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Bases in the Ocean, and a War for Earth | The Friendship Case

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-Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://whyfileslovesgold.com or call (888) 949-9172 now. -Upgrade your glasses with Zenni—go to https://zenni.com/podcast and use code PODCAST15 for 15% off your first order plus free shipping on US orders over $65. Styles sell out, so don't wait. For more than twenty years, a hundred people across Italy filled trucks with fruit, water, and industrial chemicals, then walked away and let the cargo disappear. They called the recipients the Friends: an alien civilization living in vast bases beneath the Adriatic Sea. The Friends could teleport supplies, read minds, and reshape the ground itself to build their hidden world. But keeping their bases running depended on something far simpler than advanced technology. It depended on the humans trusting each other. This is the story of a secret alliance between two worlds, the deliveries that sustained it, and the war fought to protect it. We also examine what the evidence for the Friendship Case actually shows, and where it falls apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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For more than 20 years, 100 people in Italy loaded trucks with fruit, water, and industrial chemicals. They parked the trucks and walked away. When they came back, the trucks were empty. The cargo went to a deep underwater base occupied by an alien race who had been watching humans for thousands of years. They called themselves the Akhrich. The Italians called them the friends. But this friendship came with the cost, and it was something the humans couldn't pay. The people running the system are getting ready for something. And this month proved it. Capital one admitted in court they shut down nearly 300 Trump organization accounts back in 2021. The reason written into the filing, they can close your account for any reason or no reason and without notice. That's the same contract you signed with your bank.

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And you can qualify for up to $25,000 in free silver. Call right now, 888-949-9172 or go to YFilesLuvSgold.com. That's 888-949-9172 or go to YFilesLuvSgold.com. Call or go online now while you're thinking about it. Bruno, some a cheatshop, brought two friends to a castle in Central Italy in April 1956. They were following an old handwritten treasure map. Bruno was a psychologist who wrote about Catholic saints and miracles. He also collected antiques, which is why his friend gave him the map. The men walked around the grounds looking for a place to dig. Then out of the darkness, two figures approached them. One was three feet tall, the other was ten. Their features were almost human. But Bruno and his friends weren't frightened. They felt an overwhelming affection coming from the beings who spoke to them in perfect Italian. The visitors said they belonged to a confederation of alien races watching over Earth.

They lived in bases buried all around the world. They wanted humanity to survive, but they didn't want to make contact until we were ready. They weren't sure we were ready now. The Cold War was escalating, and both sides had nuclear weapons. Humanity could destroy itself before the aliens ever introduce themselves, so they stopped waiting. The visitors called Earth a mother planet, one of the rare worlds in the galaxy that produces life. And humans weren't the first civilization to develop here. We were the seventh. Hundreds of millions of years before us, six other civilizations rose and fell on this planet. Every one of them was more advanced than we are, one even had space travel. But their technology advanced faster than their ability to control it than it destroyed them. One after another. The aliens watched six great civilizations die. They did not want to watch a seventh. Bruno stayed in contact with the visitors and called their group W56.

The W's how Italians write Viva, so it was long lived 56, the year of first contact. But as Bruno got to know the visitors, their relationship deepened and eventually just called them the friends. The friends told Bruno to put together a group of people who could be trusted. The friends were willing to help the humans, but the humans had to help the friends first. So Bruno started recreating. Gaspare de Lama stood next to a truck filling barrels with water. When they were full, he'd load them up and drive them to a specific location. The location was always different, but it was always somewhere remote. He wasn't given the destination until the last minute. And the friends asked for more than water. Sometimes they asked for food, especially fruit. The aliens didn't eat the fruit. They pulled the nutrients out and pressed them into small green pills.

And pill could feed an alien for two days. Other requests were a harder to fill. The friends wanted strontium and barium nitrate. The stuff you use in signal flares, fireworks, and military ammunition. Nobody orders truck loads of barium nitrate for fireworks. Well, we don't actually know what they used it for. Hello, 100 Italians in unmarked trucks, whole and explosive tante fields. The friends said they were peaceful. Oh, yeah. And the pesky family said they were in waste management. Gaspare didn't question it. When you're in the friendship group, deliveries to aliens are part of the job. The biggest challenge was how much the friends needed. By the time Bruno's friendship group had 100 members, they were sending truck loads of supplies to bases all over the country. It was a logistics problem. It was also getting expensive. Sometimes the friends paid early on. They said gold then cash. But most of the time the humans had to cover the cost.

Members contributed what they could, but Bruno paid the rest. And here's what confused Gaspare. Bailions didn't need help from the humans at all. They could get whatever they wanted without the slightest problem. In my opinion, putting on this little show, served to keep the sense of cohesion tight. It worked. He thought it was a test of loyalty and cooperation. Gaspare turned off the hose. The last barrel was full. The hard part was getting them into the truck. But after that, it was easy. He didn't have to unload them. Nobody did. At least nobody. Human. Because one of the friends' favorite technologies was teleportation. Sometimes the group used outside drivers. One of them was hired for one delivery. When he got to the drop off point on his map, there was nothing there. No loading dock, not even a building. So he pulled over and got out. And suddenly, Bruno Sommachichak came out of the bushes to meet it. Thanks for coming.

Our workers will be here in a minute. Are you hungry? I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry. Because we'll be here in a minute. Are you hungry? Why don't you come get some lunch? Maybe a beer. They're unload when they get here. Outsiders weren't allowed to watch the friends work. The driver ate fast. He wanted to get back for unloading. But by the time he walked back, he was truck, it was empty. The lunch was a stall. Teleporting the load took a few seconds. But they didn't just teleport cargo. When humans met to discuss their work with W56, the aliens transported things into the room. Notes, photographs, wheels of film that dropped right out of the air. Someone would ask a question that a piece of paper would appear with the answer. Sometimes they came from the floor and tapped me under the chair. Sometimes I saw them materialize in the air. Amazing. One day, Bruno showed up at Gaspar's apartment

and told him to buy a radio. So Gasparri bought one and put it on a cabinet. Five minutes later, a loud crack and a flash of green flame shot out of the radio. Then Bruno said, there, now it's ready. A loud crack flames and now it's ready. You're describing my ex-wife's cooking. A voice spoke through the radio. Gasparri changed the station and the voice kept talking. He grabbed a second radio, tuned to the same frequency, but that one played normal music. This friendship radio kept talking. The voice belonged to Seeger, one of the friends. He spoke perfect Italian within a brutal accent. Other aliens spoke through the radio too. One night, there were a dozen people sitting in Gasparri's living room. Seeger came through the radio and said hello to each one of them by name in the order they were sitting. But Gasparri was distracted. The deliveries, the weird radio, the secrets.

He worried about what would happen if people found out about the friends or how dangerous this technology could be in the wrong hands. Gasparri snapped out of it when Seeger spoke directly to him. Gasparri, change your thoughts. The friends could read minds. Teleportation, telepathy. All of it runs through small devices called nuclei. They can place these devices inside objects, rooms, and living creatures. The friends even used Bruno's German Shepherd as an antenna. They could make the dog walk, run, sit, and stay on command. Oh, that's in store, these are your cats. I'll teach them to swim. About every 20 days, huge blue electrical arcs appeared inside Gasparri's apartment. Six to ten feet long about a foot thick. The friends were recharging the nuclei. He had no idea how they did it and he didn't ask. The friends did not like the share knowledge of their technology.

But the members of the group were allowed to see their ships. Over the radio, the friends told Gasparri to go to his roof and look up. When he got outside, he saw a flying saucer hovering near his house. Now, what makes this sighting good is that there were two other witnesses. What makes this sighting great is Gasparri took a photo. I've got my readers scattered everywhere. The studio, the kitchen, my car, my bag, and they're not nice ones, because I know I'm going to lose them. But here's the thing. Those add up. Ten, fifteen bucks a pop, five or six times a year, and you're still wearing glasses that give you a headache after 20 minutes. Zeni optical changes that. Zeni is an online eyewear shop, stylish prescription glasses, sunglasses, fully customizable lenses, and pairs start at under 30 bucks. You go to zenny.com, pick a frame, punch in your prescription, customize the lenses, and it ships right to your door.

No store, no pressure. And the selection is huge. Every shape, every color, blue light readers, prescription sunglasses, there are options for pretty much everyone. I've got a few pairs in rotation right now, which is great because I can switch them up, depending on what I'm doing or what I'm wearing, without spending a fortune. That scratched up pair has done its job. Upgrade today with Zeni. Go to zenny.com, slash podcast, and use code podcast15 for 15% off your first order. Plus free shipping and all US orders over $65. The style sell out, so don't sit on it. That's zenny.com slash podcast promo code podcast15. Gaspari Delama stood on his roof in Milan on February 12th 1962. Bruno Sama-Ciccio is next to him, along with journalist Bruno Gabaudi. The friends gave them the date and the time. They told them to bring their cameras. Something was flying over the city, a disc with a doughnut top.

Gaspari took a picture and sent it to the press. His photographs landed in one of Italy's biggest weekly magazines. Gabaudi also wrote about the sighting. Later he described going aboard one of the crafts. Didn't the friends told Gaspari he can pick a time in place and they'd be there. When the day came, he and Bruno stood in a field with a still camera and a movie camera. When the craft arrived, Gaspari started filming. The craft moved up and down right in front of the coming almost to the ground. On the drive back to Milan, the saucer followed them for a while. Bruno took another photograph along the way. Almost all the humans who worked with the friends saw their UFOs and always by appointment. Some of their photos were also made public, but most people wanted to remain anonymous. Experts who looked at the photos found no wires, no superimposed images, nothing funny about them.

The lighting and shadows on the saucers matched the surroundings. Gaspari said the friends could make the saucers visible or invisible at will. They traveled in higher dimensions, meaning they could move from one place to another without entering the space in between. That's a lower dimension. They traveled outside that. And the photos aren't the only proof of the friends. One of their radio broadcasts was captured on tape. Gaspyi said, the STAR cares and recyclables are inevitably hover-Japanese who helped the divingll too. It's the least seguro that has ever been available for theaptors. Most people with both dimensions I you can

One day Bruno asked one of the friends if he could see their base. He was surprised when the alien said, sure, he went to an open field on the coast as escorted by a 10-foot tall alien. But there was nothing there, no gate, no tunnel, nothing. And the alien nodded at the ground and the ground opened. With the alien looked at the ground, a hole opened up to a long corridor. The alien walked inside and Bruno followed. He followed a 10-foot alien into a hole. He trusted him. I followed a lot of people into a lot of holes. Never once found it ever. That's a different episode. It's several different episodes.

I had one deposition in a lot of therapy. At first the space was tight, especially for the alien. But the deeper it went, the wider it got. The head porter's runs 150 miles under the Adriatic and inland under the mountains. 12 miles deep, ceilings a thousand feet tall. The space is so huge, it makes its own weather, sometimes it rains inside the base. The W-56 had bases like this all over the world. But the entrances aren't just in empty fields. One is behind a locker and a red cross station. Instead of hauling dirt and rock to the surface, they compress it to open up the space.

Then they can close the space just as easily leaving no trace they were ever there. Now the secrecy isn't to keep humans out, it's actually to keep humans safe. Because W-56 aren't the only aliens watching Earth. They're just the only ones who wanted to succeed. A long time ago, W-56 conducted a genetic experiment. It went wrong and they created a new race. Bruno calls them the CTR, the Contrary. They have intelligence and advanced technology, but no soul. The CTR wants W-56 dead, the humans dead, and the entire planet destroyed. W-56 fought a war with the CTR that spanned Galaxy. They wanted everywhere except Earth.

And the friends see humans becoming more and more like their enemies, developing technology without restraint, deploying power without consequences. They see us losing our souls. But this can be stopped because there's a powerful force inside every human being. Most of us don't know we have it, but the friends do. And they promise to show us how to use it. An airman looked down at his console. Something wasn't right. He couldn't launch his missiles. Oh, that happens to every guy once in a while. It was March 16, 1967 at Mount Strum Air Force Base in Montana. And the Air Force just lost control of 10-minute man nuclear missiles. Yeah, what? Okay. Anyway, then someone shouted there were objects in the sky over the base. But the US wasn't under attack.

The missiles weren't destroyed or damaged. They were set to the Nogo position. The friends sent a little electrical noise into the circuitry, and all the missiles went offline. At least we think it was electrical noise. To this day, nobody really knows what happened. When the plan was bigger than the one base, they disabled every nuclear warhead in the United States and the Soviet Union at once. Mount Strum is just the one we hear about. The friends believed humanity was one mistake away from destroying the planet. And they just proved they could stop it. And to drive the point home, they did it again a week later. But the friends couldn't babysit us forever. They want us to learn to protect ourselves, but not with weapons, with cooperation and compassion. The friends need us to realize that our emotions create a real physical force. They have a name for it. Ureta. Ureta is energy made from positive feelings, loyalty, trust, friendship.

The friends know how to create and harness this energy. Humans have it too, we just don't know how to use it. And if we don't learn soon, we could lose the power forever. The aliens teach respect, loyalty, and concern for other people. Not because it's nice, because they need this energy to survive. Their technology is built around Ureta. The machines convert the energy into power, heat, even the oxygen inside their bases under the ocean. The aliens literally breathe feelings. Kaspari Dalamo was right. The friends can easily get their own supplies. Better fruit, barium, whatever. They can teleport in anything they need. Instead they chose 100 people and made them work together. The deliveries were a training exercise. That cooperation created that energy, Ureta, and it worked. But the universe has another force just as powerful. Ureta. Ureta comes from division, selfishness, and betrayal.

The CTR uses the Stark energy in their technology. The friends see Ureta growing on Earth, and they know what it can do with access to nuclear weapons. If Ureta breaks down, if distrust and infighting take over, the CTR will be able to destroy the entire human race, and we're running out of time. The friends say they can hold off the CTR, but only if the humans learn to hold on to each other. In October 1978, fishermen off the Adriatic coast watched craft climb out of the water. Then the lights were everywhere, hundreds of them, for weeks up and down the coast. The papers called it the Adriatic UFO Wave. The friendship humans knew what was happening. The friends were leaving, and they knew exactly why. They failed. The bond between the aliens and the humans created Ureta energy.

The friends needed it. But as the years went on, the humans divided and started fighting, and Ureta got weaker. The friends once offered to share some of their technology, but it never did, because the humans couldn't stop fighting over who we get it. Loving the aliens was easy. Loving each other was harder. For them, it was easy. Between the group, we are what we are. It was broken. The humans couldn't keep it together. And without that energy, the friends had no protection. The CTR attacked. The basis fell, and the survivors left Earth. As the friends left, they made a promise to the humans who were still there. They would come back someday. Until then, the humans had to keep trying to work together and love each other. Everyone agreed, and then they were gone. They enriched me. They put me into contact with an almost impossible world full of love.

After 1978, the truck stopped. The radios went quiet. The people who spent 20 years hauling water into empty fields went back to their normal lives. But they kept the word and spread love wherever they could, and they waited for the friends to come back. They never did. Only a few members are left, but they're out there right now still spreading kindness, compassion and love. And now and then they get together in an empty field near the coast and wait for the ground to open. It never has. But they'll never stop believing that it will. A struggle for the fate of the universe, secret technology that defied the laws of physics, universal power of love and friendship. The rare alien story that doesn't fill you with fear, it actually fills you with hope. It's a good story, but is it true? Well, engineers Stefano Breccia wrote the book about the friendship case in 2007, based

on interviews with Bruno Semiciccia. Bruno died before it was published, so the man at the center of the story wasn't there to answer any questions. In the book, Breccia mentioned Gaspari and his wife Morella. They didn't say anything, they kept quiet for years, but once the book was out, they would public and said everything in the book happened. And plenty of other things in the story are also true. Gaspari's saucer photographs were published in 1962. The photographs exist. Now whether their face or not is up to you, but they are there. The Italian UFO wave was real. The New York Times covered it on December 17, 1978. And that missile shut down? That happened too. All ten echo flight-minute-men missiles lost strategic alert within seconds of each other. That's not supposed to happen. The Air Force says the UFO had nothing to do with it, and that's fine, so what caused the shutdown? They still don't know.

The best guess is electrical noise in the circuits. Having a high energy or high frequency device could do. Now we don't have that technology yet, but the military is working on it. I wonder where they got that idea. Now the problems. Breccia's list has 120 names on it. Bruno Semiciccia, Gaspari and his wife, and one other witness. They came forward. That means 116 people did. Journalist Bruto Gabaudi talked about the case for a while, but then went quiet. Maybe that's because the UFO photos he released in 1961 were hopes. He bought a toy or a pie pen that looked like a UFO and tossed it in the air. We know this because a neighbor called the police to report some weirdo with a camera throwing dishes around the yard. Then there's Bruto's history with money.

In 1967, a journalist exposed the fun the group ran for wounded extraterrestrial pilots. Donations went to Bruno and his inner circle. Bruno said that's the only way to get the money to the friends. A fun to for wounded aliens. That is the greatest idea I've ever heard. It was a scam. It's a category. He invented a category. Go find me for the wounded Anonaki. That's what I'm doing. Gerdy Kip draw. She's a camel. She drinks grape juice and spits and napkin. It's a very abstract. It's like Jackson Pollock, but with more mucus. He also sold vials a red fluid that would give you protection against the CTR aliens. And those weren't cheap. Okay, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Say all of that was real. But in 1997, he was convicted of defrauding an elderly couple. He sold them supernatural extraterrestrial healing services.

Turned out, he didn't have those powers. So the radio and the recordings are fun to listen to, but it's really just a voice speaking Italian with a local accent. Could be an alien. Could be an Italian. Mind reading, objects appearing out of nowhere, all that stuff. That's just witness testimony. No evidence of any of that. And the CTR wanted to destroy the Earth. Right? Well, they've had 50 years without those pesky Italian aliens getting in the way. So why are we still here? I think the story is then. But Gaspari never stopped talking about the friends. Years later, he still described the affection he felt from them. I watched those interviews. And even though I'm skeptical, I was moved. We hear flying saucer, magic radios, and underwater basins. And we want proof. That's fine. I want that too. But set that aside for a second and listen to Gaspari tell the story. He and Morella felt loved by these beings.

I don't necessarily believe the story, but I won't condescend judge or ridicule them because they do. And the last thing I would do is rob an old man of a memory that brings him joy at the end of his life. Don't be that person who always has to be right. Be the person who can be kind to someone who's wrong. As long as their belief doesn't hurt, their happiness is more important than your ego. If we can learn to do that, who knows, the friends might come back to Earth and give us one more chance. Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. There's Hegelfish. This has been The White Files. If you had fun or learned anything, he'd appreciate it. If you hit like, subscribe, share, comment. I think most of the buttons really helps us out. Sorry. We got to sign this thing going today. I'm doing the best I can.

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