NUFORC UFO Sighting 189825
Occurred: 2025-05-25 00:32 Local
Reported: 2025-05-24 10:21 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Yusui, Kagoshima, Japan
Location details: Side of highway

Shape: Flash
Color: White
Estimated Size: 1.1m
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North west
Angle of Elevation: 21
Closest Distance: 50m
Estimated Speed: 80km/h
Characteristics: Lights on object

Strobe, low to ground, moving at speed.

3 of us were travelling at night delivering a vehicle from Kagoshima to Saga in Japan.

Just north of Kagoshima the lead driver said, "look! Lightning!" We looked ahead and the sky was lighting up as if there was lightning but after a few flashes we realised that it was flashing at too regular intervals.

At this point I just presumed it was a strobe light used for some purpose unknown to me.

A few minutes past as we drove closer to the source of light. As we past a slight bend in the road, to our left, amongst the trees or behind the trees, we saw the source of the flash. It was extremely bright, like looking into the sun directly. By the second flash we all realised that it wasn't stationary. It seemed to be moving at the same speed as our vehicle keeping pace as if it were extremely distant yet it was like looking at a circle or square only 50m away.

It kept flashing as we all looked at it confused.

Soon after we entered a long tunnel, obstructing our view.


NUFORC Note:

Multiple reports. See https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=189823





Posted 2025-05-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 189823
Occurred: 2025-05-25 00:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2025-05-24 09:35 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 4 - Pilot

Location: Kirishima, Kagoshima, Japan

Shape: Light
Color: White
Estimated Size: Size of regular car
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North west
Angle of Elevation: 20
Closest Distance: 200m
Estimated Speed: 100kmh
Characteristics: Lights on object

Flashing light. Moving at speed. Very bright. Very low to ground.

Flashing light. Moving at high speed. Incredible blinding brightness. Very low to ground. Too bright for aircraft lights. Seemed very far and very close quickly.

NUFORC Note:

Multiple reports. See https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=189825


Posted 2025-05-26

NUFORC UFO Sighting 189308
Occurred: 2025-05-02 23:15 Local
Reported: 2025-05-02 07:41 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Toyama, Toyama, Japan
Location details: Takaoka

Shape: Cigar
Color: Black/grey
Estimated Size: 300-400 feet wide
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North by Northwest
Angle of Elevation: 60
Closest Distance: Perhaps a quarter mile
Estimated Speed: I have no idea. Much quicker than I could compute
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Made a sound

We heard a loud humming, looked northward and saw a large dark cigar shaped object with a singular bright beam

The humming increased in intensity as the light brightened, and then began to emanate bidirectional. The lights suddenly disappeared and the humming ceased.

Posted 2025-05-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 188770
Occurred: 2025-04-08 19:40 Local
Reported: 2025-04-08 05:54 Pacific
Duration: About 8 minutes.
No of observers: 2

Location: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Shape: Star
Color: White.
Estimated Size: I don't understand.
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: Within 30km.
Estimated Speed: 30 km
Explanation: Starlink - Certain
Characteristics: Lights on object

Multiple points of light were flying across the night sky.

Several star-like points of light were lined up straight in a row, disappearing into the night sky as if there were a drone event. Each one was independent. I clearly confirmed that they were neither satellites nor shooting stars. I quickly called my smartphone and my husband to take a photo.

Original report in Japanese:

複数の光の点が夜空を飛行してました。



複数の星の様な光の点が真っ直ぐ一列に並び.まるでドローンのイベントがあるかのように夜空に吸い込まれながら消えていきました。一つ一つは独立してました。衛星や、流れ星でも無くはっきり確認しました。すぐにスマホと旦那を呼び撮影しました。




Posted 2025-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 188250
Occurred: 2025-03-11 00:00 Local
Reported: 2025-03-11 20:17 Pacific
Duration: About 2 hours!
No of observers: 2 - Pilot

Location: Yokote, Akita, Japan
Location details: Flying on airways Y142/R217/Y512/R580 Between fix BEGSA and ONEMU

Shape: Star
Color: White
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Aircraft
Direction from Viewer: 090-040 appox
Angle of Elevation: 30
Closest Distance: Unknown
Estimated Speed: Faster than anything I've ever seen
Explanation: Starlink (Racetrack) - Possible


Multiple star looking craft chasing each other at variable speeds, directions, and light intensity.

Initially saw two bright stars on the horizon close together disappear. Caught my eye but didn't think anything of it. About a minute or two later two stars just appeared in a dead space about 20 degrees above the horizon. And then they started moving! And then chasing each other!! Moving very fast then slowing down then fast again! Up, down, left, right, diagonal!! Then would disappear, just to reappear again a minute later in a different spot. Then we spotted a couple more!! Definitely not satellites (as we saw those too while watching this. They were slow and only moving in one direction… we see satellites all the time in the air) Then sometimes another one would chase the other two then when the two would stop the other one would stop and make a perfect triangle! It would rotate and two would shoot off again. It seemed like the faster they went the brighter they would get. Then this is when it got really weird… we saw a bright flash, similar to what we see when there's lighting (that much light) we both asked if we saw the flash, didn't think anything of it cause we were so tuned into these things zipping all over the sky, I'm talking hauling butt!! We saw a few aircraft pass us by during this, slow and normal. Nothing like these things, they were moving and changing direction that no aircraft could do. Then we saw the flash again, but didn't see the source again, but them noticed a few more of these things anywhere from right on the horizon so 60-70 degrees up. Then as we were looking up as far as we could to see if there was anymore,.. This star that had not moved the whole time we were watching it, FLASHED!! Very bright! Like a camera flash, then one comes out from behind that star in a "S" or a zigzag pattern down and then turns 90 degrees still doing the pattern! More if these things converge toward the star, two of them at a perfect 90 degree converging angle then perfectly pass each other then stop and disappear. We watched all these things for like 2 hours non stop until we lost sight of them because the sun was coming up! I've been a professional pilot for 16 years. Have hundreds of oceanic crossings and I have NEVER seen anything like this before!




Posted 2025-03-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 173835
Occurred: 2023-01-09 16:30 Local
Reported: 2023-01-10 05:15 Pacific
Duration: 10
No of observers: 1

Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Location details: Naka ward

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

4-6 ufos flying slowly in a parallel formation

The crafts (?) themselves were not visible but the tips of the streaks would produce a white/silverish flash periodically. Haneda airport is nearby, planes never fly in this direction. They were flying slowly in perfect parallel formation. You can see that there’s a military plane in the picture presumably flying toward Atsugi Base (US Army).




Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 177243
Occurred: 2022-02-21 22:30 Local
Reported: 2023-07-30 06:46 Pacific
Duration: 3 to 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Location details: Yokohama, Hinodecho station area

Shape: Sphere


Walking home.., Spherical ball sighted over tops of apartment buildings.

Spherical ball (possibly) hovering and appearing to spin above Apartment towers. Short iPhone video available (unsteady, though...)




Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164906
Occurred: 2021-10-07 09:58 Local
Reported: 2021-10-09 03:14 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3

Location: Hakui City (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects

Oval shaped objects photographed over Japan seaside

We were driving in the car with my family and taking photos for my photo album and today when I checked all the photos I noticed that there was a strange object in the sky on one of my photos. I’m sure it was not a plane or a helicopter or a drone because I took several photos of the same place very quickly with my camera. In total I captured about five objects and the clearest one being a large oval shaped object. I have these photos and I would just like to have them authenticated. Thanks.



Posted 2021-10-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 168600
Occurred: 2020-11-24 15:37 Local
Reported: 2022-06-10 15:52 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes


Location: Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Location details: I was riding the train when I noticed this. I didn’t think it was an aircraft.

Shape: Cylinder


Riding train. Saw this out of window, over mountains, close to sea. Matched speed of train. Disappeared behind clouds.

I was traveling home by train after finishing work in Himeji when I noticed an object in the sky. At first I thought it was a really shiny airplane but then I noticed it had no wings or tail. It appeared to be moving at the same speed as the train, at least from my perspective. There was only one object that day but after speaking with a friend recently, she mentioned seeing similar objects around our area. Unfortunately I lost sight of it behind clouds but I managed to take a photograph of it.




Posted 2022-06-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 160342
Occurred: 2020-10-24 15:00 Local
Reported: 2020-10-31 19:05 Pacific
Duration: 40 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Hamamatsu-city (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Left a trail, Electrical or magnetic effects

Small UFOs appeared in my Room on April 14th, 2020, captured in Video

I am a Japanese who has lived in Hamamatsu-city, Japan and 73 years old now, male. I have published more than 50 books in the past. I have had seminars almost every month and there appeared dazzling flash lights four times in 2018 and 2019. More than 40 people witnessed them and their testimony were recorded. Now in 2020 I was visited by small ball-like objects and lights twice, on April 14th, 2020, and Oct. 24th, 2020 this year. They are captured in my private video and I have uploaded to YouTUbe. I honestly promise here they are not an illusion, something like lenz flares or of course hoax. They are real ones. Please watch this video in which you can see what they are.

(April 14th, 2020 Incident)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMnEiZMG3E&feature=youtu.be

Thank you for your attention.

HH, Japan

Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 159914
Occurred: 2020-10-06 11:00 Local
Reported: 2020-10-13 06:33 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Ueda, , Japan

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Possible abduction, Missing Time

After loss of sleep with no dream recall I had an Abduction Experience and UFO sighting.

I was with my partner in the same bed with my 3 cats. we went to sleep quite late. We both woke up without experiencing any dreams which I thought was weird as I have been having for the last 2 months daily dream recall apart from other UFO sightings and experiences.

My partner decided to sleep and so did I as we felt like we didn't have any sleep or rest, as soon as I slept I started having a lucid dream where I saw my younger self drawing UFO´s that looked like saucers with encryptions on their surface or symbols.

After this I woke up in a sleepy state, I heard a telepathic voice in my head that was a male voice coming from that seemed to be a plasma like being in my room. I wasn't afraid this time as I have had other telepathic communications before this event. As I was still sleepy I wasn't sure what he was doing and it was a bit hard for me to remember everything he said as these experiences of telepathic communication can be a bit overwhelming.

At some point he said to me that he wanted to give me a check up out of love, as in compassion or kindness. As I felt he didn´t have any negative intentions I was ok with it so he then gave me a warning to prepare myself as he would show his real form, I started to see him change shape and sort of wait by my window, I looked to the right where my closet was supposed to be and there was an open doorway with 3 medical staff wearing green or blue medical uniforms waiting at the door for me.

I still felt groggy and walked voluntarily to the door way and entered with room that seemed very white and clean and it wasn't my home anymore, once I realised what was happening to me I started to panic a bit and my heart beat was very fast but I calmed myself down, I felt like they wanted me to go on this metallic bed and as soon as I did that I experienced missing time again and I had no recollection of the checkup that plasma being said he wanted to do but I found myself wondering into another medical room where there was an elderly man on a metal table having some sort of IV drip and then after that I woke up in my bed.

I went to my bedroom window to write my experience in my journal and looked out of my window and saw a white spherical craft in the sky passing by. I feel that the more comfortable I am becoming the more they are revealing themselves to me and the more conscious I am becoming of these type of experiences.



Posted 2020-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 174075
Occurred: 2019-09-05 16:45 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-01-23 03:17 Pacific
Duration: Brief seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Chatan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Shape: Circle


I had seen a craft next to helicopters in 2019 got on snap chat later that day & seen one of fellow device members recorded by accident

I was outside, smoking a cigarette on break in camp, foster Marine Corps base Okinawa and I seen the helicopters. Hi I went to go look at them and seen some thing a little bit above them in the distance, then think about it until I had gotten on Snapchat and seen my friends Had recorded it by accident. I screen recorded what I could, and went to my gunnery sergeant. She sent me to my master sergeant, which Intel did nothing about the situation when I presented it. The object was a circular sphere, hovering, probably about 100 feet above the helicopters. It was white very round, and a little bit bigger than a loveseat couch I’d assume, judging by the distance about the size, the video, I attached the object appears at time marker six seconds above the last helicopter




Posted 2023-03-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143005
Occurred: 2018-08-21 04:00 Local
Reported: 2018-09-05 17:03 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Pacific Ocean (east of Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

A group of extremely bright lights, red, green, yellow, over the Pacific Ocean in the middle of the night

One person opened their window on an overnight flight from Shanghai to Vanvouver.

Ahead of the plane on the right were many extremely bright lights. They seemed like they were up in the sky, but below the plane. They were stationary. There were more and more and they got extremely bright as we passed by.

Then green and yellow lights also appeared. We flew by and they stayed where they were.

In total, we witnessed these lights for about 30 minutes

Posted 2018-09-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 142536
Occurred: 2018-08-03 00:08 Local
Reported: 2018-08-03 06:06 Pacific
Duration: moment


Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape:
Characteristics: Lights on object

A weird thing is in picture.

I took a lot of pictures of the night view but just only this picture was weird and something like ufo was in this picture. So I want you to check this picture.

Thanks!




NUFORC Note:

Photo is ambiguous. Object could be a flying insect. PD


Posted 2018-08-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144981
Occurred: 2018-07-22 20:30 Local
Reported: 2019-02-24 16:30 Pacific
Duration: <5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Matsusaka (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Left a trail

Triangle shaped object moving rapidly sighted in near the Pacific Ocean in Central Japan.

Triangular shaped craft sighted in Japan LOCATION: Northeast of Matsusaka, Mie Japan approximately 1.0 km (estimated) from the Pacific Ocean. Driving on Route 23.

SEASON: Summer, 26 degrees Celsius TIME: 20:30 hours (8:30PM) approximately.

Visibility: Clear skies, Night.

OBJECT: Triangular shaped (Black?). No Lights other than glowing exhaust. No sound.

BACKGROUND: I am a retired USAF veteran who has worked on the flight-line and worked with, and seen most fighter jets and other cargo craft in the conventional inventory including the U2, and the SR-71 at that time. I left the Air Force in 1991. This object resembled nothing I’ve ever seen before.

SIGHTING: I was driving southwest on route 23 that generally parallels the Pacific Ocean. At approximately 8:30 PM, dark but clear skies, I was approaching an intersection with a stoplight about 300 meters ahead. While my vehicle (van) was decelerating and still in motion, I saw an object moving rapidly to my left through my front windshield.

DESCRIPTION: The object was triangular in shape and moved extremely fast.

The craft was positioned about 30 degrees high off of the horizon. It moved from my 12 o’clock position to my 9 o’clock position. It covered the length of my windshield in approximately 2-3 seconds where there after it completely vanished.

The flight path followed a straight line with about a 5 degree descent.

DETAILS: The exhaust port glowed with a bright orange color. Because of the brightness of the glowing exhaust I could barely make out the shape of the craft and it appeared to be triangular in shape. I could not estimate the size of the object because it was dark and there were no structures with which to reference it with. (I will say that from my perspective in the van it was almost about the width of a dime held at arm’s length) SOUND/LIGHTS: The object had no blinking lights, nor did it make any sound.

DISTANCE: I would estimate the craft to have been 1km away from my position, but this a general guess based on the clarity of the glowing engine (exhaust port).

When the craft vanished, it was high enough off the horizon that no mountains, houses or other structures could have obscured it. In addition, the skies were clear and I could not see any clouds.

When I reached the intersection, I had a clear view of the sky and its former flight path. I watched for a very long time and the object never reappeared.

OTHER: There is a Japanese Self Defense forces helicopter base about 12km south of the location of the sighting, however they only fly helicopters. No Jets are flown from there and there are no civilian airports nearby.

I have two American friends who have also witnessed triangular shaped craft within the same area. One is an aeronautical engineer.

Posted 2019-02-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147399
Occurred: 2018-06-30 19:54 Local
Reported: 2019-07-07 22:51 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Todoroki (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

White faint lights x6 in a grid style pattern, hovering for 20 min.

Sitting outside just after sunset during a small cook out; family member noticed stationary lights in the sky in formation. It almost looked like older style radio towers, but not as bright nor flashing. In this area there are not towers or buildings this high. Because we were further away from Tokyo, the sky was not washed out by the city light, so you could see the sky well and probably why not many noticed. We took several photos with an iPhone – they appeared to stay hovered for more than 20 minutes – maybe slightly moving to our right of view. The formation was like that of the 6 dots on Dominos. Then they were gone in unison.

Posted 2019-07-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 137406
Occurred: 2017-11-25 15:00 Local
Reported: 2017-11-24 22:15 Pacific
Duration: Continuous
No of observers: 1

Location: Yokosuka (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Orbiting Translucent Rings

Hello, I am writing in regards to something I cannot explain and hoping to get and answer to. I have seen in my travels as I look up into the sky during the daytime hours, hovering objects.

I can only describe these objects as translucent rings orbiting around a center. I imagine a sphere would be in the middle as the rings orbit around it, although the sphere is not there. I only see the rings orbiting, sometimes expanding and contracting as well while they orbit around a center.

I have seen these objects every place I have traveled, always during they day. If I focus for a minute at a point in the sky I can eventually find the rings moving in the sky. As the sun reflects off of the rings, I can also see the colors of the rainbow as if light were passing threw a prism.

If there is an explanation to what I have seen, or any other information about this, I would appreciate some feedback.

Thank you very much

Posted 2017-12-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 133703
Occurred: 2017-04-19 20:10 Local
Reported: 2017-04-19 04:29 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Chiba City (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

I saw a fast pretty round object from the other end of the horizon to the other for like 2-4 seconds and it's well hidden in the clouds.

i was playing basketball when I suddenly saw a fast kinda circular object with lights, I can't tell exactly what i saw because it was too fast and well above the clouds it passed through the other end of the horizon to the other for like 3-4 seconds I didn't saw much but i thinkit has a color red blue and white, you might say it's an airplane, but i know for sure it wasn't, it was too fast to be an airplane, maybe it's trying to camouflage, that's all i can say.

Posted 2017-04-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 131098
Occurred: 2016-11-08 22:08 Local
Reported: 2016-11-08 05:52 Pacific
Duration: 6 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Sera Chou (Hiroshima; Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Green flash over Hiroshima

I saw one, large green bright object for about 6 seconds shoot in the sky then disappear. It was brighter the a shooting star and about the size of the Sun in the sky. The object was a circle. It happened when i was riding my bike home from work.

Posted 2016-11-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 125576
Occurred: 2016-02-01 07:24 Local
Reported: 2016-02-01 03:26 Pacific
Duration: ~5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Four blueish-green disk-shaped objects hovered in the sky for a couple of minutes before gliding away towards the mountains

There were four objects seen, all of them were disk shaped. They hovered in the air for a couple of minutes, before gliding away in the direction of the mountains. They gave off a blueish-green light, but seemed to flash yellow once every few seconds. Although they were seen in Tokyo, the objects were well above the lights of the city. In addition to this, Tokyo is not extremely bright to begin with, especially where the objects were spotted.

At the time of the sighting, myself and three friends were in my apartment on the 11th floor. The shapes and lights were clearly identifiable.

Posted 2016-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163402
Occurred: 2015-06-10 15:24 Local
Reported: 2021-05-27 19:45 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

SID-1® was also shooting an object similar to the US Department of Defense-approved GOFAST UAP

A mysterious flying object appears! SID-1® captured a UFO similar to an unidentified flying object announced by the US Department of Defense.

SID-1® also recorded the same object! It became clear that many UFOs photographed by SID-1® were recorded that were reminiscent of the white objects of GOFAST.

Surprisingly, not only are the shapes of the these mysterious flying objects photographed off Tokyo and Florida very similar, but the ratio of the major axis to the minor axis is 1.80 to 1.00, which is exactly the same ratio.

The fact that they are in the same capsule shape and have the same ratio of major axis to minor axis is likely to be the same type of similar object.

I tried to summarize those videos from the huge record of SID-1®. It has also been analyzed that these images are not birds, aircraft, helicopters, drones, airships, balloons, halation phenomena, natural phenomena, lens ghosts or flares.

Click here for the video.（Youtube https://youtu.be/Q2SmsdEoQDI）

Posted 2021-07-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 116146
Occurred: 2014-12-18 20:30 Local
Reported: 2014-12-22 06:06 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours +
No of observers: 3

Location: Yokohama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 lights in the sky in Yokohama, Japan.

I saw strange lights in the sky at Yokohama city in Japan. 3 lights stayed hovering then they changed their formation and number of lights (0-7). No sound made.




NUFORC Note:

Witness submits approximately 15 photos to NUFORC. The photos show different numbers of lights, at different times, during the sighting. PD


Posted 2014-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 113720
Occurred: 2014-09-20 18:00 Local
Reported: 2014-09-20 09:30 Pacific
Duration: 00:03
No of observers: 1

Location: Toshima (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk


Several disc shaped objects seen during photograph at Japanese train station in Tokyo

I was riding the train home from Ikebukuro Station and glanced out the window and noticed how beautiful the sunset was.

Once I got off of the train at Shiinamachi Station, I noticed several people standing at a window taking photos. I then went to the window and noticed that everyone was taking pictures of the beautiful sunset so I also took a pic.

It wasn't until I got home and downloaded the photo to my PC that I realized the many discs in the photo.

At first I thought maybe they were reflections of the lights, however I don't think this is probable.

Posted 2014-09-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111695
Occurred: 2014-07-08 00:00 Local
Reported: 2014-07-19 19:22 Pacific
Duration: The photo.
No of observers: 1

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

You guys are going to love this!

A good friend of mine took this photo in Tokyo a few days ago.

Take a close look at the top right of the photo, No cloud can do this! If you look closely, you can see more of it above the main ring!

Quote from the person that took the photo: "On July 8th 2014, a large typhoon was coming near the greater Tokyo area. I looked at the sky through the window of hotel room where I was staying. It was very beautiful. I wondered if the typhoon would really come while I was taking these photos.

By the way, at the upper right side of the photos, there is a strange cloud, which looks like a UFO".

I am sending 3 photos to: [email protected] (Subject, 07082014 UFO sighting / ((name deleted)).

These were forward to me from the person that took them. I have known this person for more that 20 years, they are NOT a hoax!




NUFORC Note:

Possible reflection of recessed ceiling light? PD


Posted 2014-07-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112404
Occurred: 2014-06-24 23:26 Local
Reported: 2014-08-11 23:09 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Hokkaido (Tokachidake Mtn, near entrance to) (Japan) (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light


There were no insects flying on the site and the site was completely dark. So It was not an insect.

UFO with zigzag motion at a high speed – June, 2014. This video was taken at 23:26 p.m. on June 24, 2014, at the camping site near Mt. Tokachidake (an active volcano in the northern part of Japan), which has been famous for UFO sightings for decades. You can see a bright object soaring up from the bottom right corner of the video screen, but in reality, my camera was facing the zenith, and the object was moving horizontally across the sky from the east to the south. I fixed my camera position and did not follow the object, so the zigzag motion of the object was not because of camera shake. I was the only one looking up the sky and other people (mountain climbers) were already sleeping in their tents.

Since the site was at an altitude of 1200 meters and the temperature was very low at night, there were no insects flying, and the fireflies (lightning bugs) do not exist in the area (the fireflies do not fly at such a high speed in the first place and my camera cannot catch such dim lights). The site was completely dark and there were no outdoor lights nearby (and it was a dark moonless night). I could see many stars in the sky with the naked eyes, but my small digital camera (CASIO EX-H10) could not catch any starlight. So you can guess how bright that object actually was.

About one and half hours before I saw UFO, I was surprised by a small mechanical sound that I heard from my left side (no more than two feet from where I was standing in the camping site), and I saw a long-haired young woman in white clothes. As I mentioned,the site was almost completely dark and I could not even see my shoes very well, so I could narrowly recognized that woman but could not see her face. Then I saw a small and round red light in front of her chest or her solar plexus. I supposed she would be fixing her camera to a tripod to take pictures of beautiful starry sky (but I did not actually see any camera or tripod) . That slender lady was about 5 feet and 7 inches tall and had black hair.

Although I wondered why she was working in the darkness without any lights, I stepped back silently because she did not seem to have noticed that I was standing so close to her,and I did not want to surpise a young woman in the darkness. After that I kept standing for a while at some distance from her, but the next time I found that she was gone - disappeared without making any sounds of walking. In the camping site,I could hear footsteps very well even if they were more than 20 meters away.

I wondered where she had gone because I did not hear any sounds of car. It was too dangerous for anyone to leave the site on foot because there were wild bears often appear in that area. She was not looking up overhead but straight ahead to the east where the Tokachidake mountains rises-and it was the very direction where the UFO appeard about one and half hours later.

Although there is no certain links between that mysterious lady and the UFO, I have to say that I had seen another mysterious yong gentleman who suddenly disappeard before another UFO appeared in the sky when I was waiting for the chance to videotaple UFO on the beach of Kamakura on February 25 in 2014. At that time,I saw a large disk-shaped green UFO that circled over my head and flew away. I was so surprised to see the UFO at a such close range that I momentarily forgot about taking its picture even though I had my camra at hand.

Having had such similar two experiences, I came to believe that the mysterious lady and the gentleman may have somthing to do with the UFOs that appeared after these mysterious people disappered.

Posted 2014-08-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108858
Occurred: 2014-04-23 19:35 Local
Reported: 2014-04-23 04:45 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Nikko (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Huge silent slowly moving triangle craft in the sky over the mountains in Nikko, Japan.

We're in the mountains in Nikko Japan. We were on a dark road walking back to our Ryokan.

First, we both saw an orange ball moving across the sky from the horizon. We thought it was a satellite at first but it was moving too slow. I thought it might be the space station but it was too bright even for that and too slow.

Then, as it moved above us, we noticed a red dot way out in front that must of been connected to the light because it moved like it was attached.

The whole craft must of been the size of a football field. You could make out the shape like it was a triangle shape. It was too slow for a plane.

Then my friend noticed it was turning. It pivoted, not turned like any aircraft, then moved forward again.

In the end it disappeared behind the mountains.

Posted 2014-04-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 106614
Occurred: 2014-01-24 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2014-01-24 18:38 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Okinawa (Japan), , Japan

Shape:


please checked out this Okinawa Times (of Japan) UFO video on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix5ZWMGqmp8

It has unexplained lights, as the video is taken by Japanese, it is understandably difficult for English speakers, but one can see it in full glory.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2014-01-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95824
Occurred: 2013-01-05 18:10 Local
Reported: 2013-01-05 05:09 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Adachi-ku (Tokyo) (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Two crescent shaped lightless soundless craft, traveling at supersonic speeds over Tokyo.

In the past, I had seen strange things in the sky, mostly things that looked like balls of plasma meandering about. I didn't think to report those because I felt that they might be natural in nature (example: ball lightning). This however was different and definitely not natural. This time they were craft. Two of them, shaped like crescents, boomerangs, a "V", or however you want to call it. Half transparent, no lights, no sound, and traveling around 2500 kph by my estimate. Though they had no lights, they were visible from ambient light from Tokyo. They seemed somewhat transparent. The same way that a small lone cloud is visible but also transparent looking in an otherwise crystal clear night sky.

Tonight around 6:10 pm, we were coming home from dinner. The sky was super clear and many stars were visible (rare for Tokyo). As my wife unlocked the door to our apartment, I was enjoying the wonderful view of Jupiter. That's when suddenly the two craft entered my field of view. One was traveling to the East/Northeast, and the other was traveling to the East/Southeast. Their trajectories and positions in the sky were perfect intersecting mirror images of each other. When there positions had reached a distance from each other of about the width of six to eight of their craft, they went into formation flying east for a moment then banking hard to the right quickly flying out of sight to the Southeast.

If these are ours, we have mastered at least three or more ground breaking technologies that aren't even officially on the drawing board yet or even considered possible. I mean, forget about soundless supersonic flight and cloaking. What I want to know is, how do they pull a 500 G turn without killing the occupants.

Posted 2013-02-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 93746
Occurred: 2012-10-21 23:40 Local
Reported: 2012-10-21 08:09 Pacific
Duration: -1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: Kobe (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light


At 23:40 I was waching the sky in Kobe, Japan. I saw a very fast silver bright object going east direction west down to the mountains. I thought of an asteroid but I could see the "lign" (sic. Line) of the trajectory in a speed about the speed of a falling star without any "tail."




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2012-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92823
Occurred: 2012-09-17 05:13 Local
Reported: 2012-09-16 13:32 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes


Location: Okinawa (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Strange light hovering above Kadena Airbase

Small light above Kadena Airbase Just outside for a smoke looking at the stars, then noticed one that was relatively low.Seemed to flicker as other stars but would change colour. Sometimes blue to green or red and yellow.

Was very strange, kept an eye on it using a telephone pole to gauge its position.

Clouds passed in front blocking my view, then it appeared suddenly above the clouds quite a bit distant from its previous position.

I have noticed it for the past two months, usually in the same position, however, moving positions when clouds formed around its current position.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90621
Occurred: 2012-05-12 17:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-07-07 19:05 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Left a trail

Glowing orange fireball that traveled through the sky, made a left turn and moved in a different direction.

I went out to the balcony to shake out a rug, and as is my habit, I scanned the sky to admire the view. I live on the 4th floor here in Koganei, a suburb in Far West Tokyo and have a great view. I can see Mt. Fuji and have an almost 180 view facing West.

It was about 5-5:30 PM and I saw in the distance, location at about 11, a glowing orange ball. It was very tiny, and at first I thought it was a plane reflecting the light o the sun. I have seen that before, but turns out that wasn’t it.

I went back in to the apartment to replace the rug and came back outside to look at the orange ball. It looked like a plane that was on fire, falling from the sky, but very slowly. It continued on the same path, and it seemed to get larger. No smoke though, and only a slight glowing trail behind it.

I continued to watch it for another few minutes and it kept getting bigger. It was coming in from the SE to NE direction, all silent. It was still quite far away, but obviously glowing and not a plane. I got binoculars, the good ones, and it was an orange ball of light. No plane visible.

I called my husband out to look, and he said it must be a plane, but it really didn’t look like the planes he has seen, so he said it must be reflecting the sun. He doesn’t believe in strange things in the sky, but as I continued to watch it, and nag him about looking, too, he came out and said, well, it could be meteorite or maybe a satellite burning as it fell. He went back inside, nothing more for him.

I stayed and watched it and then it made a turn ! A left turn, and it appeared to head due West. At that point I knew it was neither a meteor nor falling satellite, so maybe it was a plane. Back to the binoculars – still orange, still a ball, but got smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared.

I have no idea what I saw, but it was lovely and exciting all the same. My background is as a professional international educator. I am 60, female, and a watcher of the sky. I believe you will never see anything if you don’t look up.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2012-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86396
Occurred: 2012-01-07 14:20 Local
Reported: 2012-01-07 07:28 Pacific
Duration: One minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Omiya (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Sphere


Two brothers witness 10 to 15 spherical objects traveling southeast toward Tokyo.

My brother and I were on a train platform at Omiya station, in Saitama prefecture, Japan, approximately 23 kilometers (14 miles) northwest of Tokyo. It was an exceptionally clear day. The temperature was 8 degrees Celsius, and the wind was from the North at 5 m / s (according to the Yahoo Japan weather service website).

We were looking toward the East, at an 8 X 17 meter advertising structure on top of a 6-floor building across the street from the station (approximately 65 meters from where we were at on the platform, according to Google Earth). The structure was empty except for a banner calling for would-be advertisers, detailing its dimensions.

We were discussing the size of the structure when from behind it there appeared several small, spherical objects traveling in a southeasterly direction.

It is difficult to say from how far behind the structure the objects appeared, but if I were to hazard a guess, I would say between 50 and 100 meters. The objects “appeared” to be about the size of basketballs. If this would be the case, then we were seeing the objects from about 100 meters to 165 meters away.

The objects were silver, were of a uniform size, and were easy to see against the bright blue sky. They were not in any discernible formation. We watched at least ten to fifteen appear randomly from behind the advertising structure traveling in the same direction and at the same speed.

There was no sound associated with the objects.

The objects did not “gyrate” or move about as one sees when watching balloons carried on the wind. They did not rise or fall, but stayed in the same position relative to each other and all traveled at the same, continuous altitude (some above the others, but at the same relative altitude), and in the same direction.

We watched the objects for approximately one minute, until they got too far away to see.

There were few people on the platform at the time, and no one other than my brother and I seemed to notice them.

My brother and I are teachers and have lived in Japan for 15 years.

Posted 2012-01-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80455
Occurred: 2011-03-13 15:37 Local
Reported: 2011-03-13 06:04 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Yokohama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

UFO Swarm, Minato Mirai, Yokohama, Japan, 13 MARCH 2011 @ 15:37 (JST)

Witnessed approximately 10 to 15 small craft, hovering, and also moving very slowing, appeared to be a flock of birds at first, but after closer examination, they looked almost as if small stars, either reflecting the afternoon sun, or generating their own light. First thought they were a flock of birds, because a small Piper Cub or Cessna, which was passing by at probably a few thousand feet under VFR, suddenly revved its engine, which caused me to look up, and then I noticed what appeared to be a flock of birds, directly in it's path, so I mention to my friend, that the Cessna was probably trying to avoid that flock of birds, but my stated they weren't birds. So subsequently, I took out my camera, and started to try to zoom in on the objects, but because the sky was bright, was unable to film the entire even, which lasted, approximately, 3 to 5 minutes. But did manage to capture approximately 10 or 12 frames, with the lights, objects clearly visible. The object, subsequently, slowing drifted approximately, 15 or 20 degrees, across my line of sight, then slowing gained elevation, until they were no longer visible.

Posted 2011-03-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 80450
Occurred: 2011-03-11 11:00 Local
Reported: 2011-03-12 17:30 Pacific
Duration: 13 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Japan, , Japan

Shape: Teardrop


The link is to a CNN video and about 1:29 minutes in the UFO can be seen lifting up and moving rapidly.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/03/11/bpr.japan.quake.witness.cnn




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2011-03-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 79134
Occurred: 2010-12-04 15:00 Local
Reported: 2010-12-05 00:22 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Yokohama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

At the beginning, more than 50 flying objects had been making a formation of Heart-shape figure above an arena, and then scattered and gathered repeatedly several times before fading out. It was just after an event relating on human beings. Some pictures were taken by the participants.



Posted 2011-01-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76035
Occurred: 2010-07-01 18:15 Local
Reported: 2010-07-01 02:43 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Yokohama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

A strange shaped object was floating in the air for 5 min in Yokohama City, very low then disappeared in the cloudy sky.

I just reported an UFO flying up and down in a gravitating way, going upward and downward very quietly, birds were flying around it but the birds were being pushed away, causing the bird to fly downward.

First sight I thought it was a helium balloon, but too big for a helium balloon, so I ask my girlfriend for binoculars, but couldnt position the UFO insight.

Then I thought it was plastic but not plastic, UFO was floating as if it was looking for something. The color was like aluminum foil but more of a plastic look. It changed color shape so couldnt tell the shaped of the UFO.

I have seen many aircrafts, balloons, gliders but this wasnt neither. But as the birds were taunting the UFO it flew higher into the sky and disappeared.

I really believe now so shocking. It was like it was hiding...




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2010-07-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87914
Occurred: 2010-06-30 23:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-03-21 02:59 Pacific
Duration: 5 to 7 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Dodaira Mount (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Sphere


Very big moon-like size sphere

Sphere, very big like the Moon, hovering above trees and in the beginning I was the opinion that it was the Moon, looked just like it except the moons face was missing.

Have seen it twice, at different place.

Also have seen very dark matt object coming toward me out of the sky with a big flash and at the end of the flash it appeared and then 1/2 second later got invisible.

I do night vision and I see a lot, but those incidents I could see with my eyes.

Have more to talk, but guess leave it here.

Please do not disclose my private details, there is a reason for it.

Thank you and 73 from Japan.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2012-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112402
Occurred: 2010-06-10 23:06 Local
Reported: 2014-08-11 23:16 Pacific
Duration: 6 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Hokkaido (Tokachidake Mtn, near entrance to) (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

It was impossible to fly an LED night kite or a radio-controlled LED glider or helicopter because the site was a wild forest

UFO with zigzag motion – June, 2010

This video was taken at 23:06 p.m. on June 25, 2010 at the foot of Mt. Tokachidake (an active volcano in the northern part of Japan), which has been famous for UFO sightings for decades. Near the bottom left corner of the video, you can see two lights showing zigzag motions, keeping the same distance between them.

In the past, during the daytime around this area, my friend witnessed a strange oval object with two lights, one each on the left and the right edges, so I suppose that would be the reason for these two lights keeping the same distance. I fixed my camera position and did not follow the lights, so the zigzag motion of the object was not because of camera shake.

Although the lights were moving around a lower part of the sky, it does not mean they were close to the ground because I was standing on the plateau looking down the wild forest and valley below. The site was a kind of dangerous area where wild bears often appeared, so no one could fly an LED night kite or anything else in the wild forest or valley in the middle of the night. The site was at an altitude of 1200 meters and the temperature was very low at night. It was completely dark and I could see many stars in the sky with the naked eyes, but my small digital camera (CASIO EX-H10) could not catch any starlight. So you can guess how bright that object actually was.

Posted 2014-08-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75432
Occurred: 2010-05-16 19:55 Local
Reported: 2010-05-16 05:10 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Meguro, Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light


Two very bright silent lights fly North to South over Tokyo.

My wife called me out to our balcony, where we often watch stars, helicopters, jets, and airships. Our balcony provides a great view of the sky and we can always hear the jets and helicopters.

The night was still, and clear.

We could see two very bright, clear lights, to our eyes 30 centimeters apart (that is to say if you held a 30 centimeter ruler at arms length, that was the distance of the lights from our perspective) They flew one behind the other, the 2nd light a tiny bit to the left of the first, with no deviation of this formation. They were flying directly North to South. They were going dead straight at a steady speed, slower than helicopters that give city night flights, after 10 seconds they passed behind a all building and out of our sight. They were on a course that we have never seen flown by any other aircraft, heading out in the direction of the sea.

The lights were remarkable, because they were absolutely silent. Even the jets at high altitude can be heard on our balcony.

A few minutes later the Tokyo sky was filled with the usual 3 or four helicopters, and we could see 4 jets at varying altitudes passing over the city on the regular flight paths. After 30 minutes the sky had been covered with dappled clouds.

Would love to know if any other reports cam from Tokyo this night, and what the lights were.



Posted 2010-06-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 71912
Occurred: 2009-08-25 21:00 Local
Reported: 2009-08-28 16:11 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Adachi (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

A very unusual light in the skies of Japan.

We were coming home from shopping at night and saw a golden light in the sky. it was very unusual and just disappeared.



Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73552
Occurred: 2008-10-30 19:00 Local
Reported: 2009-12-01 20:04 Pacific
Duration: 10- 15 mn
No of observers: 3

Location: Aomori (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

from Aomori (north of Honshu island to Muroran (Hokkaido island), 3 strong orange lighted twinkling spots, like hanging or floating in the sky, saw from a boat.




NUFORC Note:

Four photos submitted by source of report. We do not know what they are. PD


Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70408
Occurred: 2008-09-24 17:40 Local
Reported: 2009-06-08 19:56 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Yaisu/Fujieda (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Landed

Two strange object in Shizuoka-ken, Japan.

I was working in the construction of "第二東名高速道路" (Daini-Tomei Expressway) at Shizuoka city, province of Shizuoka Japan.

While I was leaving Shizuoka city, in the direction of Fujieda (my based home), I saw in the sky, something like a star, it was very strange, because at 17:00 I have never saw anything like that in the sky! Ok, I took the Rote 1 (by-pass), and that strange object still was in the sky. I went the whole way in the by-pass looking into the sky and that bright object, when I leaved one of many tunnels in this by-pass, "we" (me and my colleague) saw a black UFO !!! Sorry, my English is not good, but I will try to explain how it looks like...

It was about 6 meter length, by 1.5 meter height, totally black and egg as shape.

I could observe that it wasn't a perfect "circle" shape, as it had 4 faced very slighty .

I will use this video to relate it formats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nywEAj2C8eo Now imagine this solar ballon bigger (6 meter length by 1.5 meter height), and its corner more roundish, almost forming a circle disc.

This object was floating about 15 meter above the ground, and 20 meters away the by-pass.

I know what is a solar balloon, and that definitively was not the case!!! Its shape haven't any signal of seam, screw/bolt, door, window, engine (no sound), and doens't look that transparent plastic as solar ballon is.

That UFO was more like black metallic very polish bright !!! * The first object were visible the whole duration of my drove from job till mu based home.

** that black UFO was visible by 1 minute around, while I could saw it moving up and down and horizontally.



Posted 2009-06-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64594
Occurred: 2008-07-14 22:38 Local
Reported: 2008-07-16 15:39 Pacific
Duration: 25 SECONDS
No of observers: 1

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

Fast eerie lights ripping through the sky in a odd pattern without making any kind of noise.

On the night of July. 14,2008. Around 9:30 I had set my Camera recorder with a tripod standing on my balcony. When I pressed the recored button I went straight to bed. The next morning I woke up to look over the footage that I shoot while I was sleeping. While I was looking over the film I happen to notice a fast eerie light ripping through the sky traveling in great speed without making any noise. A few moments later the light appeared again shooting up to the night sky in a looping manner. I have all of this on film .



Posted 2008-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63144
Occurred: 2008-05-15 01:05 Local
Reported: 2008-05-14 11:51 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Planet-size sighting in Tokyo, Japan

I awoke at 1:05 a.m. on Thursday, May 15th. in Tokyo, Japan. I immediately noticed a large planet-sized object directly behind the flight line, appearing to the West. I live on an air force base, right in front of the runway on the 8th floor. My apartment has large windows in each room that face the runway and the mountains beyond it. I viewed the object for about 20 minutes. By 1:25 a.m., it had faded out of sight. I used a Runton Trail Buster compass to determine its Western location.

The object resembled the moon, but it was about two and one-half times larger than the moon. It had the luminescence of the moon and did not move about quickly or erratically. It hovered behind the flight line, changing from a dull beige glow to a reddish glow, almost like the glow you would see during an eclipse, when the moon passes in front of another planet.

There were large markings on the face of this large planet-size object. Although I could make these markings out through binoculars, the definition of the picture was unclear when I zoomed in with my Panasonic DMZ LZ3 camera. However, I took several pictures of it – several still photos and one moving picture, using the flight line lights and a red tower light as a frame of reference. I steadied my arm on the window sill to keep the object from moving; however, it was difficult to keep my arm completely still.

I had to break away from my line of vision with the object to write out a diagram of the large markings I saw on the face of this planet. I could only see these markings through the binoculars. DESCRIPTION OF THE FACE OF THE PLANET: The markings looked like the outline of a scroll-like antennae on either side of a head with an arched body. Two lines projected out from both sides of the body, ending in two circles (like hands). At the bottom of this body, a small projecting line ended in another very large circle (like feet). When I kept going back to view the object with my binoculars, I noticed the picture on its face had now tilted, and the patina of the object took on a reddish glow.

The tilt: The scroll-like head changed from a 12:00 position to a 9:00 position while the large circled (feet) changed from 6:00 position to 4:00 position.

When I went back to my paper to continue filling out the drawing, and then returned to the window, the object was no longer there. I did not actually see it vanish or blink out. I only noticed that the last time I went back to view it with the binoculars, the patina had appeared to change color, its face had shifted position to a tilt, and it wasn’t glowing as brightly.

Regarding the actual shape of the object, it was almost like looking at three-fourths of the moon. It wasn’t a complete circle. It was as if the northwest portion of the circle had been blotted out by the darkness. The edges delineating the object were fuzzy looking, where it melded into the surrounding darkness.

I have seen this object twice before. The first time I saw it, it was at 11:00 p.m., in a more northwesterly direction. It was more prominent then. It also glowed a little brighter and appeared to be a little larger than it was tonight. Then it appeared to be three times the size of the moon instead of two and a half times the size of the moon and much lower in the sky. I viewed it for about 15 minutes. At that time, it had actually sunk down behind the mountain range, northwest of the base. However, I thought it might be some kind of lunar eclipse until I noticed the moon’s position the following night and how different it looked from what I had seen.

The second time I saw the planet-size object, it was at 4:30 a.m. It was located in the same location, northwest, directly over the mountain range. It slowly sank behind the same mountain range it had sunk behind before, during the previous 11:00 to 11:30 p.m. sighting. This time I woke my husband up (who completely denies the existence of UFO’s). He thought it was the moon, but the moon appears higher up in the sky in a more southerly direction and glows differently than this object glowed.

Due to the consistency of the location of these sightings, I believe there may be some sort of alien base within the mountain range to the northwest of the flight line.



Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 59282
Occurred: 2007-10-16 04:45 Local
Reported: 2007-10-16 03:05 Pacific
Duration: 15 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

While staring at the sky from my bedroom window trying to sleep, I saw a object with light on, it disappears after a couple seconds. I thought it was just an airplane. But it came back couple seconds later. I took a close look. It was a circular object with 3 bright white lights attached. It was moving within a small perimeter. It was not spinning or blinking. It appears and disappears in couple second cycle. When it disappears, it seems to disappear completely.



Posted 2007-11-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 59227
Occurred: 2007-10-13 02:25 Local
Reported: 2007-10-13 01:05 Pacific
Duration: 10-15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Kagoshima (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Object was a birdlike formation suddenly apearing in the sky then gradually passing toward north-east and suddenly vanishing. Event lasted for about 10-15 seconds.

Assumed is that it was one object composed of birdlooking formation ,flying about helicopter height/

No wingflapping was seen.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2007-11-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 57590
Occurred: 2007-07-09 01:30 Local
Reported: 2007-07-11 03:38 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Ishikawa (Okinawa) (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

A white light was seen until it accelerated and disappeared.

The object was a bright-white light. It was very high up, and moving very quickly. I watched it zip across the sky for about 25 seconds, until it instantly accelerated as fast as 10 times it's previous speed while leaving a thin white trail, and it moved out of sight in less than a second. It was last seen traveling southbound.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2007-08-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55155
Occurred: 2007-02-05 07:00 Local
Reported: 2007-02-06 07:37 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Yao (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Other


hundreds of UFOs in Japanese park

My spouse and I were walking our dog, like we do every morning. We were passing by the park when the dog started barking. We looked at the field and there were little crafts flying over the grass. Every once in a while, a few would vertically fly up to the sky and new ones would come down. The sun gleamed off the surface of the crafts, and they made a metallic clinging when they would bump into each other. They made whirring noises and I knew they were not insects because when we approached them to see what kind of insect they were (my spouse is an entomologist, they backed away as one and seemed to join together to form a vertical column and drifted straight up into tht sky. We watched to see where they went, but they did not disperse, but remained in a straight column until they were too small to see.



Posted 2007-02-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54113
Occurred: 2006-12-22 04:45 Local
Reported: 2006-12-21 18:48 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute


Location: Zama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two egg shaped lights slowly circling around each other.

I set my alarmclock to 4:30 this morning due to an ealry appointment. I did not get out of bed until about 4:42. I stood up, stretched and through the corner of my eye I saw two egg shaped lights in the sky. I turned to get a better look and I noticed they were slowly moving in a circle as if they were chasing each other.

I hurried over to my closet to get my polaroid but when I returned they were gone. I kept my eyes locked on the spot where I had seen the objects and a sudden flash of light occured.

I waited for a few more minutes but nothing else happend. I told my mom and she said something had woke her up at around 4:50, but of course she doesn't believe what I claim to have seen.

Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54274
Occurred: 2006-10-25 18:00 Local
Reported: 2007-01-01 22:09 Pacific
Duration: 2 mins
No of observers: 1

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

Noticed strange cloud moving across Tokyo Sky - then 7 lights behind this which then split into V formation as moving across the Sky

It was 18:06 Tokyo time, it was a clear sky and dark, an object moved from west to east over Toyosu a man made island in the bay of Tokyo where I live. I don’t know if anyone else saw this as Toyosu is comparitively sparsely populated compared to rest of Tokyo, but I called my girlfriend straight after as I just could not believe what I had just seen. Glowing disks seemed to move behind a mist that periodically and only for split seconds 'failed' showing the lights/disks giving a twinkling effect - this is what caught my attention, you could see this slightly glowing blob moving slowly across the sky. I watched it for about 2 min until it moved out of sight over the high rise towers here. For me what is so compelling is that it morphed shape from a random scattering of white lights loosely formed into a circle to a symmetrical V shape as it gently accelerated away. From what I recall there was 7 white lights/small disks .The V shape did not fly flat like a wing but at a slowly rotating angle and rotated about 40 degrees for time I could see it.

Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 52123
Occurred: 2006-08-23 20:30 Local
Reported: 2006-08-23 07:21 Pacific
Duration: 1 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Kobe (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light


well it was 8:30pm in kobe japan,when my son and i were looking at stars and saw a light .it look like the n star ,so i lookt for red flashing light like that of a plain that tell you the jet or propela is on but no red light.ufo was high i put my hand up a full 2 and a half ft in front of my face .it whent about 2 feet in about 1 min heading s/se before diming out it took about 3/4 sec to dim out and was still moving when diming .then it was gon.



Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48485
Occurred: 2005-12-15 19:50 Local
Reported: 2005-12-26 20:07 Pacific
Duration: 2 secs
No of observers: 2

Location: Osaka - Itami chome (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

White Fireball Orb - suddenly appears & disappears over Itami, Japan

19:50 approx Amagasaki-shi / Mukonoso & Itami chome Weather condition outside: cold; clear; now & then some thin wispy clouds moving fast. Was outside on apartment balcony hanging laundry (which always puts me in a position looking out & upward, with view of the sky). Without a prior sound or warning, almost directly above in sky, suddenly a huge WHITE bright ball takes shape & then bam! a loud explosion. The entire event was at most 2 seconds. It was just so odd. My husband who was walking home from the train station was about 2 blocks away from home, when he seen it. No pre or after-shock noise, no pre or post lightning & certainly no rains. I was very shaken by it. As well as disturbed. My husband after walking into apartment was puzzled too. (Note: he would tell you he has never seen an UFO or even believes in them. When I tell him about the few times I have seen UFOs, he looks at me like I saw "a thing wrong.") I was shaking because it was so unusual. No further strange weather that night and nothing on the news about strange weather, etc. Nothing about explosions. Itami airport is near and I thought perhaps a plane exploded? Although that would be odd ... this was a sudden white orb of LIGHT! just BAM! then gone. No light trails in sky. (Like when you look at the sun.) I have seen lots of electrical storms, and bad weather, but never seen anything like this. A perfect round orb of white "light" ... no blue emissions ... just white! I do not know if weather "fireballs" can be white, rather huge, stationery, & result in nothing more than bang! and no after-effects. And I do not know if this is of consequence to report. I will have husband use online map of area to mark where this occured and email later.

NOTE: After finding a link about BTs, then a link to this site, remembering my own encounter with one other person of a BT in the late 90s, in Missouri O-Fallon HWY 70 area, for whatever reason, I began to think and wonder "wow you know, you never see or read reports in Japan news about UFOs" (well at least I do not yet ... Ive only been living here for about 8 months) and I wondered about BTs here. When this event of the ball of white whatever-it-was happened, I kept thinking "did a BT just arrive?!" I wanted to post the sighting but thought it would be of no need, perhaps. Then, last night, I find the report of a BT near Kyoto!?! Thus my decision to post this, and ANY other "event" should any occur.

After posting this report, I will make my BT report & silver orb reports.

Thank you for a comprehensive, on-going database. Please feel free to edit this content for posting.




NUFORC Note:

We believe the witness meant a date of 12/15/2005, although she indicates a date in 2006. We have amended it above. PD


Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48261
Occurred: 2005-12-12 18:18 Local
Reported: 2005-12-12 04:40 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Seika-cho (Kyoto Prefecture) (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object

slow, silent boomerang, 5 dim lights, traveling about 75m from ground in Japan

As I was waiting to catch the bus after work, I looked up into the clear sky to look at the moon and what I thought might have Venus, which had been catching my eye for the past week because of its brightness. Then I noticed what I could describe as a somewhat boomerang-shaped craft gliding silently from North or North-by-Northeast to South or South-by-Southwest, almost directly over my head. It was dark, so it was hard to tell exactly how high up it was, but my best guess is about 75 meters. It looked to be about 20 times the size of the moon. It had 5 round, significantly sized lights that I could see, quite faint, and they seemed to get fainter at the edges. They were spaced as such: one at each corner, and the other two were spaced just between the corners.

I can't be totally sure because it was dark, but the craft looked black, and I could somewhat make out the shape of body as it flew by; it looked like a boomerang, but, hm, how to describe this- if you were to take those five round lights, then make a circle around each light so that the outer circles were about 80-100% bigger in diameter, then joined them all together in a chevron shape, that's basically what it looked like. Though between each of the circles there was a smooth connection. Really the best way to describe it was like it was a lumpy boomerang.

It made no sound that I could hear, even though it looked close. The speed was also too slow to be an airplane. It looked like it was just gliding along. It flew with the point (to clarify, it wasn't pointy, it was rounded all the way around) of the chevron first. It was clear to me that what I was seeing was not ordinary. I thought about trying to get the attention of someone in a parked car, but it looked like it was about to go over the hill, and the bus was coming. Since it looked like I wouldn't be able to see it anymore and it was really cold outside, I decided to hop on the bus after a moment of hesitation (now I regret that). I was able to see it for about 20 seconds total.

My background: I was born and raised in America and studied Japanese and Computer Science related fields in University. I got an internship in Japan and that's why I was there. I'm still there actually. This all happened about 3 hours ago and I'm sitting outside of my apartment room, catching a neighbor's Wi-fi connection to write out this report in freezing weather.

I was at the bus stop of "Hikari-dai Itchome Minami" in Hikari-dai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto prefecture, Japan at 18:18 on 12/12/2005 just east of an NTT (telephone and technology company) research building when this happened.



Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 46507
Occurred: 2005-09-25 18:45 Local
Reported: 2005-09-26 06:12 Pacific
Duration: 5 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Tokyo (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

As I was looking up the sky I noticed a black triangle shape flying object with three amber color round light source on all corners flying above me. I was excited watching it and as I was tracing it with my eyes, it appeared to be vanished. Its movement was rather fast, smooth and different. I later thought it must fly not relying on aerodynamics but other dynamics and that must be why I felt different it moved. I could not tell how high it was but I would imagine it must be pretty high. I could not tell the size of it either.

My feeling of this was that I was glad that I finally had an opportunity to see one on my own. I have no way of knowing what they are doing here and hope they are not like us who needs to kill others to sustain and grow by nature.



Posted 2005-10-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45676
Occurred: 2005-08-19 04:30 Local
Reported: 2005-08-18 21:43 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Fukuoka (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Eight very faint greenish lights in a "V" shaped form. One light was on the corner of the "V", four on one side and three on the other.

I was standing in front of my room's door that faces south, when I saw eight faint greenish lights in a "V" shape appearing above the roof of the house in front of my room, flying in south-north direction in absolute silence; there was no sound at all. I could not see the object itself, only its lights.

Therefore the UFO could be of any shape. I was looking at the sky at that time because I had just seen a shooting star, and the UFO appeared in probably less than a minute later.

That UFO was so elusive that if it was not for the meteor, I would never noticed it, since one could only see it by looking at strait into it.

Posted 2005-10-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45949
Occurred: 2005-08-05 21:00 Local
Reported: 2005-08-31 19:55 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 0

Location: Saga (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Other


I was taking the photograph in fireworks.

It was not possible to watch with the unassisted eye.

I noticed only after it saw in the monitor of the personal computer.

I took about 50 photographs.

The object is taking a picture clearly in three photographs in that.

To copy fireworks beautifully, the speed of the shutter has been slowed down.

The shutter was opened for about two seconds.

When taking a picture, I did not use the stand.

in the cause. Fireworks are taken of a picture as having moved.

However, the object is does geostationary and is taken of a picture.

I think that the object appears only momentarily.

The compressed photograph data is .

If you neatly examine it An original image is E-mailed.

Use camera and setting camera : cannon Digital camera D30 Lens : tokina 20-35mm f3.5-4.5 Shooting mode : Priority of speed of shutterAE speed of shutter : About 2 seconds Iso setting : 200 White balance : auto

Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44507
Occurred: 2005-05-03 22:00 Local
Reported: 2005-06-21 20:41 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Japan, , Japan

Shape: Triangle


MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS in VERY NARROW, LOW-ALTITUDE AIR CORRIDOR This sighting is the most recent of several objects observed in the same, highly-confined area above a densely populated suburb of Tokyo from a period beginning in 1993 and currently on-going.

I am a U.S. citizen living adjacent to the northern-most shore of Tokyo Bay. The condominium where my family and I live has a spacious outdoor terrace providing a 180 degree view facing due west. The object I saw would be best described as triangular, although slightly irregular in shape. My first impression was it looked like a "stubby boomerang." The object was directly overhead at roughly 90 degrees from the observation surface. It either emitted a dull white light, or was composed of a dull white material. At arm's length the object would have measured 2 inches in width at its base, and about an inch and a half in length (thus the "stubby" description). It moved from due south to due north and was visible for only 2 or 3 seconds. There was absolutely no sound emitted from the object, and visual contact was lost after the object underwent a process that can be described as similar to television or video image dissolve.

In the same area, there have been numerous sightings of objects of varying descriptions. I have seen several myself, my son reported seeing one and other individuals have either directly observed objects, or have recounted second-hand sightings. Two years ago, a Japanese Air Self Defence Force helicopter was dispatched to the area described above and spent 30 minutes hovering at 60 to 80 feet. I have no information about what a military helicopter would be doing making such a horribly loud racket and hovering so low over a residential area, but it seemed to be looking for something.

OTHER SIGHTINGS: March 1993. I was taking out the trash at approximately 21:30 and noticed in the corner of my eye something moving to my left at an altitude of 80 or 90 feet. The object was almost completely transparent. Heading due north, the object moved slowly and in complete silence. From the angle I first saw the object, there were two hemispheres side by side facing downward (the rounded edges pointed downwards). Above the hemispheres was a platform, like a table top viewed from the side. There was a small building right next to me, and the view of the object was blocked as it continued moving in a direction directly behind the building. I dropped the bags of trash and ran to the other side of the building and saw the same object again. This time, the angle had changed. The flying object was V-shaped with three hemispheres on each wing. Again, it was almost transparent. There were some people walking on the street who hadn't noticed the object. The object was so silent and so nearly invisible, no one would have seen it unless they had happened to have directly spotted it. Observation time: approximately 15 seconds.

July 1997.

In the same corridor, I saw an amoeba-like blob flying due south. From our terrace, I had a front-and-center view of the setting sun (about 18:40). The nearly transparent blob was heading in a direction that would take it directly in front of the sun. I recalled my 1993 sighting and wondered what would happen when the object flew between my line of sight and the sun. As the blob passed in front of the sun, I could see that the object looked about four times larger than the sun at the distance it was from me (300 feet or so). Although the object did not block out the sunlight, the shape of the sun was slightly distored and slightly less light was emitted. The object passed across the sun and continued in the same direction until it was out of sight. Total viewing time: 10 seconds.

Two nights later, July 1997.

I decided to sit out on the terrace every night. At sometime around 20:45, a gray-colored boomeranng-shaped object suddenly appeared from a due west direction and began flying directly towards me at an altitude of about 100 feet. It was moving in a zig-zag configuration. Although moving rapidly, it was clear that the object was changing shape with each curving maneuver it made. Instead of having straight edges, the boomerang had wavy lines. On both wings or blades of the boomerang shape there were darker gray-colored wavy lines extending from the front of the object to the tips of the wings. Observation time 4-5 seconds.

Next night. July 1997, approximately 0:30.

I was out on the terrace hoping to see another object. By this time, I had begun to theorize that the area of the sightings was a type of corridor for the objects. I was outside patiently waiting and had been sitting for 5 or 6 hours and was about ready to go inside and go to bed. Suddenly due west, a huge V-shaped object appeared at about 100 feet in altitude and at about 300 feet from my position. It was very similar to the object I had witnessed in 1993; V-shape with hemispheres on the bottom surface of the wings. There were some notable differences from the 1993 sighting. First, instead of being almost completely transparent, it was dark gray in color. It looked as though it was made of smoke or cloud, yet the giant V maintained a coherent shape as it glidely slowly due south. Second, although the wings were parallel to the ground, the wing tips curved upwards and emitted either some type of particles or energy. The edges of the wing-tips wavered in a manner resembling heat radiating off a hot paved road. As I watched the object move slowly and silently in a steady due south direction, I couldn't help but wonder why the object had swept V-shaped wings. At the speed it was traveling, they would have served no aerodynamic function. Then a fortuitous event happened. As the object progressed on its unchanging trajectory, it approached a 12-story condo building, and from my viewing angle, flew above the building which is about 350 feet away. At the mid-way point on the roof of the building, there is a rectangular structure that houses a water tank and air-conditioning equipment. The V-shape object passed directly behind the utility structure and the left wing just barely cleared the structure. Using these coordinates as a reference, I would estimate that the V-shaped object was 150 to 160 feet lengthwise, and about 80 feet wide from wing-tip to wing-tip. At this point, I had been observing the object for at least 30 seconds. I continued to watch it for another minute as it continued on its trajectory. Although the object had not yet disappeared from view completely, it had traveled far enough away that it appeared much smaller and far less visible. It was still vaguely visible but I decided there was nothing more to observe, so I turned away and went to bed.

The above sighting was the most spectacular of any of my observations, including those leading up to the time of this writing (June 2005). These experiences have led me to search the Internet to research what other observations have been made in other locations. There is one important distinction that can be made about my observations and those made by other people. The Internet has numerous postings of triangular-, boomerang-, and V-shaped objects. But in every instance, there have been discriptions of lights on the objects. In every case I have personally witnessed, the objects did not have what might be interpreted as mounted lights. The objects have consistently been monochromatic or transparent, and when illuminated types were observed, the entire object was bright, not with light sources on isolated surfaces such a wing-tips, nose or center. Again, I emphasize that each sighting I have made has been while I was alone. However, individuals, including my son claim to have witnessed objects in the same corridor.



Posted 2005-07-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40616
Occurred: 2004-11-09 10:02 Local
Reported: 2004-11-14 03:41 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 41

Location: Ueno City (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

A Bright Shining Object Opposite of the Sun

Morning of 10am, in the prefecture of Mie, Japan particular to Ueno City, we have noticed a strange fireball-like object shining above our company, we were certain it is not the sun for the sun happens to be in the opposite side and there was no moon in that day for it was new moon, we have sited 2 objects not moving and permanent in place but its lights were shining and as soon as we observed in 10 to 20 minutes, the objects slowly vanishes in the sky and never seen again. The lenght of our observation is 45 to 1 hour. Hope to find some answers soon. Thank you.



Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39664
Occurred: 2004-10-06 00:00 Local
Reported: 2004-10-07 03:06 Pacific
Duration: 2 MINUTES
No of observers: 2

Location: Japan, , Japan

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby, Electrical or magnetic effects

LARGE, WHITE UNMOVING CRAFT - POSSIBLY DAMAGED



NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2004-10-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33680
Occurred: 2003-12-07 20:10 Local
Reported: 2003-12-08 17:39 Pacific
Duration: 4minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Yokohama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

It was moving slowly around in the sky and after maybe 4 min it sped of at high speeds

The object was bright and we saw a yellow flash before it dissapeared. It hurt our eyes and when it flew away our eyes had bright spots as if we had been staring at a light for a few minutes. There was a yellow trail in the sky. We think that maybe some other people may have seen it.



Posted 2003-12-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31269
Occurred: 2003-08-23 20:00 Local
Reported: 2003-09-07 02:18 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 12

Location: Sukagawa (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Saw a bright light, then the light changed to three red flashing lights.

We where watching a fireworks display in Sukagawa (Japan), when we saw this bright light. At first i thought it was a star, but it started to get bigger. "Oh it's just a Helicopter" i thought, but it did not have a red flashing light. Then it became more clearer, and you could see the shape more clearly. (shaped like a disk) Then the white light stopped and red lights started flashing (three red lights one after another), not like a planes red flashing light. These lights were going around the ship, not in one spot like a plane. The ship then started to move across the sky over our heads at a high speed (about five times faster than a plane). Then it just dissapeared. I have never seen anything like this before. There where many planes flying over head that night, but this was not a plane. Planes have a white and red flashing lights and you can see the out line of the plane as well.



Posted 2003-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 30829
Occurred: 2003-08-21 23:00 Local
Reported: 2003-08-21 18:20 Pacific
Duration: 00:00:30
No of observers: 2

Location: Osaka (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Bright light changed into 3 redish colored lights moving into a triangle shape.

At approximately 11 p.m. local Osaka, Japan time in downtown Osaka, I was looking off my highrise apartment balcony in the direction of the southern sky to view Mars as it's coming the closest to earth in 50,000 years. Anyway, first I saw what appeared to be a small bright light moving fast from the west moving to the east, from my right to my left. It stopped, appeared to hover for only a moment before changing shape and color. From the single light it appeared to generate 3 separate redish/pale burgundy lights that moved into a kind of triangle shape. The elapsed time at this point was about 20 seconds or so. Before it sped away to the east, it reformed into a single bright light and that's everything, I did not see it again although I kept watching for another hour.



Posted 2003-08-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25657
Occurred: 2002-10-16 17:28 Local
Reported: 2002-10-17 08:09 Pacific
Duration: 10mins
No of observers: 3

Location: Osaka (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Fireball


Thick strand of light flying across the sunsetting sky at high speed

Osaka Bay area - we were onboard a ferris wheel in mid air when I noticed a thick, but bright strand of light against the sunsetting sky. It did not appear to be a plane at all but rather, it seemed more like a comet/ burning fireball with a flaming tapered tail. We could tell that the object was flying at very high speed even from a fair distance away due to the flickering of light... The light was constant and DID NOT fade in and out... we have a digital image of this image, however, because it was taken from afar, it is a little difficult to see (unless enlarged!).

Posted 2002-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 14236
Occurred: 2000-09-20 22:30 Local
Reported: 2000-09-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 40-60 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Naha (near) (Okinawa, Japan), , Japan

Shape: Triangle


a Object that flew extremely slow, triangular in shape, producing no light or sound only reflected light and half a football field big

The object was several hundred feet to a thousand feet in the sky. It was triangular in shpae and it produced no light. The only light that came from the objest was the light that was reflected off the bottom. The light source was the city of Naha which is 5 miles south of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. The light that was reflected off the bottom was also oval in shape giving it the idea that the bottom was convex and had bulges(like that of a bird...air that goes around must speed up to catch up to the air that goes straight through). Plus the light was formed in a "V" formation like geese heading south for the winter which suggests the object was triangular. there were no flashng lights like a commercial airliner. There were no headlights on it like a KC 130 aerial refueler(the sir station has KC-130's, CH-46's, and CH'53s). Th object did not make the sound of a KC-130 which has 4 propellars. The object produced no sound at all!!!!!! I also thought that it was a B-2 bomber but B-2's make a lot of noise even. This unidentified Flying Object was gliding through the sky. Any Aircraft in the world would have fallen out of the sky if they flew as slow as this object did. ANy Aircraft that flies around the Air station either land or take off....not fly over head. It was not of this world. My parents know about this and my uncle does too and him and his son saw a UFO several years back.

Posted 2000-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 15113
Occurred: 2000-05-24 13:30 Local
Reported: 2000-11-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10sec


Location: Nagoya (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

On the 24/5/2000 I saw two 2UFO,s with a disk shapes the size of a normal jet engine.They came out of the beautiful blue sky zig zagging down and flying past a normal passenger jet for about 10sec. I have them on digital tape too!Bye!

Posted 2000-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77185
Occurred: 1999-09-20 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2010-08-13 12:04 Pacific
Duration: unknowed


Location: Momoishi (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Electrical or magnetic effects

Encounter described in details

What I’m about to describe next isn’t open to discussion. I’ll simply put what I came to know through an experience which can’t be described by words has changed everything. I don’t expect you to believe and, honestly, I don’t even care what you think. I will never disclose any of my personal information simply because my end of the rope is weaker than the end where a government stands and I still need to pay my bills. Denial it’s an unbreakable law kept by all means where one’s life value means little or nothing against governments and corporations.

Also, I would like to ask your discretion for what I am about to describe will affect the way you see life itself, including religion. If you truly believe in God, stop reading this. I wish I had this option myself because once you lose hope, there’s nothing left. Trust me. Sometimes, ignorance it’s the best patch to find happiness.

I’ll start saying that I’m not American. This experience has nothing to do with stories about Area 51 or Roosevelt crashes. I’ve been in 29 countries around the world and speak 5 languages and I work with computers (I will not disclosure my profession).

The year is 1999. Just another Friday night under a beautiful sky, around 2am. Location: North Japan. Life in Japan is really stressful. It’s normal to work more than 12 hours a day (at least in my branch). It’s very different from western countries where people socialize with their neighbors and have a social life. In Japan, you socialize at work and with family and one’s circle of friends are those people from school times. Kind of weird but that’s how most people live their lives in that island. So, the most common question: - Were you there alone? Yes, unfortunately.

What were you doing there? Relaxing.

At 2 am? Many people (like myself) go shopping at the supermarket 2~3am. It’s normal in north Japan.

Does the government know about the incident? Hell yeah, I saw 2 F-16s trying to catch up before we left, probably from the American military base in Misawa, 15 to 20 miles from where I was.

What you mean "we?" Keep reading.

I was at the beach on a city Momoishi. It’s an industrial park that has a long walk patch where you stand 5 to 6 meters above sea level. This patch was actually built to break waves brought by tsunamis and high waves formed by a typhoon that hits Japan very often.

Walking along the patch, the only source of light is the stars and the moon. If you ever went to a place where there are no cities around, you’ll know what I mean. The sky shines in a way that it’s impossible to see on the cities. That goes without talking about the fresh air from the ocean blowing smooth on the hot summer. Just perfect. I did that a lot before that faithful day.

I walked about 3 miles along the coast before I spotted a bright light coming from the hoods. I thought it was just young people parted in one of the many parking spots along the cost with their Xenon’s headlights. In Japan it’s pretty common and affordable to have a custom car, just like you probably saw on movies. I didn’t really pay too much attention. Actually, it has kind like blurring my vision because when you walk in the dark and suddenly you see light, your eyes take some time to adapt and you go almost blind when trying to see dark spots again.

So I kept on moving carefully, watching out where I was walking. I wanted to walk faster so I could kept appreciating the beautiful, quiet and peaceful night but I heard a "boom" coming from the light. It was so dammed laud that I thought it was an explosion of some kind. It scared me to death just like when somebody plays a trick on you. I looked back and saw that, once bright white light had moved vertically and now has changing colors. I thought to myself that maybe it was because I was half mile away so it was just a optical trip but I discarded this option because I was the one already at 5 to 6 meters above the sea level walking the patch and I that car supposed to be at least at the same level as I was, not above. Despise me been blinded again because of the light, I started to run back on the light’s direction. Maybe someone needed help. I took my mobile to call the cops. It was working but it was completely useless.

Everything had vanished, including the OS. No line, nothing worked besides the backlight. That’s when I stop running a got scared. I got really scared. I know that takes a great deal to an electronic device to be how to call it, "erased?" And of course, all those stories that you heard about thieves, monsters, and ghosts start flooding your mind and you just get in high alert like your life is in danger or something. I can’t even describe the feeling. The air becomes heavy, hard to breath and you just want to get out of there. I started to run again, blinded by the light. Of course, the worst happened. I feel from the patch. Blinded and now hurt, that was the worst that could happen. At first, I didn’t realize how bad I got hurt. I was trying to find a way to climb back and run to my car and go home. Where I was, there is a small forest between the beach and the patch. The trees are spaced and almost no ground vegetation. Depends how is your mood, it can look beautiful or r! eally scary.

I stood up back on my feet but when I looked forward, no more that 10 meters away, that small guy with his huge head has staring at me. My legs gave up on me at the very same moment. I was shaking so much that I couldn’t even screen for help. Thinking about it now, I am not half of the man I thought I was. It’s embarrassing and pathetic.

My eyes were starting to get used to the environment. That’s when I saw a second individual behind the first one, between 2 trees about 25 meters. If you ask me what I was thinking at that time, I would say: - I don’t. I wasn’t able to hold even one thought in my mind or make reason of the situation I was in but I was well aware that it was an encounter.

I heard a lot of stories about abducted people and crops. I always thought that it would be nice if were true but for me, it was nothing but a good story. But now days I think to myself: those were really brave people that were capable to make a reason of the situation and analyze the circumstances or it’s a complete hoax. Either way, I never thought that my body and mind would give up on me so bad. The worst part for me was the staring. Those big "black shiny" eyes were so indifferent, so cold,...I can’t explain. One thing I know for sure. Those eyes saw right through me. I tell you why.

I don’t really know how long it took until I heard a voice saying: Come down now! My head has steady facing those individuals at all times like a cat hunting a mouse. My full attention was to those two standing before me but I didn’t saw no lip moving. I looked around real quick and I heard again: No harm will come to you. Come down now. That’s when I realize that the voice was I my head.

Without even realize, I start putting some order in my thoughts. My shock state has start been replaced by reason. Until this point, my head was a mess. I can’t tell how long time had passed since I first spot the first individual and I didn’t paid attention at all on the light anymore. I felt like if I took my eyes off the subject something bad would happen to me. Slowly, I stood up and took a defense position. I start to look around for places where I could run. My legs stopped shaking but my shoulder and hand were killing me. I look at my hand and I saw a lot of blood. I cut my hand deep when I felt and also mess up my shoulder. I tried to stop the bleeding by holding the cut with my other hand. While I was attending my hand I heard the voice again: No harm will come to you. Until that point I haven’t replied a word but this time I asked: what you want from me? The voice replied: To teach.

I never knew if just one of them were talking to me or both. The voice was always the same tone. It never changed. The following is a series of questions and answers that followed my first reply: Me (after a short moment of reflection, I said -always using my own voice-): I do not understand and I am scared to death. What do you want to teach me? Voice: No harm will come to you. I am here to answer your questions. I am here to show you our ways.

I couldn’t think of anything to ask besides what regards my safety and situation. Then I asked: Me: If you mean no harm to me, can I go home now? Voice: I am no more alien to you that you are to me. I am here to help you. To guide you. I cannot force you to see what I want to show you.

In that very moment, the second individual backed up and disappeared in the dark. The one standing in front of me took a few steps back. A heavy silence stroke the air. I asked: Me: What will happen to me if I choose to see what you want to show me? Voice: No harm will come to you. I will show you our way. I will guide you.

Me: Will I be allowed to go home after that? Voice: Yes.

At the same moment, the second individual appeared and joined the first one. I looked around again hoping that somebody would show up…the voice said: This way.

As they turned around and started walking deep in the hoods heading to the light’s direction, I could clearly see for the first time the anatomy of those individuals. Unlike us, it seems that they try to balance the head while walking which gave me the impression that they push the neck back and direct the head down in order to look straight. It looks creepy.

We walked 300 meters (approximately) towards the light. I avoided looking up because I didn’t want to be blinded and lose sight of my surroundings.

There was a platform like thing ahead. I hesitated. The two individuals stepped on the platform and turned to me. I headed: This way. My story begins here.

Before I start I must state that I don’t really care what you think my story it’s a lie or true. I still have my life to take care, my bills to pay, my reputation as professional to keep and a social life to attend. I won’t compromise my life to satisfy your ego or curiosity. It’s for you to decide what to believe. It’s for you to decide how to deal with what I’m about to tell you.

We live our lives based on what we think it’s true and based on our own sense of justice. Because of that, we rage wars against whatever contradicts what we think its right. What if your truth it’s an illusion created to deceive you, to control what you think? I put all these conflicts behind and now I’m just trying to have a good life and enjoy every second of it. I truly don’t care if people kill each other over oil, money or whatever because, in my opinion, we are a no more than a cancer for this planet. We are not even able to understand each other and organize like cancer cells does. That put us lower as viruses. How pathetic.

Anyway, my opinion counts for nothing and that’s not why you are reading this so let’s move on.

I walked into the platform keeping my distance from those individuals. I guess they were prepared or experienced of dealing with primitive civilizations such as ours (comparing to theirs). There was in no moment pressure or treat on their part against me but I could tell that they didn’t trust me too which is completely understandable.

he platform started lifting toward the light. As we approached, I could see the craft’s “belly”. It has triangle shape, dark colored (maybe because was night), and the strong lights were coming from something that looked like half spheres placed along the corners plus one right above us. Unlike the lights on the corners, the light above us was like blue neon but not strong enough to blind the eyes. Actually, that particular light didn’t affect my eyes at all.

We float into the air for about 20 to 30 meters, just above the tree top.

Once we got onboard, the blue light faded until shut complete off. The first thing I saw was one more individual standing on the edge of the platform, just like it was waiting for our arrival. I started to shake again thinking to myself how stupid I was for been there. At the same moment I heard the voice saying: No harm will come to you. That’s when I realized that they could listen to my thoughts.

I asked them how come they could go into my head and talk to me. They answer that they can’t communicate with me if I choose not to listen. It said that nothing can be imposed.

The following sentence was: This way.

The compartment we arrived was rounded and the walls were just dark. There were 2 entrances in front of me and a bigger on the other side. They the 2 entrances had no doors but the bigger one was closed with the same material as the wall. I could tell it was a door because of the void in the wall. I don’t know for sure though.

We took the right entrance. Two of them in front of me and one on my back. I’ve never felt so uncomfortable on my entire life. In this corridor, we passed through 3 other entrances closed by similar material as the wall. There were no symbols of ornaments anywhere. By this time, my body was hurting so much and my hand kept bleeding. I was really tired. We enter a room which has a table like thing which I was asked to sit. Two of them entered the room along with me but one of them followed the corridor. One of them took my hand and pointed a pen like instrument towards my wound. I felt like getting an electrical shock so I pulled my hand away. As I looked at my wound cleaning the blood using my shirt, it was fully closed and a small scar replaced the wound. I was amazed. Once more, it pointed the instrument on my shoulder and the pain was gone (after the shock, of course). As it returned the instrument to its original position, I heard: This way.

I stood up fully recovered. I was no longer tired plus I felt my body was lighter. As I followed the two individuals, I came to realize that they also no longer had trouble walking. My conclusion was that the craft environment provides a lower gravity allowing the body to waste less energy. Again, this was my conclusion.

All of them looked exactly the same just like a copy of each other. They were wearing metal like filters although I don’t think it was metal.

We went out of the room back to the corridor. After 3 entrances closed by doors, we turned left which leaded to another corridor. This time, it wasn’t so dark. I could see some sort of device on the left wall spreading to its entire length. It had some small blinking lights on it but nothing fancy.

I didn’t count how many doors we passed by for I was looking the device on the other side of the wall but the corridor lead to a wider room where another 2 individuals were sitting on something like chairs. There were control panels on the front wall which was rounded in just one side. The panels where transparent and full of symbols draw by light, very different of our standard monitors. Their hand movements were always slow. My best guess it that they don’t used their bodies randomly like we do by making sports or other activities. Every time they talked to me, there were no movements at all. No gestures or lip moving, nothing at all.

Suddenly, the wall and floor became transparent like glass. I was able to see the moon and the city’s lights below us. That’s when I realize that the craft’s position had changed and we were no longer at the beach and no longer at low altitude. I didn’t felt a thing.

As we slowly flew across the city below (I think it was Hachinohe but it’s impossible to tell), something happened. The two individuals sitting on their chairs pointed to dots of light on the east pin-pointed at the wall. The view just zoomed like you zoom your video camera but in high quality image. I recognized by shape two F-16s approaching fast. The image zoomed back to normal then suddenly, all the wall images faded into a dark blue and soon into black with bright dots everywhere. It took less than 2 seconds. We were in space! My perplexity was broken by the voice saying: Listen carefully for you are in danger.

I took a second to react. I was about to ask it how come but it starts its speech: - The universe is a cycle of life. Life is re-engineered at the end of each cycle. During each cycle, new species are created and develop conscience but at the end of the cycle, those consciences are destroyed to allow new species and conscious to rise. Only those species capable of organizing and learn will be allowed to go through the next cycle. My specie was allowed to continue through the next cycle by understanding the rules of the universe and its compositions. You are not prepared to continue through the next cycle. You will be destroyed.

I was shocked. Those bastards lied to me by telling me “no harm will come to you”. I felt anger and I hated myself for been so stupid. Then I said: - I thought that no harm will come to me. That’s why I am here. To learn. Not to be destroyed! The voice continued: - Our mission it’s to find species capable of communication and teach them the rules of the universe. No harm will come to you.

That’s when I realized that it was referring me as a human been, not as individual. My head exploded with questions but it continued.

Throughout time, we came to you to teach and to guide. We showed you how the universe works and teach about the stars. We send one of our own throughout time in order to live among you and teach our ways. And yet, you still fail to understand.

I interrupted it by asking how come I never heard of another species teachings on my planet. It replies: - We sent one of our own through one of your vessels. A vessel is no more than a transport as machines are a way to enhance the vessel.

I interrupted it again by asking: - Why am I in danger? Why telling me this? What can I do? - The end of the cycle has come. We will help those who have learn our ways as we did to those we teach how to build. No harm will come to those who are willing to understand and learn.

A few seconds were filled by silence. Then I ask: - Even if I am aware of this, what difference could I possible make? Who will believe my story? Why can’t you land your craft before the crowds and make your point yourself? - Nothing can be imposing. We have a pact with your species that allow us to contact you individually but not public in exchange of technology. We will no longer come back until the cycle ends. When it does, we will help those who can be saved. No harm will come to you.

My interest of their technology or the craft itself disappeared completely. It wouldn’t even reply all my questions properly. Without even realizing what’s were going around me, I looked to the wall and I saw city lights. We were on Earth again.

I heard: This way.

We walked back to the corridor, just back to the rounded room where we arrived. I was dropped 30 km away from where my car was parked. My clock has dead, my mobile dead but I had money enough to take a cab.

I never spoke a word about what happen that night and I never went back to that beach alone again, especially at night time.

This is my story. Feel free to discard or do publish it but do not try to locate or contact me in any way. I will not discuss this in public.






NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2010-08-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9850
Occurred: 1999-08-30 20:45 Local
Reported: 1999-09-20 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2min
No of observers: 2

Location: Okinawa (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Egg
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

sitting under the stars and suddenly 2 objects appeared as they split into two different directions at abnormal speed. There was an plane of some sort following behind but the plane was too slow to keep up.end of story

Posted 1999-10-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17764
Occurred: 1997-11-20 19:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-05-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30second
No of observers: 1

Location: Inazawa (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

One object flew above me from northern to southern. It was triangle (V shape?). There ware no sound. It was not a helicopter or plane.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44989
Occurred: 1996-08-01 22:00 Local
Reported: 2005-07-16 00:11 Pacific
Duration: several minutes


Location: Okinawa (Japan), , Japan (Okinawa)

Shape:


I had a close encounter of the third kind while in the Marines in Okinawa Japan in 96'

While I was in the Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa Japan, I was at shooting range near Camp Schwab guarding ammunition( I just remeber that it was in August not the exact day {plus this is a few years ago already}). I had just done a radio check with range control to let them know everything was ok (that is why I remeber the time so well)anyway I pulled my poncho up over my whole body because of the bugs attacking me, and the next thing I know my poncho is pulled off of me and I see what would be called a typical "Grey" looking alien, except that his skin was more of an almond color (it was a very bright night with a full moon)standing over me with what looked like four others behind him. What shocked me even more was that it talked to to me, but it sounded like one of those adult characters on the "peanuts" cartoons - like "wha wha wha -wha wha etc." I remeber just becoming unglued and jumped up and started screaming when it talked to me and then it just disappeared along with the others- The other guy out there guarding ammo with me, woke up when he heard me scream and asked what was wrong - I told him what had just happened and he looked at me like I was crazy, I then noticed that it was 10:30pm, and I was like what the heck, I know that I did not fall asleep because it was my turn on radio watch, so I know that I did not dream this but cannot account for the missing time. I did not want to radio in what just happened for fear of getting a psych eval, even though an intruder near an ammunition dump is serious and should have been called in and the other Marine with me said that he was asleep the whole time and did not see or hear anything until i started screaming and jumping around. Anyway I kept quiet about this incident for a few days but it was bothering me so much that finally about a week later I told a couple of my friends about it, and a good friend of mine that had been out there a day before, said that almost the same thing happened to him, except that he had chased into the ammo tent and when he was just about to shoot it, it just disappeared - he said that he was also afraid to say anything because he thought that people would think that he was crazy. I never saw any bright lights or alien space craft - just the aliens.



Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 44996
Occurred: 1996-07-01 19:30 Local
Reported: 2005-07-16 01:54 Pacific
Duration: 3-5


Location: Camp Hanson (Okinawa) (Japan), , Japan (Okinawa)

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

I saw a V-shaped aircraft flying very fast and making avery loud noise in Okinawa Japan in 96'

I don't remeber the exact day but it was in July in 1996 and me and a bunch of my friends where outside the barracks in Camp Hanson in Okinawa Japan and we looked to the Northwest and saw a V-shaped aircraft, or at least it looked like one because it had 5 yellow/whitish lights on it in a shape of a V. At least 7 of us saw it. it was probably within a mile of us at just a few hundred feet above the ground heading Northeast at a very fast pace, probably several hundred miles per hour, what I remeber most aside from the 5 lights on it was the loud rumbling sound it made. It was constant but incredibly loud for how far it was from us. We never saw a body shape of the craft, but the evening was pretty clear, but it seemed to have a mist around it almost like fog ( I do not think it was emitting this mist). At any rate it seemed to accelerate and then just disapear into the evening.



Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 47782
Occurred: 1995-06-01 00:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-11-18 14:24 Pacific
Duration: minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Okinawa (Japan), , Okinawa

Shape: Light


Very bright beam of light

I recently had a conversation with ex-Marine friend, who related an event that occured on the island of Okinawa in 1995.

He and his buddies were stationed to guard the motor pool one night, when a very bright beam of light approximately 20 ft in diameter, shined down on their location.

There was NO sound, and because of the brightness, they could not distinguish any kind of vehicle.

He reported the event to the OOD, and while waiting for his arrival, the beam of light decreased to approximately 8ft in diameter, and then turned off.

The OOD upon hearing the obsevers sighting indicated that it was a relatively common occurance, as noted in a logbook.

Can anyone verify the event, or have a similar experience?




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-12-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 14181
Occurred: 1995-01-17 06:00 Local
Reported: 2000-09-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: -
No of observers: 0

Location: Kobe (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

A Gruop of Circles in a constellation formation, hovering over Kobe during the earthquake of 1995. I saw it on a vidio about the earthquake during a geography lesson.

Posted 2000-09-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 177514
Occurred: 1993-05-15 11:43 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-08-10 00:04 Pacific
Duration: 5 to 10 minutes
No of observers: 0 - Military

Location: Marine Corps Base Camp Foster, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Shape: Other


Slowly hovering over the military base towards the Ocean.

On or about the date above, I was traveling in my vehicle from the base shopping center, Camp Foster Okinawa Japan. It was a very clear day with minimal clouds. As I looked up in the sky, I noticed a large metal colored craft traveling very slowly from the east to the west, the same direction as I was headed. It covered an area approximately 12 to 14 inches on my windshield as I was looking at it. This was around lunch or just afterwards, and traffic was not heavy, but there was lunch traffic. I pulled to the left side of the roadway and exited my vehicle to get a better look. It had a rounded back and gradually became slender towards the front, or the direction it was moving. It was not specifically a teardrop, as the front was not to a point. Reminded me of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars and it made no sounds and left no trail. As I was looking at this craft, I noticed no one was looking at it, as if I was the only one to see it. It felt like I was looking at this craft for 2-3 minutes, then I returned to my car and drove approximately 200-300 yards to my barracks, all the while continuing to observe the craft as it slowly hovered. I entered my barracks room, opened my window and continued to watch it travel west toward San-A Hamby Town. I dialed the US Air Force Flightline and asked about this thing that I saw flying over base. They told me that they did not have any reports like mine and began asking me to identify myself. I was young and I just hung up to avoid ridicule. I continued to watch this craft until it was over the ocean, and within seconds it was gone.

Posted 2023-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166619
Occurred: 1992-07-26 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-02-08 19:19 Pacific
Duration: 5 to 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Amami (Japan), , Japan
Location details: O-Hama Beach

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Silently went zigzag first, then flew straight very fast and disappeared into the distance

I was on the beach camping. At night I noticed a light in the sky thinking that it was an airplane at first, but the light wasnt blinking. Then it started zig-zagging widely and gradually into smaller zig zag, then shooted on a straight line very fast - gradually disappearing. There was absolutely no sound.

Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 32301
Occurred: 1979-08-15 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-10-17 23:49 Pacific
Duration: 5-10 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Iwakuni (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light


Single strange light travels at great and varying speeds, making sharp turns and disappears into the moon.

Three of us were sitting on the front steps of the barracks at Iwakuni Air Station USMC in Japan, approximately 35 miles south west of Hiroshima. It was early evening about 20:00( 8 pm) when went out to have a smoke and watch the shooting stars over the castle to the north, the annual August meteor shower(I forget the name) It was hazy and they weren't visible so we sat batting the breeze. As I looked up into the southern sky over the inland sea I noticed a singly white light. It appeared to be some good distance away, probably several miles if it were an aircraft. At first it moved like an airplane in the distance horizontally across the sky from west to east. Then suddenly it changed direction from horizontal to a rising 60 degrees back to the west and covered a great distance that was either a rise in altitude or approach to our location. At the distance that it appeared to be a few inches of travel to us was miles of distance. It then changed direction several times moving across the sky at differing speed, sometimes fast and sometimes slow. Somestimes it just stopped entirely. When it made turns they were immediate and sometimes at very sharp angles. After a period of time it returned to the general position where I first observed it to the south west sky, then went at a high velocity horizontal to a distance as we observed 3 - 5 feet to the east then changed direction back to the west and up at about a 30 or 45 degree angle and disappeared into or behind the rising moon.

My father is retired Airforce and I have been around aircraft all my life. I worked with helicopters in North Carolina for the Marine Corps and with Fighter/Attack Jets in Iwakuni. I know what man made air craft are capable of and no aircraft ever desinged and built by humans could travel at the speeds this object did nor make the kinds of turns it made at those speeds. It had to travel at great distances in its location since it was a good ways distant from us and out over the ocean.

It could not have been one of the jets from our air station because they were grounded in the evening because at that time Japan had a no fly rule to keep the noise levels down during the night hours. To this day I have not seen anything that moved like that light nor have I been able to figure out what it was.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-10-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 108516
Occurred: 1976-11-01 16:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2014-04-10 17:26 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Fujisawa (Kanagawa prefecture)(Japan), , Japan

Shape: Other


A big, black, round, & spinning UFO with a WAVY EDGE slowly moving across the sky in a straight line in Japan.

It was probably the fall of 1976. I was 11 years old living in Japan by the Sagami bay in the city of Fujisawa in Kanagawa prefecture, about 10 minutes from the beach by walking. (I am half Japanese, half American, currently living in America.)

It was in the afternoon, probably around 16:00. I was at the living room of my house, feeling dull. I got the inclination to go to the back yard and breathe some fresh air. So I did and looked up at the clear sky. The UFO was slowing moving in a straight line in the direction of the ocean. The direction was south west or south south west. It was about 90 degrees above the ground (I looked right up at the sky). There was no sound.

The object was pitch BLACK, no shine; a "mat finish." Its apparent size was that of a FULL MOON, so it was quite big. The shape was unique and unusual. It was like a dinner plate with a WAVY EDGE. Imagine a sine wave with eight to ten cycles and make it into a circle/loop. And the object was SPINNING fairly quickly.

I observed it until I could no longer see it. The timing of my sighting was impeccable. I went to my back yard at the perfect moment.

In hindsight, I wonder if I was telepathically called me to come out of the house. (Just a speculation.)




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2014-04-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50446
Occurred: 1975-07-14 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-05-06 21:08 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Camp Hansen (Okinawa, Japan), , Japan

Shape: Triangle


Very large black triangular craft observed on Okinawa Japan traveling from very slow to out of sight in seconds.

I was in the United States Marine Corps, stationed at Camp Hansen on Okinawa, Japan. The day was sunny with white cumulus clouds in the sky.

As I was walking along the base alone I noticed a shadow pass over me. I looked up expecting to see a cloud. Instead there was this large black triangular craft silently moving overhead very slowly. It wasn't very high above the trees and I looked for identifiable markings but saw none.

I was familiar with most military aircraft but couldn't identify it so I thought maybe it was the SR 71 Blackbird which was still relatively secret. My thought then was it couldn't be the Blackbird because it was as big as a B-52 and completely silent.

As I watched, it ascended straight up without pointing the nose of the aircraft up and disappeared in the clouds in an instant without any noise. I've seen many aircraft flying at top speed including the F-4 Phantom during combat in Vietnam and this craft was much, much faster than any other.

I didn't report it because I had about 2 weeks left on my tour before going home and I thought I had just witnessed something I wasn't supposed to see. I didn't want anything to delay my departure so I kept silent.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2006-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25541
Occurred: 1975-06-15 19:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-10-13 00:40 Pacific
Duration: 10 Minutes
No of observers: 6

Location: Okinawa (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

US AIR FORCE Remote Controlled Flying Disk

I relay this data as to indicate how the United States Air Force is involved in disk craft. The year was 1976 in Okinawa Japan. Some friends and I were playing glow-in-the-dark football. We heard a whirring sound and looked up and saw a 8 foot white disk object with "US AIR FORCE" written on the bottom of it and it was flying about 100 feet in the sky.

It flew over us and then hovered over some trees. The disk had a single red light on the bottom, directly in the center of the disk. It flashed like any standard aircraft light.

It then ejected a small parachute. We all ran over to see what it had ejected and it was merely a small weight attached to a small white parachute. It then flew off into the night. It was an unmanned object with no windows and appeared to be remotely controlled. The words, "US AIR FORCE" were clearly seen on the bottom of the craft. The whirring sound was very quiet and no sign of external engines or propellers were seen. The thickness of the craft was about 3 feet with a diameter of 8 feet. The structure was seamless and was white in color. There was no "glow" or "strange light" from the craft. This was exactly as we all remember it.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate, either in 1975 or 1976. PD


Posted 2002-10-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 61325
Occurred: 1974-06-01 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-01-30 20:41 Pacific
Duration: 8secs.
No of observers: 2

Location: Okinawa, , Okinawa

Shape: Unknown


Fast flying "Arrowhead"

I was in Okinawa, an Island in the pacific. The sky from my vantage point was 360 degrees, at least 1/2 was all the way down to the ocean. The sky was clear, there was numerous stars visible, then some movement caught the corner of my left eye. I looked up, and on my extreme left was a "V" shape moving from my left to the right.

The point of the "V" was the leading edge, there were four points of light on one side, and two on the other side. It moved overhead at an incredible speed,stayed still overhead for a few seconds, then zig-zagged three times and after the third manuver, speed away the the far side of the horizen in about 1.5 seconds.The formation stayed in the exact same position through all manuvers, NEVER deviating position. It was'nt "shooting stars" or "Planets" or any other for of explaination.

I could see the stars clearly, though somewhat dimmer. These lights were independant of any other objects in my vision. I know what I saw, you might think I'm nuts, but I really don't care. I have seem other things I was able to explain away since, but one other. No one believes it either.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2008-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 25755
Occurred: 1974-06-01 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-10-23 12:44 Pacific
Duration: 2 mins
No of observers: 0

Location: Japan, , Japan

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams

while in the navy me and another guy were military police on a navy ship standing watch on the midnight to seven shift. we were at the top level on the ship and my friend said look at that object.all at once a ufo looked to lose control headed toward the ocean; then out of nowhere a second ufo looked like it landed on top of the other one;after that it looked like some power source maybe electrical was bring the craft toward each other. the two crafts started to go up.as if toward the moon. the colors were a white/blue color;with roundish windows about four total maybe 23to35ft. wide and same long. the movement up was like slow motion.



NUFORC Note:

Date in June 1974 is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69796
Occurred: 1973-01-02 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2009-04-24 12:50 Pacific
Duration: 3+


Location: Japan, , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

I was stationed at Yokota AFB and and somewhere in the first couple days of the new year we came to catch a C-5 and two 141s when they were buzzed by a white light. when they tried to land the light flashed before them and stopped them from Landing.

the f 86s were sent out of a near by Japanese air base.

We got on a parked aircraft and listened on the radios. the aircraft werer not able to land and were sent to a marine airbase further south. they came in the next morning.

It would be better to tell this to someone since I'm not much of a writer. this was Jan 1973 the first few days



NUFORC Note:

We spoke via telephone with this source, and he seemed sincere to us. We have invited him to attempt to contact the other witnesses, and to add any additional information to his report, if it comes to mind. Date is within a day, or two, of the actual date, the witness believes. PD


Posted 2009-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26506
Occurred: 1970-06-01 03:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-12-09 00:54 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Naha (Okinawa) (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

Just a Grunt on Guard Duty (USMC)

Location; Kadina Air Base USAF, Mar 1970.

Rank Lcpl. USMC, age 18, on Guard Duty for the Air Force, waiting on orders for Vietnam.

Area was a top secret flight line, hanger was a bunker type with grass growing on top, and slopping sides. When the hanger doors were opened a very large elevator would bring up a SR-71 Black Bird from under ground. The Marines had a machine gun nest on top of the hanger, and would walk the flight line with pump shot guns, 45's, and a prick 25 field radio.

Our orders from a full bird AF Col., were to shoot to kill anyone within a double chain link fence, with tall hedges in between the fences. AF Air police would guard the outside of the perimeter.

One evening while I was half way down the flight line, a Black Bird was coming in almost gliding to a landing. Along side it was something that looked like a distortion, or heat signature, but it wasn't Black Bird's, it was translucent. As black bird landed and went passed me, the object went over head and following the SR71, then it took off curving upward and disappearing into the stars. I called on the radio to the other Marines, asking if they had seen it, the reply's were no.

At the changing of the guards I reported to the Sgt. what I had seen that evening, he laughed and said what the hell have you been smoking. Three days later back at Marine Camp Hansen, I was told to report to the Company Comander by my 1st. Sgt. I reported to the CO, and the door behind me closed, I was told to at ease, as I turn around there was a Air Force Major and Captain. They said we understand you saw it, and we need to know everything you remember.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 37364
Occurred: 1967-01-01 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2004-06-05 01:05 Pacific
Duration: 15 min
No of observers: 3

Location: Yoza Dakke Air Station, Okinawa (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light


This incident took place in 1967 or 1968 while I was stationed in Okinawa in the Air Force. I was assigned to maintain and operate a small 24 hour diesel power house at this very powerfull search radar site called Yoza Dake Air Station. We were loacted at the southern tip of the island and there was a Army Hawk missle site near us. One night me and a co-worker were coming out of a NCO club that was our late night mess hall as the regular mess hall closed at 7 pm. We had a Okinawan waitress that came out side with us as she was beginning to clean up the NCO club and she was coming out to get a mop bucket and a mop as she did almost every night. When we came out of the door she shouted out in Japanese ..OH My God. (OK Sami Yo).. and she ran back inside the NCO cluub. We were very astonished ourselves in the very large red/orange colored light that appeared at 25 -30 degrees above the horizon on the eastern side of the mountain top. We asked each other what could this light be from as it was not usual to see any light on the east side of the mountain as the Naha Airbase has a glide path on the west side of the island and our radar site. We asked each other who had a camera in the barracks which was only about 50 meters away. My friend ran to get his 35 mm camera and I stayed and observed this light alone for about 5 or 10 minutes. The weather was pretty humid and there was a slight misty rain earlier, but it was not raining when we saw this huge bright light. While I was waiting for him to come out of the barracks I was walking towards the rear door of the barracks and watching this light which is very bright. The intensity of the light seemed to stay steady. and it did not move at all and then it suddenly disappeared befor my co-worker came out of the door with his camera. We asked our radar observers that was on duty that night in the block house if they saw any boogies on the radar screens that night and they said no. But later after many questions some did admit the radar observers were! tracking this and some other boogies. Later after this incident one of the senior radar observers said they have logged many unknown boogies there over the years in a daily log book. We both talked about this openly with the 80 plus staff on the radar site and some were open to discussions but most said they could not discuss these boogies as they were instructed by their officers to remain quiet about boogies. A very well known radio personally who was in the Air Force then was also there at this time. He was moonlighting as a DJ at a local NAHA radio station there that we all listened too called KSBK. He is the host of After Dark on the weekends now. I remeber there was newspaper articles in the local dailies as this light or lights were observed in many places that night and it scared alot of people. The KSBK radio station had radio news stories about this light that same night as we went back to barracks and listen to the DJ as the station received alot of call in reports. I visited the KSBK radio station during my 18 month stay there and I was able to meet the current weekend host of After Dark.



NUFORC Note:

Time and date are approximate. We have corresponded with the witness, inquiring whether he is still in touch with the other witnesses. PD


Posted 2004-06-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 132206
Occurred: 1966-06-01 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2017-01-16 13:03 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 8

Location: Tokishi Shima Island (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

support for the war in V.N. saw 5 disks froma distance of 25 miles.

I am 23 years old I am in the Army it is Sunday my day off. I am scanning the sky's with a radar. In the North there is a Island about 25 miles away there are 5 disks going up and down causing the radar to lock and unlock. I call the officer of the day (O.D.) he comes out and looks then he returned to the control center to call the Air Force. They send 3 fighters to investigate. The planes get within a short distance from them, and disappear. the planes turn around. the discs reappear. the planes turn around and as before when the planes get close, the discs disappear. the planes turn around and go back to where they come. the discs reapper. I go back to my barricks. the witnesses are myself, the O.D. 3 members on duty and 3 pilots.

I have never forgoten this and I though I would never see them again then in January 2017 I see one up close.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2017-01-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 58442
Occurred: 1965-06-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-08-29 16:29 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes?
No of observers: 1

Location: Iwakuni (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light


Object seen skimming across bay in Iwakuni Japan.

I was on guard duty on the causeway in the Marine Base at Iwakuni Japan. The causeway had a two story building on it and there were several shipping crates on the deck about 100 yards away from the building. We were supposed to walk around the shipping crates during our watch.

The sun was to my left when it was setting. I believe I was walking approximately north and south as I walked around the boxes.

It had gotten dark and I was standing next to one of the boxes when I saw what appeared to be a white light come out from my left. At first I thought it might be a helicopter light, but it was too big.

It came down to the water to my left, and skimmed across the bay from my left to my right. I would have been facing north-east at this point if my memory serves me right.

The object made no sound, however I could hear the water beating against the hull of the object as it went across the bay. When it got to my far right, it shot up at a 45 degree angle. Within seconds it was so small that I could not tell it from the stars that were visible on that night. It was nearly cloudless and I could see quite well.

Once I got over the initial shock of seeing something that I could not explain, I ran to the building as fast as I could. I got inside and told the clerk sitting behind the counter that I needed to call the corporal of the guard. I was so excited felt flushed and could hardly talk.

I called and told the corporeal on duty that I had seen a UFO.

He immediately cut me off and said that I had not seen anything. I tried to explain to him that I in fact HAD seen a UFO and he cut me off again. He told me that I would be given a section 8 if I tried to report this incident. He told me that for my own good, I had better keep what I saw to myself and not report it.

I reluctantly told him, "Okay!" and hung up the phone. I didn't want any trouble and surely didn't want to be drummed out of the service over it. A section 8 means that they would send me to the nuthouse.

I didn't tell anyone about this until recently. I was 18 when this happened. I am now 60.

I am a former Law Enforcement officer and know what I saw. It was not a plane or a helicopter. We did not have any planes on that airbase that could shoot up into the sky like that and disappear that fast. At the time, I believe we were using the A-4 Phantom Jets, but I could be wrong about their designation. I was a marine in the airwing at the time.




NUFORC Note:

Source of report indicates that date of the event is approximate. PD


Posted 2007-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45149
Occurred: 1965-06-15 21:30 Local
Reported: 2005-07-18 22:45 Pacific
Duration: approximately 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Ewakuni (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Marine sees ufo come down out of sky, travel across bay, and shoot up back into sky in Ewakuni Japan, June 1965.

I was on guard duty on the causeway in Ewakuni Japan. It was just after the sun went down behind me, I was walking around some boxes on the wharf when I saw what appeared to be a bright light coming down from the sky on my left. It leveled off over the water and slowly crossed in front of me, going from left to right over the water of the bay. I could hear water striking the hull of the object as it went very low across the water. There was no sound other than the water hitting the object, I could hear no engine noise at all. I could not see a shape as it was dark and I could only see what appeared to be a bright light.

I estimate that it traveled perhaps 300 feet across the water. It then went up at approximately a 45 degree angle straight into the sky. I watched it until it was so small that it appeared to be one of the stars. I was completely astounded, and just stood there a moment looking into the sky.

I finally ran into a nearby building and called the Officer on duty to report what I had seen.

The operator on the phone told me that I had not seen anything, and told me to forget it, as I would be in big trouble if I said anything further. I hung up the phone and never told anyone else about it because I thought I would be called a kook.

I know what I saw was not a weather balloon, or a helicopter, and I have never seen a craft that could go straight up into the sky as fast as this thing did. I was in the Marine Corps air wing at the time and was used to seeing jets take off. I have never seen a jet fly without making any noise at all, so this in my opinion was not a jet either. I simply do not know what it was.

I have never forgotten that moment. The reason I am reporting it now is because I just got through watching seeing is believing on tv, I don't feel so stupid telling my story now. I cannot prove my story, so I don't expect people to believe me. I only know what I saw.

Posted 2007-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45177
Occurred: 1965-06-15 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-07-19 19:34 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Ewakuni (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright light comes out of sky, flys above water and streaks up into night sky until it disappears.

I was on guard duty on the wharf in Ewakuni Japan, in the summer of 1965. I don't remember the exact date. The wharf (causeway) goes from north and south, if my memory serves me correctly. Ewakuni Japan has a Marine Corps airbase there. I was used to seeing the Navy jets and Marine jets and helicopters flying around the base. I never have seen a craft which could go staight up into the night sky like this one did, without any noise whatsoever.

I was in the Marine Corps at the time, and was serving on guard duty for several days at this location. There were several wooden boxes along the wharf, and I was basically walking around them. To the east was the ocean. To the west was the base.

The sun had set about an hour when I rounded the corner on some of the boxes. I was facing east. I saw what appeared to be a bright light, (not enough to hurt your eyes, just a bright light.) come down from my left (North) and fly just above the water in front of me ( to the South). I could hear the sound of the water hitting the object as it flew. However the object made no sound, no engine noise, no jet noise, nothing. The area was completely silent except for the splashing of the water. I estimate the the thing flew approximately 2 feet above the water.

The object flew past me, but I could not tell you how far away it was. It appeared to me to be about 100 yards away, but I could be wrong.

It went across the water, for about 300 feet, and then shot up at a 45 degree angle, and simply kept going up into the night sky. I remember just standing there with my mouth open as I watched the thing continue straight up until it appeared to blend in with the stars in the night sky. (Incidently there were no clouds that night, to obscure my sight.) I finally turned to my left and ran over to a building (if I remember right it was a two story building, with the front door facing south.) I ran inside, picked up the phone and called the Officer on duty to report what I had seen. When I told the operator that I had just seen what I thought was a ufo. I was told quite abruptly that I did not see anything, and had better not report it, if I didn't want to be labled a kook. I was further told that I would be in very big trouble if I did. I hung up the phone and went back to my post.

I have never seen anything like that since.

I never told anyone but my present wife about the incident, but last night I was watching television and saw the program "seeing is believing" about UFO's. Some of the stories were strikingly similar to what I had seen, so I decided to write in and let you know.

It took a lot to write this down for you, as I do not seek publicity, or recognition. I am just reporting what I saw. Perhaps someone else has seen something similar. It is nice to know that I am not the only one.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2906
Occurred: 1963-11-23 18:00 Local
Reported: 1997-11-21 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: USS Kearsarge (at sea, out of Japan), , Japan

Shape: Chevron


Summary : Observed 5 lights in a inverted "V" rise from the horizon, hover for a few minutes and then sink back down below the horizon. We were at sea on our way back to the U.S. from Japan. Lights were simular to the Phoenix "V" lights.

Me and my friend M. B. were walking accross the flight deck, I don't remember why anymore. It was at dusk but not dark yet. We first saw a bright light on the horizon directly behind the ship. It rose up and then there were 3 which continued to rise to 5 lights. They stayed there for awhile not moving or anything. I told my friend I should go get my camera but he said the lights would be gone by then. Shortly after that the lights descended to below the horizon. We went the the CIC room and asked the radar operator if there was anything behind us, he said no. We never said why we were asking or said anything about what we had saw. I can't remember that we ever talked about it after that because M. said no one would believe us anyway and I agreed. Until I heard about the Phoenix lights on 3-13-97 I haven't mentioned this to a whole lot of people. As to when this happened I am thinking it was 3 days out of Japan and the ship was traveling about 30 knots. It was a warm night as I remember. I don't remember that the lights flickered but do remember that they were white.

Posted 1998-06-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64958
Occurred: 1963-06-26 23:40 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2008-08-02 19:02 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Naha (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Circle


Stealth flying craft were not developed until many years later.

June 1963 Naha Air Base, Okinawa, Japan.

During my tour of duty at Naha Air Base, Okinawa, sky watching for aircraft arrivals and departures became a favorite pastime. On one clear night, my Airman buddy ((name deleted)) and I raised our binoculars scanning the skies for aircraft. From experience, we could accurately identify most aircraft.

Standing on the second floor sundeck of our barracks, we had an unobstructed view of the runway and skies over the air base. Although we sky-watched for over an hour we saw nothing. Nearing ten o’clock, we became bored, so we opted for stargazing. Frank had much knowledge about the regions of the stars in our galaxy. He had just begun pointing out a few of the more common constellations when it happened. Something strange appeared out of the corner of his left eye. It was a UFO.

“Look! What the hell is that?” Frank yelled. “Marty do you see that?” “Yeah Frank, I see it. Holy mackerel, what is it?” Scared and grateful for Frank’s presence, my first instincts told me to get the hell away from there. However, despite my tendency to panic and run, I had a strange and intense compulsion to keep on watching. At the same time, I was ready to bolt back into the barracks for cover.

It looked like nothing we had ever seen before. I positioned my binoculars for a better look. We did not use the term “UFO” at that point, but we knew the craft we saw did not match anything in the Air Force’s aircraft inventory. We saw a large, slow-moving disk traveling in a steady northerly direction--right smack over our base.

We did not see the usual flashing navigation lights or red and green wing-tip lights. All pilots who fly at night must have their aircraft’s navigation lights turned on.

It was not just an unusual cloud formation, flares or a weather balloon. In the Air Force, working as communications specialists at control towers and around busy flight lines, Frank and I became knowledgeable about most types of aircraft in the military inventory.

It traveled at an estimated speed of one hundred knots. The craft held a steady altitude of three or four thousand feet. It had a diameter of about seventy-five feet. We saw no antennae, dome, windows or markings. It was silent and produced no engine noise. Having a disk shape, it looked as flat as a quarter. The craft’s outer surface appeared smooth, constructed of a dull, yet reflective metallic material. Its outer edges appeared razor thin.

"If it turns toward us, I’m out of here," I said shaking all over.

"Me too," Frank agreed.

Our fear level started to dwindle once we realized that it continued moving away from us. To afford us a better view, we climbed up the building’s fire ladder to gain access to the roof. First up the ladder, I hesitated at the top of the ladder and peered out to see if it was safe to advance.

“Hold it Frank!” I said stopping to look and be sure the craft had not made a turn toward us. Since it continued moving away—“Let’s go Frank!” I said. “It’s still heading north.” I had an eerie feeling that we were about to place ourselves in a vulnerable position on the roof. However, seeing it continued to move farther away from us, our first fear that alien creatures might spot us subsided. Raising my binoculars again, I noticed that it had reflected a noticeable degree of light coming from Naha City, found a few miles to the north of our base. We watched it until it faded away out of sight. The entire sighting lasted for about two and one-half minutes.

“We’ve got to tell someone,” Frank said.

After scrambling down the fire ladder, we sprinted to a staircase leading to the first floor. We reached the C.Q. or Charge of Quarters room to use the barracks phone. We had to tell someone in authority. By then, Frank had begun to hyperventilate. I told him to sit down in a chair and stay calm while I called the base control tower operator. From frequent visits to the control tower for communications equipment issues, I intuitively remembered and dialed the correct number.

“Tower—Airman First-Class Bernard speaking.” His voice had a calming effect on me. I knew Airman Bernard by his first name, George. Since he occupied the same barracks as we did--ate in the same mess hall and from my many visits to the tower for communications repairs, he knew me as well.

“George," I said, trying to catch my breath. “This is Marty from the Communications Squadron.” “I didn’t put a call in for any problems,” George said. “How are you? Wait a minute—let me turn off the phone recorder.” His first impression was that my call was for something unrelated to tower business--perhaps it referred to a question about stereo equipment—one of his favorite hobbies.

“No George,” I suggested. “You better leave it on for this.” “So, this is official business huh,” he commented with an official sounding tone of voice. “All right, I turned it back on. What’s up?” “Did you see it?” I asked.

“See what?” he replied.

“That huge disk-shaped object that flew over the airstrip just two minutes ago.” “I didn’t see anything. Are you sure?” he asked.

“I’m sure George. Frank saw it too. We watched it from the roof of the barracks.” After I described what we saw, Bernard paused for a few seconds considering his next action.

“That’s weird,” he said. “Hold on while I check with the radar center.” Waiting for Bernard’s report, I noticed that Frank had calmed down while he listened to my conversation with the tower. The minutes seemed like hours. We were dripping wet since the temperature inside barracks was at least ninety degrees and the humidity at ninety-eight percent.

My imagination went into overdrive as I waited for Bernard to come back on the line. I thought that at any moment we would hear the roar of afterburners from our F-102 jet fighters as they went scrambling into the sky in pursuit of whatever it was that we reported. Perhaps the Base Commander would come on the line to ask us for more details about the sighting. We might soon hear the shrill of the base’s alert sirens followed by the sight of speeding trucks carrying frantic troops to their battle positions.

Instead, Tower Controller Bernard came back on the line. “Airmen,” he said, “I hate to tell you this, but the radar people have had no contacts for over an hour.” “Impossible,” I yelled. “Did you check with Kadena Center?” “Yes I did,” Bernard said, “and the Army NIKE site too. They also said they had no recent radar contacts.” His response was shocking to say the least. Controller Bernard suggested that we file an Unidentified Aircraft Report.

Heads shaking back and forth, “Thanks anyway,” we told him.

We decided--how could we file a report on something we saw without physical evidence to back it up? We understood we would have needed at least radar reports, photographs, or more eyewitnesses.

We never did file that report. We hoped we would hear others talk about spotting it too, but no one ever came forward. For weeks, I spent my free time watching the night sky and hoping for another sighting. I even bought a Nikon 8mm camera. I carried it with me wherever I went—just in case.

My hopes of seeing it again began to fade after several weeks. However, just as I started to think the earlier sighting was just a onetime fly-by, I saw it again.

Returning to my barracks from a second shift tour at the Communications Center, I decided to relax for a while. I sat in a chair on the second floor outside landing. Propping my feet up onto a railing, I began reminiscing about the first sighting. Since I was alone, the thought scared the hell out of me.

Just before 1:00 a.m. I was about to call it a night when it reappeared. A craft similar to the type Frank and I saw one month earlier.

In an instant, my mind switched from a relaxed state to one of “fight or flight.” My body froze and my adrenaline level skyrocketed. My hair hackled. My heart raced. I could not move my legs. My camera—I left it in my room.

In my mind, I calculated the best course of action. There I was, sitting alone in the dark outside my barracks with no one else around, except--what? Common sense soon prevailed. No light beams were shooting down at me from the craft. It became clear that it took no notice of me and was moving northward away from my position. Thank God.

After a few seconds, my brain regained control of my body and I was able to move my legs. I stood and took the next logical step, I ran like hell. Sprinting down the long hallway to the center of the barracks to get to the stairs, I thought it best not to look back. I did not. Reaching the stairway, I made it down the thirteen steps to the first floor in three or four leaps. At the bottom, I turned and ran straight to the C.Q. office phone.

The Charge of Quarters had been dozing at his desk when I grabbed the phone to report the sighting to the control tower.

Airman Bernard answered on the first ring. “Tower, Airman Bernard here.” “George, this is Marty from the Communications Squadron. I just saw it again!” I explained. I was nearly out of breath and spoke with a nervous stutter. “It looked the same as the last one.” Bernard must have heard me breathing heavily and sensed that I was anxious. He told me to be calm, relax and tell him what I had seen.

I recounted the event as it happened. He put me on hold as he checked with three different radar sites scanning the island’s airspace.

The C.Q. awoke hearing my conversation with the tower controller. “What’s the matter?” he asked. “You look as though you just saw a ghost.” “No, not a ghost,” I answered, “I’ll explain later.” After what seemed like hours, Bernard came back on the line. “We’ve had no radar contacts for two hours,” he said.

Again, he advised me to fill out an Unidentified Aircraft Report. I did not bother. For the second time, I declined. I felt that no one would believe me without proof.

I thought if only I had brought my camera with me.

Posted 2008-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 33977
Occurred: 1955-07-15 19:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-12-20 04:23 Pacific
Duration: 2hrs
No of observers: 2

Location: Yokota A.F.B., , Japan

Shape: Light


Missing time

At the age of 13, my Dad was station at Yokota AFB outside Tokyo, a group of us kids went camping in the foot hills along a river (Tanagakawa) which led to Tachikawa.

After eat one night Kenny (Major son) and I went out to a picknick bench which looked over the river. It was a moonless night and the stars were bright.

I was lying on the table top and Kenny was lying on the seat to the left of me. We laid there looking at the stars talking. My eye caught astar moving in a zig-zag pattern across the sky..being raised in the Air Force and my Dad a pilot, I knew aircraft very well and this was no ordinary flight pattern at that elevation and it was no helicopter. So I got up on my elbows and in a loud voice to Kenny "Look at..

As the light was coming at us at a great speed..It got so bright that today I think I felt the heat..This is the last thing I remembered.. Until we were standing at the end of the table and both of us said nothing. Return to camp and Jack and two other guys with us, asked where we had been. We simple answered, "up at the bench"..Only thing I can remember them saying was that they were just up there 15 minutes ago and did we go in town..Kenny and I went straight to sleep..the next morning no one could wake us until 8:00 we both got up..There was nothing said about last nite except they asked us if we went to town..I didn't understand why they would ask this nor Kenny..we hadn't gone anywhere..WE let it drop..

Kenny and I remained friends for a year after that incident...Years later I realized that Kenny and I never dicussed that night..Now that was unusual for two Air Force brats seeing something come out of the sky and not saying a thing to each other or our parents..

In the later eighties I was on the road in Ohio and heard a talk show host talking to someone about abduction and sure fit the experience that I went thru..I dismissed it at the time. Months later I told my wife ((name deleted))..about what I heard a on the radio and told her of the event in Japan..She is a well educate dutch girl..in bio-genetics we met in Calfornia..We had been marrried 14 years at that time..She said she had something to tell me. While we sleeping in our bedroom in California she was awaken by the present of being which describe to a TEE the greys..which is famous now..she was told to go back to sleep and no harm will come.

This shook me..not only had she not told me, but what the hell was going on..

So I went to a therapist in Omaha..Ne. who tried to hipmotize me..I guess I was to scared and he couldn't...I've tried to find kenny..or Jack. No luck so far.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2004-01-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 53431
Occurred: 1952-10-01 03:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-11-15 23:33 Pacific
Duration: about 20 mins
No of observers: 0

Location: Fukuoka (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

After being alerted to some excitement outside of my com center, I quickly locked my duty room and went outside to see the problem only to see approx 25-38 men all watching the sky out over the flight strip the the left of the control tower.

It is belived that the object was some 10k to 15k ft altitude. It at first sighting just seemed to float in a set area not moving at all then suddenly it moved diagonally at some 30 to 45 degree angle up then stopped momentarily then without even a gradual change in direction is just suddenly moved straight across the sky and eye blinking speed so some 10 miles it was believed.

Again it did this same move only in a completely different direction more then just abruptly. It moved at the speed of light but all moves were done in absolutely reverse moves. This went on for some 20 minutes,

Finally 3 F-86s were dispatched for observation for encountering and they could not even get close to the object. We all knew that it was a UFO becuase of former warnings not to ever discuss what if ever we should see in the sky. It was told to us all that there were no such things as flying saucers ant that they were only figments of out imagination.

We all knew better that that. Most of us had all read or heard of the "Project Blue Book" (Major Keyholes Report, which was printed in 1947.)

We had never hoped to see something of this magnitude but after seeing this we all felt sure of what we had seen. I had went into operation shack and had asked questions as to what they had seen on the Radarr scope and was answered that they could not ID the object because it speed would not be calculated on thier screen but did note that when the F-86s ever got near the objects area, it would move so fast it could not be registered on the scope.

They did say however that they did know it was something but of an unknown craft and that there was not any place on the planed earth that could even possibly have anything like what was seen or acted on their scope. The whole subject was ordered to be silenced and not even discussed but of course we did at some risk of violation of orders.

This was the most fantastic thing I have ever seen in my life, this thing moved several times this was until then it literally in a flick of an eye shot out of sight just as though it was like a light switch being turned off. I disappeared as fast as it was believe to appear. Literally disappered.

My theory is that this thing can control magnatism in some way as well as crontrol its stability at will. It definatley was and is being control by some intelligence. I have tried to make this know before but to those I have expressed, they would look at me as if I was nuts. I and we know what we seen and it all true. I was a A/1c (buck Sgt) at the time stationed at Itazuke Air Force Base on the Island of Kyushu Japan during the Korean War. There were no dummies stationed there. We were all skilled in what we did and were proud of who, and what we were but this was astounding to say the least.

Thank you. Mr ((name deleted)) ((e-mail deleted)) Formally ((rank deleted)) USAF 19xx-195x




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2006-12-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48938
Occurred: 1947-01-15 10:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-01-30 19:40 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Yokahama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk


The Flying Object over Yocohama Japan after WWII in 1947

I am making this report to make sure it is recorded. I learned of this event around June of 1947. The person who told me was my good friend ((name deleted)).

As a background, understand that after WWII, many American Officers brought their families to Europe and Japan as a part of the Dependents of the Occupation Forces. I was one of these dependents, my age was 10 years old. We lived in the ((deleted)) Compound on the Bluff, by the horse racing track and POW camp, at the edge of Yocohama, Japan. We, the ((family name deleted)) lived in House ((deleted)) and the ((family name #2 deleted)) lived in House ((deleted)) Compound. The houses were two story with flat roofs. The roofs were made to use, much like a top deck.

((name deleted)), son of Colonel ((name deleted)), 8th Army in Occupation, was with his father one morning. They had a Japanese brass telescope Colonel ((name deleted)) brought home for his son. They also had a 7X binocular. They were experimenting with the telescope, at the time this occured. I will paraphrase what ((name deleted)) told me, for it is worth being recorded.

They were taking turns looking through the telescope and binocular when ((name deleted)) father noticed a dark shape in the sky. A perfect target on which to experiment with. Colonel ((name deleted)) first looked at it through the binoculars, then took the telescope and brought the boject into its field of view and focus. I was soccer shaped. ((

((name deleted)) said he and his dad took turns watching this object through both the binocuar and the telescope. It was traveling toward them. It traveled over to and above the race track and paused. That was about one mile away. It paused. ((name deleted)) said it was not high, probably several thousand feet in the air. This would put it under any cloud cover.

I asked what did it look like? It looked like a soccer, it was "metal-like, but the underside was somewhat darker. The edge of the soccer was sharp, not rounded. It had no windows or such.

I asked what did it do? It move around and then stopped in the sky and just hovered. Then it would move to another locaation and again hover.

For the record, at the time (1947) Yocohama showed the full brunt of many B-29 strikes. The city was 90% burned out with an occasional structure standing amist a totally distroyed area, block after block. Down toward the harbor, the canals were chocked with sunken wooden junks. Out in the harbor several large ships were sunken in the harbor. The dock facilities were equally damaged. The city was totally distroyed. Many of the people who lived in the hills surrounding Yocahoma were really the only houses spaired by the bombing strikes. The race track wa also spared, probably because it was a POW camp.

((name deleted)) said this "craft" was slowly crossing across the destroyed city. It looked like it was inspecting the damage.

Where did it go? I asked.

It went across us and slowly made it way across the city heading toward the harbor.

Did you see it by eye and in the binocular and telescope? Oh sure, it was easy to follow. I was in good view, expecially in the telescope.

What did it look like? Like a soccer. It was round, it was soccer shaped.

Did it make a noise? No, not at all.

I was totally perplexed. This was the first time I ever heard of a flying machine shaped like a soccer. All flying machines had wings and big motors and they dropped bombs and shot machine guns and made lots of noise. None hovered! How long did you watch it? I asked in perplexed wonder.

A long time, we watched it go out toward the harbor. It moved around, paused and then turned off toward the left(toward Mount Fugiama) It slowly moved off. we watched it until we could not see it any more, even in the telescope.

What was it? I don't know. It wasn't an airplane.

What did your dad say? He said it wasn't an airplane. He didn't know what it was, but it was real, we could see it. The binocuar and telescope gave us real good views.

With that, we went on to other things that 10 year boys do. We probably went over to the open field where we played baseball with the Jananese children. I played right field. I seem to remember ((name deleted)) was a baseman. Anyway that was the end of our conversation about the unidenitfied flying object.

I left Japan in August of 1947. I believe ((name deleted)) was still living in House # ((deleted)). I do remember asking him about this strange soccer. I asked what his father did.

He reported it.

I asked, what happened? He said, "Nothing. We never heard another thing." As far as I know, that is where it ended. His father being a full bird coloner in the 8th US Army, like mine were pretty VIP. He reported it through chnnels and that was that. They did not receive any feed-back, as of August 1947. However make no mistake, the US Army was duely notified of the sighting.

That's as much as I know. I hope ((name deleted)) or his father have already made this report. In this case, I prefer to defer to that that said. At any rate, this is as much as I know, as close to the actual conversations as I can remember.

((name deleted)) Dependent, Army of Occupation Yocuhama, Japan 1947




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. We have attempted to contact the person who submitted the report, but he has not responded, yet. PD


Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77169
Occurred: 1946-12-25 13:00 Local
Reported: 2010-08-12 22:13 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Yokohama (Japan), , Japan

Shape: Disk


This is a follow-on to the report I made several years ago.

An article about the Brazilian Air Force carried an artist image: It is the closest I have ever seen to what ((name deleted)) descrived, he and his father, Col. ((name deleted)), 8th US Army, saw over Yokohama, Japan in Dec. of 1946.

That is what he described: Attachment of JPEG failed. Problem with Web-site.

((name deleted)) Hesperia, CA

Posted 2010-08-24