An official report commissioned by the Italian government, which was leaked to local media earlier this week, blames aliens for a series of strange phenomena that occurred in a Sicilian village in 2004.
Reports of everyday, household objects spontaneously bursting into flames in Caronia (pop. 3,555) on north coast of Sicily, first surfaced in Jan 2004. Villagers complained that TVs, mobile phones, toasters, fridges, and vacuum cleaners would smolder or burst into flames. Arson was quickly ruled out, and the problems continued even after the local power company turned off the village’s power supply. One scientist, who was sent to investigate, was said to be stunned when an unplugged electrical cable ignited before his eyes. The fires ceased of their own accord by the following August.
An investigation by The Civil Protection Department, which has so far cost about $2 million, was subsequently ordered. The report, which bought together numerous experts including a NASA scientist, has apparently concluded that the strange phenomena was due to “aliens testing secret weapons.” It went on to speculate the fires were “caused by a high power electro magnetic emissions which were not man made and reached a power of between 12 and 15 gigawatts.” The report’s authors also investigated a UFO landing site near village, where "burnt imprints which have not been explained were found in a field."
“We are not saying that little green men from Mars started the fires but that unnatural forces capable of creating a large amount of electromagnetic energy were responsible," said Sicily's head of civil protection, Francesco Mantegna Venerando. “This is just one possibility we are also looking at another one which involves the testing of top secret weapons by an unknown power which are also capable of producing an enormous amount of energy."
Meanwhile the Vatican’s senior exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth has offered an alternative explanation. In an interview with England’s Telegraph newspaper he said, "I’ve seen things like this before. Demons occupy a house and appear in electrical goods. Let’s not forget that Satan and his followers have immense powers."
It should be noted that Amorth, who founded the International Association of Exorcists, has also issued dire warnings against J.K. Rowling and what he claims is a false distinction between black and white magic that she makes in her Harry Potter books. “Magic is always a turn to the devil,” warns Amorth. So beware of the spells in Potter’s cauldron, aliens messing with magnets, and the gremlins with a penchant for pyromania playing tricks in your toaster, it could just be the Devil’s work at hand.
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