The Why Files: Operation Podcast - Bases in the Ocean, and a War for Earth | The Friendship Case

Episode Date: September 12, 2026

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

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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. 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 introduced 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 seven.

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. One after another. The aliens watched six great civilizations die. They did not want to watch a seventh. He still in contact with the visitors and called their group W-56.

The W is 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 recruiting. Gasparé 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.

They crossed the galaxy for hose water. Ah, that's like flying the parish for the Sabaro. 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 ask 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. Nobody orders truckloads of barium nitrate for fireworks. Well, we don't actually know what they used it for. Hello, a hundred Italians in unmarked trucks,

hauling explosives, tante fields. The friends said they were peaceful. Oh, yeah, and the Pesci family said they were in waste management. Gaspari 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 Gaspari. The aliens 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. Gaspari 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. Then suddenly, Bruno Sama Chica came out of the bushes to meet him. 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.

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 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 Gaspari's apartment and told him to buy a radio. So Gaspari 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. Gaspari 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 Seger, 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 Gaspari'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 Gaspari 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. Gaspari snapped out of it when Seeger spoke directly to him. Gaspari, 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, let's install these in your cats. I'll teach them to swim.

About every... About every 20 days, huge blue electrical arcs appeared inside Gaspar'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 to share knowledge of their technology. But the members of the group were allowed to see their ships.

Over the radio, the friends told Gaspari 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 Gaspari 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.

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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. Gaspari took a picture and sent it to the press. His photographs landed in one of Italy's biggest weekly magazines. Yvouti also wrote about the sighting. Later he described going aboard one of the craft. Then the friends told Gaspari,

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. When the craft arrived, Gaspari started filming. The craft moved up and down right in front of them, 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. and as our dear friends, the

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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. In Toronto, every arrival is a statement, and nothing says it better than this. Cadillac Optic was the number one selling luxury EV in Canada for 2025. Find your rhythm across a seamless 33-inch display and an immersive 19-speaker AKG surround audio system.

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He trusted him. I have followed a lot of people into a lot of holes. Never once voluntarily. That's a different episode. It's several different episodes. One deposition and a lot of therapy. At first, the space was tight, especially for the alien. But the deeper it went, the wider it got.

The headquarters runs 150 miles under the Adriatic and inland under the mountains. 12 miles deep, ceilings 1,000 feet tall. The space is so huge, it makes its own weather. Sometimes it rains inside the base. The W56 have 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 W56 aren't the only aliens watching Earth. They're just the only ones who wanted to succeed.

A long time ago, W56 conducted a genetic experiment It went wrong, and they created a new race. Bruno calls them the CTR, the contrives. They have intelligence and advanced technology, but no soul. The CTR wants W56 dead, the humans dead, and the entire planet destroyed. W56 fought a war with the CTR that spanned galaxies. They won 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. They promise to show us how to use it. Where some see heroes and others see egos. Bloomberg sees the era of billionaire athletes, while others follow the noise

we follow the money learn more at bloomberg.com 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 16th 1967 at Malmstrom

Air Force Base in Montana and the Air Force just lost control of 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles did you say Minuteman yeah why Oh, that happens to every guy once in a while. Okay. Anyway, then someone shouted there were objects in the sky over the base.

But the U.S. 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 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. Eureta 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 Jureta.

Their machines convert the energy into power, heat, even the oxygen inside their bases under the ocean. The aliens literally breathe feelings. Gaspari 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, youretta, and it worked. But the universe has another force just as powerful.

Reda. Reda comes from division, selfishness, and betrayal. The CTR uses this dark energy in their technology. The friends see Reda growing on Earth, and they know what it can do with that. access to nuclear weapons. If your edda 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. This family is on the brink of civil war on September 18th.

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Mobland, new season hit September 18th on Paramount Plus. 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 Eureta energy.

The friends needed it, but as the years went on, the humans divided and started fighting, and the Eureta got weaker. The friends once offered to share some of their technology, but they never did. because the humans couldn't stop fighting over who would get it. Loving the aliens was easy, loving each other was harder. Toward 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 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. 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 their word and spread love wherever they could, and they waited for their 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, engineer Stefano Breccia wrote the book about the

friendship case in 2007, based on interviews with Bruno Sama Chica. 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, Brescia mentioned Gaspari and his wife, Marela. 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. Gaspari'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 7th. 17th, 1978. And that missile shutdown? That happened too. All 10 ECHO Flight Minutemen missiles lost strategic alert within seconds of each other. That's not supposed to happen.

The Air Force says a 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. Now, we don't have that technology. technology yet, but the military is working on it. I wonder where they got that idea. Now the problems. Brecht's list has 120 names on it. Bruno Semechica, Gasparian's wife,

and one other witness. They came forward. That means 116 people didn't. Journalist Brudo Gabouti 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. Voiled by a carrying. He should have done his research. Fellas, if you see yoga pants in a clothes line and the trash is full of wine bottles, move on to the next house. 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. A fund 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 fund me for the wounded Adonaki.

That's what I'm doing. Gertie's already drawn up the logo. Gertie can't draw. She's a camel. She drinks grape juice and spits on a napkin. It's very abstract. It's like Jackson Pollock. But with more...

He also sold vials of red fluid that would give you protection against the CTR aliens. And those weren't cheap. God, this guy's a genius. 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 why are we still here? I think the story is thin. But Gaspari never stopped talking about the friends. Years later, he still described the affection he felt from that. 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 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 Hagel Fish. So, Bill, like you, so de jesus. Come in star, huh?

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