Italian flying saucer video

Interesting -- I watched it twice, the third time I got this:
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Something about it really made me say "miniature set for a Godzilla movie," but I couldn't find such a scene, nor have I found a stack with those four red stripes near the top, in movie or real world...
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EDIT: "Watched" is now spelled in a less stupid way.
 
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Really CGI looking stuff is usually the twitter debunker ufoofinterest's area of specialism, they used to have an account here I think but not sure
 
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Darn.
I think I recall this video. I am certain we have a thread about it here on MB? Looked rather CGI to me.
 
It looks even the 'UFOlogist' to whom the film was sent, Antonio Chiumiento, disowned the film as a fake meant to discredit him (I only found a forum post which is apparently quoting from an article in the 21 July 2004 Pordenone edition of the "Il Gazzettino" newspaper)

External Quote:

Questa volta a crederci poco, anzi, a non crederci affatto, è lo stesso Chiumiento, «per almeno un paio di
buone ragioni» - spiega. E poi elenca: «Primo, il disco volante si stacca dallo sfondo con una chiarezza che appare costruita ad arte. Secondo, non c'è traccia di ombra provocata dall'ufo, qualsiasi sia l'orario delle riprese. Terzo, la
segnalazione è anomala, perché non ha un volto, un nome». «Tutte queste ragioni - prosegue Chiumiento - mi portano a ritenere che siamo di fronte a un clamorosissimo falso, un facile tranello per mettere in dubbio le mie capacità investigative, dopo oltre 1400 inchieste condotte a termine in trent'anni di
attività nel settore.
https://www.freeforumzone.com/mobile/d/4290963/Chiumiento-smaschera-il-falso-ufo/discussione.aspx

This time, Chiumiento himself does not believe it, "for at least a couple of good reasons", he says [then he lists three...]. "First, the flying saucer contrasts with the background with a clearness which looks faked. Second, there's no hint of the UFO casting a shadow, whichever the time was when the scene was filmed. Third, the report is anomalous, because it does not have a face nor a name attached. All these reasons - Chiumiento goes on - make me think this is a blatant fake, an easy trap to cast doubts on my investigative skills, after more than 1400 investigations I made during thirty years of operating in this sector".
 
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Yep. As of 11:05 PDT it's been removed. Must have been really bad.
The poster in question was a bot account and everything they posted has since been removed.

Thanks for the links everyone, I tried searches in both Google and YouTube on various "flying saucer/ufo" and "Italy/power plant" and get nothing. It's amazing how these tools have declined in usefulness over the last few years.
 
This clip has been posted to reddit multiple times in the past. I dont think this is correct but its been referred to as being filmed in Montereale, Italy. and also in Aviano, which I believe is correct as @JAFO found.

FWIW here is a reddit discussion from 2021 with 129 comments:


Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/q23u0s/theory_this_one_is_ours/


Here is another from 2022 with 100 comments:


Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/x0hq8z/do_you_want_to_see_tom_delonges_ig_ufo_close_up/


I think there are others

Edit:

Another reddit convo, this one is from 2024 with 192 comments


Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/190jczy/yet_to_be_debunked_2003_italy_montereale_val/
 
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There are a couple of zoomed and stabilised versions on YouTube


Source: https://youtu.be/akQKDtMHkiM?si=VvmK8Xu6bH4BKUCq



Source: https://youtu.be/IQzd2f-46WI?si=tEENT5Z50ZxafRTf


The video was apparently filmed even longer ago than 18 years: it dates from 2003 according to this Italian news clip:


Source: https://youtu.be/FzmVQq7ots0

So -- sanity check, please. Am I seeing protrusions come and go on the UFO as it turns, or is that likely just camera/compression.etc. artifacts? In the former case, it looks surprisingly like struggling AI, but it seems too old for that... Alternatively, it could just be the compression losing the distinction between the "bumps" and the background clouds as the UFO turns and the value of the gray on the bumps shifts as light angles change?
 
I dont think this is correct but its been referred to as being filmed in Montereale, Italy. and also in Aviano, which I believe is correct as @JAFO found.
The site located by @JAFO is ~2km from Montereale Valcellina (there are two Montereale in Italy, plus a more famous Monreale, they all mean 'Royal Mountain'). The town of Aviano is ~10km away, the Aviano AFB ~12km.
 
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The site located by @JAFO is ~2km from Montereale Valcellina (there are two Montereale in Italy, plus a more famous Monreale, they all mean 'Royal Mountain'). The town of Aviano is ~10km away, the Aviano AFB ~12km.
The nearest town to the filming location is Vajont, which was built to house survivors of the 1963 Vajont dam disaster.
 
So -- sanity check, please. Am I seeing protrusions come and go on the UFO as it turns, or is that likely just camera/compression.etc. artifacts? In the former case, it looks surprisingly like struggling AI, but it seems too old for that... Alternatively, it could just be the compression losing the distinction between the "bumps" and the background clouds as the UFO turns and the value of the gray on the bumps shifts as light angles change?
I see it too, a bit too big to be compression artefacts, I think. So I don't know what the bumps are, but they seem to indeed be there.

The entire object moves a lot like it's suspended from a string in the middle of the top surface, which would also explain the spinning.
 
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