Giorgio Bongiovanni

Early Life and Spiritual Formation

Giorgio Bongiovanni was born on September 5, 1963 in Floridia, Sicily, in a modest family environment. At age 13, he encountered Italian contactee Eugenio Siragusa, who became his spiritual father and mentor in UFO contact philosophy. This formative meeting set the trajectory for Bongiovanni's later life as a bridge between mysticism and extraterrestrial contact narratives. Initially working as a cobbler, he transitioned in the late 1980s into filmmaking, UFO research, and spiritual activism.

Stigmata and Mystical Phenomena

Bongiovanni's claims center on ongoing stigmata—spontaneous bleeding wounds on his hands, feet, forehead, and chest. The first manifestation occurred in 1989 when, he reports, the Virgin Mary appeared to him and instructed him to travel to Fatima, Portugal. At Fatima, he received stigmata on his hands. Subsequent stigmatization episodes followed: feet in 1991, and left side and forehead in 1992–1993. These wounds, he maintains, mirror the crucifixion wounds of Jesus and bleed continuously. Bongiovanni interprets his stigmata as a sign of spiritual urgency surrounding extraterrestrial contact and humanity's evolutionary crossroads—melding Christian mysticism with UFO theology.

Direct Extraterrestrial Contact Claims

Bongiovanni claims direct, non-telepathic contact with extraterrestrial beings, most prominently Ashtar Sheran, an entity he describes as an advanced extraterrestrial communicator. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, he produced and distributed videos linking UFOs, crop circles, extraterrestrials, and religious eschatology. His stated role in the UFO research community is to explain the spiritual implications of extraterrestrial visitation—who these beings are, why they come, and what they want. His narrative combines traditional contactee claims with a mystical, apocalyptic framing rooted in Christian theology.

Public Activism and International Presence

On October 28, 1994, Bongiovanni and German UFO researcher Michael Hesemann presented to the United Nations on the topic "Dialogue on the Universe: the result of the extraterrestrial contact on the human evolution." This appearance lent international visibility to his contactee platform. In November 1994, he participated in the International UFO Congress in Mesquite, Nevada, where his role was to articulate the spiritual dimensions of alleged extraterrestrial contact. By 1997, Bongiovanni had expanded his platform to interview high-ranking military officials and former KGB agents about their knowledge of extraterrestrial phenomena, and he appeared at the Australian International UFO Symposium. He founded the Nonsiamosoli movement, which dissolved in 1999 but whose followers regrouped around subsequent initiatives, and established the Antimafia Duemila publication and website, which focuses on anti-mafia activism. Bongiovanni positions himself as the successor to Eugenio Siragusa's contactee legacy in the Italian UFO landscape.