Luigi Vendittelli

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2,725 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 May

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The Why Files: Operation Podcast · The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar · 11 May 2026 podcast

I brought him a gift.

So back in the late 80s, when I would go to Italy all the time, in my father's village, there was a lot of... If you dug into the ground, you can actually find old World War II shells, like artillery shells that were still... They used ones, but they're underground.

You could find them.

So I collected many of them over the years, and I keep them in a nice display in my house.

But those are rare.

Those are really rare.

They're anti-aircraft American shells that were used against the Germans.

So I took a shell.

I said, let me bring in one of these because this is something from my family, you know, from where I'm from.

And I get to the airport and in the security, they stop it.

I was going to ask you how that went.

And it's an empty shell.

And I read about it and you're allowed to do it, but...

You're not.

You're allowed to do it on paper, but apparently you're not allowed to do it at the airport.

So they said, no, you can't go.

You're going to have to.

We're going to have to throw it out.

I said, no, no, no, no, no.

You're not throwing that out.

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