This surprising encounter was revealed years later, in the 1980s, by the Pope’s personal secretary, Loris Francesco Capovilla.

Loris witnessed the incident and kept it secret for more than two decades, following the wishes of the Pope, until it was revealed in a British newspaper, and then was taken by the Sun in 1985.

On a July afternoon in 1961, at the summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, the Pope and his secretary were strolling through the gardens of the estate.

They noticed a bright star. The supposed star began to descend and a few minutes later, they realized that it was some kind of ship.

It was July, a July afternoon in 1961, when it happened: «We had them over our heads, lights, they were colored lights, blue, orange, amber, a few minutes later. “And then, the impossible happened, which is also hard to say, and then all at once.

The UFO in question had a round shape, with blue and amber lights.

When the UFO was close enough, it stopped and remained stable in the air. A beam of yellow light appeared below the ship. The light gave the sensation of a tube of light that stopped one to two meters from the ground without reflecting on the ground.

A humanoid has emerged from the light tube. The alien had a white gold earring all over it. He was taller than the average human and had large pointed ears.

The being raised his arm to greet the pope and his companion, but thinking that they were witnessing a divine vision, they knelt down and began to pray.

Moments later, they raised their heads, but the alien was still only a few meters away from them. Without saying a word, Pope John XXIII got up and walked towards the alien. Loris dropped to his knees, watching the Pope and the alien speak.

Then he stood up and walked without hesitation towards the man, towards a «fully human» being enveloped in a faint, delicate, penetrating light. he said «for about twenty minutes», but you couldn’t hear those voices, «I didn’t feel anything», but they stayed talking, gesturing, for twenty minutes, then the man turned around and went back the way he had come, looked at me and I cry.

While Loris could hear the Pope’s voice, the conversation was telepathic.

After communicating for about 20 minutes, the alien turned and left. The ship took off in complete silence.

At the end of this meeting in Castel Gandolfo, the Pope assured one of his assistants of the following: «The children of God are everywhere; sometimes we have difficulties to recognize our own brothers»