This is Need to Know.

Real talk about the reality of unidentified aerial phenomena.

From Australia, Ross Colthart.

From the U.S. Bryce Zabel. Hello and welcome to Need to Know. My name's

Ross Coulthart from Down Under in a small town near Sydney, Australia, and in Los Angeles,

my co-host and good buddy, Bryce Zabel. Bryce, you're just back from a holiday in Italy, I hear.

Well, my family had some friends

who had a daughter getting married, and we used that as an opportunity to go to Sorrento,

and I was brave enough to drive the Amalfi Coast, and I survived, so I'm feeling pretty good about

that, feeling confident. Did you see any retrieved flying saucers while you're over there?

There's that great story about the Mussolved flying saucers while you're over there? There's that great

story about the Mussolini flying saucer that the Americans allegedly retrieved during the

end of the Second World War. Well, it's an interesting story. I mean, first of all, it illustrates

that if you look into any particular country, you find all the UFO lore for it.

So the Italian UFO lore includes that 1933 recovery, supposedly, of a crash flying saucer.

Mussolini was in power.

And the guy he put in charge of looking into it was Marconi, the radio man.

So it kind of an interesting story, whether it was Marconi, the radio man. So it was kind of an interesting story,

whether it was recovered or not by the Americans after the war, I don't know. But I thought

there was one other really interesting story that comes out of Italy. Apparently, 68 years ago

this month in October of 1954, there was a major soccer game being played.

And a UFO like a cigar, people described it like a Cuban cigar, came over the soccer

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