UFOLOGIA (Supplement to Clypeus)

History

Clypeus had been publishing since 1964 (registered with the Tribunale di Torino, No. 1647, 28 April 1964) as the journal of the Gruppo Clypeus in Turin. By 1979, the group expanded its output with UFOLOGIA, a bimonthly supplement that appeared as Supplement No. 54. Gianni V. Setti served as director and editor (Direttore Responsabile), operating from Casella Postale 604, 10100 Turin, with postal account 2/29517. The editorial team comprised Paolo Fiorino, Paolo Gastaldi, Gian Paolo Grassino, Paolo Mercuri, Flavio Roux, and Edoardo Russo, with correspondence directed to Paolo Mercuri at Casella Postale 82, 10100 Turin.

The supplement was produced jointly by the Sezione Ufologica del Gruppo Clypeus and the Centro Torinese Ricerche Ufologiche (CECOP) of S. Antonio de Caparica. It was distributed free to Gruppo Clypeus members, printed in-house, and explicitly non-commercial ("edita non a fini speculativi ma culturali e informativi").

The publication drew on international contributors (Lagarde from France, Ribera from Spain) while maintaining a strongly local focus on the Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta regions of northern Italy. The "Casistica italiana" section compiled 1978 Italian sightings from January to October in a systematic catalogue format. International developments covered included the House of Lords UFO debate of January 1979.