From: Alfredo Lissoni <retecun@tiscalinet.it>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 18:08:03 -0700
Fwd Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 13:07:31 -0400
Subject: Re: Italian TV UFO Program - Lissoni


 >To: updates@sympatico.ca
 >Subject: Italian TV UFO Program
 >Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 07:50:50 -0500 (CDT)
 >From: Giuliano 'Jimmy' Marinkovicc <9a4ag@clarc.org>

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 >Yesterday, 2nd May 2001 at about 11.45 a.m., the Italian TV
 >station RAI3 aired a program on ufology titled "Primo Piano". I
 >didn't watch the program from the start, only the last 15
 >minutes.

 >Anyway, there were two guests on the show: Alfredo Lissoni from
 >CUN (the Italian National Ufological Centre), and the director
 >of an italian science popularizing magazine, I think his name
 >was Piero Bianucci, who was skeptical about UFOs as
 >extraterrestrials.

 >Bianucci offered some natural explanations of the various UFO
 >sightings (meteorological phenomena, military planes, etc.)
 >Lissoni stressed that scientific investigation of UFOs is
 >required, but said that simplistic explanations cannot always
 >explain the phenomenon.

 >On the whole, I think the program was well balanced. Except that
 >the host didn't allow a direct discussion to develop. Each guest
 >was allowed to say what he thought, and that's it. There was no
 >lively discussion and polemic.

 >I don't know whether the program was pre-taped or was 'live'.


Pre-taped, but interview were live.

Best wishes

Alfredo Lissoni