Detailed Summary of Professor Shonku and the UFO Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku and the UFO is one of the most exciting adventures of the Bengali scientist, Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku. The story, written in 1961 but set in diary entries from 1967, mixes science fiction with mystery. It tells how world monuments were destroyed and how an alien spacecraft was misused by a human being, Rodolfo Carboni. The story begins on 17 September. Professor Shonku writes in his diary about many news reports of UFOs and also about meeting Dr. Rodolfo Carboni, an Italian scientist, at an international conference in Geneva. Shonku’s paper on contacting extraterrestrials through radio signals in Giridih is greatly praised. Carboni privately admits that his research is very similar but says he did not present it because he feared ridicule. He even claims he has spoken to beings from the Alpha Centauri star system. Shonku is doubtful but curious. Shonku later learns about Carboni’s pa...