It's October 1954 in Tuscany and local football rivals Fiorentina and Pistoriese are playing a derby in front of 10,000 screaming fans. But the stadium falls silent, the players stop playing and the ball rolls to a slow halt.

Everyone is transfixed by cigar-like UFOs drifting up above, with strange materials trailing down far enough to be touched by the crowd and taken away to be sampled...

So what on Earth was it? Hear Sooz spooked far more than she ever has been before!

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Video we mention - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrS0igctMi0

Geological Society Blog Post we mention - https://blog.geolsoc.org.uk/2014/12/09/door-9-football-geothermal-energy-and-the-1954-wave-of-ufos/ 

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