|
04-17-1981
Crews of
seagoing craft also encounter UFOs. Sometimes they hover for long periods, as
one did over the Taki Kyoto Maru,
a freighter sailing off the east
coast of Japan, less than 200 miles from Kanazawa, on April 17, 1981.
Captain Usuda, when interviewed by the press at Kanazawa,
reported that a UFO, of a round
saucer shape and shining brightly, rose out of the sea in clear daylight
and calm weather and first hovered near and then circled the 165-foot
freighter. Captain Usuda described it as glowing
with a blue light and
stated that when it shot out of the ocean it caused a wave that almost
swamped his ship. It caused another great wave, which partially damaged his
ship, when it disappeared into the sea.
Captain Usuda, although preoccupied at the time with his
terrified crew and his own concern for the ship's safety, noted that the time
spent by the alternately hovering and circling UFO was about fifteen minutes.
The UFO moved so fast around the ship that, except when it hovered, it could
not be seen clearly -- there was only a blur where it circled. Captain Usuda tried
to radio for help but the transmitting equipment was jammed. He looked at the
needles on the ship's instruments and they too were a blur, spinning with the
same rapidity as the craft circling over the ship. He tried to guess
the size of the UFO when it hovered and estimated that its metallic and
glowing diameter was four or five times the length of his ship.
A curious
result of the visitation was that it seemed to have affected time on board
the Taki Kyoto Maru.
After the UFO plunged back into the sea, the captain noted that the
timepieces on board had lost fifteen minutes, the approximate time that the
spacecraft (if that is what it was) had spent maneuvering around the ship.
A spokesman
for the Japanese coast guard, Hoshi Isido, is
reported to have observed, with some understatement: "Based on
interviews … and the unusual structural damage … we do suspect that they
encountered something very unusual .... Officially we are calling it an unidentified
object, a simple UFO."
This reference: The Dragon’s Triangle, by Charles Berlitz, pp. 130-131, Pub. by Wynwood
Press, NY, NY, 1989
Original reference
– Unknown News paper clipping.
UFOCAT PRN – 182737
UFOCAT URN – NONE
The Dragon’s Triangle, by Charles Berlitz,
pp. 130-131
UFOCAT URN – 182737 *U* UFO Computer Database by Larry
Hatch, # 14203© 2002
Japan – Pacific Ocean
Kanazawa Latitude 35-21-00 N, Longitude 139-37-60 E (D-M-S)
Note: There are several “Kanazawa” of which only
two are on bodies of water. This one is the only one on the East coast of Japan.-CF
Reference: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/
UFO location (UFOCAT) Latitude 37.00 N, Longitude 135.00
E (D.%)
|