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

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• 0:01Speaker 00

  Everyone's got a hard question about AI. Your job, your kids, where it's going. Anthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way, because there's hope in hard questions. Ask yours at claud.ai/spotify and keep thinking. That's claud.ai/spotify.

• 0:25AJ Gentile?

  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'd been watching humans for thousands of years. They called themselves the Ocarich. The Italians called them the Friends. But this friendship came with a cost, and it was something the humans couldn't pay.

• 1:04AJ Gentile?

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• 1:49AJ Gentile?

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• 2:34AJ Gentile?

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• 2:49AJ Gentile?

  Bruno Samachichia 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 10. 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.

• 3:32AJ Gentile?

  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, but 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.

• 4:17AJ Gentile?

  But their technology advanced faster than their ability to control it, then 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 is how Italians write "viva," so it was "long live 56," the year of first contact. But as Bruno got to know the visitors, their relationship deepened, and he 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 recruiting.

• 5:05AJ Gentile?

  Gaspare De Llama 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.

• 5:13Speaker 02

  They crossed the galaxy for hose water? Ugh, that's like flying the parish for the Sabaro.

• 5:19AJ Gentile?

  The location was always different, but it was always somewhere remote, and 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. One pill could feed an alien for two days. Other requests were harder to fill. The Friends wanted strontium and barium nitrate, the stuff you use in signal flares, fireworks, and military ammunition.

• 5:52Speaker 02

  Nobody orders truckloads of barium nitrate for fireworks.

• 5:55AJ Gentile?

  Well, we don't actually know what they used it for.

• 5:57Speaker 02

  Hello, 100 Italians in armored trucks hauling explosives to empty fields?

• 6:03AJ Gentile?

  The Friends said they were peaceful.

• 6:05Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, and the Pesci family said they were in waste management.

• 6:10AJ Gentile?

  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 truckloads 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 sent 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: The aliens didn't need help from the humans at all.

• 6:49Speaker 03

  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.

• 7:02AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 7:28AJ Gentile?

  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. Then suddenly, Bruno Samachichia came out of the bushes to meet him.

• 7:46Speaker 03

  Thanks for coming. Our workers will be here in a minute. Are you hungry? Why don't you come get some lunch, maybe a beer? They'll unload when they get here.

• 7:57AJ Gentile?

  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 to his 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, reels of film that dropped right out of the air. Someone would ask a question, then a piece of paper would appear with the answer.

• 8:31Speaker 03

  Sometimes they came from the floor and tapped me under the chair. Sometimes I saw them materialize in the air. Amazing.

• 8:39AJ Gentile?

  One day, Bruno showed up at Gaspare's apartment and told him to buy a radio. So Gaspare 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."

• 8:56Speaker 02

  A loud crack, flames, and now it's ready. You're describing my ex-wife's cooking.

• 9:04AJ Gentile?

  A voice spoke through the radio. Gaspare 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 with an Abruzzo accent. Other aliens spoke through the radio, too. One night, there were a dozen people sitting in Gaspare'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 Gaspare was distracted. The deliveries, the weird radio, the secrets. He worried about what would happen if people found out about the Friends,

• 9:46AJ Gentile?

  or how dangerous this technology could be in the wrong hands. Gaspare snapped out of it when Seeger spoke directly to him.

• 9:55Speaker 04

  Gaspare, change your thoughts.

• 9:59AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 10:19Speaker 02

  Oh, let's install these in your cats. I'll teach them to swim.

• 10:24AJ Gentile?

  About every...

• 10:25Speaker 02

  These are just little hell beasts.

• 10:28AJ Gentile?

  About every 20 days, huge blue electrical arcs appeared inside Gaspare's apartment, six to 10 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 to share knowledge of their technology. But the members of the group were allowed to see their ships. Over the radio, the Friends told Gaspare to go to his roof and look up. When he got outside, he saw a flying saucer hovering near his house.

• 11:01AJ Gentile?

  Now, what makes this sighting good is that there were two other witnesses. What makes this sighting great is Gaspare took a photo.

• 11:14AJ Gentile?

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• 11:57AJ Gentile?

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• 12:30AJ Gentile?

  Gaspary de Lama stood on his roof in Milan on February 12th, 1962. Bruno Samachicchio was next to him along with journalist Bruno Gabaldi. 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 dome on top. Gaspary took a picture and sent it to the press. His photographs landed in one of Italy's biggest weekly magazines. Gabaldi also wrote about the sighting. Later, he described going aboard one of the craft. Then the Friends told Gaspary he can pick a time and 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.

• 13:14AJ Gentile?

  When the craft arrived, Gaspary started filming.

• 13:21AJ Gentile?

  The craft moved up and down right in front of them, coming almost to the ground.

• 13:28AJ Gentile?

  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. Gaspary 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.

• 14:12AJ Gentile?

  And the photos aren't the only proof of the Friends. One of their radio broadcasts was captured on tape.

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• 15:33AJ Gentile?

  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 escorted by a 10-foot-tall alien. But there was nothing there, no gate, no tunnel, nothing. Then the alien nodded at the ground, and the ground opened.

• 15:57Speaker 00

  Everyone's got a hard question about AI. Your job, your kids, where it's going. Anthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way. Because there's hope in hard questions. Ask yours at claud.ai/spotify and keep thinking. That's claud.ai/spotify.

• 16:24AJ Gentile?

  When the alien looked at the ground, a hole opened up to a long corridor. The alien walked inside, and Bruno followed.

• 16:31Speaker 02

  He followed a 10-foot alien into a hole?

• 16:34AJ Gentile?

  He trusted him.

• 16:36Speaker 02

  I have followed a lot of people into a lot of holes. Never once voluntarily.

• 16:40AJ Gentile?

  That's a different episode.

• 16:42Speaker 02

  Well, it's several different episodes. And one deposition and a lot of therapy.

• 16:48AJ Gentile?

  At first, the space was tight, especially for the alien. But the deeper it went, the wider it got.

• 16:57AJ Gentile?

  The headquarters runs 150 miles under the Adriatic and inland under the mountains.

• 17:18AJ Gentile?

  12 miles deep, ceilings 1,000 feet tall.

• 17:24AJ Gentile?

  The space is so huge, it makes its own weather. Sometimes it rains inside the base. The W-56 have bases like this all over the world. But the entrances aren't just in empty fields. One is behind a locker in 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.

• 17:51AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 18:05AJ Gentile?

  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 Contraders. They have intelligence and advanced technology, but no soul. The CTR wants W-56 dead, the humans dead, and the entire planet destroyed.

• 18:37AJ Gentile?

  W-56 fought a war with the CTR that spanned galaxies. They won everywhere except Earth.

• 18:46AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 19:15Speaker 00

  Everyone's got a hard question about AI. Your job, your kids, where it's going. Anthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way. Because there's hope in hard questions. Ask yours at claud.ai/spotify and keep thinking. That's claud.ai/spotify.

• 19:42AJ Gentile?

  An airman looked down at his console. Something wasn't right. He couldn't launch his missiles.

• 19:47Speaker 02

  Oh, that happens to every guy once in a while.

• 19:50AJ Gentile?

  It was March 16th, 1967, at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. And the Air Force just lost control of 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles.

• 20:00Speaker 02

  Uh, did you say Minuteman?

• 20:02AJ Gentile?

  Yeah, why?

• 20:03Speaker 02

  Oh, that happens to every guy once in a while.

• 20:05AJ Gentile?

  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 no-go 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. And the plan was bigger than the one base. They disabled every nuclear warhead in the United States and the Soviet Union at once. Malmstrom is just the one we hear about. The Friends believes humanity was one mistake away from destroying the planet. And they just proved they could stop it.

• 20:48AJ Gentile?

  And to drive the point home, they did it again a week later.

• 20:54AJ Gentile?

  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: uretta. Uretta 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 uretta.

• 21:38AJ Gentile?

  Their machines convert the energy into power, heat, even the oxygen inside their bases under the ocean. The aliens literally breathe feelings. Gaspary de Lama was right. The Friends can easily get their own supplies: water, 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, uretta, and it worked. But the universe has another force just as powerful: reta. Reta comes from division, selfishness, and betrayal. The CTR uses this stark energy in their technology.

• 22:22AJ Gentile?

  The Friends see reta growing on Earth, and they know what it can do with access to nuclear weapons. If uretta 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.

• 22:50Speaker 00

  Everyone's got a hard question about AI: your job, your kids, where it's going. Anthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way, because there's hope in hard questions. Ask yours at claude.ai/spotify and keep thinking. That's claude.ai/spotify.

• 23:15AJ Gentile?

  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 uretta energy. The Friends needed it, but as the years went on, the humans divided and started fighting, and the uretta got weaker. The Friends once offered to share some of their technology, but they never did, because

• 23:59AJ Gentile?

  the humans couldn't stop fighting over who would get it. Loving the aliens was easy, loving each other was harder.

• 24:06Speaker 03

  Toward them, it was easy. Between the group, we are what we are. It was broken.

• 24:14AJ Gentile?

  The humans couldn't keep it together, and without that energy, the Friends had no protection. The CTR attacked, the bases 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. But until then, the humans had to keep trying to work together and love each other. Everyone agreed, and then they were gone.

• 24:41Speaker 03

  They enriched me. They put me into contact with an almost impossible world, full of love.

• 24:52AJ Gentile?

  After 1978, the trucks 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 their 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

• 25:35AJ Gentile?

  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, engineer Stefano Bretcia 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, Bretcia mentioned Gaspary and his wife, Morella. They didn't say anything, they kept quiet for years. But once the book was out, they went public and said everything in the book happened. And plenty of other things in the story are also true.

• 26:18AJ Gentile?

  Gaspary's saucer photographs were published in 1962. The photographs exist. Now, whether they're fakes or not, it's 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 shutdown? That happened too. All 10 Ecoflight Minutemen 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, something a high-energy or high-frequency device could do.

• 27:02AJ Gentile?

  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. Bretcia's list has 120 names on it: Bruno Semiciccia, Gaspary's wife, and one other witness. They came forward. That means 116 people didn't. Journalist Bruno Gobaldi talked about the case for a while, but then went quiet. Maybe that's because the UFO photos he released in 1961 were a hoax. He bought a toy or a pie pan 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.

• 27:42Speaker 02

  Foiled by a caring! He should have done his research. Fellas, if you see yoga pants and a clothesline and the trash is full of wine bottles, move on to the next house.

• 27:53AJ Gentile?

  Then there's Bruno's history with money. In 1967, a journalist exposed the fund 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.

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  A fund for wounded aliens? That is the greatest idea I've ever heard.

• 28:12AJ Gentile?

  It was a scam.

• 28:13Speaker 02

  It's a category. He invented a category. Go fund me for the wounded Anunnaki. That's what I'm doing. Gertie's already drawn up the logo.

• 28:23AJ Gentile?

  Gertie can't draw, she's a camel.

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  She drinks grape juice and spits on a napkin. It's very abstract. It's like Jackson Pollock, but with more mucus.

• 28:32AJ Gentile?

  He also sold vials of red fluid that would give you protection against the CTR aliens. And, uh, those weren't cheap.

• 28:40Speaker 02

  This guy's a genius.

• 28:45AJ Gentile?

  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. There's 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

• 29:29AJ Gentile?

  why are we still here? I think the story is thin. But Gaspary 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 bases, and we want proof. That's fine, I want that too. But set that aside for a second and listen to Gaspary 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

• 30:12AJ Gentile?

  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.

• 30:42AJ Gentile?

  Thank you so much for hanging out today. My name is AJ. There's Hacklefish.

• 30:45Speaker 02

  Ciao, bella, che siete? Come sta?

• 30:48AJ Gentile?

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• 32:16AJ Gentile?

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• 33:02AJ Gentile?

  I didn't want to say it, but I'm gonna say it. I know nobody cares, but it's really for you guys, the Patreon members. I have been awake for 33 straight hours because I am working very hard to get this episode to you early before it goes on YouTube.

• 33:19AJ Gentile?

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• 33:46Speaker 02

  Grab a Hacklefish t-shirt. Oh, one of these fistful of coffee mics. They get stick your fist in, or whatever you want to put in there. No one's here to judge you. We don't get shame around here. It's all about spreading love, baby. Oh, get a hoodie. I'll slap my face on it. Get one of these adorable squeezy love looking. Get adorable squeezy Hacklefish animal toy fish style.

• 34:06AJ Gentile?

  But if you're gonna buy merch, become a member on YouTube. I know another membership. I promise it's worth it. YouTube members get 10% off everything in the Y Files store forever. So if you're gonna spend 40 bucks over there, the membership pays for itself. And if you want, just cancel. Besides, I don't touch any of that money. Any of that money lands, it goes to the great team.

• 34:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, but take that secret and hide it with a sunburn shine.

• 34:31AJ Gentile?

  Those are the plugs. That's gonna do it. Thanks for bearing with me my sinuses. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated, because you are.

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