THINK ABOUTIT’S ALIEN TYPE SUMMARY

TEETONIA

On the frozen night of December 6, 1978, a 26-year-old Italian night watchman radioed his dispatcher in a controlled but rising voice — “the car has stopped, I saw a bright light, now I am getting out” — and then went silent. What followed became one of Europe’s most extensively documented abduction cases: multiple encounters over three years, giant footprints and scorched ground logged by the Carabinieri, hours of hypnotic regression, and a ten-foot, green, hairy entity claiming to come from a doomed world in the “third galaxy,” seeking a place to build a city.

Name: Teetonia (the beings themselves reportedly self-identified as “Dargos”)

AKA: Dargos (documented in the case’s own hypnosis-session material); “Zanfretta’s Aliens” (a common descriptive nickname used in secondary coverage, not a name from the source testimony itself)

Location – Home System: Planet Teetonia. Per testimony recovered under hypnosis, described as located in a “third galaxy” — commentators have speculated this may refer to the Triangulum Galaxy, but this is interpretation, not something Zanfretta himself specified.

Distance from Earth: Undocumented beyond the general “third galaxy” claim; no distance figure appears in the case material

Attitude: Described in the hypnosis sessions as intending to be peaceful, though their sheer physical presence terrified Zanfretta at every encounter; one source states they were “completely peaceful” per the testimony despite their monstrous appearance

Motives: Per Zanfretta’s hypnotic regression testimony, the beings stated their home planet was doomed and that they intended to build a domed city on Earth to relocate there, and that they wished to communicate with the people of Earth and would return “in greater numbers”

Physical Appearance: Enormous, green-skinned, hairy humanoid, described by Zanfretta as having skin that moved as though he “were very fat or dressed in a loose, gray tunic”

Average Height: Approximately 10 feet (roughly 3 meters), consistent across every account of the case
Average Weight: Undocumented
Body Temperature: Undocumented as a specific figure. Circumstantial evidence suggests unusual heat: Zanfretta’s clothing was reported warm and dry despite hours on frozen ground, and a burn mark was documented at one encounter site.
Pulse/Respiration: Undocumented
Blood Pressure: Undocumented (the prominent forehead veins are a documented visual detail, but no blood pressure figure or reading was ever taken or reported)
Life Expectancy: Undocumented
Hair: Green, coarse, covering most of the body
Skin: Hairy, green, described as loose and undulating in movement
Eyes: Large, glowing, triangular, yellow
Sex: Undocumented

Other Physical Information: Rounded fingertips; pointed structures on the sides of the face resembling spikes or crests; prominent red veins visible across the forehead; one detailed account of the examination scene describes the beings wearing metal strips over their mouths

Special Traits and Abilities: Apparent heat generation (consistent with the warm-clothing and burn-mark evidence noted above). Claims of moving through solid matter or generating a “telepathic weight” do not appear in the case sources reviewed and have been marked undocumented.

Communication Type: Described across multiple hypnosis sessions as telepathic/mental rather than spoken

Origin: Teetonia, “third galaxy,” per hypnotic regression testimony

Life Form Type: Humanoid; secondary commentary has speculated about reptilian or amphibian affinities based on the described skin and fingertips, but no formal classification appears in the primary case material

Subspecies: Undocumented. “Dargos” is the name the beings reportedly used for themselves in testimony, not a subspecies or variant designation.

Most Common Species: Undocumented

Level of Species: Undocumented (no technological or civilizational grading appears anywhere in the case material)

Habits: Per testimony, examined Zanfretta aboard a craft on multiple occasions; one session described viewing tubes containing other beings, including a caveman-like figure and a frog-like being said to be an enemy of the Dargos. A separate reported encounter involved a being with an egg-shaped head, wearing a checkered suit, who approached Zanfretta at a gas station before a later abduction.

Transportation Type: Described as a large craft, on at least one occasion triangular and glowing greenish-white, associated with a beam of green light and, separately, a dense enveloping fog or cloud during approach

Witnesses Reports: Pier Fortunato Zanfretta (primary witness, Torriglia/Marzano di Torriglia, Genoa province, Italy, 1978–1981); Sergeant Emanuele Travenzoli and fellow security guards who found Zanfretta in shock after several incidents; Brigadiere Antonio Nucchi of the local Carabinieri station, who investigated and publicly stated he believed Zanfretta’s account was sincere; more than 60 additional people who reported unusual aerial lights in the area during the same period

Special Features/Characteristics: The Carabinieri documented physical traces at multiple encounter sites, including a semicircular ground imprint roughly 2–3 meters across, large anomalous footprints, scorched or burned ground, and broken tree branches at window height. Zanfretta’s revolver was found to have been fired five times, which he could not explain. He also reported being given a transparent sphere containing a rotating golden geometric object, said to be intended for ufologist J. Allen Hynek; accounts differ on whether he later smashed it or hid it in a location known only to him.

Summary/Description: A roughly ten-foot, green, hairy humanoid entity central to the Zanfretta case, one of Europe’s most extensively investigated abduction accounts, involving multiple encounters, documented physical traces, and years of hypnotic regression testimony describing beings from a doomed world seeking to relocate to Earth.

Source: Pier Fortunato Zanfretta’s testimony and hypnotic regression sessions (conducted by Dr. Mauro Moretti); Rino Di Stefano, Il Caso Zanfretta / The Zanfretta Case (1984; English translation 2014); Carabinieri investigation records; contemporary Italian press coverage and television appearances

Related Cases: Wider Torriglia-area sightings by more than 60 witnesses during the same 1978–1981 period; the case has been the subject of a two-part RAI television docudrama

DETAILED REPORT

The Zanfretta case is unusually well-documented for an abduction account, with a paper trail spanning police investigation, medical evaluation, and contemporaneous journalism rather than a single late-life recollection. On the night of December 6, 1978, security guard Pier Fortunato Zanfretta, then 26, was patrolling a client’s vacant villa near Marzano di Torriglia, outside Genoa, when his patrol car’s engine, lights, and radio all failed simultaneously after he spotted four unexplained lights in the garden. He radioed a brief, controlled report before contact was lost, and was later found by fellow guards lying on frozen ground, in shock, his clothing reportedly warm and dry despite the freezing conditions.

In his initial, conscious account, Zanfretta described an enormous green creature with undulating skin, “no less than ten feet tall.” Over subsequent encounters through 1981, and under repeated hypnotic regression conducted by Dr. Mauro Moretti, a fuller picture emerged: beings roughly ten feet tall with hairy green skin, yellow triangular eyes, and red veins across the forehead, who took him aboard a craft for examination. The beings reportedly identified themselves as the Dargos, said their home planet — Teetonia, in a “third galaxy” — was doomed, and stated an intention to build a domed city on Earth and return in greater numbers.

The Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, investigated multiple encounter sites and documented physical traces: a semicircular impression in the grass roughly 2 to 3 meters across, unusually large footprints, scorched ground, and branches broken at window height. In one incident, Zanfretta’s revolver was found to have been fired five times, though he had no memory of doing so. He also described being given a transparent sphere containing a rotating golden object, said to be meant for the American ufologist J. Allen Hynek — accounts of what became of it differ, with some describing him smashing it during his escape and others describing him hiding it in a secret location he has never disclosed.

The case has not gone unchallenged. A representative of the Italian Center for UFO Studies raised concerns that Zanfretta’s earliest waking-state drawings of the beings differed from his later, more detailed hypnosis-session drawings — a discrepancy the investigating psychologists attributed to the waking sketches simply being less precise, but which skeptics have pointed to as evidence of an evolving, possibly constructed narrative. No physical evidence recovered from the case has been independently confirmed as extraterrestrial in origin.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

The Torriglia File — Where Genuine Testimony Ends and Invented Biology Begins

Source Chain Assessment: This is one of the better-documented cases in this archive — a named primary witness, police investigation records, named investigators, a published book with multiple editions, and dozens of secondary witnesses to related phenomena. That documentation covers the physical description, the “Dargos” name, the “third galaxy” and doomed-planet claims, and the recovered physical traces. It does not cover precise biometrics or any explanatory biological mechanism.
Fabricated Biometric and Mechanism Panel: Earlier versions of this page listed a specific weight range, a body temperature “over 115°F,” a “Level XIII” species rating, and an elaborate invented physiology — a “Thermogenic Epidermal Shield,” “Density Phasing” via a vibrating subcutaneous muscle layer, and “Neural-Vascular Stress” — to explain the undulating skin and forehead veins. None of this appears in Zanfretta’s testimony, Di Stefano’s book, or the Carabinieri records; it is speculative biological narration invented well after the fact, and has been marked Undocumented.
Fabricated Classification: “Dargos Prime” as a species designation does not appear in the source material — “Dargos” is simply the name the beings reportedly gave for themselves. This has been corrected.
Genuine Detail Restored: The domed-city, doomed-planet motive; the golden-object sphere intended for J. Allen Hynek; the five unexplained revolver shots; the egg-headed being at the gas station; and the Carabinieri’s specific physical-trace measurements are all part of the actual case record and have been restored here in place of the vaguer, invented “biological sampling / colonization interest” framing the page previously used.
Evidentiary Balance: This entry also restores the case’s documented skeptical counterpoint — the discrepancy noted between Zanfretta’s early and later drawings — which the previous version omitted entirely in favor of an uncomplicated “ancient archivists” narrative.

Stripped of invented biology, the Teetonia/Dargos case remains genuinely strange on its own terms: a specific, named witness, a documented pattern of encounters over three years, physical traces logged by a national police force, and a consistent physical description across dozens of hypnosis sessions — alongside real, unresolved questions about how much of that consistency reflects memory and how much reflects a story taking shape over repeated tellings.