One-On-One: Interview of Edoardo Russo, MUFON National Director of Italy

摘要

Journal: Tell me about your interest in UFOs and what brought you to MUFON. Edoardo: It's a long history, indeed. I've been interested in UFOs since I was a teenager, and I first subscribed to the MUFON Journal (then named Skylook) in July 1975. I had learned about MUFON from an article by Jacques Vallee in the British Flying Saucer Review. Later, when I became foreign relations officer for Italian National UFO Center, I started a regular publication exchange between CUN and MUFON in 1980. When I wrote the "UFO Investigator's Manual" in 1984 I largely based it upon Ray Fowler's manual for MUFON. I had my first article published in the MUFON UFO Journal in 1985. Since 1985, I've been a council member (and journal editor) for the Italian Center for UFO Studies. After I met Walt Andrus at the First European UFO Congress in Brussels, Belgium, in November 1988, he asked me to become a MUFON Representative in Italy. My contact was loosened after Andrus resigned from International Director, but in 2009 John Tomlinson was appointed MUFON Representative for France; we met and he brought me back on board. I became National Director in 2012 and have been organizing MUFON-ltaly since then.