Alpine Aliens: The UFO Photos That Won’t Die | 520

A landed flying saucer. A mysterious humanoid pilot. A frozen Italian glacier. Multiple photographs. And a 1952 UFO encounter that still gets passed around social media today as some of the clearest evidence of extraterrestrial visitation ever captured. Sounds pretty darn convincing, right?Head to the Bernina Alps with us as we investigate the bizarre case of Giampiero Monguzzi, the Italian photographer who claimed he and his wife witnessed a metallic UFO land near the Scerscen Glacier, watched a strange suited figure inspect the craft, and snapped a series of incredible photos before the saucer lifted off and disappeared toward Switzerland.It has everything you could want from a classic UFO encounter: eerie silence, a landed spacecraft, an apparent alien occupant, multiple photographs, and a mystery that continues bouncing around Facebook, TikTok, and the darker corners of the internet more than 70 years later.But there’s a reason you probably aren’t seeing the whole story in those viral posts. And once you start digging beyond the photographs, things take a very interesting turn.So did Monguzzi capture one of the greatest pieces of UFO evidence in history? Or is there something hiding just outside the frame? We dig into the encounter, the famous photographs, the strange little visitor, the worldwide press frenzy, and the part of the story social media conveniently tends to leave out. All that and more this week on Hysteria 51.SourcesCorriere della Sera – Mistero bUFO: “Ufo, falsi o veri? La storia del caso Monguzzi”https://misterobufo.corriere.it/2013/10/06/ufo-falsi-o-veri-la-storia-del-caso-monguzzi/Ufopedia – “1952/07/31 9:15, Ghiacciaio Scerscen, Lanzada, Lombardia, Italia”https://ufopedia.it/1952/07/31_9%3A15%2C_Ghiacciaio_Scerscen%2C_Lanzada%2C_Lombardia%2C_Italia%2C_UE.htmlUniversity of Warwick – Fantascienza e ufologia nell’opera di Inisero Cremaschi, Gilda Musa e Giuseppe Pederialihttps://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/167606/1/WRAP-Fantascienza-e-ufologia-nell-opera-di-Inisero-Cremaschi-Gilda-Musa-e-Giuseppe-Pederiali-1967-1978-Camilletti-22.pdfAlfredo Panicucci – “Ha fotografato il marziano per diventare giornalista,” Epoca, Vol. III, No. 109, November 8, 1952Saturday Night Uforia – “In the News 1952, Part Fifty-One”https://www.saturdaynightuforia.com/html/articles/articlehtml/itn52part51.htmlINTCAT – 1952 Humanoid Encounter Cataloguehttps://intcat.blogspot.com/2012/08/intcat-1952.htmlFlying Saucer Review – Lou Zinsstag, “Monguzzi Takes Saucer P