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Press agency which gathered and selected
the news and then passed it to other agen-
cies. At the end of 1943, the town of Bari
was the real capital of the south, and the
PWB was its heart. All the most important
people were there: Badoglio, Prince
Umberto, Togliatti and Aldo Moro (at that
time, a poor nobody). I worked together
with Morpugno, Pontecorvo and Mario
Soldati as well as with the famous Colonel
Stivens of the BBC. The antifascist Italy
was all concentrated at the PWB.
Di Rado: How did you get to know
about foo fighters?
Witness: Once I was sent to Termoli,
where I met James Cameron, a captain in
the SAS at that time. [The SAS (Special
Air Service) was mainly used for military
operations deep behind enemy lines.] We
were close friends until he died in 1988. I
worked together with him until February
1945.
During this period, I took part in some
dangerous missions in Marche and in the
north of Italy. It was then that I got to
know about the [experiences] of some SAS
pilots. Honestly, I couldn't believe some
stories...
In 1945, I went back to the PWB as an
editor in the news department. There I got
to know that during [some filming for pro-
paganda purposes], the famous foo fighters
were filmed many times. But they were
censored in the final version [of the film]
which was put into circulation. I was very
curious to see those films; and thanks to the
help of Captain Cameron, I managed to
learn where the negatives were. So I went
to Rome to the UNN [United Nations
News] which was in Via del Muretto.
The UNN was an agency which gathered
and sent out news under PWB control. I
got to the person who kept the negative
35mm films, thanks to Cameron. I man-
aged to see them, but I could take away
only the copies of some photograms that
you can see here. The quality of the films
was so excellent that I could perfectly see
the movement of the objects beside the
bomber formations. It was so amazing that
I jumped in the seat of the projection room
many times.
Di Rado: Where do you think the films
could be today?
Witness: Of course, the films are in the
hands of the SAS in England. British intel-
ligence has always known of the foo fighter
phenomenon and, according to what
Cameron said, it came into possession of
extraordinary material [starting from] the
beginning of the war. You can be sure that
it won't ever lose its importance...
Di Rado: Could foo fighters be a Nazi
manufacture?
Witness: Those machines, if we can call
them that, could perform such quick and
agile movements that they were unlikely to
have been built by human beings. You can
believe me: foo-fighters couldn't be
Nazi—otherwise [the Germans] could have
won the war easily... The more likely
hypothesis n air force coming from
other worlds was among us.
Di Rado: Last question. Why did you
decide to talk about it?
Witness: I've appreciated the courage of
many former soldiers who recently have
decided to talk about such a burning mat-
ter. So I decided to give my contribution,
tan
too.
(Source: Written by Fabio Di Rado,