30 years have passed since that November of 1978 when the crews of the navy asked for help from Abruzzo to the Harbor of Pescara worried by strange phenomena that occurred near their boats. Much has been written about those events and someone still remembers the strange atmosphere that is breathed in Abruzzo. Dozens of crews attended the first curious and then seriously concerned about the appearance of strange globes of light which followed the boats at night and suddenly disappeared upwards. They were fishermen of all ages, none of them had ever dreamed of joining one Association was interested in UFO or extraterrestrial. When they came back to committee of the Harbour Master Piero gallery had all the expression on the face of those seeking to carry out protection work as hard as loro.La navy was alarmed and had to be heard Having regard to the reliability of several witnesses who seen dozens of phenomena occurring in different times of day and night in the sea from San Benedetto del Tronto in Ortona.La Master was the first institution that was required and the Commander Gallerano arranged a service road with a patrol boat that there little was to become known throughout the world in the famous 2018 CP.
a phone call late at night
indietro.Io Let's step at the time I wrote about a few boating magazines and had relations with the specialized maritime environments for which I was immediately involved in the event. I had to interview people who claimed to .... "Seeing" and make sure that they were credibili.Ero witnesses have been warned since the first sightings of a phone call from a journalist friend of mine, now deceased, who for professional reasons was tuned into the radio frequencies of pescatori.Si exchanged messages that seemed to come from units engaged in a battle were navale.Pressappoco like this: "Shark first" from "Seagull" well you see the light that you follow me? "-" Seagull "is right on top of you but I think he's still ... .. what a helicopter Finance? - No, no noise ... it is becoming more red in color ... I changed my route and always follows .- ... In short there was enough material to investigate.
INTERVIEW WITH THE MASTER
We return to the patrol boat "CP 2018." Here is a part of the interview by Commander rilasciatami gallery a few days after the meeting "close" military unit with a strange "rocket" out of the sea. ".... The boat began on the evening of 8 November 1978 his patrol. The first day was not detected anything. Instead output made during the next day, at 20.45, while the patrol boat was about 4 miles from the coast near North Silvi, the crew consists of 5 men (one was in the car and the other 4 in covered) sighted at a distance of approximately 800 / 1000 m something like a red light signal is very clear that rising from the sea surface at an angle of 45 degrees. This kind of rocket crew disappeared from view after 4 seconds ... "
WHY 'the patrol boat became famous as" PC 2018 "
This episode went around the world, because it was the first time that a crew Navy was witness to a sighting that could relate to the phenomenon UFO.Anche if the senior officer not classified the sighting as a "flying saucer", at least, was the first time that a military entity not hide such an event, as was the case systematically to the pilots of civil aviation and military, not to be put under investigation, they avoided to report strange phenomena.
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It is my graphic reconstruction of the meeting "close" the patrol boat "CP 2018" performed on the basis of interviews conducted in the Harbour and into the navy 
Pescara.
Pescara. 
