32-year-old doctor Marco Gessati and several other passengers on the flight from Rome to Boston saw a huge insect with a wingspan of about four feet (122 cm).
The publication cryptozoologynews.com, which publishes this story, writes that for privacy reasons, they do not give the flight number and the name of the airline. The incident is simply called "Flight X".
“I know it’s hard to believe,” Gessati told the journalist over the phone, “But I know that I saw and I saw it in reality. I've never seen anything like it. A big, very large insect."
Later, Gessati met with a journalist at a Boston restaurant and drew a sketch of the insect from memory. The insect looks like a fat wasp.
Huge insects are known in history, but they lived on planet Earth for a very long time 300 million years ago and are considered extinct. But their wingspan of 26 inches (66 cm) is half the size of the creature seen by the passengers on the flight with Dr. Gessati.
Ancient insect Meganeura
In a 1999 scientific article authored by scientists Gauthier Chapelle and Lloyd S. Peck, it is noted that the gigantism of ancient insects is due to the increased oxygen content in the planet's atmosphere. Above 35%. If oxygen levels were to drop, the giant insects would not be able to survive. Therefore, the possibility of the existence of huge insects in our time is very difficult to explain scientifically.
“What I saw was not ordinary,” says Dr. Gessati. “I have to fly a lot and honestly I hate flying. But it comes from conferences.
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When I saw him (a beetle on the level with the liner at an altitude of 30 thousand feet), I became worried, I had a panic attack. Several people sitting in front of me behaved in a similar way. It turns out that it was not only in my mind.
It seemed to me that time had stopped then. I don't know how to explain this, can you imagine I saw him outside the window on the wing of the plane and it was like BAM! And some people turned their heads in that direction. But the others sat in their places as usual. I saw his black legs, hairs and hooks on his legs. Then he spread his transparent wings. There were two of them, and the body of the beetle was green.
I even saw red streaks on the wings. It was about two seconds and then he flew away. When he flapped his wings it was incredible, like in slow motion. You will not see this in ordinary insects. They wave too fast.
All together this spectacle lasted about a minute. After the beetle flew away, I and ten other people began to discuss what we had seen. One claimed that he took a photo, but after that I asked him to send them to me by email, but he never responded."
Dr. Marco Gessati is a very intelligent person, the journalist notes. It doesn't make sense for him to make up this story. But what did he see at such a height? If a really huge insect, how did it survive there? Could it be some kind of relic from the Carboniferous era, which managed to adapt to the conditions of the atmosphere? And why haven't we seen them before? Maybe they live somewhere in deserted places? In mountains or caves?