Bases in the Ocean, and a War for Earth | The Friendship Case
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
September 12, 2026
-Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Styles sell out, so don't wait. For more than twenty years, a hundred people across Italy filled trucks with fruit, water, and industrial chemicals, then walked away and let the cargo disappear.
Speakers AJ Gentile, Gasparri de Lama
TopicsDocumentarySociety & CultureFictionScience Fiction
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For more than 20 years, 100 people in Italy loaded trucks with fruit, water and industrial chemicals. They parked the trucks and walked away. When they came back, the trucks were empty.
The cargo went to a deep underwater base occupied by an alien race who've been watching humans for thousands of years. They called themselves the Ocrich. The Italians called them the Friends.
But this friendship came with a cost. And it was something the humans couldn't pay.
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Bruno Sommaciccia brought two friends to a castle in central Italy in April 1956 They were following an old handwritten treasure map. Bruno was a psychologist who wrote about Catholic saints and miracles. He also collected antiques, which is why his friend gave him the map. The men walked around the grounds looking for a place to dig. Then out of the darkness, two figures approached them. One was three feet tall, the other was ten. Their features were almost human. But Bruno and his friends weren't frightened. They felt an overwhelming affection coming from the beings, who spoke to them in perfect Italian. The visitors said they belonged to a confederation of alien races watching over Earth. They lived in bases buried all around the world. They wanted humanity to survive, but they didn't want to make contact until we were ready. They weren't sure we were ready now, but the Cold War was escalating and both sides had nuclear weapons. Humanity could destroy itself before the aliens ever introduced themselves, so they stopped waiting. The visitors called Earth a mother planet, one of the rare worlds in the galaxy that produces life. And humans weren't the first civilization to develop here. We were the seventh.
Hundreds of millions of years before us, six other civilizations rose and fell on this planet. Every one of them was more advanced than we are. One even had space travel. But their technology advanced faster than their ability to control it. Then it destroyed them, one after another. The aliens watched six great civilizations die. They did not want to watch a seventh. Bruno stayed in contact with the visitors and called their group W56.
The W is how Italians write Viva, so it was Long Live 56, the year of first contact. But as Bruno got to know the visitors, their relationship deepened and he eventually just called them the Friends. The Friends told Bruno to put together a group of people who could be trusted. The Friends were willing to help the humans, but the humans had to help the Friends first. So Bruno started recruiting.
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