Other Flying · 甲府市, 山梨県 · 1975
XX-1975ID case-af1ee5d00cAdded to map Oct 23, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Feb 23, 1975to the day
- Where
- 甲府市, 山梨県to town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Another boy reported seeing an orange light in the sky at the Kofu Bypass.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- 甲府市, 山梨県, 日本
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 23, 1975
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 23, 2026
- Case id
- case-af1ee5d00c
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The Kofu Incident: In 1975 two elementary school boys stated that they saw a UFO and it's alien occupants in the Japanese countryside. When others went to the site they found physical evidence that something was indeed there. Soon several other witnesses would come forward to corroborate the claims.
Reddit · 2021-10-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.