Aviation encounter — NATO base, near Napoli — 1966-01-09

Two USAF fighters pilots and ground observers reported an aerial observation at or near NATO base, near Napoli on 9 January 1966. A fireball-like object was reported over the NATO base. The catalogue also records a citywide electrical blackout and fighter aircraft being scrambled, without establishing causation. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February2001), PDF page40, table row1.