Spello (Perugia), Umbria, Italy — 27 May 1820
Unknown stars in a moving triangle CD
Half an hour before sunset, while Saint Caspar (San Gaspare Del Bufalo) was preaching in the public square, people saw a cross of three stars in the sky to the east. It came over of the head of the Servant of God and formed a triangle, “one (light) was up and the two side ones at a lower level”. Before this unusual phenomenon the people remained stunned; many fell into deep commotion and even the Bishop, Monsignor Lucchesi, who was present, “was astonished and amazed”. Some doubts can be expressed about the event. The correspondence of Gaspare has been published yet the event is mentioned nowhere in his letters, even though we have letters dated from multiple dates in May 1820. He sent two letters to his hierarchy on the 27th on the 28th of May, 1820, neither of which letters mention such an event.
Source: Biography of Saint Caspar (1786-1837). Despite featuring in UFO archives we have yet to trace a source, though some reference to the event appears here: Gaspar Del Bufalo, A close-up acquaintanceship. Depositions of V. Severini, G. Menicucci, B. Panzini at the processes for the canonization of St. Gaspar Del Bufalo (Rome: Pia Unione Preziosissimo Sangue, 1992), 49. 400. Case: W352