Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferdinand Braun for contributions to wireless telegraphy, built the radio company that bore his name, and from 1930 presided over the Royal Academy of Italy under Benito Mussolini.

In accounts advanced since 2000 by the Italian researchers Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, and later taken up by Michael Salla, Mussolini named Marconi to direct the secret Cabinet RS/33 (Gabinetto RS/33), convened to study the craft recovered in the 1933 Magenta UFO crash. Salla's 2026 Exopolitics Briefing Document states that study of the Magenta debris "was led by" Marconi and "culminated in" Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany collaborating in the reverse engineering of flying saucer technologies, as the engineers Giuseppe Belluzzo and Rudolf Schriever first revealed in 1950. Salla's 2015 book also reports rumours that Marconi's death in 1937 was faked and that he went on to lead a civilian saucer programme in South America.

The papers on which the RS/33 account rests reached Pinotti from an anonymous sender beginning in 1996, and no archive has produced originals that historians accept. Pinotti and Lissoni hold them genuine, citing a forensic ink-and-paper test and a Fascist-period historian's reading of their style; the Italian ufological society CISU has called the story false, and Pinotti's own text reports that the magazine UFO: La Visita Extraterrestre considered the papers fakes. If the papers are forgeries, someone other than Pinotti and Lissoni made them and the two were deceived; if they are genuine, they record a concealed assignment given to the president of the Royal Academy. Lissoni himself writes that Marconi never played an active part in the cabinet he headed.

Career and the Fascist state

Marconi bought the yacht Elettra in 1919 and fitted it as a floating laboratory for his shortwave research, and in 1923 joined Mussolini's National Fascist Party, which he supported for the rest of his life. Mussolini appointed him President of the Royal Academy of Italy in 1930, which gave him a seat on the Fascist Grand Council. His public statements about other worlds were few: in September 1921 the London manager of his company announced that Marconi was convinced he had intercepted wireless messages from Mars, a claim some experts attributed to undertones from high-powered stations and with which Nikola Tesla was reported to agree. In 1935 a story that Marconi had invented a ray able to stop engines circulated in the press and, according to Time, "faded away when Marconi himself squelched it". After his death, on 21 June 1943, the United States Supreme Court held the broad claims of his patent No. 763,772 invalid, finding that an earlier application by Stone had disclosed the four-circuit tuned system he claimed and discussing the prior patent of Tesla.

Salla's 2015 book suggests the Mars episode is why Mussolini chose him: Marconi "believed that alien life existed on Mars and that contact with the 'Martians' would be possible from powerful radio transmissions," and so, once the recovered disc was judged not to be a Western nation's, was a natural head for the inquiry. Webre, quoting the instrumental transcommunication researcher Ernst Senkowski, adds that Tesla, Edison and Marconi each suspected it might be possible to contact other worlds by electromagnetic means. Paola Harris relates that in Italy she was sent to Pier Luigi Ighina, described to her as Marconi's assistant, who spoke to her of the Space Brothers pictured in portraits on his studio wall, "the ones that gave Marconi and I the ideas."

The RS/33 documents

Pinotti writes that it began in early 1996, when he received by post a handful of handwritten notes on stationery bearing the seal of the Kingdom's Senate. A sender styling himself Mr. X later supplied more material, saying he was a relative of one of the cabinet's members, and on 10 September 1999 sent a letter naming its members. The first document concerned a metallic disc reported over Mestre in 1936; material also went to the Bologna newspaper Il Resto del Carlino, which did not publish it, and Pinotti describes the dossier sent there as lost. A Metabunk contributor translating Pinotti's March 2000 article in UFO Notiziario reports that the first batch concerned the Venice sighting and does not mention RS/33. Pinotti and Lissoni presented the cabinet at the World UFO Symposium in San Marino in 2000, where, as the same contributor summarises, they dated the Magenta event to 11 April 1933; Lissoni's description in Salla's book gives 13 June 1933 and a crash near the town of Maderno, and his 2004 Flying Saucer Review article says only that a craft "landed (it is not known where)" on 13 June.

Pinotti explains the cabinet's name as Ricerche Speciali with 33 for the year; Salla's rendering of Lissoni glosses it "Research-Espionage/1933". The members named by Mr. X were Mussolini, Italo Balbo and Galeazzo Ciano as founders, with Marconi as director and the Turin astronomer Gino Cecchini among its academics. Pinotti writes that "apparently Guglielmo Marconi believed it was Extra-Terrestrial in nature" while Mussolini suspected a foreign secret weapon. Lissoni, as Salla reproduces him, has Marconi sending Cecchini in his place; Salla's briefing says the debris study was led by Marconi.

Doubt attaches to how the papers reached the researchers. The three witnesses named in the first document were untraceable and the one relative who was located died shortly afterwards. The analyst Antonio Garavaglia pronounced a 1936 sheet original, though he is quoted as writing that "there are no analytical data or precise methodologies that can give certain and proven indications on dating"; the historian Andrea Bedetti found the wording and stationery consistent with the period and said he "cannot exclude the existence" of the cabinet, while noting that a skilled forger could also have produced them. The full laboratory reports have never been released. Lissoni reportedly found about 500 prefecture telegrams from 1933 to 1938 in the Milan archives, of which Wanted in Rome counts 68 as unusual and at least 9 as concerning UFOs; the same report states that no independent archive has corroborated the cabinet itself. Pinotti acknowledges that critics "do not accept them as proper 'historical documents'".

Reported continuation in Germany

Pinotti writes that the cabinet's files were "supposedly shipped to Nazi Germany" as the war turned, and that Belluzzo, the former Fascist minister and steam-turbine engineer, is always named alongside the Germans Miethe, Schriever and Habermohl; he adds that Belluzzo designed a three-motor jet-pipe disc after 1943 while working with the SS. Salla adds that information from RS/33 reached Germany by at least 1938, and, citing the researcher Rob Arndt, that Belluzzo was brought from an Italian facility at Riva del Garda to assist Schriever at the BMW works near Prague. The 1950 statements are on record: on 24 March 1950 Belluzzo told the Italian press that flying-disc designs were Italian blueprints passed on to the Germans, and less than a week later Schriever described his "Flugkreisel" to Der Spiegel. Neither statement, as Salla reproduces them, mentions Marconi or Magenta; Belluzzo is quoted as saying there was "nothing supernatural or Martian about flying discs" and that they were "simply rational application of recent techniques". The line from the 1950 engineers back to the 1933 recovery is drawn by Salla and Pinotti from the RS/33 papers. The collaboration that followed is told at the Nazi UFO program and at the Skoda Works.

Salla's 2019 book, quoting Arndt, names a "Marconi vortex dynamo", a spherical tank of mercury coupled to a Van de Graaff generator, in the drive of the Haunebu I.

Death and alleged survival

Marconi died in Rome on 20 July 1937 after a series of heart attacks and was given a state funeral. Salla's 2015 book reports rumours of a civilian saucer effort in South America led by Marconi, whose death was faked, and cites the archaeological researcher David Hatcher Childress for the claim that the death covered a move to Venezuela, where scientists were said to have continued his work on solar energy, cosmic energy and anti-gravity; the book itself calls it "very possible" that he faked his death to launch such an effort away from the Italian government. In lectures Salla places a breakaway Italian programme in South America in 1938 and says Marconi "didn't want to have anything to do with the coming war". Citing Corey Goode, he adds that the effort was later co-opted by the Vril Society and the SS.

Open questions

Bibliography

• Salla, Michael E. (2015). Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliances (PDF). Exopolitics Institute. ISBN 978-0-9822902-9-3. Retrieved 2026-03-10. 📄{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
• Roberto Pinotti (2020-08-10). "The UFO Files of Mussolini: Fascist UFO Files". The Black Vault. John Greenewald. Retrieved 2026-10-15. ＋

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