September 28, 2025 • 8 mins
In the last blog, we looked at the first two UFO and occupant encounters reported by Italian security guard Piero Fortunato Zanfretta. The case was investigated by the Carabinieri (Italian Military Police) and evidence was found in the form of possible landing traces in the first and second instances with the addition of huge footprints in the second. In conscious recall, Zanfretta described encountering “an enormous green, ugly and frightful creature, with undulating skin, no less than ten feet tall.” Under hypnosis after the first instance, he said he was taken to a bright, hot place and examined by “monsters about 10 feet tall, with hairy green skin, yellow triangular eyes and red veins across the forehead” (he also described them having metal strips over their mouths) that told him they were from the “third galaxy,” wanted to talk to the people of Earth, and would return soon in greater numbers. Italian journalist Rino Di Stefano became interested in the case, stuck with it, and wrote a book about it titled The Zanfretta Case, first published in Italian in 1984 and then in English in 2014. The reader can refer to his website promoting the book for most of the information. Read more →
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The Case of Piero Forginado Zamfretta, Part two by Charles Lear.
In last week's blog, we looked at the first two
UFO and occupant encounters reported by Italian security guard Piero
for Ganado Zamfretta. The case was investigated by the Carabignieri
Italian military police, and evidence was found in the form
(00:44):
of possible landing traces in the first and second instances,
with the addition of huge footprints in the second. In
conscious recall, Zamfretta described encountering an enormous, green, ugly and
frightful creature with undulating skin no less less than ten
feet tall under hypnosis. After the first instance, he said
he was taken to a bright, hot place and examined
(01:07):
by monsters about ten feet tall with hairy green skin,
yellow triangular eyes, and red veins across the forehead. He
also described them having metal strips over the mouths that
told him they were from the Third Galaxy, wanted to
talk to the people of Earth and would return soon
in greater numbers. Italian journalist Reno di Stefano became interested
(01:29):
in the case, stuck with it, and wrote a book
about it. Titled The Zamfreda Case, first published in Italian
in nineteen eighty four and then in English in twenty fourteen.
The reader can refer to his website promoting the book
for most of the information. According to Di Stefano, Zamfreda's
second encounter, where his car was found by the krabinieri
(01:51):
to have been extremely hot inside and out in spite
of the winter cold, got a lot of publicity. A
hypnosis session was again arranged with the original psychotherapist, doctor
Marro Moretti, except that this time it was to be
televised on local station TVs. The story that came out
of this is described in the book, but Samfretto was
(02:13):
hypnotized multiple times and Di Stefano isn't strict of that chronology.
It seems that in this session he being taken up
into a triangular craft in a beam of green light.
According to him, the inside of the craft appeared to
be too big to be accommodated by it and resembled
a city. One of the creatures in the hypnosis sessions
(02:34):
described in the book, Zamfretta said they identified themselves as
the Dargoes from the planet Titania. Took his gun and
fired five times. It was silent, which seemed to have
explained the fact that his gun was found to have
been fired that many times without him being able to
recall who or what he'd fired at. He was confronted
(02:55):
by ten creatures that took him to be examined. They
put a helmet on his head that seemed to translate,
but it caused him great pain. When he asked why
they were doing this to him, it was explained that
they needed human guinea pigs. As the audience watched, he
protested that he had a family and wanted to be
left alone. Zamfreda became a celebrity and experienced the problems
(03:18):
that came with it, including having his mental health questioned.
This caused him to regret having told his story. As
for his mental health, his company val Baisagno had him
examined by a neurologist and he was declared perfectly safe.
This helped his credibility. He was invited to appear on
the national TV show Porto Bello. He was interviewed in
(03:40):
regress and his stories started to make international news. Zamfretta's
superiors out of concern for his safety and the safety
of his fellow guards put him on duty in a
populated and well lit area of Genoa where he would
patrol on a vespa. Reluctantly, they gave him night duty,
which he requested because the pay was better. There were
(04:02):
no episodes for over seven months until the night of
July thirtieth, nineteen seventy nine, when Zamfretta was on patrol.
He went missing and was found by his fellow guards
running in the dark on top of Mount Fashia. There
was only one road up and other Vaubazagno guards who
were patrolling it said he hadn't been seen going up it,
(04:22):
and this included a guard at the bottom of the
road who stood in the middle of it when he
was alerted. Zamfretta was headed towards him. After Zamfretta had
failed to call in, another hypnosis session was arranged, and
this time, at his request, Zamfreta was injected with sodium pentethal.
Once again. He said he had been lifted up into
(04:43):
the craft by a green light. According to him, he
met Palmch, prince of the Dargoes, who was slightly taller
than the others. Almoch told him that their planet was
doomed and that they needed a place to start over
and intended to build a domed city on Earth. Like
many contactees before him, Zamfretta said he was warned about
(05:03):
the danger posed to Earth by our atomic weapons. He
also said he was shown a clear sphere with a
gold pyramid inside, and that Almoch told him this was
a means much like a television to become familiar with
the dargoes. He went on to say that Almach told
him they would return when the Great Cob comes and
(05:24):
give the sphere to an American professor whose name sounded
like Ankee. The doctor who had administered the pentethal reportedly
suggested Heinik, and Zamprettas said to have agreed, although he
did not know who Heineg, presumably j Allen Heinech was.
Samfretta then described hitting buttons on a nearby console until
(05:47):
a hatch opened, whereupon he jumped out of the craft,
which was fortunately only around ten feet above the ground.
He said the creatures lowered his vestpot after him. According
to the account on the webs Sight, Samfreda went missing
again on December second, nineteen seventy nine, while driving an
Austin Minnie. His four men rescue team of two men
(06:09):
each and two cars, drove to the scene after spotting
a UFO in the hills of her Genoa. When they approached,
the two beams of light came down out of a
large cloud and both cars shut down. The men got
out and Lieutenant Casiba shot at the beams, which seemed
to have cast them to go out. One of the guards,
(06:30):
Gmano Zanardi, was reportedly so unnerved by the experience that
he never recovered and shot himself in the head. A
few months later, Samfretta was found and was again hypnotically regressed.
The story came out that when he was at a
gas station in downtown Genoa, he heard a voice calling
in and couldn't resist walking towards it. It came from
(06:52):
a man he described as slightly taller than him with
an egg shaped head. He said he was wearing a
checkered suit and had some thing made of steel instead
of a shirt. According to him, the man ordered him
to drive into a cloud and he was taken up
into a craft. There, the creatures gave him a tour
where he saw tubes filled with blue liquid containing creatures
(07:15):
that included a cave man and a frog like being
said to be an enemy of the Dargoes. He was
given the sphere and told to give it to Heinech,
and he smashed it on the floor. He had the
helmet forced on his head and was shown pictures he
was told were of everyone on earth that included their information.
They said everyone would become subjects in their experiments and
(07:38):
that they would return again with another sphere. During the session,
Zamfretta reportedly said, where have you been and what do
you want to do in Spain? Why put all together
that will scare people. It is noted that a report
came out of Spain the next day of a dentist
driving off the road, terrified and blinded by a UFO
(08:00):
that had followed him for an hour. He also said
that he was told that someone was firing at the
ship next week. Intriguing evidence more episodes and the aftermath.
Charles Lear is the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators,
available in its second edition at Amazon dot Com.
The Case of Piero Forginado Zamfretta, Part two by Charles Lear.
In last week's blog, we looked at the first two
UFO and occupant encounters reported by Italian security guard Piero
for Ganado Zamfretta. The case was investigated by the Carabignieri
Italian military police, and evidence was found in the form
(00:44):
of possible landing traces in the first and second instances,
with the addition of huge footprints in the second. In
conscious recall, Zamfretta described encountering an enormous, green, ugly and
frightful creature with undulating skin no less less than ten
feet tall under hypnosis. After the first instance, he said
he was taken to a bright, hot place and examined
(01:07):
by monsters about ten feet tall with hairy green skin,
yellow triangular eyes, and red veins across the forehead. He
also described them having metal strips over the mouths that
told him they were from the Third Galaxy, wanted to
talk to the people of Earth and would return soon
in greater numbers. Italian journalist Reno di Stefano became interested
(01:29):
in the case, stuck with it, and wrote a book
about it. Titled The Zamfreda Case, first published in Italian
in nineteen eighty four and then in English in twenty fourteen.
The reader can refer to his website promoting the book
for most of the information. According to Di Stefano, Zamfreda's
second encounter, where his car was found by the krabinieri
(01:51):
to have been extremely hot inside and out in spite
of the winter cold, got a lot of publicity. A
hypnosis session was again arranged with the original psychotherapist, doctor
Marro Moretti, except that this time it was to be
televised on local station TVs. The story that came out
of this is described in the book, but Samfretto was
(02:13):
hypnotized multiple times and Di Stefano isn't strict of that chronology.
It seems that in this session he being taken up
into a triangular craft in a beam of green light.
According to him, the inside of the craft appeared to
be too big to be accommodated by it and resembled
a city. One of the creatures in the hypnosis sessions
(02:34):
described in the book, Zamfretta said they identified themselves as
the Dargoes from the planet Titania. Took his gun and
fired five times. It was silent, which seemed to have
explained the fact that his gun was found to have
been fired that many times without him being able to
recall who or what he'd fired at. He was confronted
(02:55):
by ten creatures that took him to be examined. They
put a helmet on his head that seemed to translate,
but it caused him great pain. When he asked why
they were doing this to him, it was explained that
they needed human guinea pigs. As the audience watched, he
protested that he had a family and wanted to be
left alone. Zamfreda became a celebrity and experienced the problems
(03:18):
that came with it, including having his mental health questioned.
This caused him to regret having told his story. As
for his mental health, his company val Baisagno had him
examined by a neurologist and he was declared perfectly safe.
This helped his credibility. He was invited to appear on
the national TV show Porto Bello. He was interviewed in
(03:40):
regress and his stories started to make international news. Zamfretta's
superiors out of concern for his safety and the safety
of his fellow guards put him on duty in a
populated and well lit area of Genoa where he would
patrol on a vespa. Reluctantly, they gave him night duty,
which he requested because the pay was better. There were
(04:02):
no episodes for over seven months until the night of
July thirtieth, nineteen seventy nine, when Zamfretta was on patrol.
He went missing and was found by his fellow guards
running in the dark on top of Mount Fashia. There
was only one road up and other Vaubazagno guards who
were patrolling it said he hadn't been seen going up it,
(04:22):
and this included a guard at the bottom of the
road who stood in the middle of it when he
was alerted. Zamfretta was headed towards him. After Zamfretta had
failed to call in, another hypnosis session was arranged, and
this time, at his request, Zamfreta was injected with sodium pentethal.
Once again. He said he had been lifted up into
(04:43):
the craft by a green light. According to him, he
met Palmch, prince of the Dargoes, who was slightly taller
than the others. Almoch told him that their planet was
doomed and that they needed a place to start over
and intended to build a domed city on Earth. Like
many contactees before him, Zamfretta said he was warned about
(05:03):
the danger posed to Earth by our atomic weapons. He
also said he was shown a clear sphere with a
gold pyramid inside, and that Almoch told him this was
a means much like a television to become familiar with
the dargoes. He went on to say that Almach told
him they would return when the Great Cob comes and
(05:24):
give the sphere to an American professor whose name sounded
like Ankee. The doctor who had administered the pentethal reportedly
suggested Heinik, and Zamprettas said to have agreed, although he
did not know who Heineg, presumably j Allen Heinech was.
Samfretta then described hitting buttons on a nearby console until
(05:47):
a hatch opened, whereupon he jumped out of the craft,
which was fortunately only around ten feet above the ground.
He said the creatures lowered his vestpot after him. According
to the account on the webs Sight, Samfreda went missing
again on December second, nineteen seventy nine, while driving an
Austin Minnie. His four men rescue team of two men
(06:09):
each and two cars, drove to the scene after spotting
a UFO in the hills of her Genoa. When they approached,
the two beams of light came down out of a
large cloud and both cars shut down. The men got
out and Lieutenant Casiba shot at the beams, which seemed
to have cast them to go out. One of the guards,
(06:30):
Gmano Zanardi, was reportedly so unnerved by the experience that
he never recovered and shot himself in the head. A
few months later, Samfretta was found and was again hypnotically regressed.
The story came out that when he was at a
gas station in downtown Genoa, he heard a voice calling
in and couldn't resist walking towards it. It came from
(06:52):
a man he described as slightly taller than him with
an egg shaped head. He said he was wearing a
checkered suit and had some thing made of steel instead
of a shirt. According to him, the man ordered him
to drive into a cloud and he was taken up
into a craft. There, the creatures gave him a tour
where he saw tubes filled with blue liquid containing creatures
(07:15):
that included a cave man and a frog like being
said to be an enemy of the Dargoes. He was
given the sphere and told to give it to Heinech,
and he smashed it on the floor. He had the
helmet forced on his head and was shown pictures he
was told were of everyone on earth that included their information.
They said everyone would become subjects in their experiments and
(07:38):
that they would return again with another sphere. During the session,
Zamfretta reportedly said, where have you been and what do
you want to do in Spain? Why put all together
that will scare people. It is noted that a report
came out of Spain the next day of a dentist
driving off the road, terrified and blinded by a UFO
(08:00):
that had followed him for an hour. He also said
that he was told that someone was firing at the
ship next week. Intriguing evidence more episodes and the aftermath.
Charles Lear is the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators,
available in its second edition at Amazon dot Com.
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