Giorgio Batini

Journalist

Florentine journalist who documented eyewitness testimony and the widespread reports of the mysterious aerial objects over the city.

Giorgio Batini was a journalist for the Florentine newspaper La Nazione who played a pivotal role in documenting the October 27, 1954 Florence UFO sightings in Italy. While covering the event, Batini received hundreds of calls from witnesses and personally observed fast-moving "shiny balls" in the sky above Florence