Aviation encounter — Cagliari air base, Sardinia — 1977-10-27

Three Italian Air Force helicopters pilots and copilots (6) reported an aerial observation at or near Cagliari air base, Sardinia on 27 October 1977. The account reports that a bright flaming orange circle disappeared at high speed. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February2001), PDF page47, table row19.