

The novel closely follows another book, La Q di Qomplotto (2021), in which a member of the Wu Ming collective developed an anticapitalist take on conspiratorial thinking, taking Qanon as his case study. In it, the kidnapping of former prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades is intertwined with the great wave of UFO sightings that occurred in Italy that year. The Italian writing collective Wu Ming recently published UFO 78, a novel whose principal plot is set between March and May 1978. Then, in February 2023, the concept of “Unidentified aerial phenomena” became central to the dispute between the US and China over alleged spy-balloons.

During the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 there was an exponential increase in UFO sightings throughout the West.
