Bases in the Ocean, and a War for Earth | The Friendship Case

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They felt an overwhelming affection coming from the beings who spoke to them in perfect Italian. The visitors said they belonged to a confederation of alien races watching over Earth. They lived in bases buried all around the world. They wanted humanity to survive. But they didn't want to make contact until we were ready. They weren't sure we were ready now. But the Cold War was escalating. And both sides had nuclear weapons. Humanity could destroy itself before the aliens ever introduced themselves. So they stopped waiting. The visitors called Earth a mother planet. One of the rare worlds in the galaxy that produces life. And humans weren't the first civilization to develop here. We were the seventh. Hundreds of millions of years before us, six other civilizations rose and fell on this planet. Every one of them was more advanced than we are. One even had space travel. But their technology advanced faster than their ability to control it. Then it destroyed them. One after another. The aliens watched six great civilizations die. They did not want to watch a seventh. Bruno stayed in contact with the visitors and called their group W56. The W is how Italians write Viva. So it was long-lived 56, the year of first contact. But as Bruno got to know the visitors, their relationship deepened. And he eventually just called them the Friends. The Friends told Bruno to put together a group of people who could be trusted. The Friends were willing to help the humans. But the humans had to help the Friends first. So Bruno started recruiting. Gaspare de Lama stood next to a truck filling barrels with water. When they were full, he'd load them up and drive them to a specific location. What? See for hose water? That's like flying to Paris for the Sbarro. The location was always different. But it was always somewhere remote. And he wasn't given the destination until the last minute. And the Friends asked for more than water. Sometimes they asked for food, especially fruit. The aliens didn't eat the fruit. They pulled the nutrients out and pressed them into small green pills. One pill could feed an alien for two days. Other requests were harder to fill. The Friends wanted strontium and barium nitrate. The stuff you use in signal flares, fireworks, and military ammunition. Nobody orders truckloads of barium nitrate for fireworks. Well, we don't actually know what they used it for. Hello, a hundred Italians in unmarked trucks hauling explosives to empty fields. The Friends said they were peaceful. Oh yeah, and the Pesci family said they were in waste management. Gaspare didn't question it. When you're in the Friendship group, deliveries to aliens are part of the job. The biggest challenge was how much the Friends needed. By the time Bruno's Friendship group had 100 members, they were sending truckloads of supplies to bases all over the country. It was a logistics problem. It was also getting expensive. Sometimes the Friends paid. Early on, they sent gold, then cash. But most of the time, the humans had to cover the cost. Members contributed what they could. But Bruno paid the rest. And here's what confused Gaspare. The aliens didn't need help from the humans at all. They could get whatever they wanted without the slightest problem. In my opinion, putting on this little show served to keep the sense of cohesion tight. It worked. He thought it was a test of loyalty and cooperation. Gaspare turned off the hose. The last barrel was full. The hard part was getting them into the truck. But after that, it was easy. He didn't have to unload them. Nobody did. At least nobody human. Because one of the Friends' favorite technologies was teleportation. Sometimes the group used outside drivers. One of them was hired for one delivery. When he got to the drop-off point on his map, there was nothing there. No loading dock, not even a building. So he pulled over and got out. Then suddenly, Bruno Samaciccia came out of the bushes to meet him. Thanks for coming. Our workers will be here in a minute. Are you hungry? Why don't you come get some lunch, maybe a beer? They'll unload when they get here. Outsiders weren't allowed to watch the Friends' work. The driver ate fast. He wanted to get back for unloading. But by the time he walked back to his truck, it was empty. The lunch was a surprise. The lunch was a stall. Teleporting the load took a few seconds. But they didn't just teleport cargo. When humans met to discuss their work with W56, the aliens transported things into the room. Notes, photographs, reels of film that dropped right out of the air. Someone would ask a question that a piece of paper would appear with the answer. Sometimes they came from the floor and tapped me under the chair. Sometimes I saw them materialize in the air. Amazing. One day, Bruno showed up at Gaspari's apartment and told him to buy a radio. So, Gaspari bought one and put it on a cabinet. Five minutes later, a loud crack and a flash of green flame shot out of the radio. Then Bruno said, "There. Now it's ready." A loud crack, flames, and now it's ready. You're describing my ex-wife's cooking. A voice spoke through the radio. Gaspari changed the station and the voice kept talking. He grabbed a second radio, tuned to the same frequency, but that one played normal music. This friendship radio kept talking. The voice belonged to Sigur, one of the friends. He spoke perfect Italian with an Abruzzo accent. Other aliens spoke through the radio, too. One night, there were a dozen people sitting in Gaspari's living room. Sigur came through the radio and said hello to each one of them by name in the order they were sitting. But Gaspari was distracted. The deliveries, the weird radio, the secrets. He worried about what would happen if people found out about the friends or how dangerous this technology could be in the wrong hands. Gaspari snapped out of it when Sigur spoke directly to him. "Gaspare, change your thoughts." The friends could read minds. Teleportation, telepathy, all of it runs through small devices called nuclei. They can place these devices inside objects, rooms, and living creatures. The friends even used Bruno's German Shepherd as an antenna. They could make the dog walk, run, sit, and stay on command. "Oh, let's install these in your cats. I'll teach them to swim, vicious little hell beasts." About every 20 days, huge blue electrical arcs appeared inside Gaspare's apartment, six to ten feet long, about a foot thick. The friends were recharging the nuclei. He had no idea how they did it, and he didn't ask. The friends did not like to share knowledge of their technology. But the members of the group were allowed to see their ships. Over the radio, the friends told Gaspare, to go to his roof and look up. When he got outside, he saw a flying saucer hovering near his house. Now, what makes this sighting good is that there were two other witnesses. What makes this sighting great is, Gaspare took a photo. I've got my readers scattered everywhere. The studio, the kitchen, my car, my bag. And they're not nice ones, because I know I'm going to lose them. But here's the thing. Those add up. Ten, fifteen bucks a pop, five or six times a year, and you're still wearing glasses that give you a headache after 20 minutes. Zenni Optical changes that. Zenni is an online eyewear shop. Stylish prescription glasses, sunglasses, fully customizable lenses, and pairs start at under 30 bucks. You go to Zenni.com, pick a frame, punch in your prescription, customize the lenses, and it ships right to your door. No store, no pressure. And the selection is huge. Every shape, every color, blue light readers, prescription sunglasses, there are options for pretty much everyone. 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Then the friends told Gasparri he can pick a time and place and they'd be there. When the day came, he and Bruno stood in a field with a still camera and a movie camera. When the craft arrived, Gasparri started filming. The craft moved up and down right in front of them, coming almost to the ground. On the drive back to Milan, the saucer followed them for a while. Bruno took another photograph along the way. Almost all the humans who worked with the friends saw their UFOs, and always by appointment. Some of their photos were also made public, but most people wanted to remain anonymous. Experts who looked at the photos found no wires, no superimposed images, nothing funny about the photos. The saucer's lighting and shadows matched the surroundings. Gasparri said the friends could make the saucers visible or invisible at will. They traveled in higher dimensions, meaning they could move from one place to another without entering the space in between. That's a lower dimension. They traveled outside that. The photos aren't the only proof of the friends. One of their radio broadcasts was captured on tape. "Dear friends, dear brothers, be sure of us, because none of us will give in. You are united, united, united, and you will overcome your weaknesses, these, among you. And as our dear friends, our world for you, dear friends, is not easy to understand. This is natural, but with the affection of the truth, you can still be close to our hearts, to you, and understand each other. " This is natural, but with the affection of the truth, you can still be close to our hearts, to you, and understand each other. " One day, Bruno asked one of the friends if he could see their base. He was surprised when the alien said, "Sure." He went to an open field on the coast, escorted by a 10-foot tall alien. But there was nothing there. No gate, no tunnel, nothing. Then the alien nodded at the ground, and the ground opened. He went to an open field on the coast, escorted by a 10-foot tall alien. FX's American Horror Story returns for an unrivaled 13th installment with the iconic horrors you love to fear and an all-star cast reprising fan-favorite roles. The show is brought to you by FX. at his console something wasn't right he couldn't launch his missiles oh that happens to every guy once in a while it was march 16 1967 at malmstrom air force base in montana and the air force just lost control of 10 minute man nuclear missiles uh did you say minute man yeah why oh that happens to every guy once in a while okay anyway then someone shouted there were objects in the sky over the base but the us wasn't under attack the missiles weren't destroyed or damaged they were set to the no-go position the friends sent a little electrical noise into the circuitry and all the missiles went offline at least we think it was electrical noise to this day nobody really knows what happened and the plan was bigger than the one base they disabled every nuclear warhead in the united states and the soviet union at once malmstrom is just the one we hear about the friends believed humanity was one mistake away from destroying the planet and they just proved they could stop it and to drive the point home they did it again a week later but the friends couldn't babysit us forever they want us to learn to protect ourselves but not with weapons with cooperation and compassion the friends need us to realize that our emotions create a real physical force they have a name for it your etta uretta is energy made from positive feelings loyalty trust friendship the friends know how to create and harness this energy humans have it too we just don't know how to use it and if we don't learn soon we could lose the power forever the aliens teach respect loyalty and concern for other people not because it's nice because they need this energy to survive their technology is built around ureta their machines convert the energy into power heat even the oxygen inside their bases under the ocean the aliens literally breathe feelings gaspari de lama was right the friends can easily get their own supplies water fruit barium whatever they can teleport in anything they need instead they chose a hundred people and made them work together the deliveries were a training exercise that cooperation created that energy with ureta and it worked but the universe has another force just as powerful retta retta comes from division selfishness and betrayal the ctr uses this dark energy in their technology the friends see retta growing on earth and they know what it can do with access to nuclear weapons if ureta breaks down if distrust and infighting take over the ctr will be able to destroy the entire human race and we're running out of time the friends say they can hold off the ctr but only if the humans learn to hold on to each other fx's american horror story returns for an unrivaled 13th installment with the iconic horrors you love to fear and an all-star cast reprising fan favorite roles light your candles draw your pentagrams and prepare for a supreme surprise fx's american horror story 13 now streaming on hulu in october 1978 fishermen off the adriatic coast watched craft climb out of the water then the lights were everywhere hundreds of them for weeks up and down the coast the papers called it the adriatic ufo wave the friendship humans knew what was happening the friends were leaving and they knew exactly why they failed the bond between the aliens and the humans created ureta energy the friends needed it but as the years went on the humans divided and started fighting and the ureta got weaker the friends once offered to share some of their technology but they never did because the humans couldn't stop fighting over who would get it loving the aliens was easy loving each other was harder toward them it was easy between the group we are what we are it was broken the humans couldn't keep it together and without that energy the friends had no protection the ctr attacked the bases fell and the survivors left earth as the friends left they made a promise to the humans who were still there they would come back someday but until then the humans had to keep trying to work together and love each other everyone agreed and then they were gone they enriched me they put me into contact with an almost impossible world full of love after 1978 the truck stopped the radios went quiet the people who spent 20 years hauling water into empty fields went back to their normal lives but they kept their word and spread love wherever they could and they waited for the friends to come back they never did only a few members are left but they're out there right now still spreading kindness compassion and love and now and then they get together in an empty field near the coast and wait for the ground to open it never has but they'll never stop believing that it will come back a struggle for the fate of the universe secret technology that defied the laws of physics universal power of love and friendship the rare alien story that doesn't fill you with fear it actually fills you with hope it's a good story but is it true well engineer stefano breccia wrote the book about the friendship case in 2007 based on interviews with bruno samachicha bruno died before it was published so the man at the center of the story wasn't there to answer any questions in the book breccia mentioned gaspari and his wife morella they didn't say anything they kept quiet for years but once the book was out they went public and said everything in the book happened and plenty of other things in the story are also true gaspari's saucer photographs were published in 1962. the photographs exist now whether they're fakes or not it's up to you but they are there the italian ufo wave was real the new york times covered it on december 17 1978 and that missile shutdown that happened too all 10 echo flight minutemen missiles lost strategic alert within seconds of each other that's not supposed to happen the air force says the ufo had nothing to do with it and that's fine so what caused the shutdown they still don't know the best guess is electrical noise in the circuits something a high energy or high frequency device could do now we don't have that technology yet but the military is working on it i wonder where they got that idea now the problems breccia's list has 120 names on it bruno samachicha gaspari and his wife and one other witness they came forward that means 116 people didn't journalist bruto gabaudi talked about the case for a while but then went quiet maybe that's because the ufo photos he released in 1961 were a hoax he bought a toy or a pie pan that looked like a ufo and tossed it in the air we know this because a neighbor called the police to report some weirdo with a camera throwing dishes around the yard foiled by a carrying he should have done his research fellas if you see yoga pants in a clothesline and the trash is full of wine bottles move on to the next house then there's bruno's history with money in 1967 a journalist exposed the fund the group ran for wounded extraterrestrial pilots donations went to bruno and his inner circle bruno said that's the only way to get the money to the friends a fund for wounded aliens that is the greatest idea i've ever heard it was a scam it's a category he invented a category uh go fund me for the wounded anunnaki uh that's what i'm doing gertie's already uh drawn up the logo gertie can't draw she's a camel she drinks grape juice and spits a napkin it's it's very abstract uh it's like jackson pollock uh but with more mucus he also sold vials of red fluid that would give you protection against the ctr aliens and uh those weren't cheap oh this guy's a genius okay let's give him the benefit of the doubt say all of that was real but in 1997 he was convicted of defrauding an elderly couple he sold them supernatural extraterrestrial healing services turned out he didn't have those powers so the radio and the recordings they're fun to listen to but it's really just a voice speaking italian with a local accent could be an alien could be an italian mind reading objects appearing out of the window could be an alien could be an italian mind mind reading objects appearing out of nowhere all that stuff that's just witness testimony there's no evidence of any of that and the ctr wanted to destroy the earth right well they've had 50 years without those pesky italian aliens getting in the way so why are we still here i think the story is then but gaspari never stopped talking about the friends years later he still described the affection he felt from them. I watched those interviews, and even though I'm skeptical, I was moved. We hear flying saucer, magic radios, and underwater bases, and we want proof. That's fine. I want that too. But set that aside for a second and listen to Gaspari tell the story. He and Mirella felt loved by these beings. I don't necessarily believe the story, but I won't condescend, judge, or ridicule them because they do. And the last thing I would do is rob an old man of a memory that brings him joy at the end of his life. Don't be that person who always has to be right. Be the person who can be kind to someone who's wrong. As long as their belief doesn't hurt, their happiness is more important than your ego. If we can learn to do that, who knows? The friends might come back to Earth and give us one more chance. If we can get them back, we can change the world. Today, I'm doing the best I can. I don't think I pronounced an L correctly this entire night. Everything just sounds like this in my head. 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