Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: AERIAL ENCOUNTER OVER JAPAN
Captain Yoshiharu Inaba was flying a TOA Airlines Convair 240 from Osaka to Hiroshima, Japan, on 18 March 1965, at 19.06, when a ‘mysterious, elliptical, luminous object’ appeared, just after the plane passed Himeji. ‘I was flying at the time at an altitude of about 2,000 metres,’ reported Captain Inaba. ‘The object followed for a while, and then stopped for about three minutes, and then followed along my left wing across the Inland Sea for a distance of about 90 kilometres until we reached Matsuyama on Shikoku Island. It then disappeared.’
Initially fearing a collision, Inaba made a 60-degree turn to the right, but it was at that point that the object made an abrupt turn and positioned itself alongside the port wing. It emitted a greenish-coloured light and affected the automatic direction finder (ADF) as well as the radio. As the co-pilot, Tetsu Majima, tried unsuccessfully to contact the Matsuyama tower to report the observation, he heard frantic calls from the pilot of a Tokyo Airlines Piper Apache, Joji Negishi, who said he was being chased by a mysterious luminous object while flying along the northern edge of Matsuyama City. Captain Inaba, a veteran pilot with over 8,600 flying hours, said that it was the first time he had encountered such an object. Weather conditions were good that evening, with a full moon. A test carried out two nights later by TOA Airlines ruled out the possibility that the pilots had seen the reflection of light from their plane.
At around 19.00 on the same evening, three workers from the Chokoku Electric Power Company in Fuchu, near Hiroshima, reported sighting a strange object over Yuki Town. ‘It was shaped like a triangle whose top radiated a brilliant light,’ said one of the witnesses.
According to a message relayed from the New York Times office in Tokyo to the TOA Airlines office, a group of ‘flying saucer experts’ from the US Defense Department, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Palomar Observatory was being sent to Japan to interview Inaba and Negishi. ‘The American mission is believed to be interested in the case,’ it was reported, ‘because there have been several mysterious aviation accidents and flying saucers might have been
involved.