Date: 16 October, 1978 Location: RAI (Italy) Vatican City Participants: Pagan group (unproven) Outcome: Unsolved
A fumata bianca ("white smoke") announces the conclave is over because a Pope was elected. Both terms have permeated into Italian culture as political and journalistic jargon for, respectively, "non-decisive vote" and "final, decisive vote", and are widely used as cliches by the press." After the election of the 264th pope of the catholic church, as the protocol follows, the name of the elected was announced by a member of the mentioned conclave. However, the signal was interrupted by psychedelic footage and tedious tunes. Local authorities suspected it was the work of some pagan groups but no evidence was found.
