The evening of 2 january 1978, i was in the company of some friends and we were walking along the road that connects two towns in the province of milan (italy) when looking at the stars in a clean sky evening everything suddenly darkened a dark shadow of form an oval with gigantic dimensions approached from the south in a northerly direction, i don't know exactly at what height and speed. in a few seconds we heard a ringing in our ears and in three we apparently fainted and when i woke up i was left alone, realizing that i had vomited and more from my intestine. when i got home i discovered that at least two hours had passed and my mechanical watch was stopped and it didn't work anymore. in the morning i decided to contact the others in the group and nobody remembered the fact that happened in the evening or didn't want to talk about it! i returned to the place where the event happened and there were the technicians of the local electricity company who restored 8 light poles, i then went to the local police to make a complaint but they did not believe my story, however they held back the my watch without any receipt telling me they would get it back to me soon. i never managed to get it back to me and they threatened to report me for the damage to the light poles ... i was 17 at the time, i got scared and i never looked for news even though i was contacted a few months later airplane club of italy, which at that time controlled the flight records, asked me questions that i didn't know how to answer and if i didn't answer they would report me for forgery. i didn't know anything after these events, i kept everything inside myself and found that i stayed with a pierced eardrum in my left ear that evening. i have decided to divulge this experience now because i have been dreaming of what happened in 1977 for months and maybe it's time to let it know. sorry for my english i'm using the google translator. giorgio sommariva