AudioBlog Part III The Case of Piero Fortunato Zanfretta

This is the last of a three-part series of blogs covering the case of an Italian security guard (with the company Val Bisagno), Piero Fortunato Zanfretta, who reported a number of encounters with UFOs and their occupants.  After the first incident, he described in conscious recall being confronted by “an enormous green, ugly and frightful creature, with undulating skin, no less than ten feet tall.” Under hypnosis the story came out that he was taken up into a craft where he was interrogated and examined by as many as ten creatures “about 10 feet tall, with hairy green skin, yellow triangular eyes and red veins across the forehead” with metal strips over their mouths. He said they 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. What makes this case unique is that there is corroborating evidence in the form of possible landing traces, giant footprints, witness testimony from his co-workers, and observations made during the investigation by the Italian military police known there as the Carabinieri. Read more →

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:24):
The Case of Piero Fortinando Zamfretta, Part three by Charles Lear.
This is the last of a three part series of
blogs covering the case of an Italian security guard with
a company Vaal Bisagno, Piero for Tonado Zamfretta, who reported
a number of encounters with UFOs and their occupants. After
the first incident, he described in conscious recall being confronted

(00:47):
by an enormous, green, ugly and frightful creature with undulating
skin no less than ten feet tall. Under hypnosis, the
story came out that he was taken up into a
where he was interrogated and examined by as many as
ten creatures about ten feet tall, with hairy green skin,

(01:08):
yellow triangular eyes, and red veins across the forehead, with
metal strips over their mouths. He said they 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 in the case,
stuck with it, and wrote a book about it titled

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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. What makes this case unique is that
there is corroborating evidence in the form of possible landing traces,
giant footprints, witness testimony from his co workers, and observations

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made during the investigation by the Italian military police known
thereas the Korobignieri. When we left off, Samfreda had gone
missing for the fourth time on December second, nineteen seventy nine,
while on patrol and an Austin Mini. His four men
Valbisagno rescue team of two men each in two cars,

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drove to the scene after spotting a UFO in the
hills over Genoa. When they approached, two beams of light
came down out of a large cloud and both cars
shut down. The men got out and Lieutenant Cassiba shot
at the beams, which seemed to have cost them to
go out. One of the guards, Germano Zenardi, was reportedly

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so unnerved by the experience that he never recovered and
shot himself in the head a few months later. Zamfretta
was hypnotically regressed after each encounter. Twice on television. From
the story that came out was that the creatures known
as the Dargoes intended to build a domed city on
Earth in order to escape their doomed planet. At one point,

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he described meeting their prince Almach. After his fourth encounter,
he said they had tried to give him a glass
spear with a golden triangle in it, intended for doctor
j Allen Heinig, and he smashed it. He then managed
to open a hatch and escape by jumping out of
the craft, which was only about ten feet off the ground.

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He said that before his abduction, he had picked up
a man with an egg shaped head at a gas station.
He said he was wearing a checkered suit a metallic
looking shirt, and acted as an intermediary between him and
the Dargoes. Zamfreda went missing again just after midnight on
February fourteenth, nineteen eighty only this time, as described in

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the book, the carry was driving a Fiat one twenty
seven had been prepared unbeknownst to him in order to
track him and gather substantial evidence that there was something
to his extraordinary claims. An engineer at the company Reno
Tagliavia and the technician Giuliano Guadamichi hid various items in

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the car, including a radio that would act as a
homing beacon, cassette tapes and color photoplates to pick up
any magnetic anomalies, and a thermometer that would record the
highest temperature. Because Zamfretta was reporting that he and his
various vehicles were being lifted up into the craft, they
rigged cables that went from the wheelhubs to the body

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that would only break if the car was lifted up.
According to Di Stefano, this was all supervised by the
director of Fabizagno, Gianfranco Tudi, who had a look on
his face that indicated that this was the last time
he would try to understand the Zamfretta mystery. A rescue
team that included Tutty in Pie Stefano was hot on

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Zamfretta's trail and found the car quickly in the mountains
in the area of Tariglia. The driver's side door was open,
but Samfredo was nowhere to be seen. After a few
minutes of searching in the freezing cold, Samfredo was found
unconscious on the edge of a ravine, clinging to a
bush and on the verge of falling in. On this occasion,

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Samfredo was cold as he should have been, as opposed
to hot as he had been on previous occasions, and
as he was taken back to Balbizangno headquarters, he warmed
up and returned to full consciousness. According to Di Stefano,
the next day he watched a Stagliavia and Buanamichi checked
the various items they had placed in the car and

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found that the thermometer had recorded a high temperature of
one hundred and nine point four degrees fahreneit. They also
found that all four of the cables had been broken
as usual. Samfreda underwent hypnosis that night with doctor marro
Moretti with Di Stefano present, contradicting the evidence of the
snapped cables. When asked if the car had been lifted

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up into the air that night as before, he said no,
it was on the ground. He did, however, describe it
as becoming hot when it was lit up by a
huge light overhead. According to him, he picked up the
egg headed man. He described not being able to move
as the car stopped and the door opened by itself,

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and continued to the square in Tariglia, with the car
driving itself without head lights. There he saw a bright
metallic thirty meter diameter object covering four to five meters
above the ground. He said, the egg headed man ran
into it, and he Samfretta ran away. He said that
as he was running, the object went into the valley

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towards where there is a house made of metal inside
that deep hole. Zamfretta brings up the possibility that the
rescue team got there too quickly, saying the cars could
have waited to come up. They might have given me
the object and the problem would be solved. He added,
I'm sure they have a base there, because they definitely

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always leave from there. It is during this session that
Samfretta suddenly appeared to be channeling almac first speaking in
a strange language, the men switching to Italian to address
Moretti directly, starting with earthly speak. Moretti asks if they
will show themselves, and Zamfretta's slash Almach replies everything in

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due course, after explaining that they can't get Zamfretta to
stop fearing them and that they know Moretti and the
others want to help, Zamfretta slash Almach says in due course,
we will show ourselves, ending transmission. Zamfretta was reportedly abducted
five more times, with the last occasion being on August eighth,

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nineteen eighty one. In more hypnosis sessions, they came out
that he had received the sphere and hidden it in
the mountains where her regularly checked up on it. He
said he was to activate it to enable a landing,
but it never happened. He said in his last session
on April twenty fourth, nineteen ninety two, that the Dargos
were going to take back. In the first year of

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his reported experiences, sam Freda's hair went from black to gray,
and within a few years was completely white. He gained
fourteen kilograms and reported that his urine turned black immediately after,
and that he vomited for days. After his abductions, Albazagno
gave up trying to understand what was happening to him,

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and he eventually lost his job and family and ended
up living on a pension in Genoa. He remained a
minor celebrity in Italy, and his story continues to intrigue.
Charles lear is, the author of The Flying Saucer Investigators,
available in its second edition at Amazon dot com.