR., LOCALITA', DATA, ORARIO, FORMA, COLORE, VELOCITA', DIREZIONE, MOTO, QUOTA, C/METEO, SEGNALAZIONE PERVENUTA DA) reveals that Italy has maintained a structured, machine-readable UAP registry with consistent field definitions across annual cycles.
• The description notes reports were Carabinieri-forwarded, yet the source text lists only PRIVATO CITTADINO (private citizen) as the reporting source — suggesting the Carabinieri routing happens upstream of the table and is not surfaced in the Allegato D registry itself.