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a ufo and creature report from kofu

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japan part 2 by charles lear

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in last week's blog we took a look at a

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case from kofu japan that involved two

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seven-year-old boys masato kono and

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katsushira yamahata who reported seeing

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a saucer-shaped ufo and its occupants in

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a vineyard in 1975. the creatures were

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described as having brown heads and

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pinky-sized horizontal wrinkles where a

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face would be three silver metallic

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two-inch fang-like features where a

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mouth would be and two rabbit-like ears

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with a hole in the middle of each one

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one of the creatures confronted the boys

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and emitted a noise like a sped-up tape

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recorder and what seemed to be an

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attempt to communicate they ran away to

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kono's home where their parents were

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having dinner and they excitedly told

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their story kono's mother thought they

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had made it up as an excuse for being

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late but the boys insisted it was true

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and pleaded with their mothers to go

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with them and see for themselves masako

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kono and hana yamahara followed their

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boys out to a road on the west side of

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the honore complex where the konos lived

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with them were hanai's one-year-old son

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and four-year-old daughter from there

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they had a view of the vineyard where

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the boys said they'd seen the saucer and

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the creatures when they looked where

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their sons were pointing masako and

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hanai were surprised to see a glowing

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orange basketball-sized object masako

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said it looked more like it was floating

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in the air rather than it was on the

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ground hanai said it was spinning and

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glowing masako described it as pulsating

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with a five to ten second cycle with a

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beautiful color like fireworks after

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about five minutes it became dimmer and

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dimmer until it disappeared in a flash

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hun i wanted to get closer but when she

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went to move the boys held onto her

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saying don't go they'll take you don't

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go she said their faces were so serious

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that they stopped her from going hane

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went back to the house and told the

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boy's fathers minoru yamaha and toshiro

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kono what they had seen a few minutes

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later the men were at the vineyard with

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sticks in their hands but the object was

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gone according to masako masato cried

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that night according to hanai katsushiro

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would no longer go out alone after dark

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this caused a problem as he was enrolled

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in an abacus class that started at 5 pm

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on monday february 24th the boys told

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their story to their classmates at

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yamashiro elementary school they drew

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pictures of the saucer and the creature

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and caused quite a stir according to the

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boy's homeroom teacher miyoshi ueda her

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students were excited and she wanted to

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know why she was told that the boys had

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seen some aliens and she told kono and

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yamaha that aliens didn't exist the boys

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surprised you aida by insisting their

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story was true she was impressed by

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their earnestness and had them give a

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presentation describing their experience

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in front of the class the boys did so

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and drew pictures on the blackboard to

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help illustrate what they'd seen ueda

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noted how quickly the boys drew the

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pictures and thought they might have

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been influenced by portrayals of ufos in

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manga magazines or on television as the

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subject was quite popular in japan at

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that time even so she felt that the boys

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were telling the truth as they knew it

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ueda told her fellow teachers about the

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story and they thought there might be

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something to it they arranged for the

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boys to tell their story in the staff

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room miyoshi was impressed by the fact

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that they told it just as they had in

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the classroom miyoshi a teacher with 31

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years of experience had this to say

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after my own research i can say with

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certainty that they are not lying after

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many years of experience i can tell if a

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child is lying or not by looking at

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their facial expressions the teachers

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were impressed and someone told the

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principal nabayoshi kaneko about the

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boys and their story researcher lon

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strickler wrote a blog about this case

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and posted it on his site phantoms and

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monsters according to strickler one of

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the boy's classmates eight-year-old

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ichiro minigishi reported that a half

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hour before kono and yamahata had their

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encounter he had seen a shiny object

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flying around the area the principal and

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others from the school went to the

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vineyard and saw that two concrete posts

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had been knocked over near where the

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boys said the craft had landed and that

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there was a ring pattern in the soil

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there was also a series of holes filled

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with powdery ash a high school teacher

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susumu maedo who had a national

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qualification for handling radiation

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tested the soil and found unusually high

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levels of radiation the case was

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investigated initially by massaro mori

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who interviewed the boys and the people

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at the school maury described their

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stories as being very consistent japan

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space phenomena society's senior

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researcher t cura wrote an article

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titled scientific evidence for the

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existence of ufo reanalysis of m report

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and posted on the space phenomena

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observatory blogspot site in the article

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masako is described as mr m and it is

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pointed out that he had written a report

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in 1975 describing his radiation

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readings maedo collected 35 samples and

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found radiation levels 1.3 times above

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background in two of them according to

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kira this is actually not unusual and is

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close to the difference between east and

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west japan what was unusual was the rate

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of decay maido made measurements over

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time and realized that there was a

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half-life of 10 days hiro did his own

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analysis of the data and found that the

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actual average of the samples was closer

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to 15 days he then went about trying to

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determine what sort of radiation source

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had that sort of half-life he found six

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osmium 191 vanadium 48 and phosphorus

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32. because phosphorus 31 is used as

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fertilizer kira assumes it was present

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in the vineyard according to keira one

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way to convert phosphorus 31 to

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phosphorus 32 is to put it into a

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nuclear reactor and expose it to neutron

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rays kira concludes that there must have

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been a nuclear reactor in the vineyard

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and that it could strongly be estimated

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to be a real ufo he combines this with

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konos and yamaha's testimonies to