The project was started in 1981 by Massimo Pigliucci, then of CUN Rome branch and in 1984 it was passed on to Paolo Fiorino, who has been specializing in that research area since 1978. The project consists of filing all documents referring to each Italian report concerning UFOs associated with "entities" (CE III). As of now, it has amassed as many as 718 case files, a massive archive of papers that amounts to more than 10.000 pages, and a collection of about 130 audio and video tapes. As of investigations, the co-ordinator has personally conducted or directed more than 130 investigations, and the archive includes more than 160 reports by various investigators. One of the most compelling objectives is the cataloguing of all cases. A computerized catalogue has been kept updated by Umberto Cordier as of the main data for each case, but it will be completed with summaries of the inquiries, comments and source lists. Such task is difficult because of the heterogeneity of the available materials (many cases have sundry sources and are understandably difficult to investigate). On the long period a data analysis is planned, which will use statistical and comparative approaches (see E. Zurcher, "Les apparistions d'humanoides", A. Lefeuvre, Nice, 1979). The co-ordinator is also interested in an analysis of the CE III phenomenology and in the interaction with the ufological historiography (E. Russo, "Verso una storiografia ufologica", Notiziario UFO, n. 102, 1983, pp. 147/165). On the long period a comparative analysis is also planned of the CE III cases in Italy and in France during the 1954 wave, and in Italy and in the USA during the 1973 wave. For sake of completeness, Paolo Fiorino is also interested in contactees and UFO cults, and he is presently working with Giuseppe Stilo on the possibility of cataloguing and the establishing of an appropriate methodology.