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Thursday, November 06, 2003
Close encounters - UFOs in Japan
The skies above Japan are alive with extraterrestrial activity, according to the nation’s foremost UFO research group and its fearless leader.
On October 11, 1999, roughly 60 transparent rings appeared in the sky over the shrine and were witnessed and photographed by Junichi Kato and his OUR-J UFO group. On other occasions, unidentified shapes and lights have been spotted in the area with remarkable frequency, leading to its reputation as one of Japan’s alien hotspots.
“I’d seen groups of six or seven objects several times before, but nothing like that,” says Kato, leader of the UFO research group, describing October 1999 sighting. The sense of excitement Kato felt on witnessing the scene is evident in the smile that spreads across his normally serious face as he lays out pictures of the unusual aqueous-looking rings in the small office the group rents in Suidobashi. “It was the first time I’d seen anything like it and everyone just gasped. There were so many we couldn’t count,” says Toshie Nakagawa, one of “several hundred” members of the OUR-J group that was founded in January 2000. “We were speechless—all we could think was ‘UFOs really do exist,’” adds Kato. The group’s pictures of the rings were later published in UFO Magazine and the sighting remains one of their most impressive.
Kato, who’s a regular salaryman by day, notes that his group has a high success rate with their field trips to Meiji Shrine, but is quick to point out that “UFOs fly everywhere” and he dismisses the idea that they are attracted only to specific spots. “Meiji Jingu definitely has a mysterious aspect and for some reason UFOs do appear there frequently. The most common at the shrine are the ones that look like pachinko balls,” he concedes.
Kato’s remarkable record in witnessing unidentified objects has led to him being credited with some kind of alien telepathy. “I often get asked by TV shows or reporters to do a ‘UFO call’ and summon them up, but I wouldn’t exactly call it telepathy,” he says. “That implies two-way communication and really involves the separate question of whether UFOs are alien in origin or not. The American military came up with the definition of UFO and there are many cases where an object can be disqualified based on various factors. It doesn’t necessarily follow that a UFO is alien in origin, from another planet, or piloted by extraterrestrials, and it’s important to make that distinction.”
It was Kato’s first close encounter at age 5 in a field in Akita Prefecture that began his lifelong interest in watching the skies. As he was playing baseball outside with his brother and some friends, a strange light appeared above them. “It was a large elliptical orange thing, kind of like a bike wheel, although I’m not sure if it was rotating.” Unbeknown to the youngsters at the time, the same day more than 50 people at Akita Airport witnessed a similar phenomenon—a golden disk suspended in midair for about 10 minutes—that prompted air-traffic controllers to warn incoming flights of a possible obstacle above the runway. A local film crew shooting a documentary at the airport captured the scene on film, providing them with a major scoop and evidence of the encounter, which Kato claims made it into the Guinness Book of World Records, although it no longer appears to be listed.
The mid-’70s saw a flurry of similar UFO activity over Japan, including the sighting of a dark object hovering above the Imperial Palace. The suspected UFO was reportedly witnessed by the National Police, who watched from their nearby offices. Increasingly frequent UFO sightings led to the country’s first official investigation conducted by the Japanese Air Force in 1977, although their findings reportedly proved inconclusive.
OUR-J’s own data, compiled from detailed report forms they collect from people who have seen UFOs and their field trips, shows that the most common type of UFO spotted above Japan bears a striking resemblance to the humble pachinko ball. Other common types include ovals and lemon-shaped objects, which Kato describes as being surrounded by a nebulous field. Reports of Adamski-type UFOs make up less than one percent of all sightings. “The ring type [seen at Meiji Shrine] is the strangest that we’ve seen,” he notes.
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