{"type":"links","slug":"italian-air-force-ovni-archive","title":"Italian Air Force OVNI/UFO Archive","url":"https://disclosdex.com/links/italian-air-force-ovni-archive","description":"https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/ovni/","date":"2023-02-22T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Archive"],"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"After Italy's 1978 wave of Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati reports, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti designated the Aeronautica Militare as the institutional body responsible for collecting, verifying, and monitoring OVNI reports.[^1]\n\nThe page matters because it is Italy's official military UFO reporting archive and public case-access point: it links the reporting form, publishes yearly sighting PDFs from 2001 onward, and provides historical archive files for 1991-2000 and 1972-1990.[^1][^2]\n\nThe public reporting channel asks witnesses to complete the Stato Maggiore Aeronautica Militare form, document time, weather, observer position, object motion, shape, color, and supporting photos or film, then deliver it to a Carabinieri station for forwarding to the Air Staff security office.[^2]\n\nRepresentative annual files show how cases are released: the 2025, 2024, and 2023 PDFs preserve location, date, time, form, color, speed, direction, altitude, weather, reporting source, and findings, with some reports correlated to Starlink or radiosonde activity and others cataloged as OVNI after no known flight activity or phenomenon matched.[^3][^4][^5]\n\nThe historical archive PDFs extend public access into earlier batches, including reports from Air Force personnel, airline crews, Navy personnel, civilian pilots, and private citizens, while the Air Staff organization page identifies Reparto Generale Sicurezza as the office deputed to collect, verify, and monitor OVNI sightings.[^6][^7][^8]\n\nAn Aeronautica Militare article from 2015 separately described the archive as declassified for public viewing and available to technical-scientific agencies and authorities for possible study, framing the archive as an administrative record rather than a speculative claim set.[^9]\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [Aeronautica Militare OVNI page](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/ovni/)\n\n[^2]: [Stato Maggiore Aeronautica Militare OVNI reporting form](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ModuloUFO.pdf)\n\n[^3]: [Aeronautica Militare Avvistamenti 2025 PDF](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AVVISTAMENTI-2025.pdf)\n\n[^4]: [Aeronautica Militare OVNI Avvistamenti 2024 PDF](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/OVNI_AVVISTAMENTI_022024.pdf)\n\n[^5]: [Aeronautica Militare Avvistamenti OVNI 2023 PDF](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AVVISTAMENTI_OVNI_LAST-2023-1.pdf)\n\n[^6]: [Aeronautica Militare Archivio OVNI periodo 1991-2000 PDF](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Archivio_OVNI_periodo1991-2000.pdf)\n\n[^7]: [Aeronautica Militare Archivio OVNI periodo 1972-1990 PDF](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Archivio_OVNI_periodo1972-1990.pdf)\n\n[^8]: [Aeronautica Militare Stato Maggiore Aeronautica page](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/home/noi-siamo-l-am/organizzazione/lo-sma/)\n\n[^9]: [Aeronautica Militare 2015 article on the OVNI meeting](https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/news/l-a-m-partecipa-al-meeting-sugli-ovni/)","readingTime":"2 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/links/italian-air-force-ovni-archive","title":"Italian Air Force OVNI/UFO Archive","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/links/italian-air-force-ovni-archive","license":"CC-BY-4.0"},"url_external":"https://www.aeronautica.difesa.it/ovni/"}