That’s according to a senior US intelligence official World War II U.S. troops have recovered a UFO that crashed in Italy in 1933and Italian investigators say they have the documents to prove it.

Former employee of the National Reconnaissance Bureau, David Grushshocked the world last month when he revealed that he had sworn in sworn testimony before Congress and government watchdogs, about an allegedly secret US program that has obtained several ‘non-human’ flying saucers.

That’s what Grusch claims one of these alien spacecraft crashed in northern Italy in 1933 and was hidden by fascist dictator Benito Mussolinibefore being captured by US forces at the end of World War II and shipped to the US.

The senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio, confirmed that heard testimonials from alleged first-hand witnesses of such accident recovery programs. Now, in an interview with DailyMail.com to coincide with World UFO Day, Italian researcher Roberto Pinotti has shared extraordinary details about the alleged saucer crash that happened 14 years before the famous incident in Roswell, New Mexico.

Pinotti, president of the National Ufology Center (CUN), obtained documents showing the June 13, 1933, accident and a secret department set up by Mussolini to study the alleged saucer. Pinotti’s research has been met with skepticism in Italy since he first published it in 2000, and remains little known outside its borders.

“My colleague Alfredo Lissoni and I began investigating the story of the 1933 UFO crash in Lombardy in 1996 when we received some original classified documents on the case,” he told DailyMail.com. The documents were mysteriously sent to Pinotti by an anonymous source who claimed to have inherited them from a relative who worked on Mussolini’s alleged UFO program.

They include two June 1933 telegrams in Italian, one demanding “absolute silence” over an “alleged landing on national soil of an unknown aircraft”. Another, dated June 13, threatens “immediate arrest” and “maximum punishment” for any journalist reporting on an “aircraft of unknown nature and origin.” Both say they are on ‘personal orders’ from ‘Il Duce’, Mussolini himself.

Other documents sent to Pinotti refer to a mysterious government department called ‘Gabinetto RS/33’, or the Cabinet RS (Special Investigation) 33, supposedly created by the Italian dictator to manage the recovery and study of the saucer’s alleged remains, as well as other UFO incidents. Pinotti says RS/33 was led by Nobel Prize-winning inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio.

Putting the mysterious documents together allowed Pinotti to identify SIAI Marchetti at Vergiate, an aircraft facility near the alleged crash site on the outskirts of Magenta, a satellite city of Milan, as the likely location where the alleged wreckage was stored.

American whistleblower Grusch claims that the alleged ship was shipped to the United States in 1945; the first pelvic recovery he knows.

“In 1933, a bell-shaped ship about ten meters in size was salvaged in Magenta, in northern Italy. Mussolini’s government kept it until 1944, when it was recovered by agents of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, a former US intelligence agency),’ he told French newspaper Le Parisien last month.

The Italian detective had one of his 1936 documents examined by a forensic expert who concluded that the paper and ink date from that period. The 1933 telegrams have not been proven.

“After four years of investigation and a forensic analysis showing that the documents were indeed written in the 1930s, we have published a detailed report in a book,” Pinotti told DailyMail.com.

“The evidence speaks for itself. And it shows that the first world leader to officially (albeit secretly) confronted the UFO problem was not President Harry Truman with the Roswell incident in the United States, but Italian Benito Mussolini .”