Judica-Cordiglia brothers

Judica-Cordiglia brothers

Achille (born in Turin, 1933) and Giovanni Battista (born in Erba, 1939) Judica-Cordiglia (or Judica Cordiglia) are two amateur radio operators and the source of some of the most dramatic claims of lost cosmonauts in the 1960s.

In the late 1950s the brothers set up their own experimental listening station just outside of Turin, a place they named Torre Bert, in a disused German bunker. Working with scavenged and improvised equipment they were able to successfully monitor transmissions from the Soviet Sputnik program and Explorer 1, the first American satellite. Their receptions included telemetry, voice recordings, and visual data.

In the 1960s, the brothers claimed to have recorded radio communications from secret Soviet Union space missions, including the sounds of one of these secret cosmonauts dying. The first of these recordings was made on 28 November 1960, when the Bochum space observatory in West Germany said it had intercepted radio signals from what appeared to be a satellite. After about an hour of listening to static, they recognised an SOS signal that seemed to be moving away from the Earth. In addition, the voice of a woman, who was returning to Earth in May 1961, was recorded; in the recording she cried that "she was burning".

In 1964 they won the TV quiz "Fiera dei Sogni" ("The Fair of Dreams"), a quiz that enabled them to visit the United States and Cape Canaveral.

The brothers were the subject of a 2007 documentary called "I pirati dello spazio" (Pirates of space). An article on the brothers, recordings and lost cosmonauts was published in the March 2008 number of "Fortean Times". Achille is now a cardiologist, while Giovanni Battista assists the Italian police with phone-tapping in criminal investigations.

ee also

*Soviet space program conspiracy accusations

External links

* [http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/default.htm Judica-Cordiglia brothers' website]
*it icon [http://www.judicacordiglia.it Italian website]
* [http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/conspiracy/q0235a.shtml "Readers' Digest" Article]
* [http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Torre/TorreB.html Site debunking the brothers' claims]
* [http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1302/lost-in-space.html "Fortean Times" Article]
* [http://www.zenit.to.it/eng/prod_doc_pirati_dello_spazio.html "I pirati dello spazio" ("Space Hackers")] - TV documentary by A. Bernard, E. Cerasuolo, P. Ceretto - Zenit Arti Audiovisive, 2007


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