Filippo Sarpa

Filippo Sarpa: teacher of foreign languages ​​and cultures, independent researcher, author,
translator, conference organizer and presenter.

Filippo Sarpa, graduated in Translation from the University of Turin with top marks and honours, is a teacher of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures.

Sarpa does not define himself as a UFO researcher in the strict sense but as a "curious explorer of the unknown" who finds himself involved - often not on his own initiative - in investigations of a different nature aimed at both the so-called external and internal world.

To date, his most substantial contribution to ufology and alternative historiography consists in the creation of a double master's degree thesis discussed at the University of Turin in 2017. As part of an ambitious academic research project which included research on field in Peru, Bolivia, Chile (Easter Island) and the United States, Sarpa examined the extra-terrestrial hypothesis as an anthropological-cultural phenomenon in its two main diachronic dimensions: the presumed contacts in the past (commonly known as the "theory of the ancients astronauts") and, in the present, for about sixty years now, the even more controversial question of the so-called "contactees".
Sarpa's field investigations across the United States and South America have been highly appreciated both in Italy and abroad and have earned him an invitation to present his work at international UFO conferences together with guests of global importance.
In 2018 his thesis was published in Italy with the title Aancient astronauts in South America. Traces of contacts in the past(vv. 1-2, 2018, xPublishing), with the preface by the well-known writer Mauro Biglino.
Sarpa is also the official Italian translator ofUnacknowledged, Truths Denied(2018, Amrita Edizioni) the best-selling investigation by the American ufologist Steven M. Greer, and byContact from Planet Apu(2018, xPublishing), by the Peruvian experiencer Ricardo González. (2016).
Since 2017, in Italy, Filippo has been an organizer, speaker and interpreter in conferences and seminars with international guests.
In 2020 he was chairman of the prestigious International UFO Congress in Florence of the GAUS group, presenting and conducting the event in its entirety in three languages: Italian, English and Spanish.

To date, Filippo continues to maintain numerous collaborations in multiple fields. The front on which he is most involved is the creation and publication of a documentary, produced by Canadian researchers Mark McNabb and Rob Freeman, on the most controversial Italian UFO event of recent years: the Valmalenco case.

Mark Mcnabb

Mark created Skylight Films in 1996 after graduating from the University of Western Ontario, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in English and Film Studies.

It's almost time for lunch. The sun is strong, it is rapidly reaching the Zenith, the groups of
hikers who initially populated the area on the bridge have already left or settled at their tables. Rob leans against the wooden fence that faces north: his gaze, fixed on the horizon, betrays no emotions. Yet the anticipation is palpable. After several days of uncertainty, hesitation, and replies that neither favored nor killed the hope of a positive response, Filippo assured him that that same day our man would show up at the meeting: Andrea managed, not without difficulty, to convince him to join them at the refuge. Mark, on the other hand, is no longer in his skin, he knows that he will soon be filming a very special story, to use a euphemism, a story that will irreversibly change the perception of the events that have been taking place in the heart of the valley for a long time. A story that perhaps, with a little luck, will offer the two Canadian adventurers the opportunity to decipher the mystery that they have been chasing relentlessly for years in every corner of the world. Roberto remained standing on the west side of the bridge, the view opens out over the entire valley: «He passed the last one
hairpin. Is coming» warns.

What transpires behind closed doors over the next two hours will test the belief systems of everyone who sits at that table. Some have already heard some of those stories, others have even experienced them firsthand with him, but listening to them again in that context, at the foot of a legendary stone giant over 3000 meters high around which the most incredible events in Italy orbit , strikes with a completely different force. But it's not just for stories that eight almost perfect strangers between Italy and Canada found themselves spending an entire week in a high mountain refuge.

In front of Mark McNabb's camera and Rob Freeman's telephoto lenses, the lives of at least eight travelers of different ages, origins, experiences, visions of the world and longings found their intertwining in some of the places most full of extraordinary phenomena in the whole of the world. country: an exciting journey that started from the esoteric Turin and the infamous Monte Musinè, cutting across northern Italy towards the Natural Reserve of Rock Engravings in Valcamonica and finally arriving at the "valley of UFOs", Valmalenco.

Where do we come from? Who we are? Where do we go? We respond to the spiritual testament of Paul Gauguin with the most specific counter-questions that an attentive listener could not help but ask.

Why does Rob Freeman want to collect evidence of the presence of other intelligences on this planet at all costs? What force leads him to invest funds, time and energy, every resource at his disposal to scour the planet in search of extraordinary manifestations? What convinced Mark McNabb to follow him? Why, among all the stories he can tell with his art, has he chosen to delve into this crazy multiverse in which doubts far outweigh certainties and risks the chances of success?

And who are the Italians involved in the plot? What kind of bond have Felice Sirtori and Enrico Rossi developed with this magical place? How did they come to be the most important custodians of knowledge and stories affecting the Valley? How does Enrico at 80 years of age maintain that contagious enthusiasm for discovery experienced firsthand? What did Andrea understand about himself in his wanderings between the Valley and South America? What pieces of his journey have you collected? What conclusions did he come to?

And what is Philip, who isn't even a ufologist, doing there? And for what absurd reason does he venture off the path in the evening accompanied only by the faint light of his torch? What drives him to risk even his own physical safety, to desperately seek an encounter that is potentially destructive to the psyche of any human being? What epiphany does he hope to achieve?

One year after the very first presentation in Italy of the Canadian video-documentary project, GAUS has the pleasure and honor of offering you a 30-minute absolute preview of Encounters – Italy accompanied by the narration of Filippo Sarpa and crowned by a Q&A session with the authors in live connection with Canada.

Rob Freeman, researcher, and Mark McNabb, producer and director, both Canadian, began their journey to discover the UFO mystery a few years ago and yet they have already visited - at their own expense - over twenty countries around the world. Their projects “UFO World Explorer” (Freeman, 2015) and “Encounters” (2021) were born in Toronto with the ambition of investigating the phenomenon across the globe with the classic tools of the trade and in the most well-known so-called hotspots of the sector , but with new interesting premises and promises: to tell the phenomenon by narrating the people who experience the phenomenon, be they experiencers, researchers or simple "seekers", those who welcome the sacred call to discovery that emerges from the most hidden depths of their essence.

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