UFOLOGIA

History

Gianni V. Setti directed UFOLOGIA from Casella Postale 604, 10100 Turin, publishing it as Supplemento a Clypeus No. 54. Clypeus itself had been registered with the Tribunale di Torino since 28 April 1964. The editorial team comprised six researchers: Paolo Fiorino, Paolo Gastaldi, Gian Paolo Grassino, Paolo Mercuri, Flavio Roux, and Edoardo Russo. Correspondence went to Mercuri at Casella Postale 82, 10100 Turin. The publication appeared bimonthly ("bimestrale di informazione") as a joint production of the Sezione Ufologica del Gruppo Clypeus and the Centro Torinese Ricerche Ufologiche.

The January/February 1979 issue covered substantial international ground: Fernand Lagarde (France) on an alleged extraterrestrial recovered in Portugal, Antonio Ribera (Spain) on the Iberian UFO Congress, Gian Paolo Grassino on "Scienza e UFO," a section on UFOs at Italian high schools and universities, Italian casework from 1978 (systematic catalogue of Piedmont sightings), the House of Lords UFO debate of January 1979, and Paolo Mercuri and Edoardo Russo's "Elementi di socio-ufologia." The publication was distributed free to Gruppo Clypeus members and explicitly non-commercial.

Edoardo Russo was approximately twenty years old when he joined this editorial team. He went on to co-found CISU and became one of Italy's foremost UFO historians and archivists, maintaining databases and document collections over four decades. UFOLOGIA marks the beginning of that career in published form.