AudioBlog: A UFO and Creature Encounter Report From Kofu, Japan

In 1975, two seven-year-old boys in Kofu, Japan, reported an
encounter with a flying saucer and its occupants. They were taken
seriously, and an investigation revealed not only other witnesses,
but also physical evidence to back up their story. The case was
re-examined almost 40 years later by investigators from the Space
Phenomena Observatory Center, and in their opinion, still holds up.
A report was given to the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
and the Center for UFO Studies by Matsushito Hayashi of the Japan
Space Phenomena Association. Both organizations provided summaries
(APRO here on page 5; and CUFOS here on page
13) in their publications. A two-part article using extensive
Japanese sources was written by Otakupapa. It is titled Kofu
Incident: A Creepy Alien Got Off a UFO and Tapped a Japanese
Boy on the Shoulder and is posted
on otakupapa.net.According to the article, on Sunday, February
23, 1975, Masato Kono and Katushiro Yamahata were roller-skating on
a concrete slab in a vacant lot at around 6:30 p.m. Looking up,
they saw two lights moving towards them from the east. According to
the version of events in one of Otakupapa’s sources (Kubota,
Hachiro UFO to Uchu (UFOs & Space) June 1975, NO.12,
8-17, Universe Publishing Co.), the lights were seen by the boys to
be orange objects as they got closer. At this point the boys could
see that the objects were circular with three spinning structures
on the bottom. The boys’ descriptions of the objects are very much
like the “classic” Adamski-type saucer. According to writer
Hiroshi Minamiyama (Otakupapa’s other source for this moment in the
story) only one object came over to the boys while the other one
flew off.Read more