UFOs in the daily Press:

A "flying cigar" observed in Rome by military aviation and radar

ROME. -- A mysterious craft crossed the sky over Rome.

It was observed for about 40 minutes by the observation station of the military command at Ciampino Airport and by millions of Romans.

According to information provided by the airfield, the object was a "craft" shaped like a "half-cigar," flying at a slow speed at an altitude of approximately 1,200 meters.

A trail of luminous smoke was emitted from its narrower end.

While tracking the movements of the craft, the observation station at Ciampino noted that at one point it dropped 400 meters before immediately regaining altitude, shifting from a horizontal to a vertical position.

As the craft moved toward the sea, the Ciampino airfield reported its presence to the military control station at Pratica di Mare, about thirty kilometers from Rome, which successfully "locked onto" it with radar and tracked it for about twenty minutes.

Radar reportedly detected the presence of an antenna at the center of the wider section of the "half-cigar."

The Monte-Marlo Observatory (Rome) ruled out the possibility that it was a meteor, as no celestial body had crossed the sky over Rome on the previous day.