While seldom mentioned in UFO chronicles, Japan has been a major theatre of operations for the phenomenon over the past three decades, and boasts prehistoric lore that links it closely to the possible presence of ancient astronauts. The most significant postwar sighting turned out to be singularly dramatic: a luminous object, dangling in the air from an enormous, darkened craft, was witnessed by many observers over Tokyo Bay in the summer of 1952. The objects were also picked up by radar, prompting jet fighters to scramble to intercept. The huge aerial contraption proceeded to elude the military aircraft with maneuvers never thought possible before. In the early days of the Cold War, with the Korean conflict still brewing on the other side of the Sea of Japan, the thought of a surprise attack by unknown Soviet technology was fresh in every strategist’ mind.
But it wasn’t until 22 years later, in June 1974, that an interceptor–an F4 Phantom–would lock on to its mysterious quarry and experience the nearest of close encounters: a head-on collision with a UFO. Originally under the impression that the signal on the screen was a notoriously errant Soviet Bear bomber, the fighter’s crew was surprised to see that their target was a 40-foot wide disc with square portholes that could have been viewports or exhausts. When the Phantom trained its weapons on the object, the intruder hurtled toward it, smashing the fighter’s nose and causing the pilot and weapons officer to eject. The latter died in the collision, and the Japanese government remained silent about the event, never acknowledging if the UFO had fallen to the ground during the “accident”. The Phantom’s loss was tersely attributed to “a collision with an unknown object at 30,000 feet.”
The Japanese Air Force’s tight-lipped silence was triggered, perhaps by the number of sightings that had already been reported by civillians. Four months prior to the Phantom incident, a young woman, Akiko Nakayama, had come into contact with three strange creatures in a rice paddy in the village of Hoshimachi. The alien trio re-entered a glowing orange vehicle that took to the night skies in a matter of seconds, rejoining what was a veritable armada of UFOs slowly crossing the skies over Japan. Magazines devoted to the subject of UFOs in both Japan and the U.S. made much of the fact that Ms. Nakayama’s sighting had taken place not too far from the site of the unique, mysterious prehistoric statue of the Inu-Ningen, the “man-dog” that has been taken by many to be a depiction of a prehistoric, nonhuman visitor to our world. This large, perplexing statue, along with the small Dogu statues (helmeted figures that suggest respirators and air hoses) have defied all rational explanation.
In February 1975, near the town of Kofu, two boys walked around a grounded UFO which bore distinctive “oriental characters” on its hull (reminiscent, perhaps, of the Oriental script on the object recovered in Kecksburg, PA in 1965). The youngsters reported seeing “a ladder emerge from the craft” and a Klaatu-esque, silver-clad entity descend toward them. In what can best be described as a case of “unrequited contact”, the boys broke and ran from the spot in abject terror. One of the children’s parents was later able to confirm having seen an unusual craft rising skywards from the direction in which the boys had run.But by September of that very same year, UFOs would be seen by everyone living in western Japan, prompting a deluge of phone calls to the authorities. A Japan Air Lines DC-8 was “tailed” by an unknown device for twenty minutes until it landed safely at a local airport.
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