Close encounter of the first kind in Fiorentina's Stadio Artemio Franchi

During a football match, there can be jaw dropping moments when everyone goes silent. But in October 27 1954, this happened for an entirely different and unbelievable reason. Seems like the 10000 fans were not the only ones watching the match that night.

File Photo: Unidentified flying object

This is how Gigi Boni, a lifelong Fiorentina fan, described the scene “They were moving very fast and then they just stopped. It all lasted a couple of minutes. I would like to describe them as being like Cuban cigars. They just reminded me of Cuban cigars, in the way they looked.” Now in his eighties, Boni still has vivid memories of watching in disbelief as UFOs hovered above the stadium.

The stadium went into an eerie, dead silence as all the players and fans stood transfixed, staring at the strange objects in the crisp blue autumn sky.

“I remember everything from A to Z,” Magnini recalls. “While we were playing the match, everything came to a stop because everybody was looking up at the sky intensely. It was something that looked like an egg that was moving slowly, slowly, slowly. Everyone was looking up and also there was some glitter coming down from the sky, silver glitter. We were astonished as we had never seen anything like it before. We were absolutely shocked from the moment we saw it.” Magnini is something of a legend at Fiorentina. He was a key player in the Fiorentina side of the 1950s and also played for Italy at the 1954 World Cup.

Although there has been no scientific confirmation regarding this event, everyone who witnessed that strange sight believes that what they had seen was actually a UFO. What else could those lights be? Anyway, football loving aliens sounds like a trippy thought.