ICER PRESS STATEMENT
On the evening of Thursday 19 the Great and General Council, the San Marino Parliament, discussed and voted on the “Istance of Arengo” (a request addressed to the Captains Regent on the basis of an ancient popular initiative law) jointly proposed by the Italian National UFO Center (CUN) and the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research (ICER), institutions both directed by the aerospace journalist Dr. Roberto Pinotti, who for three decades has successfully coordinated the annual UFO World Symposium under the aegis of the Government .
The recognition of the reality of UFOs indicated by the Pentagon since 2021 as “an objective, intelligent, and technologically advanced reality of unknown origin”, this Instance “provides for San Marino to ask the UN to create an Office intended to organize a conference that periodically takes stock of the studies of the UFO phenomenon at an international level, to be kept under the aegis of the United Nations in its territory. And this in the light of the traditional Symposium organized by the Italian CUN (a body created in 1967) today supported by ICER, a Non-Governmental Organization born in 2021 and made up of experts from over 30 countries on 5 continents.
The Secretary of State for Tourism Federico Pedini Amati defined it as a very interesting project, and specified that the Government’s indication is favorable, underlining the media, tourist and commercial advantages deriving from the initiative.