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
The 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 1972-1990.12
The 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
Representative 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.345
The 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.678
An 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