About this episode

This episode explores Japan's notable UFO incidents from the 1970s and an intriguing case from the 1980s.

Japan’s 1970s UFO boom gave us some wonderfully strange cases: children capturing a tiny hat-shaped UFO in Kōchi, two boys encountering wrinkled aliens in a Yamanashi vineyard, and a Hokkaidō farmer who claimed repeated abductions, spoon-bending powers, and telepathic contact with beings from the Samon Call Galactic Planetary Federation. In this episode, we look at Japan’s “Big Three” UFO incidents — Kera, Kōfu, and Nikoro — plus one especially intriguing 1980s case involving the Kaiyō Maru, a government research vessel whose crew recorded strange lights and radar-only objects moving at impossible speeds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• UFOs
• Japanese culture
• 1970s history
• alien encounters
• unexplained phenomena

Keywords

• UFO
• UAP
• Japan
• alien encounters
• 1970s
• Kōchi
• Hokkaidō
• Kaiyō Maru
• Samon Call Galactic Planetary Federation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Samon Call Galactic Planetary Federation

Books & works: Kaiyō Maru

Places: Kōchi, Yamanashi, Hokkaidō, Japan

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