Villa Santina and Rapuzzi's Drawing
On 14 August 1947, six weeks after Kenneth Arnold's flight, an artist named Rapuzzi Johannis was walking in the mountains near this village in Friuli when, by his account, he met two short beings in tight suits and, behind them, a lens-shaped craft. He said they took his pencil and his drawing from him. At home he drew what he had seen. He gave the drawing and a full description to Italian researchers only in the 1960s. It is one of the earliest European contact reports and the first of its kind in Italy; its value is chiefly chronological — it appeared before the genre it would later be said to imitate had formed at all.
Kanas and the Lights over the Mountain Lake
A glacial lake in the far north of Xinjiang, near where the borders of China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia meet. It is known in China for two things: a lake monster, which is almost certainly a large taimen, and steady reports of lights over the water. The latter increased noticeably in the 2000s, when a road was put in and tourism arrived. The explanation here is largely geographical: the lake lies away from developed country, the air is clean, and launches from Russian and Chinese ranges regularly pass over the mountains, their upper-atmosphere trails visible for hundreds of kilometres and looking exactly as described.
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